Eta Linnemann

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Eta Linnemann (born October 19, 1926 in Osnabrück ; † May 9, 2009 in Leer , East Frisia) was a German Protestant theologian . In 1977/78 she broke completely with the theology of her teacher Rudolf Bultmann and revoked the theological positions she had held up until then.

Life

Eta Linnemann studied Protestant theology in Marburg , Tübingen and Göttingen from October 1948 to July 1953 . In August 1953 she passed the first church examination at the University of Göttingen, and in August 1957 the second church examination. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover commissioned Linnemann to compose interpretations of biblical texts for religious instruction. This work resulted in her dissertation, Parables of Jesus - Introduction and Interpretation , with which she received summa cum laude in July 1961 at the Church University Berlin-Zehlendorf for Dr. theol. received his doctorate. Between 1961 and 1966 Linnemann taught at the seminar for church service in Berlin-Zehlendorf , and in 1967 she received a visiting professorship at the Braunschweig University of Education .

In February 1970 Eta Linnemann completed her habilitation in Marburg with Rudolf Bultmann and Ernst Fuchs with studies on the passion story . On August 10, 1971, she was awarded an honorary professorship for the New Testament at the Theological Faculty of the Philipps University of Marburg . In the following year, the Braunschweig University of Education appointed Eta Linnemann to the chair for Protestant theology and methodology of religious instruction . Linnemann was a member of the international Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas .

Linnemann caused a sensation in 1978 when, according to her own account as a result of a conversion experience in November 1977, she renounced the historical-critical method and asked that her previous publications be destroyed. From 1983 she was a teacher at the Theological College of the Indonesian Missionary Community in Batu . In her book "What is believable - the Bible or the Biblical Criticism?", Linnemann claimed in 2007, citing an unnamed ear witness, that Rudolf Bultmann revoked his teachings on his deathbed. However, so far (as of 2009) there has been no reliable evidence of this claim, nor has it been echoed in Bultmann research.

Eta Linnemann last lived in the Loga district of Leer .

Selected publications

  • Parables of Jesus. Introduction and interpretation. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 3rd supplemented edition, 1964.
  • The function of church history in religious education - didactic considerations and methodological consequences. In: Klaus Wegenast , Heinz Grosch (Ed.): Religious instruction on the way. Hamburg 1970, p. 65ff.
  • Studies on the passion story. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1970 (habilitation thesis, University of Marburg).
  • Biblical criticism put to the test. Publishing house for theology and religious studies, Nuremberg 1998, ISBN 3-933372-19-4 .
  • Is there a synoptic problem? Verlag für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft, Nuremberg 1999, 4th edition, ISBN 3-933372-15-1 .
  • Science or opinion? Publishing house for theology and religious studies, Nuremberg 1999, 2nd edition, ISBN 3-933372-22-4 .
  • Bible or Bible Criticism? Publishing house for theology and religious studies, Nuremberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937965-86-4 .

Lecture work

The theologian worked well into old age to present the results of her work in the field of Biblical Exegesis . The theologian offered seminars for both clergy and lay people .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theology professor Eta Linnemann has died. In: wegdeslebens.info. May 15, 2009, accessed January 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Eta Linnemann: What is credible - the Bible or the Bible criticism? VTR, Nuremberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937965-86-4 , p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Linnemann, Eta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 2009
Place of death Leer (East Frisia)