Christof Sauer

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Christof Sauer (* 1963 in Biberach an der Riß ) is a German pastor of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg , theologian, religious and missionary scholar and professor for religious freedom and research into the persecution of Christians.

Live and act

Christof Sauer studied Protestant theology from 1983 to 1992 at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1992 he passed the first theological service examination in Tübingen. This was followed by vicariate and pastoral service between 1993 and 2000 and a special pastoral service in the Evangelical Church in Württemberg from 2011 to 2017. After passing the Second Theological Service Exam, he was ordained in 1995 .

In 2002 he received his doctorate with his dissertation on Christian Witness in a Muslim Environment Reaching the unreached Sudan Belt: Guinness, Kumm and the Sudan Pionier Mission zum D.Th. in Missiology from the University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria. In 2013 he completed his habilitation in missiology and intercultural theology on "Martyrdom and Mission in Context: Selected Positions from Worldwide Christianity" at the Church University of Wuppertal / Bethel , where he then worked as a private lecturer until 2017.

Sauer has been Vice Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF) of the World Evangelical Alliance and editor of the International Journal for Religious Freedom since 2006 . In 2008/09 he was a lecturer in missiology and religious studies and has been an adjunct professor at the University of Stellenbosch , South Africa since 2011 and part-time professor for religious studies and missiology at the Evangelical Theological Faculteit Leuven, Belgium, since 2014 . In 2017 he was appointed to the "Endowed Professorship for Religious Freedom and Research into the Persecution of Christians" from the Free Theological University of Giessen .

His main research interests are religious freedom as well as discrimination and persecution of Christians .

Memberships (selection)

  • International Consortium of Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS)
  • African Consortium of Law and Religion Studies (ACLARS)
  • International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS)
  • German Society for Mission Studies (DGMW)
  • Southern African Missiological Society (SAMS)
  • Working Group for Evangelical Missiology (AfeM)
  • Working Group for Evangelical Theology (AfeT)

Publications (selection)

  • Mission and martyrdom. Studies on Karl Hartenstein and the Lausanne movement , publishing house for culture and science, Bonn 1994, ISBN 978-3-926105-42-4
  • Reaching the unreached Sudan Belt. Guinness, Kumm and the Sudan Pionier Mission (also dissertation, Univ. Of South Africa, Pretoria 2002), VTR, Nuremberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-937965-38-3 .
  • Christian Witness and Islamic Da'wa. Contributions to research needs (with Andreas Baumann and Eberhard Troeger ), VTR, Nuremberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-937965-37-6 .
  • Martyrdom and Mission in Context. Selected theological positions from worldwide Christianity (missiological research), Erlanger Verlag für Mission und Ökumene, Erlangen (announced) = habilitation thesis in missiology and religious studies and ecumenism at the Wuppertal / Bethel Church University, 2013

as editor

  • Mission in times of change , VTR, Nuremberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-937965-64-2 .
  • The call to Islam in minority contexts, VTR, Nuremberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937965-85-7 .
  • Christian-Muslim Encounter in Africa (with Manfred Jung), (Gospel and Islam 1), Kempton Park 2007, ISBN 978-1-920212-23-0 .
  • Suffering, Persecution and Martyrdom. Theological Reflections , Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-1-920212-58-2 , online .
  • Bad Urach statement. Towards an evangelical theology of suffering, persecution and martyrdom for the global church in mission , Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-86269-062-6 .
  • Freedom of Belief and Christian Mission (with Hans Aage Gravaas / Tormod Engelsviken et al.) (Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series 28), Oxford / Oregon 2015, ISBN 978-1-49823705-5 , online .
  • Conversion and Persecution. Change of Religion as a Challenge for Religious Freedom (guest editor with Wolfgang Häde), Mission Studies 34/3 (2017),
  • Global Declarations on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Human Rights (with Thomas K. Johnson / Thomas Schirrmacher) (The WEA Global Issues Series 18), Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-86269-135-7 , online .

Essays

  • Researching Persecution and Martyrdom. Part 1. The External Perspective . In: International Journal for Religious Freedom 1 (2008), pp. 26-48, online .
  • The Religious Other as a Threat. Religious Persecution as an Expression of Xenophobia. A Global Survey of Christian-Muslim Convivience , International Journal for Religious Freedom 2/2 (2009), pp. 45–72 (also published in: Festschrift für JNJ Kritzinger = Missionalia 37/3 [2009], pp. 69–89, online ).
  • Measuring persecution. The New Questionnaire Design of the World Watch List , International Journal for Religious Freedom 5/2 (2012), pp. 21-36, online .
  • Survey on Language Use Regarding, Discrimination, Persecution, Martyrdom / Appendix. Commentary on Survey about Language Use , International Journal for Religious Freedom 7/1 (2014), pp. 208–2012, online .
  • Death Penalty for Change of Faith? Current challenges in dealing with discrimination and persecution , Deutsches Pfarrerblatt 115/1 (2015), pp. 14-18, online .
  • Understanding Dimensions of Religious Freedom and Persecution Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Dennis P. Petri / Frans Visscher). In: Pieter Coertzen / Len Hansen (eds.): Law and Religion in Africa. The Quest for the Common Good in Pluralistic Societies , Cleveland 2015, pp. 347-368.
  • Contemporary Thinking on Conversion and Persecution. A Survey of Recent Missiological Compendia. Mission Studies 34/3 (2017), pp. 295–308
  • Can you count martyrs and if so, how? Contrasting approaches . In: Elmar Spohn (ed.): God's action in history. Assessments - Results - Discussions (Festschrift for Klaus Wetzel on his 65th birthday), (Korntaler Row 13), Nuremberg 2017, pp. 78-106 (reprinted in: Th. Schirrmacher, Max Klingenberg and Martin Warnecke (eds.): Yearbook Persecution and Discrimination against Christians 2018 , Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2018, pp. 32–61, online ).
  • Solidarity with oppressed and persecuted Christians and commitment to the human right to religious freedom for all. A Commentary on the Ecumenical Report on Religious Freedom 2017 , IIRF Bulletin 1 (2018), pp. 3–25, online .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christof Sauer: Vita , etf.edu, accessed on November 2, 2018.
  2. ^ FTH Gießen: First Professor for Research into the Persecution of Christians , Idea , article from November 6, 2017.
  3. ↑ Christof Sauer: Vita , fthgiessen.de, accessed on November 2, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Sour, Christof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, religious scholar and missiologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberach an der Riss