Jean Ehret is the founding director of the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society and its Professor of Theology and Spirituality. In the past years he has developed an international network of cooperation partners, including research universities (Torino, Potsdam, and Tübingen as “Exzellenzuniversität”) as well as Catholic (Trier and the Jesuit Faculties of Paris, as well as the Collège des Bernardins), Protestant (VU Amsterdam), Jewish (Institut d’études universitaires juives Elie Wiesel, School of Jewish Theology Potsdam), and Muslim (Zentrum für islamische Theologie at the Tübingen University) institutions. Prof. Ehret is the head of three research projects: the first on religious epistemology (in cooperation with Prof. Christoph Theobald from Centre Sèvres in Paris), the second on the critical edition and commentary of the literary works of Elie Wiesel (with the Universities of Tübingen and Potsdam, and the Institut Elie Wiesel), and the third is Trust & Society – The Global Network on Trust. He has received third-party funding for T&S and—together with Prof. R. Boschki from the Excellenz-Initiative of Tübingen University—for the edition of Wiesel’s Complete Works, as well as from the Fondation de Luxembourg for the French translation of the book on Islamic Theology that he co-edited with Prof. Mouez Khalfaoui.

He works to develop a new way of doing theology in a global, secularized, diversified context. This theology seeks to take responsibility for the future of civilizations, social cohesion, and dialogue between religions and with non-religious people, to promote respect for the other and learning with and from one another. He is a trained literary scholar as well as a theologian and works on the relationship between religion, spirituality, literature, and theology. He has taught in the US, France, Germany, and Italy. In 2022, he was appointed Visiting Professor di Ateneo for practical philosophy of religion in the Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences (at that time labelled Department of Excellency) and is currently the Distinguished Visiting Professor for Theology & Literature at Tübingen University (2022-2025). He is a member of the “Institut grand-ducal”: Section des Sciences Morales et Politiques, the Vice-Dean of Class VII: World Religions of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences, acting Vice-president of the French and Francophone Section of the European Society for Catholic Theology, and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Görres Gesellschaft. He has been awarded two orders by the Grand-Duke of Luxembourg: he is a knight in the “Ordre du Mérite” and in the “Ordre de la Couronne de Chêne”.