Christian Walther (theologian, 1927)

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Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Walther (born February 21, 1927 in Insterburg ; † January 24, 2012 in Hamburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and social ethicist . From 1974 to 1992 he was a professor at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg .

Life

Walther was born in East Prussia . From 1944 to 1945 he was drafted into military service; he was taken prisoner of war . He then studied Protestant theology at the University of Kiel . In 1955 he was appointed social pastor of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . In 1956 he was given a full thesis on the Dr. theol. PhD.

In 1965 he became Executive Secretary at the Lutheran World Federation in Geneva. In 1967 he completed his habilitation at the Institute for Social Ethics at the University of Zurich with a thesis on Theology and Society. Localization of Protestant social ethics and became a private lecturer . In 1970 he became an adjunct professor at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . From 1974 to 1992 Walther was professor of Protestant theology with special emphasis on social ethics at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg.

He was co-editor of the yearbook Innereführung .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Types of understanding of the kingdom of God. Studies on eschatology and ethics in the 19th century (= research on the history and teaching of Protestantism . Volume 20). Kaiser, Munich 1961.
  • Theology and society. Determination of the location of Protestant social ethics (= publications by the Institute for Social Ethics at the University of Zurich . Volume 2). Zwingli Verlag, Zurich u. a. 1967.
  • Christianity under attack. On the theology of the revolution (= aspects of modern theology . Volume 11). Gütersloh publishing house G. Mohn, Gütersloh 1969.
  • Racism. Documentation on the ecumenical anti-racism program (= To the point . Issue 6). Lutherisches Verlagshaus, Berlin a. a. 1971, ISBN 3-7859-0385-5 .
  • Responsibility to freedom. A socio-ethical study on the question of the meaning of a soldier's existence . Mittler, Herford u. a. 1989, ISBN 3-8132-0327-1 .
  • Eschatology as a theory of freedom. Introduction to modern forms of eschatological thinking (= Theological Library Töpelmann . Volume 48). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1991, ISBN 3-11-012811-X .
  • Ethics and technology. Basic questions - opinions - controversies (= De Gruyter study book ). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-11-013475-6 .
  • Political Christianity. A controversial phenomenon in Protestantism . Olzog, Landsberg am Lech 1996, ISBN 3-7892-9345-8 .
  • Eventful times. Stations of a hike (= memoirs series . Volume 46). Kovač, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-8300-0569-5 .
  • On behalf of freedom and peace. An attempt at ethics for soldiers in the Bundeswehr . Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-937885-05-6 .

Editorships

  • Law and Social Change. An ecumenical symposium . Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 1971, ISBN 3-87476-009-X .
  • Nuclear weapons and ethics. German Protestantism and nuclear armament 1954–1961. Documents and comments (= study books on contemporary church history . Volume 3). Kaiser, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-459-01356-7 .
  • With Uwe Hartmann : The soldier in a changing world. A manual for theory and practice . With a foreword by Roman Herzog , Olzog, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-7892-8250-2 .

literature

  • Rainer Dieterich , Carsten Pfeiffer (Ed.): Freedom and Contingency. On the interdisciplinary anthropology of human freedoms and bonds. Festschrift for Christian Walther (= person and environment . Volume 3). Asanger, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-89334-217-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Christian Widmann: Change with Violence? German Protestantism and the politically motivated use of violence in the 1960s and 1970s (= work on contemporary church history . Series B: Representations . Volume 56). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen u. a. 2013, ISBN 978-352-55577-1-6 , p. 613 (see register of persons).
personal data
SURNAME Walther, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walther, Christian Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and social ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Insterburg
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2012
Place of death Hamburg