AMOS price
The AMOS Prize for Civil Courage in Church and Society has been awarded by the Open Church to people or initiatives every two years since 2001 .
Award
The award is given to people who pass on the message of the Bible that liberates and demands justice in a particularly impressive, prophetic way, or groups, initiatives and activities that exemplarily do justice to the political claim of the message of the coming kingdom of God.
Relation to the prophet Amos
The AMOS Prize is named after the prophet Amos , especially because of his social criticism (e.g. Amos 2, 6-8), cult criticism (e.g. 5, 21-23), and because Amos was expelled from the country as a result of this criticism (Amos 7, 10-17).
Patron
Erhard Eppler has been the patron of the AMOS Prize since 2001 . On March 17, 2019, he passed this task on to Herta Däubler-Gmelin .
Prize money and funding
The AMOS Prize is associated with prize money of 3000 euros. The AMOS Prize is financed by donations and by the AMOS Prize Foundation.
Award winners
- 2001: Gertraud Knoll and Beatrix Spreng
- 2003: Diaconal community “Brot & Rosen” (Hamburg) and workshop “Feminist Theology Laichingen”
- 2005: Halina Bortnowska (Warsaw) and "Café Strich-Punkt" (Stuttgart)
- 2007: Florian Pfaff
- 2009: Herta Leistner
- 2011: Sumaya Farhat-Naser and Reuven Moskovitz
- 2013: Carmen Häcker
- 2015: Jürgen Grässlin
- 2017: Christiane Quincke
- 2019: Rainer Schmid
Individual evidence
- ^ Open Church Württemberg: Open Church Württemberg: AMOS Prize. Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Amos 2, 6-8 on bibleserver.com
- ↑ Amos 5: 21-23 on bibleserver.com
- ↑ Amos 7, 10-17 on bibleserver.com
- ^ [1] Protestant press service, Southwest regional service "Amos Prize for Pastors and Peace Activists" (November 20, 2018)
- ^ [2] Open Church, Evangelical Association in Württemberg "AMOS Prize for Pastor Rainer Schmid" (November 20, 2018)