Bible covenant
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| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 1894 |
| Seat | Berlin |
| main emphasis | Strengthening confidence in the inerrancy of Scripture |
| Chair | Michael Kotsch |
| Managing directors | Armin Schönebeck |
| Website | bibelbund.de |
The Biblical Association is a Christian association founded in Pomerania in 1894 , which campaigns for "strengthening trust in the inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures " and against " biblical criticism and the modern theology it has shaped". He is committed to the Chicago Declaration .
job
The Biblical Association is the oldest organization in the German-speaking area that campaigns for the credibility of the Bible and, according to Stephan Holthaus, forms "an important phalanx against liberal theology, including in the evangelical movement".
He advocates the development and presentation of biblical theology as well as the promotion and publication of scientific and generally understandable literature on Holy Scripture and related areas such as linguistic research, archeology and natural sciences. He conducts congresses and conferences, lectures, seminars and Bible weeks.
magazine
Principal organ of the Bible is the Federal since 1901 published magazine Bible and community (to 1954 According to the law and to the testimony ), where during the Nazi period , for. B. 1938/39, also the basics of National Socialism affirmative and anti-Semitic articles appeared. This magazine contains text interpretations of the Bible that correspond to the understanding of Scripture in the Biblical Covenant, and articles from community life in which, above all, newly emerging religious currents are judged on the basis of the Bible. The aim is to use the magazine to reach both theologians and lay people in the community who are interested in theology. "Enthusiastic" tendencies and "unsoirious" developments in Christian circles are criticized.
Well-known authors who publish or have published in the Bible and Congregation are Friedhelm Jung ( Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Bibelseminar Bonn ), Benedikt Peters, Stephan Holthaus (Dean of the Free Theological University of Giessen ), Christine and Thomas Schirrmacher (Rector Martin Bucer Seminar ), Heinrich von Siebenthal (Free Theological University Gießen), Helge Stadelmann (Rector Free Theological University Gießen), Jacob Thiessen (Rector of the State- independent Theological University Basel ), Abraham Meister , Bernhard Kaiser (founder and managing director of the Institute for Reformation Theology).
Members
Originally founded as an association of Lutheran pastors, the Bible Association now also includes free churches and non-theologians. Well-known members were u. a. Eduard Rupprecht , Georg von Viebahn , Hans Bruns , Wilhelm Busch , Fritz Rienecker , Erich Sauer , Heinrich Jochums , Kurt E. Koch and Samuel R. Külling (founders of the state-independent Theological University Basel ). The current chairman is Michael Kotsch (lecturer at the Brake Bible School ). Theological advisor is Karl-Heinz Vanheiden .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Stephan Holthaus : Biblical Association . In: Helmut Burkhardt and Uwe Swarat (ed.): Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation . tape 1 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1992, ISBN 3-417-24641-5 , p. 257 .
- ↑ 125th anniversary: The Bible Covenant is a "phalanx against liberal theology" , idea.de, article from October 31, 2019.
- ↑ Jana Husmann : The ‹Problem of Judaism and the Old Testament›. Literalism and Anti-Semitism in the Bible Covenant. A text example from the years 1938/39. In: Ulrike Auga et al. (Ed.): Demons, vamps and hysterics. Gender and race figures in knowledge, media and everyday life around 1900. transcript, Bielefeld 2011, pp. 185–196.