Darrell Guder

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Darrell Likens Guder (born November 12, 1939 in Ventura , California , United States ) is an American Presbyterian theologian and pastor and professor of theology and mission studies at several universities in the United States, most recently in Princeton . He is considered one of the founders and masterminds of missional theology .

Life

Guder is a son of the Swiss-born American accountant Russell Otto Guder and the writer Eileen Likens Guder. When he was seven years old, he first felt the need to become a missionary. 1956 to 1959 he studied at the University of California in Los Angeles . He then went to the University of Hamburg , where he received his Ph.D. received. From 1964 to 1967 he worked as a student pastor in Hamburg. In 1965 he was ordained a Presbyterian pastor. From 1967 to 1971 he was a catechist at the Presbyterian Church in Hollywood . From 1971 to 1975 he was a guest auditor and deacon in theology and pedagogy at Karlshöhe , the then Protestant school for deaconry and religious pedagogy in Ludwigsburg, Germany . From 1976 to 1985 he worked first as an assistant and then as a director at the Fuller Seminary in Colorado Springs . From 1985 to 1991 he was Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Whitworth College in Spokane , Washington . From 1991 to 1997 he held the William A. Benfield Professorship of Evangelism and World Mission at the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Louisville , Kentucky . At Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur , Georgia , he was Peachtree Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth from 1997 to 2001. In 2002, he was called to Princeton Theological Seminary , Princeton, New Jersey , where he held the Henry Winters Luce Professorship in Missional and Ecumenical Theology took over. He stayed at Princeton until 2015.

Guder was involved in the World Alliance of Reformed Churches based in Geneva , Switzerland , where he was the coordinator for language and document service from 1964 to 2004. In the Presbyterian Church (USA) from 1991 he was on the committee for theological formation and on the coordination team for gospel and culture. At Jamestown College he served on the board from 1978 to 1982. He is a member of the International Association for Mission Studies, American Society of Missiology, Association of Professors of Mission, Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education and Association of Presbyterians in Cross-cultural Mission.

Guder has also worked as a visiting teacher and speaker, for example at the Western Theological Seminary, in Holland (Michigan) in 1987 , at Carey Baptist College in Auckland , New Zealand , and at the University of Melbourne , Australia in 1994 ; and in 1998 at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena , California.

Honors

Guder received an honorary doctorate from Jamestown College in 1988.

Teaching

Guder has dealt intensively with the gospel and its influence on cultures. For the West, and especially for North America, he noted a fundamental social and cultural change that led into a post-Christian era in the second half of the twentieth century. Under these new prerequisites and framework conditions, the role of the Christian church must also be examined and the self-image of its members changed. He introduced and coined the term "missional" in the English-speaking world in order to draw attention to God's fundamental mission of the Church, the so-called Missio Dei . Because missiology and ecclesiology should definitely be seen together today and no longer treated separately. The church was created by God's Spirit and is also held together by him. The gospel of Jesus Christ should be embodied, lived and testified by church members.

Guder was influenced in his thinking and belief, for his research and his publications by the theologians Lesslie Newbigin , Karl Barth , Peter Stuhlmacher and David Jacobus Bosch .

Private

He married Linda Evans Wrede in 1963, with whom he has two children. The marriage ended in 1978. In 1979 he married Judith Johnson.

Publications

As a translator from German to English

  • Otto Weber : Foundations of Dogmatics , William B. Eerdmans , Grand Rapids 1981–1983 (German: Fundamentals of Dogmatics , 2 volumes)
  • Eberhard Jüngel : God As the Mystery of the World: On the Foundation of the Theology of the Crucified One in the Dispute between Theism and Atheism , William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids 1983 and Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2009 (German: God as Secret der Welt. On the foundation of the theology of the crucified in the dispute between theism and atheism , 1977, ISBN 3-16-147620-4 )
  • With Judith Guder: Karl Barth, The Theology of the Reformed Confessions , Westminster and John Knox Press, Louisville 2002.

As an author

  • Called to Witness: Doing Missional Theology , William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids 2015
  • The Great Passion: An Introduction to Karl Barth's Theology , William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids 2010
  • Exhibition of the Kingdom of Heaven to the World , Witherspoon Press, 2007
  • The Incarnation and the Church's Witness , Trinity Press International, Valley Forge 2000 and Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2005
  • The Continuing Conversion of the Church: Evangelization as the Heart of Ministry , William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids 2000
  • Be My Witnesses: The Church's Mission, Message, and Messengers , William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids 1985

As editor

  • Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America , William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids 1998.
  • With Robert Benedetto and Donald K. McKim: Historical Dictionary of Reformed Churches , Scarecrow Press, Lanham 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/guder-darrell-likens-1939 Guder, Darrell L (ikens) 1939-
  2. ↑ https://www.academia.edu/12098501/Worthy_Practice_An_Interview_with_Darrell_L._Guder Melissa Martin: Worthy Practice: An Interview with Darrell L. Guder , Academia
personal data
SURNAME Guder, Darrell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guder, Darrell Likens (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Reformed theologian, missiologist, author, and speaker
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Ventura , California , United States