Gerhard Sauter

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Gerhard Sauter (born May 4, 1935 in Kassel ) is a Protestant theologian .

Life

Gerhard Sauter - first child of pastor Hermann Sauter - studied theology in Tübingen from 1954 to 1956 (with Artur Weiser and his then assistant Otto Kaiser and Hanns Rückert ) and philosophy (especially with the existential philosopher Otto Friedrich Bollnow and the history of philosophy Erwin Metzke ), 1956 until 1959 in Göttingen with Walther Zimmerli , Joachim Jeremias , Ernst Käsemann , Otto Weber , Ernst Wolf and Martin Doerne .

In 1961 he received his doctorate in Göttingen with the dissertation supervised by Otto Weber, The Theology of the Kingdom of God with the elder and the younger Blumhardt . Then he was from 1961 to 1962 vicar in the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .

From 1962 to 1964 a grant from the German Research Foundation enabled him to study the future and promise. The problem of the future in the current theological and philosophical discussion , with which he completed his habilitation in Göttingen in the spring of 1965 . In 1968 Sauter went to the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz as the successor to Wolfhart Pannenberg , in 1972 he moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , where he became director of the Ecumenical Institute in 1976 and taught as a professor until his retirement in 2000.

From 1975 to 2005, Gerhard Sauter was the editor in charge of the journal proclamation and research . He lives as an author near Bonn.

Publications (selection)

  • The theology of the kingdom of God in the older and younger Blumhardt. Zwingli, Zurich / Stuttgart 1961.
  • Future and promise. The problem of the future in current theological and philosophical discussion. Zwingli, Zurich / Stuttgart 1965.
  • Before a new methodological dispute in theology? Kaiser, Munich 1970.
  • Philosophical critique of theology. Kaiser, Munich 1973.
  • Theology as a profession in our society. Kaiser, Munich 1976.
  • Working methods of systematic theology. An instruction. Kaiser, Munich a. Grünewald, Mainz 1976.
  • What does that mean: asking for meaning. A theological-philosophical orientation. Kaiser, Munich 1982.
  • Introduction to eschatology. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1995; Special edition 2005.
  • Approaches to dogmatics. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Stuttgart 1998.
  • The hidden life. A theological anthropology. Gütersloher, Gütersloh 2005.
  • Step sequences of hope. Theology of the liturgical year. Gütersloher, Gütersloh 2015.

literature

  • Karl Friedrich Reith : Critique of the revelation-positivist approach of an aporetic whole of meaning (on G. Sauter) In: Karl Friedrich Reith: Micrology: Reflections on a critical theology. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-8204-5817-4 , pp. 44-53.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Sauter: Gerhard Sauter. In: Christian Henning, Karsten Lehmkühler (Hrsg.): Systematic theology of the present in self-portrayals. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-8252-2048-6 , pp. 212-227
personal data
SURNAME Sauter, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel