Personal Information of Johannes Hoff
Johannes Hoff is since September 1, 2020 Professor for Christian Doctrine at the Institute for Systematic Theology of the Catholic Theological Faculty in Innsbruck. He is also Senior Research Associate at the van Hügel Institute of the University of Cambridge and Honorary Professor at the University of Durham. Previously, he was Professor of Philosophical Theology at Heythrop College, University of London and Saint David's College, University of Wales, and Assistant Professor at the Chair of Fundamental Theology at the Eberhard-Karl's-University Tübingen. Hoff was born in 1962 in Trier as the son of the church musician Josef Hoff and his wife Gisela Hoff and is married to the business information scientist Professor Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff.
In his research and teaching, Johannes Hoff plans to introduce students and colleagues to the paradigm shift in Anglo-American Ressourcement theology of the past 30 years. Along with this project, he aims to prepare them for the historically unprecedented break of the digital revolution, which has been underestimated not only by the churches and the humanities, but also by the political and civil religious leaders of our time.
Video-Interview-Podcasts after 2020:
Hoff, Johannes: Developing Catholic Social Doctrine: Human Dignity in the Age of AI. Lecture in occasion of the workshop on "Digital Rerum Novarum: Artificial Intelligence for Peace, Social Justice, and Integral Human Development" at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 16-17 October 2025. Weblink:
Hoff, Johannes: Podcast: #27 "Forscher fomulieren 10 Regeln für die Würde und Zukunft Europas." Weblink
Hoff, Johannes: Podcast: The Rediscovery of the Sacred: Weblink
Hoff, Johannes: Gebetsapps: Spirituelles Angebot mit Haken. Weblink
Hoff, Johannes: Vortrag im Rahmen der Theologischen Sommertag, 1. September 2025 zum Thema: "Vom Christusbekenntnis zum dreifaltigen Gott: Nizäa als Schlüssel zur Offenbarungsgeschichte: Video Weblink
Hoff, Johannes und Spiekermann, Sarah: Podcast zum Thema: „Warum braucht es Regeln für die digitale Welt?", Communio, 30.9.2025: Weblink
Hoff, Johannes: "Braucht die digitale Welt Regeln? – Und wenn ja, welche?", in: Diesseits von Eden, der Podcast der theologischen Fakultäten Österreichs & Südtirols. Weblink Apple Music; Weblink Listen on Spotify.
Hoff, Johannes: Podcast zum Thema: "KI kümmert sich nicht um Wahrheit". in: Der Furche Podcast, 10. April 2024. Weblink
Hoff, Johannes: TV-Interview zum Thema: "Transhumanismus" in SRF Kultur, Sternstunden Religion, Jänner 2023 (58 Min.): Weblink (Audioaufnahme)
Antrittsvorlesung: „Ich bin mein Erinnern! Ewiges Leben im Zeitalter der digitalen Transformation.“
Universität Innsbruck, Juni 2022. Video Weblink
Buchbesprechungen zu Hoff, Johannes: "Verteidigung des Heiligen. Anthropologie der digitalen Transformation." Freiburg i. Br. - Basel [u.a.]: Herder. ISBN 978-3-451-38966-5.
Radio Maria, April 2022 (60 Min.): Weblink
Katholische Akademie, Berlin 2022 (55 Min.): Weblink
Pendant-Podcast. Gespräche zur digitalen Zeit, Juli 2021: Weblink
Interview mit Hoff, Johannes: „Glaube & Gesellschaft: Wo das reduktionistische Weltbild des ‚Materialismus‘ in die Irre führt.“ Université de Fribourg, Oktober 2020 (12 Min): Weblink
Video-Interview-Podcasts before 2020: Weblink