Carl-Albert Keller
Carl-Albert Keller (born August 2, 1920 in Guntur / India (where his father was a representative of a Winterthur trading house); † April 7, 2008 in Echallens ) was a Protestant theologian, missionary, religious scholar and mystic researcher.
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education
The elementary schools went through C.-A. Cellar in Schaffhausen . 1938–1943 he studied theology and Semitic languages (including Ugaritic, Arabic, and Persian) at the universities of Zurich and Basel (here among others with Karl Barth ) in which he also received his doctorate.
Work, teaching
After graduating, he moved with his wife and toddler as a missionary family to Kerala as a theological teacher of the newly unified Church of South India . He devoted himself essentially to ecumenism , but even more to the encounter with Hindu piety . Where he met the Tamil around the Hinduism to understand deeper. In one of his lectures he later named this religion as a kind of monotheism .
1952–1956 he was employed as a pastor in Ossingen ; In 1956 he was appointed professor of theology for the Old Testament at the University of Lausanne , from 1966 he took over the chair for religious studies , from 1987 as an honorary professor .
Mystic researcher
During his stay in India, C.-A. Keller started his studies of Christian and Hindu mysticism . After his return to Switzerland, he continued this in-depth study by dealing intensively with the spirituality and mysticism of the major religions such as Islam , Buddhism and Judaism .
Fonts
Books
- The unknown god ; Benziger Einsiedeln 1967
- Reincarnation - rebirth from a Christian perspective ; Paulus Freiburg / Switzerland 1987, ISBN 3-7228-0175-3
- Jesus outside the church: the understanding of Jesus in new religious movements ; Paulus Freiburg / Switzerland 1989, ISBN 3-7228-0195-8
However, most of the books were published in French.
more publishments
Many articles or commentaries can be found in dictionaries, handbooks, Bible translations, magazines, and journals.
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl-Albert Keller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by and about Carl-Albert Keller in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Website about Carl-Albert Keller
- Frédéric Amsler: Keller, Carl-Albert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ From Karl Barth to Dionysius Areopagita : "My theological becoming"
- ↑ Bibliography of C.-A. basement, cellar
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keller, Carl-Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Protestant theologian, missionary, religious scholar and mystic researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guntur / India |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 2008 |
| Place of death | Echallens |