Frank Thomas Brinkmann
Frank Thomas Brinkmann (born August 8, 1961 in Dortmund ) is a German Protestant theologian and cultural scientist.
Career
From 1982 Brinkmann studied medicine and Protestant theology in Cologne and Bochum; During this time, there were study and research stays in Sri Lanka (including Theological College Pilimatalawa) and in Switzerland ( Ecumenical Institute Bossey / Geneva). After his first theological exam in 1988, he took up church service in the parish and school vicariate; In 1991 this phase of training ended with the second theological exam and entry into the posting service as a pastor . During this time I also spent a long time in the USA (social service at Habitat for Humanity). He was ordained in 1992, and in 1993 he was appointed pastor in the parish parish. He received his doctorate in 1994 on the subject of Believable Truth - Experience Certainty. On the importance of experience in German Protestant Enlightenment theology and put in 1998 his habilitation on the subject of comics and religion. The medium of the Ninth Art in the contemporary culture of interpretation . In the same year Brinkmann received his teaching qualification and license to teach practical theology. In 2008 the Ruhr University Bochum awarded him the title of "Associate Professor"; In 2009 he was appointed professor at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen ; in Giessen and at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , he teaches practical theology and religious education.
Science profile
Brinkmann has so far submitted over 100 publications, including many theological (and religious pedagogical) miniatures, lexicon articles, sermon studies and collections, numerous smaller contributions on pop-cultural phenomena as well as media and film studies, and most recently also some essays on comic and music theory sequences. In his more recent articles in particular, he tries to react to the late modern era in terms of religious theory and religious practice and to pose the question of the remaining (and newly gained) options of a theological perception and design task for the religious. According to Brinkmann, theology does not have the business to operate the self-justification in endless loops, but v. a. to react to "strange people and different lives, distant worlds and multiple cultures, colorful practice and undiscovered religion" with suitable expeditions and culturally sensitive operations. As a quintessence, he proposes a practical theology with a poietic additional mandate : this must specialize in "the creative handling of narratives, stories and artefacts" and operate the "theatrical projection and staging of cults and rituals" just as professionally as the "construction of social platforms ( ...) and virtual zones "In order to (re) define and contour the homeland of the religious appropriately, a performative homiletics of the popular is required , which focuses on the meaning and significance of fictions as symbolically and narratively coded miniatures of meaning, but also a theatrical didactic , which initiates religion as a performance and sets "God in scene (s)".
Publications (selection)
- Practical theology. A Guide , Tübingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8252-5141-3
- (as ed. with HM Dober) Religion.Geist.Musik. Theological and cultural-scientific boundaries , Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-22254-3
- (as ed. with J. Hammann) Heimatthanken. Theological and cultural studies contributions , Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-22252-9
- (as ed.) Pop goes my heart. Religious and pop-cultural discussions in the 21st century , Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-10401-6
- (as ed. with J. Ahrens and N. Riemer) Comics pictures, stories and sequences in religious cultures of interpretation , Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-01427-8
- Put God in the limelight. Bible performance and religious theater in class , Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-77662-9
- Religious education . A work book, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-17-022214-4
- (as ed.) Scripts, fictions, constructions. Theological, ecclesiastical and pop-cultural remarks on reality TV and emotional life , Jena 2012, ISBN 978-3-943609-79-0
- Practical homiletics. A guide to sermon preparation , Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-17-016471-6
- Comics and religion. The medium of the ninth art in the contemporary culture of interpretation , Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-17-016094-X
- As long as my heart moves , Rheinbach 1997, ISBN 3-87062-504-X
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.uni-giessen.de/fbz/fb04/institute/evtheo/prakt-theo/haben/brinkmann-frank/FTB_Litlist_22019.pdf (accessed July 4, 2019).
- ^ Frank Thomas Brinkmann, Practical Theology. A guide , Tübingen 2019.
- ↑ cf. Frank Thomas Brinkmann, Practical Theology. Ein Guide , Tübingen 2019, 244f., 269f.
- ↑ cf. Frank Thomas Brinkmann, Practical Theology. A Guide , Tübingen 2019, 319f.
- ↑ cf. Frank Thomas Brinkmann, With Jesus in the interstices. About the right of Christians to stay at home in outopos and eutopos, in: Frank Thomas Brinkmann / Johanna Hammann (ed.) Heimatgedanken. Theological and cultural studies contributions , Wiesbaden 2019, 69–84.
- ↑ “The Little Prince” and “Footprints in the Sand”. Observations on the homiletics of the popular, in: Arbeitsstelle Gottesdienst 3/2008 (special issue: "Our whole mind open". Divine service and spirituality between neo-romanticism and kitsch), GAGF / Hannover 2008.
- ↑ Frank Thomas Brinkmann, Setting God in Scene. Bible performance and religious theater in class, Göttingen 2013, 9–17.
Web links
- [1] on the website of the University of Giessen (accessed on July 1, 2019)
- Brinkmann (PDF; 451 kB) on the brochure of the Evangelical Theology department at the University of Frankfurt / M. (Accessed May 28, 2013)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brinkmann, Frank Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |