Elga concern

Elga Sorge (actually Helga Sorge ; * 1940 ) is a feminist theologian .

Life

Elga Sorge studied French and Protestant theology in Göttingen and from 1970 taught at the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg-Harvestehude as a religion teacher. From 1973 onwards she acted as head of studies at the Pedagogical-Theological Institute in Kassel. In 1979 she was appointed lecturer for feminist theology at the comprehensive university in Kassel , where she was involved in the training of pastors and religious teachers . Sorge wrote and published the Ten Permits , the Mother of Our Lady and the manifesto of the confessing Frauenkirche as a witch's convention and thus influenced numerous colleagues and feminists. In her main work Religion and Women. Female spirituality in Christianity she interpreted passages of the Bible (e.g. ( Jer 44  EU )) in such a way that God and Jesus appear feminine in them. So she replaced God with the earth goddess and contrasted the "Sado spirituality" with a supposedly omnipotent, patriarchal "Father God who allegedly had his own son murdered" with a conciliatory, life- and lust-affirming, humane alternative. Her creed contains the lines: "You are the power in everything, the daringly loving virgin, the cosmic mother of all living things, the ancient wisdom and love and trust and openness in eternal bliss."

After the church leadership in Kassel withdrew her teaching license in 1987, disciplinary proceedings were opened against her in 1989 by the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck . Under this pressure, Sorge renounced her job as head of studies at the Pedagogical-Theological Institute in Kassel and accepted a ten-year maintenance payment from the church.

Sorge has been the state chairwoman of the Liberal Seniors of Lower Saxony since 2005 .

Works

• Feminist theology with or without a goddess? 1986.
• Feminist theology is more serious about the gospel of Jesus than any other theology! 1987.
• with Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel , Hans-Gernot Jung : Another Gospel? a) Workshop without fear. On "Feminist Theology". b) Theology or "Theasophy". c) The church needs the goddess. 1987.

literature

• Witch hunt in Evangelical? Documentation on feminist theology in patriarchal and critical discussion: The Elga Sorge case. Kassel 1987.
• Hans-Gernot Jung (Ed.): Elga Sorge has left the consensus of faith. Current texts on the debate about a prominent feminist theologian. epd documents 7/1988, Frankfurt a. M. 1988.
• Hans-Gernot Jung: Elga Sorge has disclosed requirements for church service. Declaration of Ev. Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck from January 8, 1988. 1989.
• Helen Schüngel-Straumann : My ways and detours. A feminist theologian on the move. Autobiography. Paderborn u. a. 2011. pp. 174f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Elga Sorge in the catalog of the German National Library
• Monika Egler: Goddess dethroned - Elga Sorge is rejected by the church . In: Die Zeit , July 28, 1989. Retrieved May 17, 2010.
• Liette Mathieu: Church for women: Frauenkirche? In: Forum for Society, Politics and Culture in Luxembourg. 07/1990 (PDF file; 753 kB). Retrieved May 17, 2010.
• Elga Sorge: Plea for an explanation of the Fall . Lecture, November 18, 2005. Accessed May 17, 2010.
• Photo by Elga Sorge at the symposium on the occasion of Rudolf Bahro's 70th birthday on 18./19. November 2005 at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eg Marianne Krüll, Thirteen Permits for Women and Feminists. In: Eva Koch-Klenske (Hrsg.): The daughters of the Emanzen. Communication structures in the women's movement. Verlag Frauenoffensive, Munich 1991 ( online ).