Academic Experiences
(2016-2020) Associate Professor, Director, Institute of Religion and Culture, School of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
(2017-2018) Visiting Scholar, Center for Barth Studies, Princeton, Princeton, USA.
(2013-2016) Assistant Professor, Institute of Foreign Philosophy and Culture, School of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
(2013) Dr. theol. (summa cum laude), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
(2010) Master of Theological Research, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
(2004-2013) Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Welker), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
(2002) Master of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.
(2001) Visiting Scholar, Drew University, New Jersey, USA.
(2000-2001) Chief in Editor, Graduate Students’ Journal of Peking University, Peking University, Beijing, China.
(1998) Bachelor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Major Research Interests
Modern and Contemporary German Theology (Barth, Bonhoeffer)
Modern and Contemporary German Philosophy (Nietzsche, Heidegger, Luhmann)
Ancient Greek Philosophy (Aristotle)
History of Chinese Christian Thoughts (Sino-Christian Theology, “Neo-Denominization” of Christianity in China)
Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology
Academic Awards
(2017) Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise, Heidelberg, Germany.
(2016) The 13th Liyun Award for Best Academic Publications, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
(2015) Ernst Wolf Preis zur Förderung des Theologischen Nachwuchses, Gesellschaft für Evangelische Theologie, Germany.
Monography, Edited Volume, Special Issue, and Selected Translated Work
2024, “New Book Symposium Column” (Tian Wei, “Christianity and Confucianism: Two Paradigms of Religious Existential Ethics”), Tsinghua Studies in Western Philosophy, Volume 10, Issue 2 (Winter 2024).
2023, “New Book Symposium Column” (Liu Zhe, “Generative Subjectivity: Merleau-Ponty and Idealism”), Tsinghua Studies in Western Philosophy, Volume 9, Issue 1 (Summer 2023).
(2022) Peripheries and Centers [History of Chinese Christianity around Anti-Christian Movement], Journal for the Study of Christian Culture (48).
(2022) Trust: Sino-Christian Theology “In-Between” and a Preliminary Multidisciplinary Study, Logos & Pneuma: Chinese Journal of Theology (57).
(2019) Karl Barth and Chinese Context, Journal for the Study of Christian Culture (41).
(2019) Karl Barth and Sino-Christian Theology, Brill Yearbook of Chinese Theology (5).
(2014) Barth und Goethe. Die Goethe-Rezeption Karl Barths 1906-1921, Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlagshaus.
(2010, translation) Kirche im Pluralismus (Michael Welker), Beijing: China Social Science Press.
(2009, translation) Church History (Eusebius, trans. By Paul L. Maier), Beijing: Three-Joint Press (the sixth edition in 2019).
(2004, translation) Soren Kierkegaard (S. L. Anderson), Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company (new edition, Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2019).
(2002, translation) Socrates (Hope May), Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company (new edition, Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2019).
Selected Articles
2025, Meaning Structure and Language Event: Correlational Interaction and Search for Meaning in-between East and West, Ancient and Modern, Humanities and Theology, in: Yang Huilin, Selected Essaks in Sino-Christian Theology, Hong Kong: Logos and Pneuma Press (in Chinese, forthcoming).
2025, From Ancient Loyalty to Modern (Trans-)Loyalties: A Study from Cosmological, Sociological, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives, in: Frieder Ludwig, Ellen Vea Rosnes, Joar Haga, Marina Xiaojing Wang, and Jairzinho Lopes Pereira (ed.), Transloyalties, Connected Histories and World Christianity during the Interwar Period: 1919-1939, Routledge (forthcoming).
2023, The Theological Controversy between Paul Tillich and Karl Barth in 1923: A Historical and Interpretative Reconstruction, in: Keith Ka-fu Chan (ed.), Paul Tillich and Sino-Christian Theology, London: Routledge, 2023, 152-174.
(2022a) “Gleichnis wagen”: Karl Barth’s Political Theology and its Meaning for the Church-State Relationship in Mainland China Today, in: Theo-Politics? Conversing with Barth in Western and Asian Contexts, edited by Markus Höfner, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books-Fortress Academic, 2022, 295-314.
(2022b) A Renaissance of Confucian Family? A Preliminary Observation upon Current Discourses about Family in Contemporary China, in: John Witte, Michael Welker, Stephen Pickard (eds.), The Impact of the Family On Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2022, 333-343.
(2022c) Trust: Sino-Christian Theology “In-Between” and a Preliminary Multidisciplinary Study, Logos & Pneuma: Chinese Journal of Theology 57, 21-38 (in Chinese).
(2022d) Peripheries and Centers: A Theoretic Perspective and Research Method for Historical Studies of Chinese Christianity, Journal for the Study of Christian Culture (48), 2-29 (in Chinese).
(2021) Under the Heaven, Threefold Word and the Kingdom of God: Preliminary Observations on Social, Intellectual, and Culture Context of Chinese Christianity, Cultural China 106, 62-72 (in Chinese).
(2020) Kritischer müsste Kants Kritik sein: Eine nachkantische Interpretation von Barths Beziehung zu Kant unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Religionskritik Barths, in: Markus Höfner und Benedikt Friedrich (Hg.), Gottes Gegenwart – God’s Presence: Festschrift für Günter Thomas zum 60. Geburtstag, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2020, 53-68.
(2019a) A Critical Survey of Karl Barth’s Goethe-Reception, Yearbook of Chinese Theology 2019, Volume 5, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019, 153-171.
(2019b) A Model of “Creating by Returning to the Original”: Rethinking Karl Barth’s Theology in a Chinese Context, Journal for the Study of Christian Culture41, 9-18.
(2019c) After Nietzsche: How Could Do Sino-Christian Theology Today?, in: Pneuma and Logos: Chinese Journal of Theology 50, 155-182 (in Chinese).
(2018a) A Christologically Orientated Theology of the Natural and Teaching of Natural Rights: A Commentary on “Natural Life” in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics, in: A Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics, edited by Andres Tang, Hong Kong: VW Link, 271-304. (in Chinese).
(2018b) Heidegger’s Phenomenological Interpretation of Paul’s Letters from the Viewpoint of the Problem of the Historical, Journal for the Study of Christian Culture 40, 27-50 (in Chinese).
(2017) Why and How to Remember the 500th Anniversary of Reformation, Explorations and Free Views 10, 86-91 (in Chinese).
(2016a) Much More Liberal and Liberal Theology: Karl Barth’s Theological Difference from Liberal Theology with Special Reference of His Understanding of Sachlichkeit und Wissenschaftlichkeit of Theology, Journal of Comparative Scripture 12, 91-112 (in Chinese).
(2016b) “In the drawing power of Goethe’s sun”. A Preliminary Investigation into the Goethe Reception of Albert Schweitzer, in: Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action: A Life in Parts, ed. by James Carleton Paget and Michael James Thate, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016, 216-233.
(2015a) Universality and Specialty: Theological Differences between Paul Tillich and Karl Barth based on Their Controversy in 1923, Pneuma and Logos: Chinese Journal of Theology 43, 151-178 (in Chinese).
(2015b) Universality and Specialty: Karl Barth’s Hermeneutic Decisions in Three Forewords to His Commentaries on Romans, Pneuma and Logos: Chinese Journal of Theology 42, 69-83 (in Chinese).
(2014) Karl Barths Tambacher Vortrag aus dem Blickwinkel seiner Goethe-rezeption, Zeitschrift für Dialektische Theologie,Heft 60 Jahrgang 30 Nr. 1, 153-172.
(2014) The Translation of Christian C1assics in the Chinese Christian church and Its Cultural Responsibility, International Journal of Sino-Western Studies 7, 59-67 (in Chinese).
(2013) Geist und Wort. Die biblisch-hermeneutische Entscheidung Karl Barths aus dem Blickwinkel seiner Goethe-Rezeption 1918-1922, in: Gottes Geist und menschlicher Geist, hrsg. von Gregor Etzelmüller und Heike Springhart, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2013, 81-89.
Academic Membership
Chinese Association of Modern Foreign Philosophy (Council Member)
Disctinctio: Journal of Intersubjective Studies (Advisory Board)
Gesellschaft für Evangelische Theologie, Germany
Global Network for Research Centers of Theology, Religious and Christian Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany (International Evaluation Board, Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise)
Institute of Sino-Christian Studies, Hong Kong, China (Academic Committee; Guest Professor; Research Fellow in Mainland China)
Karl Barth-Gesellschaft, Germany
Rixin Library (Academic Committee, Beijing: The Commercial Press)
Series of Discernment between Antiquity und Modernity (Academic Committee, New Taipei City: Chinese Christian Literature Council [Taiwan])
Tsinghua Studies in Western Philosophy (Associate Editor in Chief)
Teaching
Aristotle, Metaphysics
Karl Barth, Einführung in die Evangelische Theologie
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethik
Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man (Team)
Martin Heidegger, Einführung in die Metaphysik
Martin Heidegger, Einführung in die Phänomenologie der Religion
Introduction to Ancient Greek Philosophy
Introduction to Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy: Selected Papers
Immanuel Kant, Kritik der praktischen Vernunft
Thomas Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Friedrich Nietzsche, Der Antichrist
Religion and Culture (Introduction to Christianity and Buddhism)
Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries (Team)
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self (Team)