Dorothea Bertschmann

Dr Dorothea H. Bertschmann is originally from Switzerland, where she completed her initial theological and ministerial studies at the University of Bern and served as a pastor for some 7 years in the Swiss Reformed Church, both in urban and rural settings. For the last 13 years she has lived, studied and worked in England and has found a new spiritual home in the Anglican church. After completing her doctorate on Paul’s political theology under the supervision of Prof. Barclay and Prof. Insole in Durham, she taught New Testament Studies at the Theology Department there for a few years. Since 2016 she has been the tutorial fellow of Biblical studies at the College of the Resurrection at Mirfield and since 2019 its Academic Dean. Dorothea will be ordained deacon in the Church of England on the 4th of October 2020 and presently serves her curacy at Dewsbury Minster. She is the author of  Bowing before Christ- Nodding to the State? Reading Paul politically with Oliver O’Donovan and John Howard Yoder (2014, Library of New Testament Studies, T&T Clark/Bloomsbury) and numerous journal articles and book chapters. Her special interests are in Pauline Theology and Ethics, Politics and Ecumenism. She presently researches a book on a Pauline Theology of Suffering.