Christopher Spehr

Christopher Spehr (* 1971 in Bad Oeynhausen ) is a German Protestant theologian. He has been Professor of Church History at the Theological Faculty of Friedrich Schiller University Jena since 2011 .

biography

From 1992 to 1999 Spehr studied Protestant theology in Bethel, Tübingen and Zurich. After the first theological exam at the Evangelical Church of Westphalia in 1999, he received a doctoral scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . In 2004 Spehr received his doctorate in theology from the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster; the dissertation was awarded the dissertation prize of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster in 2006.

The vicariate in Herne-Holsterhausen and the second theological exam in 2004 was followed by a position as a research assistant at the Seminar for Church History II in Münster. Spehr completed his habilitation there in 2009; the habilitation thesis was awarded the Hanns Lilje Prize 2010. This was followed by substitute professorships in Bochum and Jena.

Since the winter semester 2011/12, Spehr has been Professor (W 3) for Church History at the Theological Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. In 2012 she was ordained by the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . Since 2013 he has been the representative of the Presidium of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena for the Reformation anniversary in 2017 .

In 2014 he was awarded the Golden Medal of the Comenius University in Bratislava .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Enlightenment and ecumenism. Attempts at reunification between Catholics and Protestants in German-speaking countries in the later 18th century (Contributions to Historical Theology 132), Tübingen 2005.
• Luther and the Council. On the development of a central topic during the Reformation (Contributions to Historical Theology 153), Tübingen 2010.

Editorships

• The Protestant Rectory - Myth and Reality , ed. according to with Thomas A. Seidel, Leipzig 2013.
• Reformation Today , Volume 1: Protestant Education Accents , Leipzig 2014.
• Tolerance and truth. Philosophical, theological and legal perspectives (Anhalt knowledge 1), ed. according to with Albrecht Lindemann and Rainer Rausch, Hanover 2014.
• Reforma e Igreja. Estudos sobre a eclesiologia da Reforma na história e na atualidada , ed. according to with Claus Schwambach, São Bento do Sul - SC (Brazil) 2015.
• Ludwig Steil (1900–1945). Based on a portrait of Gusti Steil , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2015.
• Weimar and the Reformation. Luther's doctrine of authority and its effects , ed. according to with Michael Haspel and Wolfgang Holler, Leipzig 2016.
• Reformation on site. On the source value of visitation protocols. Contributions from the conference of the project "Digital Archive of the Reformation" and the Chair for Church History at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena on November 26th and 27th, 2014 in Jena (Publications of the state archive administration of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Series A: Sources of History Sachsen-Anhalts 21 / Writings of the Hessian State Archives Marburg 29 / Writings of the Thuringian Main State Archives Weimar 7), ed. according to with Dagmar Blaha, Leipzig 2016.
• Reforma e Biblia. Estudos sobre a compreensão protestante da Escritura Sagrada na história e na atualidade , ed. according to with Claus Schwambach, São Bento do Sul - SC (Brazil) 2016.
• Places of the Reformation: Jena , ed. according to with Joachim Bauer, Leipzig 2017.

Editorships of magazines and series

• Luther yearbook , Göttingen (since 2013).
• Berliner Theologische Zeitschrift , Leipzig (since 2013).
• Sermon Studies , Freiburg im Breisgau (since 2015).

Web links

• Speak on the website of the University of Jena