CTI Member Wins Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise

CTI Member Nadia Marais is a 2025 recipient of the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise, in recognition of the publication of her book, Homo Florens? Cultivating Grammars of Salvation (Pickwick Publications, 2023). A Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Stellenbosch University, Marais is a member in CTI’s Inquiry on Thriving in Diverse Contexts, a study program in psychological science for theologians, funded by the John Templeton Foundation.

The Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise annually honors 10 young scholars from all over the world for outstanding dissertations or the first post-doctoral work in the thematic complex “God and Spirituality (broadly understood)”. 20 reviewers from currently 15 countries select the awardees. The laureates are honored in a festive ceremony in the Old Auditorium of Heidelberg University.

The award ceremony is followed by a colloquium with the award winners at the International Science Forum Heidelberg (IWH), where they present their next research projects and discuss them with some evaluators and members of the FIIT.

left to right: CTI Director William Storrar, Nadia Marais, CTI Associate Director Joshua Mauldin