Fernando Enns

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Fernando Enns (* 1964 in Curitiba ) is a Brazilian-German theologian and is head of the Theology of the Peace Churches at the Department of Protestant Theology at the University of Hamburg and Professor of (Peace) Theology and Ethics at the Theological Faculty of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) in the Netherlands.

Life

Enns' grandfather had emigrated from the former Soviet Union to South America because he had refused military service due to his Mennonite background, which at the time often resulted in severe sanctions and even the death penalty. Enns' family eventually settled in a Mennonite colony in Brazil.

Fernando Enns came to Germany at the age of almost 10. After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology at the University of Heidelberg and Mennonite theology in the USA. In 1992 he completed his studies with a master's degree in theology under the title The One Household of God - The Crisis of the Ecumenical Movement: Theological Causes and Newer Concepts at the University of Heidelberg and was ordained pastor of the Mennonite congregation in Krefeld in the same year.

From 1996 to 2005 he was director of studies at the Ecumenical Institute and student residence at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, where he received his doctorate in 2001. The title of his doctoral thesis was The Historic Peace Churches in Ecumenism. Ecclesiological aspects of a theology from a peace church perspective, especially the Mennonites . Fernando Enns has been the head of the Theology Department of the Peace Churches in the Ev. Theology of the University of Hamburg . In 2010 he completed his habilitation at Heidelberg University under the title Ecumenism in Probation. Contributions to ecumenical theory formation, theology and peace ethics from the perspective of a peace church (Mennonites) , whereupon he was appointed to the Free University of Amsterdam a little later. Since 2011 he has been Professor of (Peace) Theology and Ethics there.

Enns is a member of the Mennonite Congregation in Hamburg and Altona and deputy chairman of the Working Group of Mennonite Congregations in Germany (AMG) . Since 1998 he has been a member of the central committee of the World Council of Churches (ÖRK) and a member of the German Ecumenical Study Committee (DÖSTA).

2007 Fernando Enns was awarded the sermon price of the publisher for the German economy .

Works

  • Fernando Enns & Annette Mosher (eds.), Olav Fykse Tveit (foreword), Just Peace. Ecumenical, Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives , Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock Publishers 2013, ISBN 978-1-62032-362-5 .
  • Fernando Enns, Ecumenism and Peace. Theological impulses from the Friedenskirche. Theological impulses Vol. 4, Neukirchen Vluyn: Neukirchener 2012, ISBN 978-3-7887-2556-3 .
  • Fernando Enns (ed. With Martin Hailer and Ulrike Link-Wieczorek), Profiled Ecumenism. Remaining important and now urgent. Festschrift for Dietrich Ritschl. Frankfurt a. M .: Lembeck 2009, ISBN 978-3374029716 .
  • Fernando Enns (ed.), Healing of Memories - Liberated for a Common Future. Mennonites in dialogue. Reports and texts of ecumenical discussions on a national and international level. Frankfurt / M .: Lembeck and Paderborn: Bonifatius 2008, ISBN 978-3-87476-547-3 .
  • Fernando Enns & Hans-Jochen Jaschke (eds.): Called together to be peacemakers. On the dialogue between Catholics and Mennonites. Neufeld Verlag , Schwarzenfeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-937896-70-0 .
  • Fernando Enns: Peace Church in Ecumenism. Mennonite roots of an ethic of nonviolence . Church-Confession-Religion Volume 46. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-525-56550-X . (Engl .: The Peace Church and the Ecumenical Community. Ecclesiology and the Ethics of Nonviolence. Copublished by Kitchener / Ontario: Pandora Press and Geneva: World Council of Churches 2007).
  • Fernando Enns (ed. With Scott Holland and Ann Riggs), Seeking Cultures of Peace: A Peace Church Conversation , Telford / PA: Cascadia and Geneva: World Council of Churches 2004, ISBN 978-2825414026 .
  • Fernando Enns (ed.), Decade to Overcome Violence 2001-2010. Impulse , Frankfurt / M .: Lembeck 2001, ISBN 3-87476-384-6 .

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SURNAME Enns, Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian Mennonite theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Curitiba , Brazil