Frank Lüdke
Frank Lüdke (* 1965 in Wolfsburg ) is a German Protestant theologian and professor of church history at the Tabor Protestant University .
Life
Lüdke grew up in Wolfsburg. He studied theology from 1984 to 1988 at the Tabor Theological Seminary (today Tabor Evangelical University) in Marburg. 1988–1990 he worked as a parish deacon in the Evangelical Church Community of Drespe (Rhineland). 1989–1995 he studied Protestant theology in Bonn, Giessen, Tübingen, Deerfield / IL (USA) and Marburg, with the degrees Master of Theology (Th.M.) and Dipl.-Theol. 1995-2000 he was a preacher of the community in the Evangelical Church of Marburg-Ortenberg. He has been a lecturer in Tabor since 2000 and as a professor since 2011. In 2003 he received his doctorate as Dr. theol. in Marburg. Since 2006 he has been head of the Neupietism Research Center at the Tabor Evangelical University. In December 2016 he was appointed by the Union of Evangelical Churches (UEK) as a delegate to the Historical Commission for the Study of Pietism .
Frank Lüdke is married and has a daughter and a son.
Memberships
- Historical Commission for Research into Pietism of the EKD
- Hessian Church History Association (HKV)
- Association for Free Church Research (VFF)
- Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies Kassel 1834 e. V.
- Board of the Christian Churches Working Group (ACK) in Marburg
Research interests
- Historical connections between Pietism and the community movement
- The theology of the sanctification movement
- Community Movement and National Socialism
- Concepts of neo-Pietist church work today
Publications
Monographs
- Diaconal evangelism. The beginnings of the German Community Diakonieverband 1899–1933. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003.
Editing of the writings of the Evangelical University of Tabor (SEHT)
- Volume 1: Frank Lüdke, Norbert Schmidt (eds.): What is new about Pietism? Tradition and future prospects of the Evangelical Community Movement. Berlin 2010.
- Volume 3: Frank Lüdke, Norbert Schmidt (eds.): The new world and the new Pietism. Anglo-American influences on German neo-pietism. Berlin 2012.
- Volume 4: Frank Lüdke, Norbert Schmidt (ed.): Gospel and experience - 125 years of community movement. Berlin 2014.
- Volume 6: Frank Lüdke, Norbert Schmidt (eds.): Pietism - Neupietism - Evangelicalism. Berlin 2017.
- Volume 7: Frank Lüdke, Henning Freund (ed.): Alfred Lechler (1887–1971) - Psychiatry in the field of tension between belief and politics. Berlin 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Lüdke. Retrieved March 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Frank Lüdke appointed to the Historical Commission for the Study of Pietism (press) | EH Tabor. Retrieved April 14, 2018 .
- ↑ EKD - Church Office: Communication: Evangelical Church in Germany. January 2, 2018, accessed April 14, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lüdke, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolfsburg |