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Dominik Gautier teaches systematic theology at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, where he also graduated with a master's degree in ecumenical theology in 2012. In fall 2011, he studied at Union Theological Seminary in New York. His dissertation deals with the theological ethics of US-American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and his ambivalent engagement with both racism and the Black freedom struggle.
In his post-doctoral project, he investigates the contributions Reformed theologies can make to raising awareness of the environmental crisis. In this context, he also taught a class on “Reformed Theologies of Nature” and organized a workshop on “Decentering Whiteness in Environmental Theologies” at Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta in fall 2022. Another part of this project is his examination of the echoes of Reformed theological ethics in the US-American environmental justice movement of the 1980s, which he is pursuing as a member of the network “Bridging Black Freedom Struggles: German and US-American Perspectives” (funded by the German Research Foundation).
RCC Research Project: Reading the Book of Nature: Intersections of US-American Nature Writing and Reformed Theologies
Selected publications:
- “Karl Barths Liebe zur Schöpfung. Ein ökologisch-theologischer Kommentar” [Karl Barth’s Love for Creation. An Ecological-Theological Commentary]. In … wie ein Vogel im Fluge. Ein Kommentar zu Karl Barths „Einführung in die evangelische Theologie” [...like a bird mid-flight: A Commentary on Karl Barth's Introduction to Protestant Theology], edited by Dominik von Allmen-Mäder, Magdalene L. Frettlöh, and Matthias Käser. Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, forthcoming May 2024.
- “Israeltheologische Schöpfungslehre: Ökologisch-theologische Reflexionen im Anschluss an Willie James” [Israel-Theological Doctrine of Creation: Ecological-Theological Reflections After Willie James Jennings]. Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie und Geschichtswissenschaft [Contemporary Church History: International Journal for Theology and Historical Studies], no. 1 (forthcoming 2024).
- “3 ½ Fragen an: Dominik Gautier” [3 ½ Questions for: Dominik Gautier]. Die Zeit, no. 13 (2023): 41. https://l.uol.de/zeit.
- “Kosmischer Realismus: Marilynne Robinson als Gesprächspartnerin einer reformierten Schöpfungstheologie” [Cosmic Realism: Marilynne Robinson as an Analyst of a Reformed Theology of Creation]. In Entgrenzungen: Festschrift für Andrea Strübind zum 60. Geburtstag [Dissolution of Boundaries: Anniversary Publication for Andrea Strübind's 60th Birthday], edited by Sabine Hübner, and Kim Strübind, 329–44. Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 2023.
- “Johannes Calvins Ästhetik der Natur: Überlegungen zu einer wenig beachteten Tradition reformierter Schöpfungstheologie” [John Calvin's Aesthetics of Nature: Reflections on a Little-Noticed Tradition of Reformed Theology of Creation]. In Lernerfahrungen: Theologie als Beziehungsort im interkonfessionellen und interreligiösen Gespräch [Learning Experiences: Theology as a Reference Point in the Interdenominational and Interreligious Dialog], edited by Dominik Gautier and Knut Wormstädt, 12–25. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2023.
- “Protestant Theology: Christianity as a Ressource.” Einblicke: Das Forschungsmagazin der Universität Oldenburg [Insights: The Research Magazine of the University of Oldenburg] 67 (2022/23): 22–4. https://l.uol.de/christianityasaresource.