Evangelical Research Academy
The Evangelical Research Academy is an institution of the Union of Evangelical Churches .
It is a working group of scientists and artists and addresses the questions that arise from the connection between scientific work in research and teaching and the Christian understanding of life.
history
In October 1948 the Protestant Research Academy was founded in Ilsenburg (Harz) . The aim was to promote a new reflection on human life and thus also for scientific work in Germany after the end of National Socialist rule. At the opening of the first Ilsenburg conference, Oskar Söhngen , the founder and first director (1948–1961), quoted from a memorandum of the Evangelical Academy Bad Boll a. a .: “It is not enough to convey the foundation of a personal life of faith to modern people. An evangelical academy must show how the individual areas of worldly life and thought can be properly founded on this foundation. "
Since January 1949, the director has had a board of trustees and the theologian and art historian Dr. phil. Albrecht Volkmann has a scientific secretary at his side, who is also the managing director. Annual meetings have taken place regularly since then: January meetings since 2009 in the center at the main train station of the Berlin City Mission and Whitsun meetings since 2001 with a few exceptions in the Evangelical Center of Drübeck Abbey .
The directors of the Protestant Research Academy were: Oskar Söhngen (1948–1961), Franz-Reinhold Hildebrandt (1961–1972), Joachim Rogge (1972–2000), Rüdiger Lux (2001–2007) and Andreas Lindemann (2007–2018). Alfred Krabbe has been director since 2019 . Christian Ammer has been the scientific secretary since June 2007.
tasks
When it was founded, the research academy set itself the goal of bringing together scientists from various disciplines in order to discuss the latest findings and developments in science and society. During the decades of the division of Germany, the academy brought together scholars from East and West in order to facilitate an exchange of different positions on world and beliefs across borders. Since German reunification in 1990, it has faced the new global challenges in the process of advancing secularization. The focus is on the search for goals and strategies for structuring teaching, education and research in Christian ethical responsibility.
construction
The research academy is headed by a board of trustees headed by a director. The academy has appointed members and permanent guests.
Meetings
Twice a year (January and Pentecost), non-public conferences take place to which members and guests are invited. The meetings in January are dedicated to a special topic that is treated in an interdisciplinary manner. At the Whitsun conference, the academy members present their research results for discussion.
Topics of selected January conferences
- 1954: The concept of reality
- 1956: Theory of Objective Mind
- 1964: The problem of language
- 1968/1969/1970: Ethics
- 1974: Change in the concept of God
- 1976: Science's Responsibility Today
- 1982: complementarity and reality
- 1995: Basic questions about death and human life
- 1999: The future of mankind on the horizon of responsible action
- 2002: Man and Image
- 2004: Home and Foreign - Challenges in the Age of Migration and Globalization
- 2007: Bioethics - Human Identity in Frontier Areas
- 2009: Human dignity
- 2010: experience and knowledge
- 2012: Brain Research and the Image of Man
- 2015: Legal accountability in conflict
- 2016: culture and identity
- 2017: driving force behind the modern age? - Contexts and effects of the Reformation
- 2018: The human dimension - social change between self-optimization and self-humility
- 2019: Expansion and Demarcation - Dynamic Processes in Nature and Society
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.uek-online.de/uek2012/geschichte/index.html
- ↑ The conference volumes appear at intervals.