Ekkehard Mühlenberg

Ekkehard Mühlenberg (born July 29, 1938 in Friedrichshafen ) is a German Protestant theologian and church historian .

Ekkehard Mühlenberg received his doctorate in 1963 under Wolfhart Pannenberg at the University of Mainz . The topic of the dissertation was suggested by Hermann Langerbeck . In his dissertation, Mühlenberg advocated the thesis that Gregor von Nyssa was the first to think and develop the phrase “God is infinite”. The doctorate was followed by an 18-month research stay at the Center national de la recherche scientifique . After his habilitation in church history, he became a professor at the School of Theology at Claremont Graduate University in 1968 . From 1978 until his retirement in 2006 he taught church history at the University of Göttingen .

His research focus is in the area of ​​the early church , especially in patristic theology . Mühlenberg has been a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 1984 . He is the only church historian among the Pannenberg students.

Fonts

• God in history. Selected essays on church history. edited by Ute Mennecke and Stefanie Frost, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020553-4 .
• Old Christian way of life between the Bible and the doctrine of virtues. Ethics among the Greek philosophers and early Christians. Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-82544-7 .
• Epochs of Church History. 3rd updated edition, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-8252-1046-4 .
• The infinity of God with Gregory of Nyssa. Gregor's criticism of the concept of God in classical metaphysics. Goettingen 1966.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ekkehard Mühlenberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brief entry by Mühlenberg at the University of Göttingen
• Press release of the University of Göttingen: Event in honor of the church historian Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Mühlenberg

Remarks

1. ↑ Ekkehard Mühlenberg: On the origin of the thought of God's infinity. In: Gunther Wenz (Ed.): “Representing a new humanity” - philosophy of religion as world responsibility and world design. Opening of the Wolfhart Pannenberg Research Center at the Munich University of Philosophy, Philosophical Faculty SJ. Göttingen 2015, pp. 141–175, here: p. 142.
2. ↑ Ekkehard Mühlenberg: On the origin of the thought of God's infinity. In: Gunther Wenz (Ed.): “Representing a new humanity” - philosophy of religion as world responsibility and world design. Opening of the Wolfhart Pannenberg Research Center at the Munich University of Philosophy, Philosophical Faculty SJ. Göttingen 2015, pp. 141–175, here: p. 141.