Keynote Presentations from the AVEC International Summer School, Peyresq, 14-27 September 2003


Speaker: Otto Schäfer-Guignier
Schaefer-Guignier<at>t-online.de
Strasse des Friedens 87 14557 Langerwisch, Germany

Title of the talk: Faith and Reason (pdf)

Biosketch

Biologist (plant ecologist) and protestant theologian. Pastor of the Reformed Church of France. Born in 1955 in Zweibrücken (Palatinate, Germany). Studied at Hamburg, Göttingen, Grenoble, Strasbourg, Nancy-Besancon and Hohenheim, Germany (doctorate in plant ecology). Parish minister in Besancon, France (1982-87). Director of the Swiss Ecumenical Community Church and Environment, Bern, and assistant in systematic theology at Neuchâtel University (1987-92). Plant ecologist in a private office for ecological studies at Besancon (1992-93). Director of studies (ecology and urban development) at the Evangelische Akademie Berlin-Brandenburg (1993-1999). Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Agence Nationale pour la Gestion des Déchets Radioactifs, France (1994-99). Parish minister of the French speaking Protestant Community of Berlin (1994-2001). Teacher of protestant religion in secondary schools at Berlin (1999). Publications on plant ecology and vegetation science (especially water plants), ecotheology and bioethics.
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