Christoph Morgner

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President Christoph Morgner as a speaker at a conference in Western Pomerania in 1999

Werner Christoph Morgner (born October 14, 1943 ) is a German theologian and book author.

Life

Morgner comes from near Zwickau . After finishing school, he and his parents moved to Lower Saxony in 1958 .

After training as a businessman, he completed basic military service and last worked in 1968 as deputy head of department in a department store. As a part-time job, he passed the church music C exam.

In 1968 he entered the Hermannsburg parish vicar seminar (parish vicar training without school leaving examination) of the Hanover regional church . After studying theology in Hermannsburg and at the Theological Academy in Celle , he entered the service of the regional church in 1975, first as parish vicar and then as pastor . Morgner was parish priest in Uetze - Dollbergen (Hanover region) for 14 years . In addition, he gave religious instruction at the high school in Uetze. For more than 10 years he was honorary chairman of the Hanoverian Association of Regional Church Communities .

From 1989 until his retirement in 2009 he was the President of the Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association , the umbrella organization of the community movement in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. His predecessor in this office was Kurt Heimbucher .

Christoph Morgner is the author and editor of numerous books.

In 1999 Morgner received his PhD. theol. at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg on "Spiritual leadership as theological task" .

Morgner is married and has three children with his wife. His hobbies are playing the organ, table tennis and football.

Memberships

Morgner was among other things a member of the main board of the German Evangelical Alliance and the EKD Synod. From 1991 to 2010 he was a board member of the evangelical association ProChrist , which organizes mass evangelizations . He was also a member of the leadership group of the Coalition for Evangelism ( Lausanne Movement ). Since 2006 he has been a member of the jury for the ecumenical preaching award .

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Faith that can be seen: Being a Christian in the field of tension between ethical decisions , Brunnen Verlag (Gießen) 1993, 2nd edition 2001, ISBN 978-3-7655-1012-0 .
  • Spiritual leadership as theological task: Church - Pietism - Community movement (additional dissertation, University, Halle 1999), Calwer Verlag , Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 978-3-7668-3692-2 .
  • Accept one another as Christ accepted you to praise God (series: The reading book for the annual solution: 2015), Brunnen-Verlag, Giessen 2014, ISBN 978-3-7655-4239-8 .
  • Ink, theses, temperaments: a reader in the footsteps of Martin Luther (as publisher), Brunnen-Verlag, Giessen 2016, ISBN 978-3-7655-2064-8 .
  • Find peace and pursue it! The reader for the annual solution 2019 , Brunnen-Verlag, Gießen 2018, ISBN 978-3-7655-4335-7 .
  • I think; help my disbelief! , Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 2019, ISBN 978-3-7655-4347-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Morgner, Christoph: Spiritual leadership as theological task: Church - Pietism - Community movement (dissertation), Stuttgart 2000 (as a university publication Halle 1999), ISBN 3766836927
  2. ↑ Change of management at the top of the German Evangelical Alliance ead.de, January 2, 2012, accessed on July 9, 2014
  3. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for ex-President of the Pietists in: Durchblick No. 3/2011, p. 20f.
  4. ↑ lausannerbewegung.de - Who We Are ( Memento of 7 September 2001 in the Internet Archive ) version of 7 September 2001 in archive.org
  5. ↑ www.predigtpreis.de - The 2014 Jury, accessed on July 9, 2014
  6. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 64, No. 9, January 17, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Morgner, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morgner, Werner Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1943