Klaus Wengst

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Klaus Wengst (born May 14, 1942 in Remsfeld ) is a German Protestant theologian and professor emeritus of the New Testament .

Life

After graduating from the König-Heinrich-Schule in Fritzlar , Wengst studied Protestant theology from 1961 to 1967 at the Bethel Church University , at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg and at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1967 and completed his habilitation in 1970.

From 1979 Wengst was initially an adjunct professor and from 1980 professor in Bonn and from 1981 until his retirement in 2007 professor for Protestant theology (New Testament) at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1991 he was studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem .

Wengst held a number of honorary positions. He is a member of the working group Jews and Christians at the German Evangelical Church Congress and was its chairman from 1992 to 2006. From 1993 to 2003 he was chairman of the Evangelical Study Group on Church and Israel in Rhineland and Westphalia. He is chairman of the association KuKuC eV (art and culture in the Claudius-Höfe) and was the founder, chairman and then treasurer of the association for the promotion of the science of Judaism at the Ruhr University Bochum.

In addition to questions of social history, he increasingly dealt with the question of the relationship between the New Testament and Judaism. In 2012, the exegetical magazine Texte & Kontexte dedicated a two-part commemorative publication to his 70th birthday to honor his contributions to the Jewish context and character of the New Testament.

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • Tradition and theology of the letter of Barnabas (= work on church history. Vol. 42). De Gruyter, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-11-003975-3 .
  • Christological formulas and songs of early Christianity (= studies on the New Testament. Vol. 7). Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 1972.
  • Heresy and Orthodoxy as reflected in the first epistle of John. Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 1976.
  • Afflicted church and glorified Christ. The historical location of the Gospel of John as the key to its interpretation (= biblical-theological studies. Vol. 5). Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1981, ISBN 3-7887-0643-0 .
  • Pax Romana, aspiration and reality. Experiences and perceptions of peace with Jesus and in early Christianity. Christian Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-459-01638-8 .
  • Humility - solidarity of the humiliated. Changes of a term and its social reference in Greco-Roman, Old Testament-Jewish and early Christian tradition. Christian Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-459-01715-5 .
  • Jesus between Jews and Christians. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-17-015766-3 .
  • Commentaries on the Gospel of John (two volumes, 2nd edition 2004/2007) and on the Letter to Philemon (2005)
  • “Rejoice, you peoples, with God's people!” Israel and the peoples as the subject of Paul - a walk through Romans. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-019704-6 .
  • "For how much longer?" Crying for justice and justice - an interpretation of the Apocalypse of John. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-17-021103-2 .
  • The Government Program of the Kingdom of Heaven, an interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount in its Jewish context. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-17-021724-9 .
  • The real Jesus? A pamphlet about the historically unproductive and theologically pointless search for the “historical” Jesus. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-17-023009-5 .
  • Being a Christian with the Torah and Gospel: Contributions to the restructuring of Christian theology in the face of Israel. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-17-025144-1 .
  • Miriam's son - God's anointed. Discovering Jesus with the four evangelists , Stuttgart 2016.

Magazine articles

  • How long has Christianity existed? In: Encounters. Journal for Church and Judaism. 2003, H. 3, pp. 2-11 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chairman of the Working Group Jews and Christians , jcrelations.net, accessed on July 25, 2015.
  2. ↑ Board of the KuKuC ( Memento from March 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Wengst: Vita ( Memento from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Texts & Contexts, exegetical journal, published by the Association for Political and Theological Education LEHRHAUS eV Dortmund, ISSN  0170-1096 ; 35th year, issue 2–4 / 2012, no. 134–136; 36th year, issue 1–2 / 2013, no. 137/138.
personal data
SURNAME Wengst, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and professor emeritus for the New Testament
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Remsfeld