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Sarah Bach

Sarah B. Bach

  • Doktorandin / PhD candidate
  • UZH CanDoc Grant
Address
Institut für Sozialethik
Room number
ZOA E12

Address

Institut für Sozialethik
Ethik-Zentrum der Universität Zürich
Zollikerstrasse 117
8008 Zürich

Research focus

  • Ecological theology / ecotheology
  • Spirituality of Creation
  • Methodist theology and social ethics
  • Feminist and postcolonial theology

Academic Career

2022-2023

Support of the dissertation project through the CanDoc Grant of the UZH

Seit 2021

PhD student at the Institute of Social Ethics with Prof. Dr. Michael Coors

Working title of the dissertation: “Ethics of eco-spiritualities”

Since 2019

Pastor of the United Methodist Church of Switzerland
(2022: Ordination)

2016-2019

Master's degree in Theology at Drew University (NJ, USA) and the Reutlingen School of Theology (GER).

Master's thesis on the topic: “Social Sanctification in the Age of the Anthropocene: John Wesley's Doctrine of Sanctification and Ecotheological Approaches”

2013-2016

Bachelor's degree in Theology at the Reutlingen School of Theology (GER)

Cooperations

  • Commission on “Climate Justice and Sustainable Development” of the World Council of Churches (WCC)
  • Working group “Theologie in der Klimakrise” of the FEST Heidelberg
  • Strategic Committee “Bewahrung der Schöpfung” of the Protestant Church of Switzerland (PCS)
  • Working Group “Umweltgerechtigkeit” of the  United Methodist Church in Switzerland (co-leadership)
  • Advisory Board of the Eco Church Network in German-speaking Switzerland
  • Advisory Board of the Center for Church Development UZH 
     

Publications

  • Bach, Sarah (2024). Teilhabe statt Entfremdung. Eine methodistische Theologie der Sünde in einer relationalen Welt. Cursor_ Zeitschrift Für Explorative Theologiehttps://doi.org/10.21428/fb61f6aa.ccbd28b0 
  • Bach, Sarah, Zwischen Leben und Tod: Sünde und Abendmahl neu denken im Angesicht der Klimakrise, in: Ökumenische Rundschau 72 (4/2023), S. 485-501.