Robert Paul Scharlemann

Background

Scharlemann, Robert Paul was born on April 4, 1929 in Lake City, Minnesota, United States. Son of Ernst Karl and Johanna Meta (Harre) Scharlemann.

Education

Student, Northwestern College, Watertown, Wisconsin, 1949. Bachelor, Concordia College and Seminary, St. Louis, 1952. Bachelor's Degree, Master of Divinity, Concordia College and Seminary, 1955.

Doctor theological, University Heidelberg, Germany, 1957.

Career

Scharlemann taught at the University of Iowa and the University of Virginia. Scharlemann received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Divinity from Concordia Seminary of Saint Louis, Missouri, before going to the University of Heidelberg for his doctorate under a Fulbright Scholarship. After briefly teaching at both Valparaiso University and the University of Southern California, he became Professor of Religious Studies at the School of Religion at the University of Iowa in 1963.

He remained there until 1981, when we became Commonwealth Professor of Religion at the University of Virginia.

In addition to his teaching posts, his work included a stint as editor of the influential Journal of the American Academy of Religion. He was also a moving force in the emergence of the North American Paul Tillich Society.

He died on July 10, 2013.

Achievements

• Robert Paul Scharlemann has been listed as a noteworthy Religious studies educator, clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Reason of Following: Christology and the Ecstatic I (Religion and Postmodernism)

    ( In the Reason of Following noted scholar Robert P. Scha...)

  • Inscriptions and Reflections: Essays in Philosophical Theology (Studies in Religion and Culture)

    (Book by Scharlemann, Robert P.)

  • Reflection and Doubt in the Thought of Paul Tillich

    (Book by ROBERT P. SCHARLEMANN)

  • Religion and Reflection: Essays on Paul Tillich's Theology (Tillich-Studien)

    (Author Robert P. Scharlemann is one of the most profound ...)

  • Thomas Aquinas and John Gerhard (Yale Publications in Religion)

Membership

Member of Society Philosophy Religion, Deutsche Paul-Tillich Gesellschaft, American Theological Society, American Academy Religion, European Society Culture.

Connections

Father:

Ernst Karl Scharlemann

Mother:

Johanna Meta (Harre) Scharlemann