Elmar Spohn

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Elmar Spohn (born May 31, 1967 in Kandern ) is a German evangelical theologian with evangelical character, missiologist , lecturer, historian and author of several specialist books in the fields of theology and missiology.

Live and act

Spohn completed a theological training at the Kirchberg Bible School from 1990 to 1993 , which was followed in 1994 by a six-month missionary internship at the ACTS Institute in Bangalore (India). Starting in 1996, he completed his studies for a “Master of Arts in Missiology” at the Academy for World Mission (AWM), the German branch of Columbia International University in Korntal, for a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies. After an internship in 1999 in the Free Evangelical Congregation Halver studied from 2004/05 at the Society for Education and Research in Europe (GBFE) in Wiedenest with a focus on mission theology and obtained his master's thesis on The Alliance Mission and the Association of Free Evangelicals in 2008 Congregations (BFeG): The history of their relationship and their theological justification the Master of Theology at the University of South Africa (UniSA). There he completed a doctoral degree from 2010, where he completed his dissertation in 2014 on the subject of Between Adjustment, Affinity and Resistance: A Historical Study of Protestant Faith and Community Missions during the Nazi era . for Doctor of Theology doctorate.

From 2000 to 2008 Spohn was a lecturer and pastor at the Katungulu Bible Training School (KBTS) in Mwanza and coordinator of the TEE programs (Theological Education by Extension) of the Africa Inland Church (AIC) Tanzania . Since 2013 he has been a lecturer for intercultural studies at the European School of Culture and Theology (AWM Korntal) and as a guest lecturer at various theological training centers in Germany. He is a member of the Federation of Free Protestant Congregations in Germany (BfeG).

Private

Spohn has been married to Marietta since 1994, has two children and lives in Waiblingen .

Awards

2000: Winner of the George W. Peters Junior Prize .

Publications

  • Mission and the coming end: Karl Hartenstein's understanding of eschatology and its effects on mission , Verlag der Liebenzeller Mission , Bad Liebenzell 2000, ISBN 978-3-88002-712-1 .
  • The Alliance Mission and the Federation of Free Evangelical Churches. The history of their relationship and their theological justification , SCM Bundes-Verlag , Witten 2011, ISBN 978-3-86258-002-6 .
  • with Erhard Michel and Johannes Reimer (eds.): Christ for the world. Theological contributions to mission and church planting, SCM Bundes-Verlag, Witten 2014, ISBN 978-3-86258-039-2 .
  • Between adaptation, affinity and resistance. The faith and community missions in the time of National Socialism , Lit Verlag , Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-13213-0 .
  • God's Action in History: Assessments - Results - Discussions. Festschrift for Klaus Wetzel on his 65th birthday (as editor), Korntaler series; Volume 13, VTR Verlag for Theology and Religious Studies, Nuremberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-95776-076-0 .
  • with Klaus W. Müller (Ed.): Intercultural Theology versus Missiology. Contributions to History - Mission - Theology (Festschrift for Bernd Brandl on his 65th birthday), VTR Verlag, Nuremberg 2020, ISBN 978-3-95776-101-9 .
Essays
  • The notae of the true church: observations on Karl Hartenstein's salvation-historical-eschatological ecclesiology , in: Theologisches Dialog (2/2005): 47-70. ISSN  1431-200X .
  • Voice of the Fathers - Mission and Passion: Hartenstein texts selected and introduced , in: Theological contributions (2005/1): 44-48. ISSN  0342-2372 .
  • What did the reformed systematist Otto Weber leave behind the mission? , in: Evangelical Missiology (2006/3): 91-98. ISSN  0177-8706 .
  • At a loss before eschatology? Thoughts on overcoming deficient eschatology in holistic approaches of evangelicals , in: Ebeling, Rainer & Meier, Alfred (Ed.): Missionale Theologie - GBFE-Jahrbuch 2009. Marburg: Francke 2009: 96-112. ISBN 978-3-86122-967-4 .
  • We were more or less silent about it. Entanglements - Ambivalences - Opportunism: The Alliance China Mission in the Nazi Era, in: Monthly Issues for Evangelical Church History of the Rhineland (2009/58): 205-217.
  • War zeal, nationalism and unity in Christ: evangelical missions in Germany during World War I , in: Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae (2009/35): 323-336. ISSN  1017-0499 .
  • Through blood and iron. Zeitgeist and Hermeneutics in World War I , in: Faix, Tobias; Wünch, Hans-Georg & Meier, Elke (ed.): Theology in the context of biography and worldview - GBFE yearbook 2011/2012. Marburg: Francke 2011: 313-331. ISBN 978-3-86827-282-6 .
  • The faith and community missions in the time of National Socialism (research report), in: Free Churches Research (2012/21): 262-274. ISBN 978-3-934109-13-1 .
  • Orthodoxy versus context theology. How the Alliance Mission deals with the contextual Christology of the Japanese Nobuo Odagiri , in: Christ for the World. Theological contributions to mission and church planting. Bundes-Verlag, Witten 2014, pp. 325–343. ISBN 978-3-86258-039-2 .
  • Mission between "national religious peculiarities" and internationality: reactions in the association of the China Inland Mission during the First World War , in: Evangelical Missiology 2015/2 .
Lexicon article

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Spohn: Master's thesis
  2. ↑ Spohn: Dissertation, 2013 ( PDF )
  3. ^ Free churches in the time of National Socialism , vef.de, message from October 9, 2011.
  4. ↑ Graduates of UniSA for Doctor of Theology , gbfe.org, message from July 2, 2015.
  5. ↑ Spohn: Lecturer for intercultural studies at ESCT , awm-korntal.eu, accessed on July 8, 2015.
  6. ↑ The mission is the actual task of the church ( memento of July 8, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), portal-oncken.de, notification of June 3, 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Spohn, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and missiologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Kandern