Eberhard Busch

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Eberhard Busch (born August 22, 1937 in Witten / Ruhr area ) is a German-Swiss Protestant theologian , was assistant to Karl Barth , Protestant Reformed pastor in Uerkheim in Aargau and professor of systematic theology in Göttingen .

Life

Eberhard Busch is the son of the pastor and evangelist Johannes Busch . He studied Protestant theology in Wuppertal , Göttingen , Heidelberg , Münster and Basel . After studying theology, he was personal assistant to Karl Barth in Basel from 1965 to 1968, and Busch is closely connected to his person and work. He passed the propaedeutic, theological and practical exam in 1970 at the University of Basel. In 1977, with Karl Barth's curriculum vitae , his biography of Barth, he became a Dr. theol. PhD.

From 1969 to 1986, Busch was an Evangelical Reformed pastor in the rural parish of Uerkheim near Zofingen in the canton of Aargau, in the Swiss plateau. From 1973 to 1981 he was also a radio preacher at the Swiss radio station DRS . From 1982 to 1983 he was able to represent Professor Klaus Scholder at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen . From 1986 he was professor for systematic theology at the reformed faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .

In addition to his teaching activities in Göttingen, Busch worked in a number of church bodies and gave lectures and lectures at foreign institutions, among others. a. in the USA ( Princeton University , Spokane , Holland (Michigan) and Elmhurst (Illinois) ) and in Japan.

As a Swiss citizen, he now lives in the Friedland community near Göttingen. Eberhard Busch is the author of the Internet platform Göttingen Sermons on the Internet .

Theological interests

Busch's main area of ​​work, besides Barth research, is the research and updating of the Reformed tradition, and a. Calvin's and the Reformed Confessions. He is one of the editors of the Calvin study edition published by Neukirchener Verlag.

In addition, he works on issues of the church struggle from 1933 to 1945 as well as on questions of the relationship between church and state, as well as church and Israel .

Honors

Busch is an honorary doctor of the United Protestant Theological Seminars in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and the Theological University of Debrecen (Hungary).

Bibliography (selection)

  • Humane theology. Texts and explanations on the theology of old Karl Barth . Zurich 1967.
  • Karl Barth's curriculum vitae. Based on his letters and autobiographical texts. Gütersloh 1975, 5th edition 1994, engl. Transl. 1976, Italian transl. 1977, Dutch. Transl. 1979; New edition 2005, engl. Translated 2005.
  • Freedom and authority. The generation problem in the view of old Barth (Theological Studies 119). Zurich 1976.
  • Karl Barth and the Pietists. The younger Barth's criticism of pietism and its reply. Munich 1978, engl. Translated 2004.
  • Jews and Christians in the shadow of the Third Reich. Approaches to a Critique of Anti-Semitism in the Time of the Confessing Church (Theological Existence Today 205). Zurich 1979.
  • Faithfulness. Karl Barth. Experiences and encounters. Neukirchen-Vluyn 1986, 5th edition 1987, Italian translation 1994.
  • The beginnings of the theologian Karl Barth in his Göttingen years (Göttinger Universitätsreden 83). Goettingen 1987.
  • Let my course be certain. Answers to Questions of Faith . Neukirchen-Vluyn 1987, 2nd edition 1989.
  • Under the bow of the one covenant. Karl Barth and the Jews 1933-1945. Neukirchen-Vluyn 1996. 
  • Devoted to freedom. Christian Faith Today - In Conversation with the Heidelberg Catechism . Neukirchen-Vluyn 1998, engl. Translated 2010.
  • The great passion. Introduction to the theology of Karl Barth. Gütersloh 1998, engl. Translated 2004.
  • The first commandment against the background of today's religious situation (small writings from the Reformed Covenant 11). Wuppertal 1998.
  • Reformation Day 1933. Documents of Karl Barth's meeting with the Pastors' Emergency League in Berlin , ed. and introduced by Eberhard Busch. Zurich 1998.
  • Talk about God in a binding way. Church lectures. Wuppertal / Neukirchen-Vluyn 2002.
  • Creed. The Apostles' Creed. Goettingen 2003.
  • The Barmer Theses 1934-2004 . Göttingen 2004.
  • Knowledge of God and humanity. Insights into the theology of Johannes Calvin. Zurich 2005, 2nd edition 2006, Hungarian translation 2009.
  • Reformed. Profile of a denomination. Zurich 2007, Hungarian translation 2008.
  • Karl Barth - Insights into his theology . Göttingen 2008.
  • The Karl Barth files. Censorship and surveillance in the name of Swiss neutrality 1938-1945 , ed. according to with Barbara Schenck and Stefania Centofanti. Zurich 2008.
  • My time with Karl Barth. Diary 1965-1968 . Göttingen 2011.
  • Kurt Mueller. Lawyer for those persecuted under National Socialism . Stuttgart 2014.
  • Barth - a portrait in dialogues. From Luther to Benedict XVI. Zurich 2015.
  • You are told. Sermons (Sermons Today 27). Arrived in 2015.
  • Born to live together. John Calvin - Studies on His Theology . Zurich 2016.
  • Start at the beginning. Stations on Karl Barth's theological path . Zurich 2019.


Festschrift

Challenged Church. Impulses - Ways - Perspectives, ed. by Christoph Dahling-Sander, Margit Ernst and Georg Plasger. Wuppertal 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal information on Eberhard Busch's website
personal data
SURNAME Busch, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten / Ruhr area