Department of Protestant Theology Marburg
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The Department of Protestant Theology Marburg is part of the Philipps University of Marburg . The faculty in Marburg has existed since the first Protestant university was founded in 1527. The subjects of the Old Testament , New Testament , Church History , Systematic Theology , Practical Theology , Social Ethics and Religious Studies are taught according to the classic German model .
history
When the University of Marburg was founded, the former property of the Dominican, Franciscan and Kugelherr monasteries was added to the university. The theological faculty moved into the church and the convent house of the Kugelherren. In 1873–1891, the former Dominican monastery on the Weidenhausen Bridge was extensively redesigned. Since then, the theological faculty has been housed there. Since 1880, the department can be considered a place of modern Protestant theology. These impulses have been taken up and transformed in dialectical theology.
Later, Marburg theology developed three different focuses: the connection between New Testament science and hermeneutics, the establishment of the history of religion within theology and the accentuation of social ethics within systematic theology.
Since the 1970s, the Protestant theology department has emphasized the social and cultural orientation of theology and, in continuation of its history, developed a liberal theological profile. An interdisciplinary orientation as well as ecumenical, aesthetic and feminist issues contribute to the current profile.
Chairs
- Old Testament: Alexandra Grund-Wittenberg , Christl. M. Maier
- New Testament: Lukas Bormann , Angela Standhartinger
- Church history: Karl Pinggéra , Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele
- Systematic theology: Malte Dominik Krüger, Claus-Dieter Osthövener
- Social ethics: Friedemann Voigt
- Practical theology: Marcell Saß, Maike Schult
- Institute for Church Construction and Church Art of the Present: Thomas Erne
- History of religion: Bärbel Beinhauer-Köhler
- Christian archeology and Byzantine art history: Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan
Affiliated institutes
- Institute for Church Construction and Church Art of the Present
- Hans von Soden Institute for Theological Research
Personalities
- Adam Krafft (1493–1558), church reformer
- Adolf Harnack (1851–1930), theologian and church historian
- Wilhelm Herrmann (1846–1922), theologian
- Friedrich Niebergall (1866–1932), theologian
- Karl Barth (1886–1968), theologian
- Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976), theologian and professor
- Hans von Soden (1881–1945), theologian
- Ernst Fuchs (1903–1983), theologian
- Rudolf Otto (1869–1937), religious scholar and theologian
- Friedrich Heiler (1892–1967), religious scholar
- Georg Wünsch (1887–1964), theologian and church politician
- Friedrich von Oppen