Dominik Klenk

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Dominik Klenk giving a lecture on gender mainstreaming at the 7th International APS Congress in Würzburg, 2013

Dominik Klenk (born September 26, 1968 ) heads the Brunnen Verlag Basel , is an author, a representative of the dialogue philosophy , journalist and was the first prior of the ecumenical community Offensive Young Christians .

Life

Dominik Klenk played after graduating from high school from 1987 to 1989 at VfL Heppenheim in the 2nd handball league . He then studied journalism , philosophy and Latin American studies at the Catholic University of Eichstätt from 1991 to 1997 . There he received his doctorate in 2002 with a thesis on the philosopher Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy .

From 2002 to 2012 Klenk led the ecumenical community Offensive Young Christians , which has branches in Reichelsheim (Odenwald) and Greifswald . From 2008 to 2012 he was her first prior. He was editor of the magazine Salzkorn . Since October 2012 he has been the publishing director and managing director of Brunnen-Verlag Basel. Dominik Klenk founded the Fontis publishing label in 2014.

Klenk is married and has three children.

Fields of work

In his scientific contributions, Klenk primarily deals with the modern dialogue philosophy. In addition to Rosenstock-Huessy's works, those of Martin Buber are also objects of his research. As a member of the Martin Buber Society, he reviews recent philosophical literature and publishes essays on various topics in the journal Im Dialog . In March 2011, he conducted an interview with the philosopher Robert Spaemann for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

Dominik Klenk is the initiator of the marriage and family alliance , which 35 companies, clubs and associations from Germany have joined, including the non-denominational YMCA , the Catholic Schoenstatt Movement and the independent German Parents' Association .

Klenk works as a coach for team processes and community building. In 2003 he founded the TGG (Meeting of Spiritual Communities) in the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) together with Roland Werner and the Protestant Bishop Christian Zippert .

Dominik Klenk researched and reflected on the psychohistory of communities and group processes.

He co-designed the young entrepreneur forums 20x09 and 20x10.

Klenk advocates the basic thesis that people in their basic attitude are receivers. Relationships in teams and groups can only grow and prosper if they receive and pass on love .

Dominik Klenk is the initiator, architect and co-author of the Evangelical Youth Catechism YOUBE. The aim of the catechism is to impart the basics of the Christian faith to the younger generation. The book is accompanied by a cross-media concept to support communities and young people in their educational and missionary work with YOUBE via social networks and digital work templates.

Positions

Klenk advocates ecumenism, the man-woman family and a right to therapy for "homosexuals willing to change".

Klenk represents traditional values ​​and ways of life. In his writings and lectures he takes a stand against the leveling of gender differences. In what is known as gender politics , he sees a silent revolution against the "creation-related" differences between men and women. For homosexual people who want to change their sexual orientation, Klenk demands the “right to therapeutic accompaniment”. As one of the salient differences between male homosexual and heterosexual partnerships, Klenk sees, based on studies he interprets, sex with changing partners outside of the fixed relationship. The reform of pastoral service law with an official opening for same-sex civil partnerships in office, is a kindling in and dismantling of the rectory; Same-sex partnerships would turn it into a "house of bliss".

Klenk is committed to ecumenism . He lectures and publishes on numerous Protestant and Catholic forums. The Catholic philosopher Robert Spaemann calls this approach the attempt at another ecumenism: Not the ecumenism of the lowest common denominator or the intersection of denominational beliefs and the dropping of the rest as a private matter.

Appreciations

  • In 2002, Dominik Klenk's research on Rosenstock-Huessy's philosophical work was recognized as an excellent scientific work by the Catholic University of Eichstätt .
  • Also in 2004, Dominik Klenk received a 3rd prize from the BMW Group for the organization and implementation of the international building camp building blocks for a successful coexistence in the 21st century .

Publications (selection)

  • "Loss of the present" in the communication society. Impetus for a dialogical ethics of (mass) communication with Martin Buber and two conversations with Harry Pross . Lit, Münster 1999, ISBN 3-8258-4109-X .
  • Metanomics - source theory beyond the laws of thought. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessys pioneered the way from the lonely thinking of modern philosophy to the lived common sense of language . Agenda-Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89688-175-2 (also dissertation Eichstätt 2001).
  • Risk your heart: miracles and dares - experienced with God . Giessen 2008, ISBN 3-765-51909-X .
  • Gender mainstreaming: the end of men and women? . Giessen 2009, ISBN 3-765514411 .
  • Dear brother in Rome. An evangelical letter to the Pope. Knaur TB, Munich 2011, ISBN 3-426-78524-2 .
  • Live like companions. A grammar of the community. Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 2013, ISBN 978-3765513077 .
  • YOUBE. Evangelical youth catechism. Together with Bernd Wannenwetsch and Roland Werner . Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-03848-034-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Extract from the register of associations at the Darmstadt District Court under the reference VR 70609 from October 19, 2005.
  2. ↑ Short Biography of Dominik Klenk ( Memento of 11 August 2007 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 24 of 2008.
  3. ↑ OJC: Salzkorn 2/2008.
  4. ↑ Career. Dr. Dominik Klenk, archived from the original on September 15, 2010 ; Retrieved September 15, 2010 .
  5. ↑ OCJ-Prior changes to Brunnen-Verlag Basel ( Memento from February 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Dominik Klenk becomes the new managing director. boersenblatt.net, May 21, 2012, accessed November 7, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Brunnen Verlag Basel renamed fontis. fontis-verlag, May 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 26, 2015 ; accessed on September 24, 2015 .
  8. ↑ http://www.dominik-klenk.de/werdegang-lebenslauf
  9. ↑ Martin Buber Society : In conversation. Publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam, ISSN  1616-6094 (booklet archive) .
  10. ↑ Where was God in Japan? , March 24, 2011.
  11. ^ The Meeting of Spiritual Communities (TGG) in the EKD. In: The Conference of Evangelical Communities (KevK). Retrieved July 16, 2012 .
  12. ↑ Live with commitment. Communities and spiritual communities in the Evangelical Church in Germany. A vote of the EKD Council to Strengthen Evangelical Spirituality, EKD-Texte 88, 2007. EKD, 2007, accessed on July 16, 2012 .
  13. ↑ Dr. Dominik Klenk: The community's menopause. In: Salzkorn 3/2010. OJC eV, accessed on July 16, 2012 .
  14. ↑ 20x09 What will move us in the future? ( Memento from August 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ A successor to Luther's little catechism. Evangelical Church in Württemberg, May 11, 2015, archived from the original on September 25, 2015 ; accessed on September 24, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Gender Politics: The Silent Revolution. Man or woman? A new policy no longer wants to admit the natural differences ( Memento from July 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Idea: OJC: Do not reject homosexuals willing to change , May 4, 2008, accessed on October 18, 2012 ( memento of October 18, 2012 on WebCite ).
  18. ↑ kath.net Better gay than catholic? On the decision of the EKD Synod on the law of pastors - a comment by Dominik Klenk
  19. ↑ Dominik Klenk The EKD's lost chance to win back the Protestant rectory as a place of clarity and orientation. In: IdeaSpektrum 46/2010, online with comments, viewed on March 14, 2011. With reference to the German Institute for Youth and Society : Male homosexuality and promiscuity on DIJG.de, as seen on March 14, 2011.
  20. ↑ Dear brother in Rome. An evangelical letter to the Pope. Edited by Dominik Klenk, Munich 2011, p. 10.
  21. ↑ Such Protestants are welcome. Christ & Welt 34/2011, accessed on July 16, 2012 .
  22. ↑ KU Eichstätt press release , accessed on June 24, 2008.
  23. ↑ Ten years of the BMW Group Award for intercultural learning. (PDF; 1.9 MB) BMW Group, archived from the original on September 15, 2010 ; Retrieved September 15, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Klenk, Dominik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher of dialogue, journalist, prior of the Offensive Young Christians community
DATE OF BIRTH 26th September 1968