Christian Grethlein

Christian Grethlein (born 1954) is a German Protestant theologian. He studied Protestant theology and philosophy in Munich, Göttingen, and Erlangen, and subsequently taught in Berlin and Halle. From 1997 to 2020, he was Professor of Practical Theology, with a focus on religious education, at the University of Münster. He chaired the Conference of Protestant Theological Faculties from 2006 to 2009. From 2010 to 2012, he received an Opus Magnum grant from the Volkswagen Foundation. From the 1990s onward, he also served as a subject editor for the Theologische Literaturzeitung and in 1991 founded the series Arbeiten zur Praktischen Theologie.