Christoph Stenschke

Christoph Stenschke

Christoph W. Stenschke (* 1966 in Augsburg ) is a Protestant theologian and lecturer for the New Testament at the Biblical-Theological Academy in Bergneustadt , North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

Christoph Stenschke studied from 1987 to 1992 at the Free Theological Academy in Gießen and at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen . He then studied at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland (1993-1997) and received his doctorate at I. Howard Marshall with the study Luke's Portrait of the Gentiles Prior to Their Coming to Faith (German: The image of the nations before their conversion in Luke-Acts ) . In the 1997 summer semester he was visiting professor at the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague . After a candidate year onTheological seminar of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches in Elstal, he was ordained pastor in the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches in 1998 and was appointed to the Evangelical Free Church Church of Stralsund (Baptists) . Since autumn 2001 he has been a lecturer for the New Testament at the Biblical-Theological Academy (Forum Wiedenest) in Bergneustadt , where, in addition to teaching in the advanced and training course of this academy, he is in charge of the academic development program. In addition, he became Professor extraordinarius ( associate professor ) at the University of South Africa (abbreviated UNISA) in 2005 , at the School of Humanities and Theology (Department of New Testament and Early Christian Studies ).

Stenschke is married and has two children.

Further commitment

Stenschke was General Secretary of the Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians (2002–2010). He is a member of the working group for evangelical theology , of the New Testament Society of the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal and of the New Testament Society of South Africa . He is also a member of the board of the Society for Education and Research in Europe .

Stenschke is on the board of the CDU city ​​association in Bergneustadt and has been a city councilor in the Bergneustadt city council since 2009 . He works in the main and finance committee as well as in the social committee of the council.

Selected publications

• The meaning of the prophets and the prophetic word of the past for the Lukan image of man. In: Yearbook for Evangelical Theology . 10, 1996, pp. 123-148.
• Luke's Portrait of Gentiles Prior to Their Coming to Faith (= WUNT II. Series, 108). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-16-147139-3 .
• The Death of Jesus and the New Testament Doctrine of Reconciliation in Recent Discussion. In: European Journal of Theology . 9, 2000, pp. 131-158.
• Sociological Analysis. In: Heinz-Werner Neudorfer, Eckhard J. Schnabel (ed.): The study of the New Testament II: Exegetical and hermeneutical basic questions (= Biblical monographs, 8). R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal / Brunnen, Gießen 2000, pp. 59–86.
• The New Testament as a collection of documents from early Christian missions: old hat or new perspective? In: Yearbook for Evangelical Theology. 19, 2005, pp. 167-190.
• Nature and response of New Testament churches in the multicultural society of the first century after Christ. In: Yearbook for Evangelical Theology. 21, 2007, pp. 81-125.
• Church and Mission: Early Christian Perspectives. In: Klaus W. Müller (Ed.): Mission of the community - community of the mission (= edition afem - mission reports, 15). VTR, Nuremberg 2007, 9-64.
• "... the chosen generation, the royal priesthood, the holy people" (1 Pet 2.9): Function and meaning of the honorary designations of Israel in the 1st letter of Peter. In: Neotestamentica. 42, 2008, pp. 119-146.
• Mission and Conversion in the First Epistle of Peter. In: Acta Patristica et Byzantina. 19, 2008, pp. 221-263.
• Supra-church exercise of authority and relationships in the New Testament. In: Uwe Swarat (ed.): The autonomy of the local congregations and their community: A doctrinal discussion of the Baptist World Federation (= Theological Discussion, Supplement 10). Oncken, Kassel and Bundesverlag, Witten 2009, pp. 18–54.
• Married Women and the Spread of Early Christianity. In: Neotestamentica 43.1, 2009, pp. 145-194.
• Psalms and the Psalms in Luke's Infancy Narrative. In: Acta Patristica et Byzantina. 20, 2009, pp. 113-144.
• Romans 9-11 as part of Romans. In Florian Wilk , J. Ross Wagner (ed.): Between Gospel and Election: Explorations in the Interpretation of Romans 9-11 (= WUNT; 257). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010, pp. 197-225.
• Sharing the Gospel: Jesus in the Speeches of Acts. In: The South African Baptist Journal of Theology. 19, 2010, pp. 24-34.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Stenschke in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Master of Theology program. Archived from the original on December 23, 2005 ; Retrieved July 1, 2012 . 
2. ^ UNISA> Biblical and Ancient Studies> New Testament and Early Christian Studies> Staff members. Retrieved July 1, 2012 .  
3. ↑ ^{a b} About GBFE> Board of Directors> Prof. Dr. Christoph Stenschke. Retrieved July 1, 2012 . 
4. ↑ FEET Newsletter 2011. (No longer available online.) September 13, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 20, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
5. ↑ parliamentary group: CDU Bergneustadt  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )