Friedemann Walldorf

Friedemann Walldorf (* 1964 in Mainz ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Life

From 1983 to 1988 he studied theology in Krelingen and at the STH Basel . From 1988 to 1989 he did parish work in the Protestant parish Renningen - Malmsheim . From 1990 to 1995 he worked for the German Mission Community ( Sinsheim ) in Madrid (1991–1994). From 1995 to 1998 he studied at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of South Africa (degree: Master of Theology ). From 1995 to 1999 he was a research assistant at the FTA Gießen (with Hans Kasdorf , missiology ). After receiving his doctorate in 1999 ( Doctor of Theology ) at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of South Africa, he has been teaching missions studies at FTH Gießen since 1999. In 2004 he was awarded the George W. Peters Prize of the Working Group for Evangelical Missiology (AfeM). After his habilitation in 2013 in intercultural theology / missiology at the theological faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin , he became professor for missiology and intercultural theology at the FTH Gießen in 2014 .

His main research interests are the recent history of missions in Europe: migration, interreligious encounters, transcultural processes, contextual mission efforts, mission theologies of the present; Hermeneutics and theology of mission in ecumenical discourse, theology of religions; interfaith hermeneutics and popular music and mission; Mission and Art.

Fonts (selection)

• as editor with Hans Kasdorf: become my witnesses. World mission within the horizon of theology and history (= Hänssler theology ). Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-7751-2627-9 .
• The new evangelization of Europe. Mission theologies in a European context (= series of systematic-theological monographs, volume 8). Brunnen-Verlag, Gießen / Basel 2002, ISBN 3-7655-9470-9 (also dissertation, Pretoria 1999).
• as editor with Lothar Käser and Bernd Brandl : Mission and reflection in context. Perspectives on Evangelical Mission Studies in the 21st Century. Festschrift for Klaus W. Müller on his 65th birthday (= afem - mission academics volume 31). VTR, Nuremberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-941750-26-5 .
• Migration and Interreligious Witness in Germany. The missionary encounter between Christians and Muslims in the 1950s to 1970s as a transcultural process (= studies by the Berlin Society for Missions History Volume 24). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-515-11293-2 (also habilitation thesis, HU Berlin 2013).

Web links

• Prof. Friedemann Walldorf, D.Th. (UNISA)