Alexander Deeg

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Alexander Deeg

Alexander Deeg (* 1972 in Rehau , Upper Franconia ) is a Protestant theologian and professor of practical theology at the University of Leipzig . He is an expert on Christian-Jewish dialogue and the author and editor of numerous books. From October 2009 to February 2011 he was the first director of the “Center for Evangelical Preaching Culture” of the Evangelical Church in Germany . Since 2007 he has been co-editor of the Göttingen Sermon Meditations (GPM).

Life

After studying Protestant theology and Jewish studies in Erlangen and Jerusalem, Deeg first worked as a vicar of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, then from 2001 to 2009 as a research assistant at the chair for practical theology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . In 2005 he was awarded a Dr. theol. doctorate, in his dissertation he dealt with homiletic text reading in dialogue with Judaism. In 2010 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on fundamental Protestant liturgy. Since 2011 he has been professor for practical theology at the University of Leipzig.

Alexander Deeg is involved in the Christian-Jewish dialogue and for many years was deputy chairman of the Association for the Encounter of Christians and Jews in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (BCJ.Bayern eV) and as a delegate at the Central Association for the Encounter between Christians and Jews (Hanover).

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Together with Martin Nicol , Alexander Deeg is regarded as a representative of dramaturgical homiletics , who understands the sermon analogously to film and gives sermon writers practical instructions for their “craft”. The task of Sermon then is to stage the words, images and stories of the Bible.

Deeg made an important contribution to the debate about the pastor's office with his suggestion that the pastor's office, coming from the Jewish rabbinate, should be understood as a reading office, that is, the pastor should be understood as “pastor legens”.

Award and appreciation

For his dissertation, Alexander Deeg was awarded the Staedtler Foundation (Nuremberg) Prize in 2005 and the Hans Werner Surkau Foundation Prize (Marburg) in 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Center for Protestant Preaching Culture. In: kirche-im-aufbruch.ekd.de . Archived from the original on December 26, 2010 ; accessed on December 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Alexander Deeg: Sermon and Derascha . Homiletic text reading in dialogue with Judaism (= APTLH 48). Göttingen 2006.
  3. ↑ See for example: Martin Nicol, Alexander Deeg: Im Wechselstieg zur Kanzel. Practice book Dramaturgische Homiletik. Göttingen 2005.
  4. ↑ Cf. Alexander Deeg: Pastor legens. In: Pastoraltheologie 93 (2004), pp. 411-427.
personal data
SURNAME Deeg, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian (Protestant)
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehau , Upper Franconia