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Ernst Kinder (born May 11, 1910 in Barmen ; † December 2, 1970 in Münster ) was a Lutheran theologian and university professor.

Life

From 1935 he was pastor in Munich , from 1937 secretary of the Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany , based in Berlin . After military service and imprisonment, he became professor of systematic theology in Neuendettelsau at the Augustana University in 1947 . From 1953 until his death, Kinder taught as a professor of systematic theology in Münster and stayed there (in the area of ​​the Uniate Westphalian Regional Church ) - as did his faculty colleagues Karl Heinrich Rengstorf ( New Testament ) and Peter Hauptmann ( Church history of Eastern Europe and the history of theology of the Lutheran denominational churches ) - to the old Lutheran congregation.

As a student of Werner Elert , children were theologically committed to a denomination-oriented Lutheranism and were therefore critical of the church and communion fellowship of denominational churches and of women's ordination .

Publications (selection)

  • Natural Faith and Revelation Faith: An Inquiry Following the Philosophy of Faith Fr. H. Jacobi . Munich 1935.
  • Spiritual and secular regiment of God according to Luther (= series of publications of the Luther Society , 12). Weimar 1940.
  • Church order and confession. Munich 1947.
  • God's commandments and God's grace in the word of the cross. Prolegomena for teaching law and gospel (= church-theological booklets, 7). Munich 1949.
  • as editor: A word from Lutheran theology for demythologizing. Contributions to the examination of Rudolf Bultmann's theological program . Munich 1952.
  • Kingdom of God and Church with Augustine : A study of the relationship between Church and eschatology in view of the general theme of the General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Evanston in 1954 (= Lutheranism, 14). Berlin 1954.
  • Modern historical thinking and theology. Reply to Friedrich Gogarten . Berlin 1954.
  • Basic problems of Christian eschatology. Berlin 1955.
  • as ed. with Friedrich Huebner and Wilhelm Maurer: memorial for D. Werner Elert. Contributions to historical and systematic theology. Berlin 1955.
  • The Protestant doctrine of justification (= sources on denominational studies, 1). Lueneburg 1957.
  • Evangelical Faith and the Church. Basics of the Evangelical Lutheran understanding of the church. Berlin 1958, 2nd edition 1960.
  • with Paul Jacobs and Fritz Viering : Presence of Christ: Contribution to the Lord's Supper discussion in the Protestant Church in Germany. Göttingen 1959.
  • As editor: Werner Elert: The Christian Faith. Basic lines of Lutheran dogmatics. Hamburg 1960.
  • What is actually Protestant. Stuttgart 1961.
  • with Klaus Haendler: Lutheran Confession. A selection from the confessional writings of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Berlin / Hamburg 1962.
  • The Ecumenical Movement - 1948–1961. Gladbeck 1963.
  • as ed. with Klaus Haendler: Law and Evangelium. Contributions to the current theological discussion. Darmstadt 1968.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Dohmeier: Selected bibliography by Ernst children. In: Theologische Literaturzeitung 95 (1970) , Sp. 630-638.
  • Carsten Nicolaisen :  Children, Ernst . In: Religion Past and Present (RGG). 4th edition. Volume 4, Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, Sp. 972-973.
  • Hermann Kinder : "Hearts high and courage high": The family album of my Lutheran father 1942–1949. Tübingen 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The way of women in the (spiritual) leadership position of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany and its predecessor churches. Evangelical Church in Central Germany, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Children, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1970
Place of death Muenster