Christoph Elsas

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Christoph Elsas (born August 1, 1945 in Remscheid ) is a German Protestant theologian and religious historian .

Life

After graduating from high school in Marburg, Christoph Elsas studied Protestant theology , philosophy , Semitic and Islamic studies at the universities of Marburg , Göttingen and West Berlin from 1964 to 1971 . He graduated in Göttingen with a doctorate in Protestant theology based on a work on the history of religion on Neo-Platonism and Gnosis that was written by Carsten Colpe .

Elsas was a research associate in the collaborative research center for Oriental Studies in Göttingen from 1971–1976 and at the Berlin Research Department at the Free University of Berlin from 1979–1981 . From 1973 to 1991 he was teaching and as a university assistant for religious history - with habilitation in 1982 - at the seminar for Protestant theology of the Free University of Berlin and after the theological exams 1977–1979 with vicariate and auxiliary service and from 1987 to 1991 as pastor in the Evangelical Church Berlin-West active. From 1991 to 2010 he was professor for the history of religion in the Protestant Theology department at the Philipps University of Marburg.

Works (selection)

  • Neo-Platonic and Gnostic rejection of the world in the School of Plotinus , Berlin-NY 1975
  • (Ed.): Religion: A century of theological, philosophical, sociological and psychological interpretative approaches , Munich 1975
  • Foreign work , Stuttgart 1982
  • (Ed.): Identity: Changes in cultural idiosyncrasies in the coexistence of Turks and Germans , Hamburg 1983
  • Religious history of Europe. Religious life from prehistory to the present , Darmstadt 2002
  • Mysticism in Globalization: Discourse and Traditions of the Chaldean Oracle in the Context of Today's Religious Encounters. Queries to the traditions of Zarathustra, Gnosis, Platonism and Augustine with translation of the oracle fragments and explanatory texts by the Christian Psellos and the Hellenist Numenios . Berlin 2017
  • ([Co-] editor of 6 volumes Documentation of the international Rudolf Otto Symposia Marburg :) Image and lack of images. Contributions to interreligious dialogue / hermeneutics in Islam and Christianity / religious minorities. Potential for conflict and peace / inner peace and overcoming violence. Religious traditions put to the test / interreligious understanding on the spread of faith and change of religion / gender equality: challenge of religions, Hamburg 1994/1997/2004/2007 and Berlin 2010/2014
  • ([Mit-] Hrsg.): Dying, death and mourning in the religions and cultures of the world. 3 volumes, Hamburg 2007 and Berlin 2011/2015
  • Tradition and Translation: On the Problem of Intercultural Translatability of Religious Phenomena. Festschrift for Carsten Colpe on his 65th birthday. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-1108-6469-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae University of Marburg [1]
personal data
SURNAME Elsas, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and religious historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid