Achim Buckenmaier studied in Freiburg im Breisgau and Paris Catholic theology and received ordination in 1985.
[1][2][3] In 1994, Buckenmaier earned his doctorate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich with Gerhard Ludwig Müller with the dogmatic work Das Verhältnis von Schrift und Tradition nach dem Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil.
[6] As Professor of Dogmatics, Achim Buckenmaier was the director of the Founding Chair for the Theology of the People of God at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome from 2009 to 2021, established by the Catholic Integrated Community.
[7][8] The "distinction of the Jewish-Christian in relation to the religions," "Ecclesiology" and "Sacramental Doctrine and Practice" are contents of the work of this chair, which wants to teach the "unity between the Old and New Testament".
From autumn 2016, the chair offers a post-gradual distance learning "The profile of the Jewish-Christian" in German and since September 2017 also in English.