Профессор Гарвардской богословской школы. Специалист в области изучения роли религии в современном обществе.

Родился в 1946 г. Имеет три магистерские степени - Concordia Senior College, Concordia Seminary и Йельского университета.

В Йеле Тиманн защитил также докторскую диссертацию (PhD). Тема диссертации: "A Conflict of Perspectives: the Debate between Karl Barth and Werner Elert".

Являлся профессором Haverford College. В 1986 г. перешел на работу в Гарвард, где в период 1986-1998 гг. руководил Гарвардской богословской школой.

Известен благодаря книгам Revelation and Theology: The Gospel as Narrated Promise, Constructing a Public Theology: The Church in a Pluralistic Culture и Religion in Public Life: A Dilemma for Democracy.

В настоящее время работает над книжным проектом "Узники совести: литераторы как социальные критики".

Является почетным доктором Wabash College (Индиана, США) и Trinity Seminary (Огайо, США).

Является лютеранским пастором. С 2010 работает Лютерано-Католической международной комиссии.

Книги

Sacramental Realism: Literary Art as Social Critique (forthcoming)
Doing Theology in Public: Essays Theoretical and Practical (forthcoming)
Who Will Provide? The Changing Role of Religion in American Social Welfare. (co-editor and author). Westview Press, 2001.
Where Shall My Wandering Soul Begin: The Landscape of Evangelical Piety and Thought (co-editor). Eerdmans Publishing House, 2000
Why Are We Here: Everyday Questions and the Christian Life. (co-editor and author). Trinity Press International, 1998.
Religion in Public Life: A Dilemma for Democracy. Georgetown: Georgetown University Press/The Century Fund, 1996.
Constructing a Public Theology: The Church in a Pluralistic Culture. Louisville: Westminster-John Knox Press, 1991.
The Legacy of H. Richard Niebuhr. (editor). Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991.
Revelation and Theology: The Gospel As Narrated Promise. Notre Dame: The University of Notre Dame Press, 1985. Reissued in 2005 by Wipf and Stock..

Статьи

“On Giraffes and Bank Accounts: Rethinking Discovery, Creation, and Religious Imagination,” Leadership and Discovery New York: McMillan/Palgrave, 2009
“The Public Theologian as Connected Critic: The Case of the Central European Churches,” A Report from the Front Lines: Conversations on Public Theology Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008
“Luther’s Theology of the Cross: Resource for a Theology of Religions?” The Global Luther: Reconsidering the Contributions of Martin Luther Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 2008
“Montesquieu and the Future of Liberalism” Modernity in Question: Montesquieu and His Legacy Albany: SUNY Press, 2008, 271-278,
“Behind the Intellectual Lines: A Report on Iran’s Crisis of Piety and Mind,’ Harvard Divinity Bulletin, 34:3 (Autumn, 2006), 20-27.
“Beyond Exclusivism and Relativism: A Trinitarian Theology of the Cross,” God’s Life in the Trinity, Miroslav Wolf and Michael Welker (eds.), Fortress Press, 2006, 118-129.
“What’s Faith Go To Do With It? Lutheran Social Ministry in Transition,” in Taking Religion Seriously, Harvard University Press, 2005, 177-209.
“The Public Intellectual as Connected Critic: George Orwell on Religion,” in George Orwell into the Twenty-First Century, Paradigm Publishers, 2004, 96-110.
“Toward a Christian Theology of Religions: Some Philosophical and Theological Reflections, Union Seminary Quarterly Review, Volume 56: Numbers 3-4, 2003, 157-166.
“Faith and the Public Intellectual,” Walk in the Ways of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Trinity Press International, 2003, 88-105.
“Waiting for God’s Own Time: Dietrich Bonhoeffer as Public Intellectual,” Religion im Erbe: Dietrich Bonhoeffer und die Zukunftsfähigkeit des Christentum Hrg. von Christian Gremmels und Wolfgang Huber. Guertersloher Verlagshaus, 2002, 92-111.
“Prisoners of Conscience: Faith and the Public Intellectual” Religion, Values and Public Life 7: 2 (Spring, 2001)
“Risks and Responsibilities for Faith-Based Organizations,” Who Will Provide? The Changing Role of Religion in American Social Welfare. Westview Press, 2001.
“The Constitutional Tradition: A Perplexing Legacy,” Law and Religion: A Critical Anthology, edited by Stephen M. Feldman, New York: New York University Press, 2001.
“Public Religion: Bane or Blessing for Democracy?” Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies, ed., Nancy L. Rosenblum. Princeton University Press, 2001.
“Religious Strife and the Culture Wars,” Religion, Politics and Peace, ed., Leroy S. Rouner. University of Notre Dame Press, 1998.
“Public Theology: The Moral Dimension of Religion in a Pluralistic Society,” Zietschrift für Evangelische Ethik, 42. Jahrgang. Heft 3 (Juli bis September 1998), 176-190.
“Religion and Legal Discourse: An Indirect Relation,” Marquette Law Review, 81:2 (Winter, 1998), 289-301.
“Political Liberalism: Religion and Public Reason (symposium, Harvard University),” Religion and Values in Public Life (Harvard Divinity Bulletin), Supplement 3 (summer, 1995), pp. 1-11.
“Beyond the Separation of Church and State: Public Religion and Constitutional Values,” New York State Bar Journal, 66:4 (May/June, 1994), 48-51.
“A Legacy of Learning, a Vocation of Hope (Eph. 4:1-6, 11-16; sermon, 175th anniversary of Harvard Divinity School),” Harvard Divinity Bulletin, 22:2 (1992), pp. 10-112.
“Toward the Integrated Study of Religion: A Case for the University Divinity School,” Harvard Divinity Bulletin, 21:4 (1992), pp. 15, 18-19.
"Diversity's Grace Notes," Op-ed article, Christian Science Monitor, ( August, 1992), p. 24.
“University Divinity Schools: Communities of Connected Critics” (address at installation of T. W. Ogletree as dean of Yale Divinity School), Harvard Divinity Bulletin, 20:4 (1990-1991), pp. 9-10.
“Discerning the Call of God in the Cries of God’s People,” LWF Report, no. 28-29 (December, 1990), pp. 19-26.
“The Future of an Illusion: an Inquiry into the Contrast between Theological and Religious Studies (cultural-linguistic approach),” Theological Education, 26 (Spring, 1990), pp. 66-85.
"On Speaking of God: The Divisive Issue for Schleiermacher and Barth," Friedrich Schleiermacher and Karl Barth: Beyond the Impasse? (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988).
"The Scholarly Vocation: Its Future Challenges and Threats," Theological Education, XXIV:1 (August, 1987), 86-101.
"Radiance and Obscurity in Biblical Narrative," Scriptural Authority and Narrative Interpretation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987), 21-41.
"Review Symposium on Revelation and Theology: Five Perspectives and a Reply by the Author," dialog, 26:1 (Winter, 1987), pp. 71-73.
Making Theology Central in Theological Education,” Christian Century, 104: (Fall, 1987), pp. 106-108.
“Toward an American Public Theology: Religion in a Pluralistic Democracy,” Harvard Divinity Bulletin, 18: (October/November, 1987), 4-6, 10.
"The Unnamed Woman at Bethany: A Model for Discipleship," Theology Today, XLIV:2 (July, 1987), 179-188.
"Toward A Critical Theological Education," Harvard Theological Review, 80:1 (January 1987), 1-13.
"Challenges to the Common Good," The Church and American Civil Religion, (New York: Lutheran World Ministries, 1986), 140-146.
"Intratextuality and Speaking of God: A Response to George Lindbeck," Theology Today XLIII:3 (October, 1986), 377-382.
"The Significance of Karl Barth for Contemporary Theology," The Thomist, 50:4 (Fall, 1986), 512-539.
"Christian Dogmatics in Lutheran Perspective," Interpretation XL:2 (April, 1986), 191-193.
"Praxis: The Practical Atheism of Karl Marx," The Journal of Ecumenical Studies 22:3 (Summer, 1985), 544-548.
"Marx's Thought: Human Nature and Destiny" and "Marx's Thought: Critique of Religion," Christianity and the Many Faces of Marxism (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1984).
"Thanksgiving Day: A Case Study in American Civil Religion," Resource 12:3 (November, 1984) (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House).
"From Twilight to Darkness: Theology and the New Pluralism," Trinity Seminary Review 6:2 (Fall, 1984), 12-24.
"Piety, Narrative, and Christian Identity," Word and World, III:2 (Spring, 1983), 148-159.
"The Gospel and American Civil Religion" Lutheran World Federation Documentation No. 12, Stuttgart: Kreuz Berlag, 1982, 1-14. German Translation: "Evangelium und Civil Religion in Amerika" LWB-Dokumentation, 12, Stuttgart: Kreuz Verlag, 1982, 27-40. Reprinted in Evangelischer Pressedienst Dokumentation 85:1 (January, 1985), 63-75. Reprinted in The Church and American Civil Religion (New York: Lutheran World Ministries, 1986), 63-72.
"Toward a Theology of Creation: A Response to Gustaf Wingren," Creation and
Method: Critical Essays on Christocentric Theology, Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1981.
"Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: An Enlightened View of Judaism," The Journal of Ecumenical Studies, XVIII:3 (Summer, 1981), 401-422.
"Revelation and Imaginative Construction," The Journal of Religion, 61:3 (July, 1981), 242-263.
"Matthew's Christology: Resource for Systematic Theology," Currents in Theology and Mission, IV:6 (December, 1977), 350-362.
"Law and Gospel in the Thought of Thomas Muentzer," Lutheran Quarterly, XXVII:4 (November, 1975) 347-363.
"What is Dogma?" Clergy, 3:12 (December, 1973) St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House.
"Evangelical Theology for a Secular Age," Lutheran Education, 105:7 (March, 1970), 320-332.