Oswald Bayer is professor emeritus of systematic theology atthe University of T?bingen, Germany, and director of theLuther Academy Sondershausen-Ratzeburg. He is also anordained pastor of the Lutheran Church of W?rttemberg andwas the editor of Neue Zeitschrift f?r SystematischeTheologie und Religionsphilosophie from 1986 to2006. His research focuses especially on Luther andHamann.,