Education
Achtner studied systematic theology and the Old Testament in Mainz, Göttingen and Heidelberg.
Achtner studied systematic theology and the Old Testament in Mainz, Göttingen and Heidelberg.
His dissertation focused on the science-and-religion dialogue in the work of Thomas F. Torrance. He then undertook a one-year research fellowship in Heidelberg. While a parish minister -in Mainz, he earned an additional degree in mathematics.
He worked on the concept natural law and its role in the science and theology dialogue during a sabbatical year at Princeton Theological Seminary. has lectured in Germany, France, Great Britain, Switzerland and the United States.
Wolfgang Achtner is editor of the Giessen University Sermons and the newsletter Science and Religion (in German).