After studying philosophy, Catholic theology and religious studies at the University of Münster, Göcke received his doctorate in 2011 under Klaus Müller with a thesis on the panentheism of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause at the Catholic theological faculty.
The work was supervised by Godehard Brüntrup and was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014 under the title "A Theory of the Absolute".
[3] In the field of philosophy of science and metaphysics, Göcke's research focuses in on questions about the epistemological positioning of theology.
[5] Göcke's research also investigates the religiously coded assumptions of the transhumanist agenda and its promise of salvation and examines the extent to which elements of transhumanist thought can be supported from a Christian perspective, for example in the context of process theology .
According to Göcke, Krause developed the first consistently panentheistic system of philosophy which unites all essential areas of philosophical thought.