Prof. Dr. Dr. Jochen Sautermeister

Jochen Sautermeister
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Academic Profile

Jochen Sautermeister focuses on fundamental theological ethics, theological-ethical theory of the moral subject (especially about identity), bioethics (organ transplantation, ethical issues at the end of life, reproductive medicine, human genetics, and new technologies), relationship, personality and sexual ethics, moral psychology, and on resilience, mindfulness, spirituality.

4 books, 14 edited volumes, approximately 100 articles, national and international lectures, supervised Master and PhD theses.

2013
PhD in Theology, University of Munich, Germany

2006
PhD in Social Sciences, University of Tübingen, Germany

2002–2008
Certificate in person-centered counceling, Diploma in Psychological Marriage and Family Counseling

1995–2004
Studies in catholic theology, psychology and philosophy, University of Tübingen, Germany, and Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem, Israel

since 2016 
Professor and Director of the Seminar of Moral Theology, University of Bonn, Germany

since 2012
Principal Investigator of the subproject Z1 "Theological-ethical and pastoral-psychological issues," CRC-TR 127 Biology of xenogeneic cell, tissue and organ transplantation – from bench to bedside

2015–2016
Interim Professor for Moral Theology, University of Bonn, Germany

2014–2017
Professorship for Moral Theology with special consideration of Moral Psychology, University of Munich, Germany

2013–2014
Interim Professor, Chair of Moral Theology, University of Munich, Germany

2010–2014
Academic Staff Member with temporary civil servant status (Akademischer Rat a.Z.), Chair of Moral Theology, University of Munich, Germany

2004–2010
Research Assistant, Chair of Moral Theology, University of Munich, Germany

2002–2004
Research Assistant, Chair of Moral Theology, University of Tübingen, Germany

since 2018
Board Membership of the Joseph-Höffner-Gesellschaft

since 2018
Associate Membership of the research group Vulnerability, Safety and Resilience, Würzburg, Germany

since 2018
Membership of the International Xenotransplantation Association (IXA) Ethics Committee

since 2018
Membership of the Scientific Advisory Board of Ordo socialis

since 2018
Membership and deputy speaker of the board of the Center of Religion and Society (ZERG), University of Bonn, Germany

since 2017 
Deputy Membership of The Central Ethics Committee for Stem Cell Research at the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

since 2017
Membership of the Institute of Science and Ethics (IWE), University of Bonn, Germany

since 2017
Membership of Joseph-Höffner-Gesellschaft

since 2017 
Membership of the Centre for Mind Research, University of Bonn, Germany

since 2017
Board Membership of the board of trustees of the Catholic Social Institute (KSI), Siegburg, Germany

since 2016 
Membership of the Center of Religion and Society (ZERG), University of Bonn, Germany

since 2016
Membership of Association of the Competence Network Stem Cell Research North Rhine-Westphalia

since 2014  
Membership of Association of Moral Theology

since 2013 
Membership of the German Association of Pastoral Psychology (DGfP)

since 2011
Membership of the International Society of Christian Ethics

since 2008 
Membership of the German Association of Marriage and Family Counseling

  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): funding for the subproject "Ethical, legal, psychological, and societal issues (ELSI) of xenotransplantation (XT)" in the collaborative research center CRC-TR 127 Biology of xenogeneic cell, tissue and organ transplantation – from bench to bedside
  • Listening to survivors of sexual abuse and giving them a voice (2020–2023)
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): funding for TP 4 in the research unit (2019–2022) 
  • Resilience in Religion and Spirituality: Endurance and the Formation of Powerlessness, Fear and Anxiety
  • Neue Lebensformen der Familie: Theologisch-ethische Sondierungen und normative Orientierungen (2017–2020) 
  • Wertschöpfung und Empathie: Gesamtgesellschaftliche Relevanz empathischer Kompetenzen und Empathie-Lernen im schulischen Unterricht (2017–2019) 
  • Stigmatisierung psychischer Erkrankungen (2016–2017)

  • 2019. As editor. With E. Zwick. Religion und Bildung: Antipoden oder Weggefährten? Diskurse aus historischer, systematischer und praktischer Sicht. Paderborn.
  • 2018. As editor. With T. Skuban. Handbuch psychiatrisches Grundwissen für die Seelsorge. Freiburg im Breisgau.
  • 2018. "Irritationen der Lebensführung: Existenzielle und theologisch-ethische Herausforderungen psychischer Erkrankungen." In Handbuch psychiatrisches Grundwissen für die Seelsorge, edited by J. Sautermeister and T. Skuban, 17–33. Freiburg im Breisgau.
  • 2018. "Göttliches Gesetz und personales Gewissen: Zur moraltheologischen Dignität authentischer Sittlichkeit." In Ewige Ordnung in sich verändernder Gesellschaft? Das göttliche Recht im theologischen Diskurs, edited by M. Graulich and R. Weinmann, 166–189. Quaestiones disputatae 287. Freiburg im Breisgau.
  • 2018. "Selbstgestaltung und Sinnsuche unter fragilen Bedingungen: Moralpsychologische und ethische Anmerkungen zum Verhältnis von Resilienz und Identität." In Resilienz: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven zu Wandel und Transformation, edited by M. Karidi, M. Schneider, and R. Gutwald, 127–140. Wiesbaden.
  • 2018. Tierische Organe in menschliche Körper: Biomedizinische, kulturwissenschaftliche, theologische und ethische Zugänge zur Xenotransplantation. Münster .
  • 2017. Moralpsychologie: Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Ethik im Diskurs 11. Stuttgart.
  • 2016. "Moraltheologie und Christliche Sozialethik 1990–2015: Ein Kapitel theologisch-ethischer Zeitgeschichte." In Theologische Ethik im Spiegel ihrer Biografie: Stationen und Kontexte, edited by K. Hilpert, 237–258. Paderborn.
  • 2015. Xenotransplantation from the Perspective of Moral Theology. In Xenotransplantation 22: 183–191. Open access
  • 2013. Identität und Authentizität: Studien zur normativen Logik personaler Orientierung. Studien zur theologischen Ethik 138. Freiburg im Uechtland, Freiburg im Breisgau, Wien.
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