Alfred Rauhaus

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Alfred Rauhaus (born May 18, 1945 in Langendorf , Czechoslovakia ) is a German Reformed theologian , author and songwriter . He was pastor in the East Frisian Rheiderland and theological councilor of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Leer.

Life

Rauhaus grew up in Northern Hesse. After studying Protestant theology in Wuppertal , Tübingen and Göttingen (1964–1970) he made his vicariate in the Rheiderland. From 1973 he was pastor in Landschaftspolder and Ditzumerverlaat and from 1978 to 1990 pastor of the Reformed Church in Weener . Rauhaus received his doctorate in 1977 in Göttingen. The church leadership of the Reformed Regional Church appointed him to the Theological Council in 1991. Rauhaus held this office until 2005 and from 2006 was a freelance research assistant at the Johannes a Lasco library in Emden .

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In his dissertation, Rauhaus examined the reformed Emden catechism of 1554 and published several articles on the Heidelberg catechism . In addition to his dogma-historical work, he devoted himself in practical theological writings to the Reformed liturgy, the practice of worship, the understanding of ministry and burial practice. Another focus is the church history of East Frisia.

Rauhaus was also known for his new composition of psalms for the regional part of the Evangelical Hymn book for the Evangelical Reformed Church from 1996, for which he composed more than 30 psalms between 1989 and 1994: Psalm 8, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19A , 22A, 29, 31, 43A, 44, 49, 52, 58, 60, 69, 74 (verse 1-6, 8, 9), 78, 83, 87B, 88, 94, 97B, 107 (verse 2, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13), 122B, 123, 125, 127, 128, 132, 133 (verse 1), 137, 139 (verse 9), 140 (verse 1 and 2) and 141.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Elwin Lomberg, Gerhard Nordholt (arr.): The Evangelical Reformed Church in Northwest Germany. Contributions to their past and present. Published by the regional church office. Risius, Weener 1982, ISBN 3-88761-005-9 .
    • therein: Reformed Accents in Doctrine of the Church , pp. 379–402.
    • Principality of Ostfriesland , pp. 158–177.
  • Upside down in the pulpit. Practical information on the organization of church services along with other irrelevant, but well-meaning advice and an appendix. Theological department of the Synodal Council of the Evangelical Reformed Church, Leer 1993.
  • Introduction . In: Peter Bukowski , Arend Klompmaker, Christiane Nolting, Alfred Rauhaus, Friedrich Thiele (eds.): Reformed Liturgy - prayers and orders for the community gathered under the word . Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1999, ISBN 3-7887-1777-7 , p. 23–32 ( Download [PDF; 2.4 MB ; accessed on May 24, 2020]).
  • Buried anonymously. Notes from a theologian on a controversial subject. In: Exegesis on site. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-374-01895-5 , pp. 321–334.
  • Understand faith. An introduction to the thoughts of Christianity based on the Heidelberg Catechism. Foedus-Verlag, Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-932735-77-3 (dissertation, University of Göttingen 1977).
  • Office and ordination in the Reformed Church . In: Matthias Freudenberg , Gerrit Noltensmeier (ed.): Office and ordination from a reformed perspective. foedus-Verlag Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 3-932735-96-X , pp. 69-102.
  • Observations on the Lord's Supper rite of the Reformed parishes of East Frisia in the 16th century. In: Emder yearbook for historical regional studies of East Frisia. Vol. 87. Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 2007, ISSN  1434-4351 , pp. 69-93.
  • Small church studies. Reformed churches inside and out. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-63374-8 .
  • The Small Emden Catechism (1554) in the version from 1579. In: Reformed confessional writings. Vol. 1.3: 1550-1558. Published on behalf of the Evangelical Church in Germany by Andreas Mühling , Peter Opitz . Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2007, ISBN 978-3-7887-2230-2 , pp. 295-328.
  • The grave slab of Master Hermann Wessel zu Emden. In: Emder yearbook for historical regional studies of East Frisia. Vol. 92. Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 2012, ISSN  1434-4351 , pp. 55-89.
  • 450 years of the Heidelberg Catechism. In: Theologische Rundschau . Volume 78, Issue 4, 2013, pp. 510-517.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulf Preuß: Alfred Rauhaus turns 75 , accessed on May 24, 2020.
  2. ^ Heimatverein Reiderland (ed.): Das Rheiderland. New contributions to local history on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Reiderland Heimatverein. Risius, Weener 2019, p. 179 (author's review).
  3. ↑ The Psalter after the rhyming by Matthias Jorissen in a revised version. Published by the Evangelical Reformed Church (Synod of Evangelical Reformed Churches in Bavaria and Northwest Germany) and the Evangelical Old Reformed Church in Lower Saxony. Electronic text edition, published by the Johannes a Lasco Library Emden, Emden 2001 .
personal data
SURNAME Rauhaus, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformed pastor and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Langendorf (CSSR, now Czech Republic )