Pacific School of Religion
Professor of Christian Worship
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 2000

Dr. phil, University of Kassel, 1993

Phone: 510/849-8251
E-mail: abieler@psr.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Liturgical Theology and Jewish Christian Dialogue
• Liturgical Theology and Feminist Theology
• Ritual Studies
• Eucharist as Holy Eating: Eschatological Dimensions (Interdisciplinary research project with Luise Schottroff)
• U-topia and Lamentation: A Negative Theology of Liturgy

Selected Publications

• Die Sehnsucht nach dem verlorenen Himmel. Jüdische und christliche Reflexionen zu Gottesdienstreform und Predigtkultur im 19. Jahrhundert, (Praktische Theologie heute, Vol. 65) Köln: Kohlhammer-Verlag, 2003. [Yearning for the Lost Heaven. Jewish and Christian Reflections on Liturgical Reform and Preaching Culture in the 19th Century].
• Coeditor of the Series “Populäre Religion und Kultur” [Popular Culture and Religion], Litverlag, Münster.
• “Zweifel. Praktisch-theologisch“, in Theologische Realenzyklopädie, in press. [Article: “Doubt. Practical-theological”, in Theological Real Encyclopedia].
• “Eucharist as Gift Exchange. Liturgical Theology and Ritual Studies in Dialog” in: Dem Tod nicht glauben. Sozialgeschichte der Bibel. Festschrift für Luise Schottroff zum 70. Geburtstag, ed. by Frank Crüsemann, Marlene Crüsemann, Claudia Janssen, Rainer Kessler and Beate Wehn, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus 2004, 127-140.
• “The Journeys of the Dead in Postcolonial Times. Hermeneutical Considerations from the Perspective of Ritual Studies”, in Reisen. Fährten für eine Theologie unterwegs (INPUT- Interdisziplinäre Untersuchungen zur Theologie, Vol. 1), ed. by Helga Kuhlmann, Martin Leutzsch, Harald Schroeter-Wittke, Münster: Lit-Verlag 2003, 236-242.
• “The Language of Prayer between Truth Telling and Mysticism”, in The Theology of Dorothee Sölle, ed. by Sarah Pinnock, Harrisburgh: Trinity Press International 2003, 55-70.