[2] His only sibling, his sister Klara (1904-2001), who later called herself Mutter Basilea Schlink, became a popular religious writer and leader.
[3] In 1922 he matriculated at Tübingen University, where he studied mathematics, philosophy, psychology, physics, and other natural sciences.
[6] This dissertation explores personality changes in people who undergo a religious conversion and in those who are suffering from clinical depression.
[11] This post-doctoral thesis in theological anthropology examines how human beings have been understood in the preaching of the church.
[13] He later interpreted this confession favorably in light of several key teachings in the Book of Concord, especially the distinction between law and gospel.
[14] Because of pressure from the Gestapo, which he and his superiors received as a result of his public criticism of the German Christians (Deutsche Christen), Schlink was removed from his teaching position at Giessen.
[22] Shortly after his arrival at Heidelberg in 1946, Schlink founded an ecumenical institute there, the first of its kind at a German university.
[24] This Ecumenical Working Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians is the longest lasting such dialogue in history.
[25] This Working Group helped to improve ecumenical relations between the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church.
[26] In addition to encouraging dialogue among Christians, Schlink also supported inter-disciplinary discussions between theologians and scientists.
[35] His 804-page Ecumenical Dogmatics, which contains prefaces by both a Roman-Catholic theologian (Heinrich Fries) and an Eastern Orthodox one (Nikos Nissiotis), "seeks to overcome basic dogmatic misunderstandings among the churches and to identify essential convergences in an effort to pave the way toward visible reunion of broken Christendom.