Berkley Center

Michael Welker is the Alonzo L. McDonald Senior Fellow in Law and Religion at the University of Heidelberg, where he is also the chair for systematic theology and the director of the university's Research Center for International and Interdisciplinary Theology. Welker is a world-renowned theologian who works through the biblical traditions and through philosophical and sociological theories to address questions of contemporary culture. He focuses on the interplay among religious, legal, moral, scientific, and other cultural codes that shape the ethos of the postmodern world. He is ordained in the Protestant Church of the Palatinate, Germany, and he has published over 300 articles and authored or edited 45 books, including The Science and Theology Dialogue: What Can Theology Contribute? (2012).