Wolfhart Pannenberg is emeritus professor of theology at the University of Munich, and was director of its Ecumenical Institute. He is among the most well-known contemporary Protestant theologians, and his three volume Systematic Theology is considered a landmark work.

Born in 1928 in Stettin, Germany (modern Poland), he began his theological studies after World War II at the University of Berlin. He received his PhD from the University of Heidelberg and taught at the Kirchliche Hochschule and at the University of Mainz before moving to the University of Munich in 1968.

In addition to his Systematic Theology series, his other books include Theology and the Philosophy of Science, Anthropology in Theological Perspective, Metaphysics and the Idea of God, and Revelation as History.