Bernd Brandl

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Bernd Brandl (born February 17, 1954 in Gevelsberg , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German Protestant missionary , theologian with a chair for church and mission history at the International University of Liebenzell (IHL).

Live and act

Bernd Brandl studied Protestant theology from 1972 to 1975 and between 1982 and 1986 at the Bibelseminar Wuppertal and at the Free Theological University of Giessen . In between he worked from 1974 to 1980 as a community pastor of the Dortmund City Mission and was then until 1982 as a missionary of the Neukirchen Mission on the main island of Java , Indonesia , in a work within the Christian Church of Central Java North (Gereja Kristen Java Tengah Utara, GKJTU) based in Salatiga. After completing his studies, he worked as a youth consultant in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland between 1986 and 1988 . In 1986 he also began his doctoral studies and in 1989 his Ph.D.in the field of practical theology / missiology at the Evangelical Theological Faculteit Leuven , Belgium , which he finally completed in 1997 with his dissertation on the history of the Neukirchen mission as the first German faith mission . From 1989 to 1993 he worked as a missionary and lecturer in church history and missiology at the Nassa Theological College in Tanzania , then until 1996 as a mission leader of the Neukirchen Mission.

In 1996 he moved to the Liebenzeller Mission , where he was the director of studies at the Biblical College - a short Bible school - until 2005 and lecturer for mission and church history at the Liebenzeller Mission's theological seminar from 1999 to 2011 . Since 2011 he has been professor of church and mission history at the Liebenzell International University. His main research interests are the churches and the history of persecution of the oriental churches , the history of faith missions in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as pietism and the revival movements , as well as the churches in the Third Reich. Since 2016 he has been the director of the BA Protestant Theology course at the IHL. He is a speaker at specialist conferences.

He is a member of the German Society for Missiology , the Working Group for Evangelical Theology , the “Association for Württemberg Church History”, deputy chairman of both the “Working Group Evangelical Missiology” and the “Free Evangelical School Northern Black Forest eV” in Calw and a board member of the “Evangelical Forum” for Mission, Culture and Religion eV - missiotop ”.

Brandl is editor-in-chief and publisher of "edition afem", co-editor of the magazine "em" (Evangelical Missiology) and the "Mission Yearbook" and author of several missiological and church history books as well as some biographies.

Private

Bernd Brandl is married to his wife Dorothea. The couple has two daughters and lives in Schömberg .

Awards

literature

Publications

Monographs

as (co) editor

  • Mission and reflection in context. Perspectives on Evangelical Mission Studies in the 21st Century. Festschrift for Klaus W. Müller , VTR, Nuremberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-941750-26-5 .
  • with Meiken Buchholz: Hudson Taylor: visionary, strategist, missionary: 150 years of China Inland Mission , VTR, Nuremberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-95776-048-7 .

Essays

  • Field leadership and home leadership, The person of the missionary. Vocation broadcast service. Lectures at the 1996 annual meeting of the working group for evangelical missiology . In: Klaus. W. Müller (Ed.), Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 1997, pp. 45–50.
  • On the problem of syncretism in African churches, will everyone be saved? Modern universalism of salvation as a questioning of the Christian mission. Papers at the afem annual conference 1998 (Edition afem - mission reports 6). In: Klaus. W. Müller (Ed.), Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 1998, pp. 87-94.
  • Circumcision as a problem in the pioneering phase of the Neukirchen Pokomo Mission . In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft f. evangelical missiology (ed.), Evangelical missiology, 14, Korntal-Münchingen 1/1998, pp. 18-30.
  • On the problem of syncretism in African churches, no other name. The uniqueness of Jesus Christ and the conversation with non-Christian religions. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Peter Beyerhaus . In: Thomas Schirrmacher (Ed.), Verlag für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft, Nürnberg 1999, pp. 340–346.
  • Mission history: quo vadis? . In: Working Group for Evangelical Missiology Evangelical Missiology (Ed.), 15, Korntal-Münchingen 4/1999, pp. 158–161.
  • Mission and Kingdom of God Thoughts on Georg F. Vicedom's Missio Dei and Actio Dei . In: Klaus W. Müller (ed.), Georg F. Vicedom: Missio Dei, Actio Dei , Verlag für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft, Nürnberg 2002, pp. 19–26.
  • Mission from an evangelical perspective . In: Christoph Dahling-Sander, Andrea Schultze u. a. (Ed.): Guide to Ecumenical Mission Theology, Chr. Kaiser / Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2003, pp. 178–199.
  • Key to people's hearts . In: Rolf Hille and Herbert H. Klement (eds.): A person - what is that? , Wuppertal / Gießen / Basel: Brockhaus / Brunnen, 2004, pp. 292-310.
  • Mission as the Church of God in motion. Historical considerations on the subject . In: Klaus W. Müller (ed.): Mission of the community - community of the mission , VTR / VKW, Nuremberg / Bonn 2007, pp. 65–80.
  • The fall of North African Christianity through Islam. Causes and consequences . In: Rolf Hille (Ed.): Challenged by Islam. Systematic and practical answers to evangelical theology , Brockhaus, Witten 2009, pp. 49–74.
  • 100 Years after the World Mission Conference in Edinburgh - Missionary Perspectives for the Future . In: EMW + VEMK (ed.): Mission accomplished? Edinburgh 1910 - 100 years of world mission. Mission yearbook , Missionshilfe, Hamburg 2009, pp. 55–62.
  • The influence of the international evangelical mission and evangelization movement on the founding phase of the Gnadauer Verband . In: Frank Lüdke and Norbert Schmidt (eds.): Gospel and Experience 125 Years of Community Movement , Lit Verlag, Berlin 2014, pp. 35–63.
  • Sent like Christ - historical mission motifs of western missionary movements . In: Jürgen Schuster and Volker Gäckle (eds.): The paradigm shift in world mission. The opportunities and challenges of non-western missionary movements (Interculturality & Religion, Volume 1), Lit Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12374-9 .
  • The Decline of Ancient North African Christianity through the Impact of Islam . In: Hans Aage Gravaas, Christof Sauer u. a. (Ed.): Freedom of Belief & Christian Mission , Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series Vol. 26, Oxford 2015, pp. 227–241.
  • Hudson Taylor as a representative of a radical revival and missionary movement . In: Thomas Schirrmacher (Ed.): Evangelical Missiology , Vol. 31, Gießen 3/2015, pp. 122-139.
  • Memory of the prelate and mission theologian Karl Hartenstein 1894-1952. Mission from a salvation-historical perspective . In: Elmar Spohn (ed.): God's action in history: assessments - results - discussions. Festschrift for Klaus Wetzel on his 65th birthday (as editor), Korntaler series; Volume 13, VTR Verlag for Theology and Religious Studies, Nuremberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-95776-076-0 , pp. 155–166.
  • Exclusion and persecution of Jews in Schömberg from 1933–1945 . In: District History Association Calw eV (Ed.): Once & Today. Historical yearbook for the district of Calw . Edition 2017/18, Calw 2017, pp. 133–148, ISSN  2197-523X .
  • Religion and violence - depicted in the witch hunt in the early modern period . In: Jürgen Schuster and Volker Gäckle (eds.): Freedom of religion, freedom of expression and Christian belief (Interculturality & Religion, Volume 5), Lit Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-13829-3 .
  • Surprising encounter on the Tana River in Kenya: observations on the mission and church history of the Oromo (Galla) and Pokomo people . In: Michael Biehl and Ulrike Plautz (eds.): Encounter as Mission: Between Intercultural Theology and Responsible Faith (Festschrift on the farewell of Klaus Schäfer as director of the Center for Mission and Ecumenism), Missionshilfe Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3- 946426-12-7 , pp. 63-75.

Lexicon article

  • Neukirchen Mission , in: (Ed.) Walter Kasper u. a., Lexicon for Theology and Church , Freiburg i. Breisgau, Basel, Rome, Vienna: Herder Verlag, 31998, Vol. 7, p. 763.
  • Article in Heinzpeter Hempelmann u. a. (Ed.): Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation (ELThG²). New edition, Vol. 2, SCM R.Brockhaus, Holzgerlingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-417-26802-7 .
    • Community Movement (Mission Societies ) , Sp. 455–456
    • Graul, Karl (1814-1864) , Sp. 805-807
    • Gundert, Hermann (1814-1893) , Sp. 850-852.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Neukirchen Mission: its history as the first German faith mission , Rheinland-Verlag, 1998, p. 524
  2. ↑ Key to the human heart. To search for points of contact in missionary practice . In: Ein Mensch - what is that ?: on theological anthropology , Brockhaus 2004, p. 292
  3. ^ Pietism and modern times. A yearbook on the history of modern Protestantism: 2000 , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, p. 256
  4. ↑ Missionsbote from Neukirchen , edition 5/2002, p. 15 , neukirchener-mission.de
  5. ↑ Bernd Brandl: Vita , ihl.eu, accessed on August 27, 2019.
  6. ↑ Modern Mission: From Hudson Taylor to the WhatsApp Group , livenet.ch, article from January 29, 2016.
  7. ^ The board of afem , missiologie.org, accessed on May 1, 2016.
  8. ↑ FESN Board of Directors , fesn.de, accessed on April 30, 2016.
  9. ↑ missiotop: Board of Directors , missiotop.org, accessed on February 14, 2020.
  10. ↑ GWPeters Prize: Prize Winners 1992-2012 , missiologie.org, accessed on May 1, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Brandl, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant missionary, theologian and professor for church and mission history
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Gevelsberg