Adolf Martin Ritter

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Adolf Martin Ritter (born November 23, 1933 in Schwarzenborn ) is a German theologian and church historian . He is a professor emeritus at Heidelberg University .

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Adolf Martin Ritter's parents were the Protestant pastor Walter Ritter, who was missing in the war in 1945, and his wife, the nurse and welfare worker Ilse Ritter born. Suabedissen.

From 1939 to 1953, Ritter attended primary school in Münchhausen , Marburg district , and later the humanistic grammar school in Marburg. He completed a degree in Protestant theology in Marburg , Heidelberg , Göttingen and Athens. In the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck , he was appointed pastors ordained . At the University of Heidelberg he obtained his doctorate in theology in 1962 with the text Studies on the History and Theology of the Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople 381 . For many years, Ritter was assistant to the Göttingen church historian Carl Andresen . In 1970 he completed his habilitation in church history in Göttingen with his study Charisma in the understanding of Joannes Chrysostom and his time and worked there as a lecturer and finally as a professor. From 1978 to 1981 he held a professorship for church history at the University of Marburg. Afterwards he was professor for historical theology ( patristic ) in Heidelberg until his retirement in March 1999 . His main research interests are ancient and medieval Christianity, Eastern ecclesiastical studies and contemporary church history. Ritter is a long-time member of the Heidelberg Colloquium on Christian Texts from Antiquity, the "Church Fathers Colloquium".

Ritter was president of the Association Internationale d'Études Patristiques (1983-1991) and the Patristic Commission of the German Academies of Sciences (from 1996). He was twice awarded honorary doctorates by Romanian universities (2000 Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj , 2002 University of Oradea ).

Adolf Martin Ritter is married and has two sons.

Fonts

  • The Council of Constantinople and its symbol. Studies on the history and theology of the Second Ecumenical Council (= research on church and dogma history. 15). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1965. Also: Dissertation, University of Heidelberg 1962.
  • Charisma in the understanding of Joannes Chrysostom and his time. A contribution to the research of the Greek-Oriental ecclesiology in the early period of the imperial church (= research on the history of the church and dogma. 25). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1972, ISBN 3-525-55129-0 . At the same time partially: Habilitation thesis, University of Göttingen 1970/71.
  • Charisma and Caritas. Essays on the History of the Old Church. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-58160-2 . (Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Adolf Martin Ritter. In it bibliography pp. 349–358. ( Limited preview in Google book search)).
  • Dionys from Areopagus. Contributions to the work and impact of a philosophizing Christian of late antiquity (= Tria Corda Volume 10). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-16-155625-8 .
  • The complete list of publications can be found at heiBIB: Ritter, Adolf Martin

As editor and co-editor

  • Church and theological history in sources. Neukirchen-Vluyn (since 1977).
  • Research on church and dogma history. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen (since 1990–2003).
  • Theologische Rundschau (since year 49 [1984], up to and including 65 [2000]).
  • Theological science. Collected works for study and work. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. (Since 1989).
  • (with Glenn W. Most , Hubert Petersmann :) Philanthropia kai Eusebeia. Festschrift for Albrecht Dihle on his 70th birthday . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993 (list of A. Dihles' writings, pp. 482–493). ISBN 3-525-25751-1
  • (with Andrea Jördens , Hans Armin Gärtner , Herwig Görgemanns :) Quaerite faciem eius semper. Studies on the intellectual-historical relationships between antiquity and Christianity. Thank you for Albrecht Dihle on his 85th birthday from the Heidelberg "Church Fathers Colloquium" . Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2008 (continuation of the list of A. Dihles' writings, pp. 404–410). ISBN 978-3-8300-2749-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Adolf Martin Ritter (Ed.): "Church and State" in the thinking of early Christianity. Lang, Bern 2005, ISBN 3-906770-69-9 , p. 288.
  2. ↑ Heimo Hofmeister, Michael Wladika (ed.): Gedachter Glaube: Festschrift for Heimo Hofmeister on his 65th birthday. Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 2005, ISBN 3-8260-3055-9 , p. 313.
personal data
SURNAME Ritter, Adolf Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, church historian (patristic) and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzenborn (Knull)