Brigitte Kahl | The Helix Center

Brigitte Kahl

Title: Professor of New Testament

Institution: Union Theological Seminary in New York; Associate Professor, Religion Department, Columbia University

Discipline: Philosophy & Ethics

Appearances: 1

Notable: Author of 'Galatians Re-Imagined: Reading with the Eyes of the Vanquished' (2010), redefining Pauline interpretation; two doctorates from Humboldt University, Berlin; formerly held chair in Biblical Exegesis and Interpretation at Paderborn University; worked with the World Council of Churches; pioneered Critical Re-Imagination as an interpretive approach and pedagogical method

Website

Biography

Brigitte Kahl is a biblical scholar and ordained minister from East Germany who holds two doctorates in New Testament and Ecumenics from Humboldt University in Berlin. Her pioneering work redefines the traditional paradigm of Pauline interpretation through the lens of Roman imperial visual culture, recasting justification by faith as a theology of resistance and transformation.

Sample Works