Prof. Dr. Dr. Jochen Sautermeister

University of Bonn
Faculty of Catholic Theology
Department of Moral Theology
Regina-Pacis-Weg 1
D-53113 Bonn
Phone: +49 / (0)228 / 73-7614
Personal profile page
sautermeister[at]uni-bonn.de

Current Position

Professor of Moral Theology
Director of the Department of Moral Theology

Research

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

Education

• 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

Academic Positions

• 2016–present      Professor and Director of the Seminar of Moral Theology, University of Bonn, Germany
• 2012–present      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 of 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

Editorships

• Member of the Editorial Board of Marriage, Families and Spirituality
• Editor of Ethik und Empirie, mentis Verlag
• Editor of Forum Interdisziplinäre Ethik, Neue Folge, Peter Lang Verlag

Additional Academic Activities and Memberships

• 2018–present       Board Membership of the Joseph-Höffner-Gesellschaft
• 2018–present       Associate Membership of the research group Vulnerability, Safety and Resilience, Würzburg, Germany
• 2018–present       Membership of the International Xenotransplantation Association (IXA) Ethics Committee
• 2018–present       Membership of the Scientific Advisory Board of Ordo socialis
• 2018–present       Membership and deputy speaker of the board of the Center of Religion and Society (ZERG), University of
                               Bonn, Germany
• 2017–present       Deputy Membership of The Central Ethics Committee for Stem Cell Research at the Robert Koch Institute,
                               Berlin
• 2017–present       Membership of the Institute of Science and Ethics (IWE), University of Bonn, Germany
• 2017–present       Membership of Joseph-Höffner-Gesellschaft
• 2017–present       Membership of the Centre for Mind Research, University of Bonn, Germany
• 2017–present       Board Membership of the board of trustees of the Catholic Social Institute (KSI), Siegburg, Germany
• 2016–present       Membership of the Center of Religion and Society (ZERG), University of Bonn, Germany
• 2016–present       Membership of Association of the Competence Network Stem Cell Research North Rhine-Westphalia
• 2014–present       Membership of Association of Moral Theology
• 2013–present       Membership of the German Association of Pastoral Psychology (DGfP)
• 2011–present       Membership of the International Society of Christian Ethics
• 2008–present       Membership of the German Association of Marriage and Family Counseling

Third-Party Funding

•                             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
• 2020–2023          Listening to survivors of sexual abuse and giving them a voice
• 2019–2022          Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): funding for TP 4 in the research unit Resilience in Religion and
                              Spirituality:Endurance and the Formation of Powerlessness, Fear and Anxiety
• 2017–2020          Neue Lebensformen der Familie: Theologisch-ethische Sondierungen und normative Orientierungen 
• 2017–2019          Wertschöpfung und Empathie: Gesamtgesellschaftliche Relevanz empathischer Kompetenzen und Empathie-
                              Lernen im schulischen Unterricht
• 2016–2017          Stigmatisierung psychischer Erkrankungen

Selected Publications

• Religion und Bildung: Antipoden oder Weggefährten? Diskurse aus historischer, systematischer und praktischer Sicht. With E. Zwick (eds.). Paderborn 2019.
• Handbuch psychiatrisches Grundwissen für die Seelsorge. With T. Skuban (eds.). Freiburg im Breisgau 2018.
• Irritationen der Lebensführung: Existenzielle und theologisch-ethische Herausforderungen psychischer Erkrankungen. In: J. Sautermeister, T. Skuban (eds.): Handbuch psychiatrisches Grundwissen für die Seelsorge, Freiburg im Breisgau 2018, 17–33.
• Göttliches Gesetz und personales Gewissen: Zur moraltheologischen Dignität authentischer Sittlichkeit. In: M. Graulich, R. Weinmann (eds.): Ewige Ordnung in sich verändernder Gesellschaft? Das göttliche Recht im theologischen Diskurs. (Quaestiones disputatae 287). Freiburg im Breisgau 2018, 166–189.
• Selbstgestaltung und Sinnsuche unter fragilen Bedingungen: Moralpsychologische und ethische Anmerkungen zum Verhältnis von Resilienz und Identität. In: M. Karidi, M. Schneider, R. Gutwald (eds.): Resilienz: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven zu Wandel und Transformation. Wiesbaden 2018, 127–140.
• Tierische Organe in menschliche Körper: Biomedizinische, kulturwissenschaftliche, theologische und ethische Zugänge zur Xenotransplantation. (Ed.). Münster 2018.
• Moralpsychologie: Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven. (ed.). (Ethik im Diskurs 11), Stuttgart 2017.
• Moraltheologie und Christliche Sozialethik 1990-2015. Ein Kapitel theologisch-ethischer Zeitgeschichte. In: K. Hilpert (Ed.): Theologische Ethik im Spiegel ihrer Biografie: Stationen und Kontexte, Paderborn 2016, 237–258.
• Xenotransplantation from the Perspective of Moral Theology. In: Xenotransplantation 22 (2015), 183–191. [DOI: 10.1111/xen.12157].
• Identität und Authentizität: Studien zur normativen Logik personaler Orientierung. (Studien zur theologischen Ethik 138). Freiburg im Uechtland, Freiburg im Breisgau, Wien 2013.