Cornelia Coenen-Marx

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Cornelia Coenen-Marx (born October 12, 1952 in Rheydt ) is a German Protestant theologian , pastor and publicist.

Life

Cornelia Coenen-Marx studied Protestant theology and German in Wuppertal , Bonn and Cologne . In the 1980s she was - as the first woman in this office - parish pastor in Mönchengladbach , where she founded the Wickrath "parish shop " in 1986 , and diaconal pastor in the parish of Gladbach-Neuss, before she moved to Düsseldorf in 1990 to join the Diaconal Work of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland ( EKiR) changed. There she was in charge of the social affairs department until 1993.

In 1993 the change back to the established church took place. As a regional church councilor of the EkiR, she was responsible for child and youth work, public responsibility, public relations and journalism until 1998 and initiated, among other things, the “Mix in” campaign.

From 1998 to 2004 Coenen-Marx was again active in the Diakonie, now as theological director of the Kaiserswerther Diakonie and head of the Kaiserswerther Sisterhood. During this time she was an honorary member of the Diakonisches Rat in the Diakonisches Werk der EKiR as well as in the Diakonisches Werk of the EKD and founding co-editor of the magazine Chrismon . In 2003 Coenen-Marx ran for the office of President of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia , but lost the vote against Alfred Buß .

This was followed by positions as senior church councilor in the church office of the EKD in Hanover: From 2004 to 2007 Coenen-Marx was Middle East advisor and head of the overseas department, from 2007 to 2015 she headed the social and social policy department and was, among other things, managing director of the chamber for social affairs Rules of the EKD, responsible for the Diaconal Work of the EKD and the Social Science Institute of the EKD , the Evangelical Working Group on the Family and the Association Church - Business - Working World . She was also the managing director of the Arbeit plus workplace seal . In addition, Coenen-Marx, as managing director, was co-author of numerous memoranda and orientation aids of the EKD, for example on the topics of corporate responsibility, health, aging and inclusion . Because of her open concept of family, the orientation aid between autonomy and dependency , which she co-authored, was discussed particularly controversially . Strengthening the family as a reliable community .

Since her time as parish priest, Coenen-Marx has dealt intensively with the topics of honorary work and voluntary commitment (including neighborhood work in the community shop, establishment of a volunteer agency in Düsseldorf, development of the ecumenical honorary congresses since 2009, participation in the federal network for civic engagement ). On the radio, Coenen-Marx can be heard regularly with announcements on Deutschlandfunk , WDR and SR , she is also an employee of the sermon studies and member of the board of trustees of the Sermon Award .

After retiring, Coenen-Marx set up his own company “Seele und Sorge” in 2015 to support social and diaconal organizations and communities in realizing a new care ethic.

Questions of social policy , the relationship between church and diakonia, interreligiousness and spirituality also form the subject of numerous publications by the author, including the beginnings of upheavals. Christianity and the Church in Transformation . In one more time everything is open. The gift of getting older , she explores the chances of the so-called third phase of life for new search for meaning, also in the form of social engagement.

Functions and bodies

Diakonia, voluntary welfare, social ethics

Coenen-Marx is deputy chairwoman of the board of directors of the Diakonieverein Zehlendorf and a member of the board of trustees of the Pfeiffer Foundations in Magdeburg as well as a member of the jury for the Innovatio Prize. From 1990 to 1993 she was a member of the general assembly of the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft (LAG) Freie Wohlfahrtspflege NRW and was committee chairman or member of various specialist committees of the LAG and chairwoman of the LAG addiction prevention NRW.

She was a member of various boards of trustees of the Rhenish Diakonie ( Hephata , Graf Recke Foundation , Tannenhof ) and from 1998 to 2007 a member of the theological committee of the Diaconal Conference. From 1999 to 2003 she was deputy chairwoman of the EKD Chamber for Social Order. From 2001 to 2004 she had a seat in the Diaconal Council of the EKD and from 2002 to 2004 she was a member of the coordination committee of the Federal Network of Civic Engagement : She managed the affairs of the Chamber for Social Order of the EKD and the Synodal Committee Church - Society - State of the EKD Synod . As an advisory member, she worked on the board of the Social Science Institute of the EKD (SI), in the presidium of the Evangelical Working Group on Family (EAF) and in the Church - Business - Working World Association . She also worked as the managing director of the job seal Arbeit plus .

Ecumenism and International

From 1987 to 1988 Coenen-Marx took part in international meetings of the World Council of Churches (WCC) on "Faith and Order". From 1998 to 2007 she was a member of the board of directors of the Jerusalem Association at the Berlin Mission . From 2004 to 2007 she was a member of the Theological Committee of the Evangelical Missionswerk (EMW) and the Ecumenical Diakonia Working Group.

Journalism, media, public relations and the German Evangelical Church Congress

Coenen-Marx is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Sermon Prize ; From 1993 to 1998 she was a member of the board of the joint organization of Evangelical Journalism (gep) , Evangelical Press Service (epd) and Evangelical Commentaries (today Zeitzeichen ) as well as a member of the WDR Broadcasting Council ; From 1999 to 2005 she was a founding co-editor of Chrismon . She has been involved in the German Evangelical Church Congress since 1985 , for example through her participation in the market of opportunities, moderations, lectures and panels. In 2019 she was honored with the Johann Hinrich Wichern Special Prize for her journalistic work.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The soul of the social. Diaconal energies for social cohesion . Neukirchener Theologie, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2013, 2nd edition 2014. ISBN 978-3-7887-2660-7 .
  • Breakthroughs in upheavals. Christianity and the Church in Transformation . Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8469-0252-3 .
  • Once again everything is open. The gift of getting older . Kösel, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-466-37182-2 .

Works in co-editor / co-authorship

  • Kaiserswerther Diakonie (Cornelia Coenen-Marx et al. Hrsg.): Economy of hope. Impulses for the 200th birthday of Theodor and Friederike Fliedner , Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth 2001, ISBN 3-87645-096-9 .
  • Hans Bartosch, Cornelia Coenen-Marx, Joachim F. Erkenbrecht, Andreas Heller (eds.): Life is precious. The palliative care and ethics process in the Kaiserswerther Diakonie . Lambertus, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-7841-1592-6 .
  • Beate Hofmann, Cornelia Coenen-Marx (eds.): Symphony - Drama - Powerplay. On the interplay of full-time and voluntary work in the church, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-17-032216-5 .

Essays

  • Diakonia as a church . Presentation to the 9th Synod of the EKD 1998 in Münster, (online)
  • Corporate culture in everyday management ”; "Corporate structure and corporate communication . In: Beate Hofmann (ed.): Diakonische Unternehmenskultur. Handbook for managers . Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-17-019700-8 .
  • What is a successful life? Objectives and social reality . In: Johannes Eurich , Andreas Lob-Hüdepohl (Ed.): Disability - Profiles Inclusive Theology, Diakonie and Church . Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-17-023427-7 .
  • Commitment and calling - the churches as prominent allies in civil society . In: Research Journal Social Movements 1/2015, ISSN  2192-4848 , 0933-9361.
  • Breakpoint and cohesion - new tasks for church and diakonia in the community . In: Sebastian Borck, Astrid Giebel, Anke Homann (Eds.): Interactions in the Community, Church-Diaconal Discourses in Northern Germany , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-88981-420-3 .

Coenen-Marx also wrote various articles for the Evangelical Social Lexicon , the Evangelical State Lexicon and the Diakonielexikon .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In an interview, Coenen-Marx said: "In the patriarchal culture of the Protestant Church, this was absolutely not the rule." In: Renate Hauser: Cornelia Coenen-Marx: Die Wegbereiterin ( Memento des Originals from May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , August 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.renatehauser.de
  2. ↑ Unna Superintendent succeeds President Manfred Sorg ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Evangelical Church of Westphalia, November 12, 2003 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ekd.de
  3. ↑ Entrepreneurial action from a Protestant perspective. (PDF) The Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, 2008, accessed on October 22, 2016 .
  4. ↑ “And our sick neighbor too”. Current challenges in health policy. (PDF) The Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, 2011, accessed on October 22, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Between autonomy and dependency. Shaping the family as a reliable community. An orientation aid from the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, June 2013 Archive link ( Memento of the original from 16 August 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ekd.de
  6. ↑ Domradio des Bildungswerk der Erzdiözese Köln eV: An interview with senior church councilor Cornelia Coenen-Marx: EKD paper should contribute to the debate on changing society, June 26, 2013, https://www.domradio.de/audio/ein-interview -with-oberkirchenraetin-cornelia-coenen-marx-ekd-paper-should-be-to-debate-about
  7. ↑ Deutschlandfunk Protestant; Author's page Coenen-Marx. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 21, 2016 ; accessed on October 21, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.evangelisch.de
  8. ^ Church in the WDR; Author's page Coenen-Marx. Retrieved October 21, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Evangelical and Catholic Church in Saarland Broadcasting. Retrieved October 21, 2016 .
  10. ↑ "The sermon studies are a working aid for the qualified and well-founded preparation of sermons with practice-oriented suggestions for sermons and the organization of the worship service. A characteristic of the sermon studies is that each sermon text is edited by two authors who, in their dialogue with one another as “advocate of the text” and “advocate of the preacher”, interpret the biblical tradition in the context of today's reality. This dialogue combines scientific level with homiletic practice. ”, Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verlag-kreuz.de
  11. ↑ Sermon Prize; Members of the Board of Trustees, Coenen-Marx. Retrieved October 21, 2016 .
  12. ↑ http://www.diakonieverein.de/ ; http://www.diakonieverein.de/diakonieverein/das-unternehmen-im-ueberblick/organe.html
  13. ↑ Innovatio - The social award for social and charitable action. Insurers in the area of ​​the churches Bruderhilfe - Pax - Familienfürsorge, accessed on October 21, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Free Welfare Care NRW. Working group of the umbrella organizations of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on October 21, 2016 .
  15. ↑ today: Ginko Foundation for Prevention. Retrieved October 21, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on October 21, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ekd.de
  17. ↑ See, among other things, What does Messianic Judaism mean? A theological conversation with Micha Brumlik , Richard Harvey and Ralf Meister , moderated by Cornelia Coenen-Marx. In: Silke Lechner et al. (Ed.): Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag Stuttgart 2015 , Gütersloh 2016, ISBN 978-3-579-08211-0 .
  18. ↑ Cf. epd: "Diakonie-President: A society that is becoming more colorful is profit". In: epd Wochenspiegel, West issue 16/19. April 15, 2019, accessed May 27, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Evangelisches Staatslexikon, ed. by Werner Heun, Martin Honecker, Martin Morlok, Joachim Wieland, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-17-018416-4
  20. ↑ The social work of the church. Ein Diakonie-Lexikon, ed. by Peter Helbich; Horst Seibert; Friedrich Thiele, Gütersloh 1982, ISBN 3-579-01048-4
personal data
SURNAME Coenen-Marx, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, pastor and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheydt