University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology Hermannsburg

University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology Hermannsburg
founding	2012
Sponsorship	Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Lower Saxony
place	Hermannsburg (municipality of Südheide )
state	Lower Saxony
country	Germany
Rector	Wilhelm Richebächer
Students	80 WS 2019/20
Employee	20 WS 2019/20
including professors	7 WS 2019/20
Website	www.fh-hermannsburg.de

Site plan of the university of applied sciences

College chapel

Interior of the chapel of the technical college

The University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology Hermannsburg (FIT), founded on October 2, 2012, is a state-recognized and accredited Protestant educational institution with currently three courses. Its foundation takes into account the knowledge that transnational migration movements and the intensified encounter and penetration of different cultures in the course of globalization require a high degree of intercultural communication skills. Its aim is to bring the tradition of critical Protestant and Lutheran theologies into a dialogue with pentecostal and charismatic movements, to be an interface between training at the Protestant faculties and the differently shaped theologies of Africa, Asia and Latin America and to contribute to intercultural encounter and to contribute to integration.

The FIT is a legally dependent institution of the Evangelical Lutheran Missionswerk in Lower Saxony (ELM), which, as a foundation under private law, is a joint institution of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schaumburg-Lippe is. The forerunner institution of the FIT was the Hermannsburg Missionary Seminar, which closed in August 2012 and has trained theologians for service in the worldwide Church for over 160 years.

Goal setting

In research and teaching, the University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology pursues the goal of being able to deal appropriately and reflectively with the challenges of Christian plurality that arise from the intensifying interactions of African, Asian, Latin American and European Christianity variants. This is intended to serve a future-oriented ecumenical cooperation. FIT qualifies people for communication and diaconal practice of the gospel in international and intercultural contexts and sees itself as a competence center for intercultural theology, missiology and ecumenism.

courses

The University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology in Hermannsburg offers three international and ecumenical courses:

Bachelor:

Intercultural Theology and Diakonia global (ITDG) - 6 semesters full-time study (180 ECTs)
Intercultural Theology, Migration and Global Cooperation (ITMGZ) - 6 semesters full-time study (180 ECTs)

Master:

Intercultural Theology (ICT) - 4-semester full-time course (120 ECTS) is offered by the University of Göttingen in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology in Hermannsburg with roughly equal parts.

research

The main research areas are:

Migration and religion
Biblical research from an intercultural perspective
Intercultural History of Christianity
Systematic theology and hermeneutics from an intercultural perspective
Mission Studies and International Diakonia
Social work from an intercultural perspective
Religious Studies and Interreligious Encounters
Development related work

Cooperations

The FIT's scientific connections extend from the University of Göttingen (cooperation in the Master’s program Intercultural Theology) via the Stavanger Missionary School to various institutions in Africa, such as the Lutheran Theological Institute, Pietermaritzburg in South Africa, the Makumira University College of Tumaini University in Tanzania, the Department of Religious Studies, Makerere University - Uganda and the Mekane Yesu Seminary in Addis Ababa . FIT is also represented in the Societas Oecumenica (a cooperation between North German mission and religious studies institutions).

Library

The university library focuses on intercultural theology, missiology, Christian history, religious studies, biblical studies, migration, social work and development work. The inventory comprises 65,000 volumes. In addition, extensive online research tools are available on the homepage (online catalog OPAC, access to e-books with 700 titles, 11 databases, 3 lexicons and 24 electronic journals). The inventory build-up is based on the goals and content of the FIT degree programs. Since German and English are the language of instruction, the library's holdings are being built up with both German and English-language literature.

The library has a history of more than 150 years. Their historically grown holdings therefore offer a biblical collection in addition to mission history literature. Until the founding of the university of applied sciences it was the scientific library for the Ev.-luth. Missionswerk in Niedersachsen (ELM) and the mission seminar.

The university library is a member of the joint library network (GBV) of the states of Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation based in Göttingen and catalogs its holdings in the joint network catalog. In addition, the university library is integrated into the interlibrary loan system of German libraries.

campus

“ New Mission House ”, administration building of the University of Applied Sciences

The green campus of FIT, with some very old trees, includes the administration building, the library, a chapel in which prayers take place during the week during the lecture period, and residential buildings for students. The administration building (House 1) has been a listed building since 1992.

literature

Dietrich Werner: "Changing Faces of World Christianity, Mission-Migration and New Chances and Challenges for Theological Education in the German Context". Lecture at a conference on the occasion of the foundation of the University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology in Hermannsburg on October 3, 2012
Drea Fröchtling: “A God without limits. Christian immigrants bring the Gospel back to Europe today ”, in: Evangelische Zeitung of February 10, 2013
University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology (FIT). Documentation and speeches of the opening ceremony on October 2, 2012, Hermannsburg 2012
University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology Hermannsburg: Theological training from a global perspective. Intercultural, international and social diaconal courses, Hermannsburg 2014
Frieder Ludwig, “The Hermannsburg model of a redesign of the mission seminar”, in: “Theological training in the horizon of global Christianity”, epd documentation 35, 2010, pp. 28-30
Frieder Ludwig, “New training models in the context of globalization and mission”, in: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (ed.), Growing together. Shaping global ecumenism in Germany. Hamburg 2011, 242–247
Frieder Ludwig, “University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology”, in: Udo Tworuschka (ed.), Handbuch der Religionen, 2013
Frieder Ludwig: “The strange north. The churches in the 'Third World' have now developed their own profiles ”, in: Evangelische Zeitung of February 3, 2013
Martina Helmer-Pham Xuan: “Belief in motion. The perspective of the church is global ”, in: Evangelische Zeitung of February 17, 2013
Wilhelm Richebächer: “On the way to a participatory theological teaching and practice”, evangelische aspekte 2/2013
Wilhelm Richebächer: “Sharing at eye level. Rely on God's trust and dare to do something new ”, in: Evangelische Zeitung of January 27, 2013

Web links

Commons : University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology Hermannsburg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ University management. In: www.fh-hermannsburg.de. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
↑ Federal Statistical Office: Students at universities. Winter semester 2018/2019 (= Fachserie 11, Reihe 4.1), October 18, 2019, p. 93.
↑ http://www.juraforum.de/wissenschaft/fachhochschule-hermannsburg-staatlich-anerkannt-411108
↑ Documentation on the accreditation application of the University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology (FIT in foundation) from May 19, 2011
↑ http://www.landeskirche-hannovers.de/evlka-de/presse-und-medien/pressemitteilungen/landeskirche/2012/08/2012_08_23
↑ Cf. u. a. “Theological training from a global perspective. Intercultural, international and social diaconal courses ”, brochure from the University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology Hermannsburg 2014, pp. 16-17

52.83295 10.10043Coordinates: 52 ° 49 ′ 58.6 ″ N , 10 ° 6 ′ 1.5 ″ E

[Leitung-1] University management. In: www.fh-hermannsburg.de. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .

[2] Federal Statistical Office: Students at universities. Winter semester 2018/2019 (= Fachserie 11, Reihe 4.1), October 18, 2019, p. 93.

[3] ttp://www.juraforum.de/wissenschaft/fachhochschule-hermannsburg-staatlich-anerkannt-411108

[4] Documentation on the accreditation application of the University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology (FIT in foundation) from May 19, 2011

[5] ttp://www.landeskirche-hannovers.de/evlka-de/presse-und-medien/pressemitteilungen/landeskirche/2012/08/2012_08_23

[6] Cf. u. a. “Theological training from a global perspective. Intercultural, international and social diaconal courses ”, brochure from the University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology Hermannsburg 2014, pp. 16-17


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