Christian Krieger
Christian Krieger (born January 12, 1964 ) is a French Reformed theologian. He has been President of the Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine (EPRAL) since 2012, and President of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) since June 2018 .
Life
Krieger grew up in a Lutheran family in the Pays de Hanau . After graduating from high school in Buchsweiler , he began studying at the mission seminar in Hermannsburg in 1983 . He then went on to study theology at the University of Strasbourg in 1989 with a Master of Theology . He then worked as a teacher in Strasbourg and took part in the edition of Martin Bucer's letters led by Matthieu Arnold and in other edition projects .
After the Vicariate in the municipality of Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune in Strasbourg in 1994/95 he was in the fall of 1995 ordained and took a pastorate at the Église du Bouclier réformée in Strasbourg. He held this position until 2012, when he was elected President of the Synodal Council of the Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine (EPRAL) and - related to this - Vice-President of the Union of Protestant Churches of Alsace and Lorraine (UEPAL). He was re-elected in June 2018.
His other offices at regional, national and international level include
- Membership in the Conseil des Églises de Strasbourg
- Membership in the board of the Conference of Churches on the Rhine
- Membership in the Committee of the Communion Protestante Luther- Réformée (CPLR)
- Vice-presidency (since 2015, previously on the board) of the Fédération protestante de France (FPF)
- Membership in the Conseil d'Églises chrétiennes en France
- Co-presidency in the Groupe de Reuilly (for the realization of the ecclesiastical fellowship between the Protestant churches of France and the Anglican churches of Great Britain and Ireland, declared by the Reuilly Agreement ).
Together with Valérie Duval Poujol, he wrote a study for the FPF aimed at overcoming the tensions that had arisen between the classical Protestant and evangelicals on the question of blessing same-sex couples . The FPF's declaration on the relationship to Judaism “Cette mémoire qui engage” on the occasion of the Reformation anniversary in 2017 was also written by him.
On June 4, 2018, he was elected President of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) in Novi Sad (of which he had been a governing board since 2013). His term of office runs until the next CEC general assembly in 2023.
Publications
- (with Valérie Duval Pujol): Un nouvel élan pour la Fédération protestante de France. Olivétan, Lyon 2017.
- Luther et Calvin, filiations protestante. In: Les Protestants 500 ans après la Réforme, fidélité et liberté. Olivétan, Lyon 2017, pp. 53–61.
- (on behalf of the Fédération protestante de France): Cette mémoire qui engage. Déclaration fraternelle au judaïsme, Olivétan, Lyon 2017 ( PDF file ).
- As editor
- (with Franck Muller): Martin Bucer et l'Europe. Catalog de l'exposition à l'occasion du 500 ème anniversaire du réformateur strasbourgeois Martin Bucer , Strasbourg - Eglise Saint Thomas, 13 july - 19 octobre 1991
- (with Marc Lienhard : Martin Bucer and Sixteenth Century Europe. Actes du colloque de Strasbourg (28–31 août 1991). (= Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought , vol. LII & LIII). Brill, Leiden et al. 1993.
- (with Jean Rott): Correspondance de Martin Bucer, tome III (1527–1529) (= Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, vol. LVI). Brill, Leiden u. a. 1995.
- (with Jean-François Gilmont): Bibliotheca Calviniana. Les œuvres de Jean Calvin publiées au XVI e siècle, tome III, écrits théologiques, littéraires et juridiques de 1565 à 1600 . Droz, Genève 2000.
- (with Reinhold Friedrich, Matthieu Arnold et alii): Martin Bucer Briefwechsel , Volume IV (January - September 1530) (= Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, vol. LXXVIII). Brill, Leiden u. a. 2000.
- (with Reinhold Friedrich, Matthieu Arnold et alii): Martin Bucer Briefwechsel , Volume V (September 1530 - May 1531), Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, vol. CI). Brill, Leiden u. a. 2004.
- (with Matthieu Arnold): Chrétiens et Églises face au nazisme: entre adhésion et résistance. Actes de la journée de l'École Doctorale de Théologie et Sciences religieuses (Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg) on November 19, 2004 (= Travaux de la Faculté de Théologie Protestante de Strasbourg n ° 13). Strasbourg 2005.
- (with Reinhold Friedrich, Matthieu Arnold et alii): Martin Bucer Briefwechsel , Volume VI (May - October 1531), (= Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought , vol. CXX). Brill, Leiden u. a. 2006.
- (with Annie Noblesse-Rocher): “Justice et grâce” dans les Commentaires de l'épître aux Romains (= Travaux de la Faculté de Théologie Protestante de Strasbourg n ° 10). Strasbourg 2008.
- (with Reinhold Friedrich, Matthieu Arnold et alii): Martin Bucer Correspondence , Volume VIII (April - August 1532). (= Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought , vol. CLIII). Brill, Leiden u. a. 2011.
- (with Reinhold Friedrich, Matthieu Arnold et alii): Martin Bucer Briefwechsel , Volume IX (September 1532 - June 1533). (= Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought , vol. CLXXIX). Brill, Leiden u. a. 2014.
- (with Reinhold Friedrich, Matthieu Arnold et alii): Martin Bucer Briefwechsel , Volume X (July 1533 - December 1533). (= Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought , vol. CCI). Brill, Leiden u. a. 2016.
Web links
- Curriculum Vitae (English)
- Le pasteur Christian Krieger élu président de la Conférence des Églises européennes . In: La Croix, 6 June 2018.
- Interview with Christian Krieger on the occasion of the inauguration of the Grande mosquée de Strasbourg .
- Marie Lefebvre-Billiez: Entre Luther et Calvin In: Réforme , April 17, 2013.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Warrior, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Reformed theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1964 |