Eduard Schweizer (theologian)

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Eduard Schweizer (born April 18, 1913 in Basel , † June 27, 2006 in Zurich ) was a Swiss theologian. He was a professor for the New Testament at the University of Zurich .

Life

Eduard Schweizer studied Protestant theology with Rudolf Bultmann in Marburg , Emil Brunner and Gottlob Schrenk in Zurich and Karl Barth in Basel . He completed his studies in Basel in 1938 with a doctorate to become a Dr. theol. Afterwards Schweizer was pastor in Nesslau in the canton of St. Gallen for almost a decade . From 1941 onwards, Schweizer also taught as a private lecturer in the New Testament at the University of Zurich. In 1946 he was finally appointed professor for the New Testament in Mainz , but switched to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in the summer semester of 1949 . From the winter semester of 1949/50 until his retirement in 1979 he was full professor for the New Testament at the University of Zurich, of which he was also rector from 1964 to 1966.

In 1982 Schweizer was honored with the Sexau Community Prize for Theology .

His students include Hans-Peter Hasenfratz , Ulrich Luz and Hans Weder .

Works (selection)

Comments

Further treatises

  • Diodorus of Tarsus as exegete . In ZNW Vol. 40. Töpelmann, Berlin 1943, pp. 33-75
  • Church according to the New Testament . Evangelischer Verlag, Zollikon-Zurich 1949. ( Theological Studies , Issue 26)
  • Spirit and church in the New Testament and today . Kaiser, Munich 1952. ( Theological existence today NF 32)
  • Humiliation and exaltation in Jesus and his followers . Zwingli-Verlag, Zurich 1955. ( Treatises on theology of the Old and New Testaments, vol. 28)
  • The worship in the New Testament . Zwingli-Verlag, Zurich 1958 ( Church issues of the time 44)
  • Church and Church Order in the New Testament . 2nd Edition. Zwingli-Verlag, Zurich 1962 ( Treatises on theology of the Old and New Testaments, vol. 35)
  • Neotestamentica. German and English essays 1951–1963. German and English Essays 1951–1963 . Zwingli-Verlag, Zurich / Stuttgart 1963
  • Ego eimi. The religious historical origin and theological meaning of the Johannine figurative speeches, at the same time a contribution to the source question of the fourth Gospel . 2nd Edition. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1965 ( research on religion and literature of the Old and New Testaments 56 = NF 38)
  • New Testament and Today's Annunciation . Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1969 ( Biblical Studies 56)
  • Contributions to the theology of the New Testament. New Testament essays (1955–1970) . Zwingli-Verlag, Zurich 1970
  • Matthew and his church . Catholic Biblical Works, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-460-03711-3 , ( Stuttgarter Bibelstudien 71)
  • Holy Spirit . Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart / Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7831-0538-2 ( topics of theology . Supplementary volume 4.)
  • God wants to speak. Sermons . Kaiser, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-459-01169-6 .
  • Jesus Christ in the varied testimony of the New Testament . 5th edition. Gütersloher Verlagshaus Mohn, Gütersloh 1979, ISBN 3-579-03829-X , ( Gütersloher Taschenbücher Siebenstern 126)
  • New Testament and Christology in Progress. Essays . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1982, ISBN 3-525-58121-1 .
  • The Sermon on the Mount . 2nd Edition. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1984, ISBN 3-525-33470-2 , ( Kleine Vandenhoeck series 1481)
  • Theological introduction to the New Testament . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-525-51370-4 , ( floor plans for the New Testament 2)
  • Jesus , the likeness of God. What do we really know about the life of Jesus? 2nd Edition. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-525-33596-2 , ( Kleine Vandenhoeck series 1572)

literature

  • Werner Kramer: Eduard Schweizer (born 1913). Diversity and unity of New Testament theology . In: Stephan Leimgruber , Max Schoch (Hrsg.): Against God forgetting. Swiss theologians in the 19th and 20th centuries . Herder, Basel / Freiburg (Breisgau) / Vienna 1990. ISBN 3-451-21986-7

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personal data
SURNAME Swiss, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2006
Place of death Zurich