Andreas Lindemann

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Andreas Lindemann (born October 18, 1943 in Leer ) is a German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar .

Life

Lindemann studied Protestant theology in Tübingen and Göttingen. In 1971 he passed the First Theological Examination. From 1973 to 1974 he was vicar in Göttingen. After the second theological exam (1974) he was research assistant to Hans Conzelmann at the University of Göttingen until 1978 . He received his doctorate there in 1975 and completed his habilitation in 1977, also in Göttingen. According to his own account, he was influenced by Rudolf Bultmann's theology while still at school, and later by his academic teacher Conzelmann (himself a student of Bultmann).

From 1978 until his retirement in 2009 he was professor of the New Testament at the Bethel Church University . In 2004 he became president of the von Canstein Bible Institute in Westphalia. Since 2007 he has been director of the Evangelical Research Academy , since 2008 a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

When the Luther Bible was revised in 2017, he was a member of the New Testament expert commission. At information events, he presented in particular how the agents dealt with anti-Jewish statements in the New Testament.

Andreas Lindemann is married and has two children.

Theological positions

Lindemann wrote, partly together with Hans Conzelmann, basic works for studying theology. His scientific focus is the work and the history of the impact of the Apostle Paul .

In the study New Testament students in the time of National Socialism (1989) Lindemann worked on the political or politically interpretable actions of the Marburg professors Hans von Soden and Rudolf Bultmann during the Nazi period. “Of course, none of these statements by Bultmann were acts of resistance. ... But in the context of his ecclesiastical mandate and with his resources as a scientifically working exegete, Bultmann criticized the reality of the state in all sharpness so that at least pastors who were able to read him could understand what it was about ... ”Bultmann's basic attitude According to Lindemann, it was the same under the Nazi dictatorship as in the Federal Republic: what seemed right to him as a citizen (Bultmann was close to the SPD), he did not theologically exaggerate. Politics and belief are to be strictly separated.

In 1994 Gerd Lüdemann achieved a great public response with the thesis that the belief in the resurrection was a psychological experience, especially of Peter . Lindemann disagreed insofar as there are no records by Peter himself, and thus no possibility of drawing conclusions about the nature of his experience. Instead, Lindemann turned to Paul's personal testimonies. In the study Paul as a witness of the resurrection of Jesus Christ he comes to the conclusion that the statements of the apostle do not answer the modern question about the historical basis of the belief in the resurrection; Paul “does not think of a 'historical fact' confirmed by his vision, but Jesus' resurrection by God is for him the object of faith."

The Jewish Jesus as Christ of the Church (1994) is one of several works by Lindemann with which he participated in the Judeo-Christian dialogue. After analyzing the Synoptics, Paul and the Gospel of John, Lindemann comes to the conclusion: It is not the historical figure of Jesus of Nazareth, a Jew, that separates Jews and Christians, but the Christian (Easter) confession to the risen Christ. "For the sake of its own identity, the Jewish faith cannot accept what God said about the crucified Jesus, and Christian faith cannot do without him for the same reason."

In response to Rudolf Augstein's book Jesus Menschensohn , Lindemann gave an interview to Spiegel in 1999 in which he presented some of the basic positions of the Bultmann School to a wider public. On this occasion he also distinguished himself from the doctrine repeatedly expressed by Pope John Paul II that the Gospels were Jesus' descriptions of the life: “In any case, I don't know any exegetes in German-speaking countries, not even a Catholic, who express themselves in this way. ... I wouldn't exactly speak of superstition. However, it is a misunderstanding of the biblical texts when they are taken as accounts of fact. Nevertheless, one can and must even search for what is historically reliable, especially in the Gospels. "

Publications (in selection)

  • (with Hans Conzelmann): Workbook for the New Testament (= UTB 52). JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck). Tübingen 1975. 14th edition 2004. ISBN 978-3-8252-0052-7 .
  • Paul in the oldest Christianity. The image of the apostle and the reception of Pauline theology in early Christian literature up to Marcion (= contributions to historical theology; 58). JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck). Tuebingen 1979.
  • (with Henning Paulsen ): The Apostolic Fathers. Greek-German parallel edition based on the editions of Franz Xaver Funk / Karl Bihlmeyer and Molly Whittacker. with translations by Martin Dibelius and D.-A. Koch, newly translated and edited by Andreas Lindemann and Henning Paulsen. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Tübingen 1992. ISBN 978-3-16-145887-3 .
  • Paul, Apostle and Teacher of the Church. Studies on Paul and on the early understanding of Paul. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999. ISBN 978-3-16-147189-6 .
  • The first letter to the Corinthians (= New Testament manual 9/1). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2000. ISBN 978-3-16-147473-6 .
  • The Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. Studies of their theology and their history (= Scientific Studies on the New Testament; 241). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-16-150041-1 .
  • Believe, act, understand. Studies on the Interpretation of the New Testament. Volume II (= Scientific Studies on the New Testament; 282), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011. ISBN 978-3-16-151683-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences 2008. de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, p. 43.
  2. ^ Andreas Lindemann: Interview . In: Forum Exegesis and University Didactics: Understanding from the start . tape 1 , no. 1 , 2016, p. 111 .
  3. ^ Church University of Wuppertal / Bethel: Prof. em. Dr. Andreas Lindemann. Retrieved December 9, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences 2008. de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, p. 43.
  5. ^ Evangelical Church of Westphalia: Dossier: The revised Luther Bible 2017. (PDF) Retrieved on December 9, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Andreas Lindemann: On dealing with difficult historical and theological aspects when translating. (PDF) Ecumenical Bible Conference Stuttgart February 9, 2017 Workshop 3. The Judeo-Christian Perspective, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Andreas Lindemann: Believe, act, understand . 2011, p. 478-479 .
  8. ↑ Andreas Lindemann: Believe, act, understand . 2011, p. 485 .
  9. ↑ Andreas Lindemann: Paul as a witness of the resurrection of Jesus Christ . In: Paul, Apostle and Teacher of the Church . 1999, p. 27-36 .
  10. ↑ Andreas Lindemann: Paul as a witness of the resurrection of Jesus Christ . In: Paul, Apostle and Teacher of the Church . 1999, p. 35-36 .
  11. ↑ Andreas Lindemann: Believe, act, understand . 2011, p. 32 .
  12. ↑ Andreas Lindemann (Interview): Is Jesus in the way of faith? In: Spiegel Online. December 13, 1999, accessed December 10, 2017 .
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SURNAME Lindemann, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1943
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