| Daniela Müller | |
| Birth Date: | 10 July 1957 |
| Birth Place: | Aschaffenburg, Germany |
| Occupation: | University professor |
| Full Professor | |
| Discipline: | Historian of Christianity |
| Sub Discipline: | Church history, Canon Law |
| Workplaces: | Radboud University |
| Main Interests: | Catharism, Heresy, Inquisition |
| Notable Works: | Ketzer und Kirche (2014) Frauen und Häresie (2015) |
Daniela Müller (born July 10, 1957) is a German theologian and church historian. She is a full professor in the History of Christianity and Canon Law at Radboud University, and has published extensively on the subjects of heresy and dissidents.[1] Her work focuses on "the concepts of orthodoxy and heterodoxy and on the history of dissident communities."[2]
Müller studied German, History and Catholic Theology in Würzburg. Subsequently, she pursued a doctorate on the ecclesiology of the Albigensians. In 1996 followed her habilitation on these subjects, with a venia legendi for history of canon law.
From 1998 onward, she was a visiting professor Canon Law at the University of Münster. She then moved to a university in the Netherlands when in 2001 she took up the chair for Church History at the Catholic University of Utrecht.[3] In 2009, she became a professor in the history of christianity at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Radboud University.[4]
Her research interests are heresy and the interweaving of canon law and theology.[1] The point of departure of her research is the connection between historical, theological and legal aspects.
The focus is on the interaction of the competing models of interpretation within Christianity, whereby orthodoxy and heterodoxy are not regarded as contrary, but as a continuing process of the development of learning within Christianity. The disputes concerning the different interpretations of the teachings are the driving force of the development of the spiritual culture of Europe, long before the Enlightenment.