Dagmar Heller (theologian)

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Dagmar Heller (born March 22, 1959 in Singen ) is a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Heller studied in Bethel , Göttingen and Heidelberg , where in 1989 with a dissertation on Bernard of Clairvaux to Dr. theol. received his doctorate. She completed her vicariate in Kehl , was ordained in 1990 and then was parish vicar in Villingen-Schwenningen . From 1993 to 2000 she worked as an executive secretary in the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches in Geneva. After a brief activity as the regional church representative for mission and ecumenism in the parish of North Baden of the Evangelical Regional Church in Baden , she took over responsibility for ecumenical questions and relations with Orthodox churches in the church office of the Evangelical Church in Germany in October 2001 . From 2007 she was a professor at the Bossey Ecumenical Institute and worked on the Faith and Order Commission again. Since 2018 she has been a consultant for orthodoxy at the denominational institute in Bensheim .

Heller belongs to the group of editors of the Ecumenical Review and is the author or editor of numerous books and essays. From 2012 to 2016 she was President of the Societas Oecumenica .

Publications (selection)

  • Scripture interpretation and spiritual experience with Bernhard von Clairvaux (= studies on systematic and spiritual theology; 2). Echter, Würzburg 1990.
  • Baptized into Christ. A guide to the ecumenical discussion on baptism . World Council of Churches, Geneva 2012.
As editor
  • (with Günther Gassmann ): Santiago de Compostela 1993. Fifth World Conference on Faith and Order of the Church August 3-14, 1993: reports, presentations, documents . Lembeck, Frankfurt a. M. 1994.
  • (with Ion Bria ): Ecumenical pilgrims. Profiles of pioneers in christian reconciliation . World Council of Churches, Geneva 1995.
  • (with Thomas Best): Becoming a christian. The ecumenical implications of our common baptism . World Council of Churches, Geneva 1999.
  • (with Peter Bouteneff ): Interpreting together. Essays in hermeneutics . World Council of Churches, Geneva 2001.
  • (with Rainer-Matthias Müller): The one baptism. Tradition and future of a sacrament. A practical guide to ecumenical preparation for baptism . Lembeck, Frankfurt a. M. 2002. ISBN 3-87476-400-1 .
  • Conversion and Identity. Ecumenism as a tension between the foreign and the familiar (= supplements to the Ecumenical Review; No. 73). Lembeck, Frankfurt a. M. 2003. ISBN 3-87476-426-5 .
  • (with Barbara Rudolph): The Orthodox in the World Council of Churches. Documents, backgrounds, comments and visions. A documentation for the final report of the special commission on orthodox participation in the WCC (= supplements to the Ecumenical Review; No. 74). Lembeck, Frankfurt a. M. 2004. ISBN 3-87476-427-3 .
  • Sixty years after the end of the war - Christian values ​​today. 23rd meeting in the bilateral theological dialogue between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Evangelical Church in Germany (4th meeting after the new beginning in Bad Urach), April 17. - April 22, 2005 in Moscow and Sergiev Posad (Bad Urach IV) (= supplements to the Ecumenical Review; No. 80). Lembeck, Frankfurt a. M. 2007. ISBN 978-3-87476-527-5 .
  • Get up and be light! Ecumenical visions in times of upheaval. Festschrift for Konrad Raiser . Lembeck, Frankfurt a. M. 2008. ISBN 978-3-87476-550-3 .
  • (with Péter Szentpétery): Controversial catholicity. On the ambivalent relationship between diversity and unity. Conference report of the 18th scientific consultation of the Societas Oecumenica (= supplement to the Ecumenical Review 105). Leipzig 2016.
  • (with Minna Hietamäki) Just Do It?!, conference report of the 19th Scientific Consultation of the Societas Oecumenica (= supplement to the Ecumenical Review 117) Leipzig 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Heller, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH To sing