Andreas Feldtkeller (theologian)

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Andreas Feldtkeller (born September 8, 1961 in Munich ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Live and act

Andreas Feldtkeller studied Protestant theology at the universities of Munich , Heidelberg , Tübingen and in Jerusalem from 1980 to 1986 with support from the German National Academic Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service . He passed the first theological exam and completed a vicariate in Schwebheim from 1987 to 1989 , which he completed with the second theological exam. He then worked with a PhD scholarship of Baden-Württemberg at the University of Heidelberg and was established in 1992 with Gerd Theissen Dr. theol. PhD .

In 1992, he became the pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria ordained . Until 1995 he was vicar of the Evangelical German Language Congregation in Jerusalem in Amman and from 1994 to 1996 visiting scholar at the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies in Amman. In 1996 he completed his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on the importance of cultural memory for interreligious perception . Afterwards he was a research assistant and private lecturer at the chair for the history of religion and missiology at the University of Heidelberg until 1999 . In 1999 he was appointed professor to the chair for religious studies , missiology and ecumenics at the theological faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2007 to 2010 he was dean of the faculty.

Andreas Feldtkeller has been chairman of the Berlin Society for Missionary History since 2000 and co-editor of the journal Evangelical Theology and the series Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv at Franz Steiner Verlag , Berlin contributions to mission history at Wichern-Verlag and Christianity and Islam in Dialogue at Lit Verlag . Since 2004 he has been co-editor of the Theologische Literaturzeitung and since 2009 of the series Church - Denomination - Religion published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht . Since 2010 he has been a liaison professor at the German National Academic Foundation.

Awards

Fonts

  • The emerging pagan Christianity in the religious environment of Syria at the time of the Principle. A contribution to the relationship between early Christianity and religious history. Dissertation. University of Heidelberg 1992.
  • The search for identity of the Syrian early Christianity. Mission, inculturation and plurality in the oldest Gentile Christianity. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-53927-4 .
  • In the realm of the Syrian goddess. A religiously plural culture as the environment of early Christianity. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 1994, ISBN 3-579-01790-X .
  • The “mother of the churches” in the “House of Islam”. Mutual perception of Arab Christians and Muslims in the West and East Bank. Habilitation thesis. University of Heidelberg 1996. Erlanger Verlag für Mission und Ökumene, Erlangen 1998, ISBN 3-87214-336-0 .
  • Seven theses on the history of missions. Selignow, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-933889-09-X . New edition: Wichern, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-88981-150-7 .
  • Theology and religion. A science in its context. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-374-01953-6 .
  • Why then religion? A reason. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2006, ISBN 3-579-06516-5 .
  • Jordan (= EVA's biblical travel guide. Volume 2). Edited by Christoph vom Brocke, Christfried Böttrich . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02462-9 .
  • Syria. Blessings for all peoples (= EVE's biblical travel guide. Volume 7). Edited by Christoph vom Brocke, Christfried Böttrich. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02825-2 .
  • Controversial religious studies. For a reassessment of their relationship to secularization theory. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-374-03786-5 .

Editing:

  • with Dieter Becker : It all began in Halle ... missiology from Gustav Warneck to today (= missiology research. New part, volume 5). Verlag der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Mission, Erlangen 1997, ISBN 3-87214-335-2 .
  • Werner Kohler: On the Way to Understanding Religions. Collected Essays. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-631-32728-5 .
  • with Theo Sundermeier : Mission in a pluralistic society. Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-87476-353-6 .
  • Constructive tolerance - lived pluralism. Experiences with the coexistence of religions and cultures. Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-87476-382-X .
  • with Almut Nothnagle: Mission in the field of conflict between Islam, Judaism and Christianity. An inventory for the 150th anniversary of the Jerusalem Club. Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-87476-422-2 .
  • with Ulrich van der Heyden : Border Crossings. Explorations of an Interdisciplinary Historian. Festschrift for Irving Hexham . Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-515-09145-9 .
  • with Ulrich van der Heyden: Mission history as a history of the globalization of knowledge. Transcultural acquisition and imparting of knowledge by Christian missionaries in Africa and Asia in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10196-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Jakob: A theologian receives CHF 100,000 ( memento from September 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on uniaktuell.unibe.ch
  2. ↑ Laudation on the award of the Hans Sigrist Prize
personal data
SURNAME Feldtkeller, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich