Georg Huntemann

Georg Hermann Huntemann (born June 10, 1929 in Bremen ; † February 13, 2014 there ) was a German Protestant theologian and university professor .

biography

Huntemann was the son of the manufacturer Heinrich Huntemann. He studied Protestant theology in Hamburg, Erlangen, Zurich, Tübingen, Göttingen and Bern. In Erlangen he obtained his doctorate in 1953. phil. and in 1957 in Bern as Dr. theol. He was ordained in Bremen in 1957. In 1957/58 he was the first pastor of the Martinikirche Bremen . After working at the Rembertikirche in Bremen until 1967 and in the Epiphany congregation, he returned to the Martinikirche in 1974 and stayed there until his retirement in 1987, most recently as pastor primarius . He left a lasting mark on the Martini community. The order of the community that is still valid today is largely based on his ideas. As long as his health allowed, he traditionally held the service in St. Martini every New Year's Eve .

From 1970 he was professor for ethics and apologetics at the state-independent Theological University Basel (STH) and from 1985 to 1995 at the Evangelical Theological Faculteit , Leuven (ETF). He was one of the founding members of the STH Basel (founded as FETA) and was a member of it until his retirement in 2005.

Huntemann was active in phases in the confessional movement , especially in the theological convention of the conference of Confessing Communities in the Evangelical Churches in Germany . The election of Maria Jepsen in 1992 as bishop and thus the first woman at the head of an Evangelical Lutheran church was vehemently criticized by conservative and evangelical theologians in advance: Huntemann called on the pastors to deny her the Lord's Supper . In a book published in 1998, he continued his sharp attacks on Jepsen as a bishop: Jepsen represented “the model of a social process of connecting Christianity to the present reality of this society” and with this aim perverted the New Testament. The “good, personal will” of Jepsen should in no way be disputed when Huntemann writes that “Mrs. Bishop Jepsen - from a religious history point of view - will become the gravedigger of a religion”.

His “favorite philosopher” was Martin Heidegger , he explained in a sermon at the end of 2008.

Huntemann was married and had three daughters.

Theological viewpoints

In his early years Huntemann was a proponent of liberal theological views. He declared the virgin birth to be an "invention of the Church". Later there was a fundamental change in his point of view. Some evangelicals see it as a conversion , but Huntemann himself avoided this term because he was of the opinion that man is not able to turn to God on his own. Since then he has represented a conservative evangelicalism. In the Reformed Calvinist tradition, he consistently only accepted the Bible as a source of knowledge. Accordingly, he acknowledged the authenticity of the biblical miracles and rejected innovations such as the ordination of women .

Fonts

• Attack on modernity. Faith in Christ between yesterday and tomorrow. Wuppertal 1966.
• Live in tension. Wuppertal 1970.
• Authority or chaos. Wuppertal 1971, ISBN 3-4170-0363-6 .
• Revolt of the Shameless. The Christian ethos in the face of the sexual revolution. Wuppertal 1971, ISBN 3-4170-0336-9 .
• § 218: for the life or death of the unborn. Basel 1972, ISBN 3-7655-0255-3 .
• In the beginning the truth. Verlag der Liebenzeller Mission, Bad Liebenzell 1977, ISBN 3-7751-0305-8 .
• This church has to be different! End of the national church - future of the confessional church. Verlag der Liebenzeller Mission, Bad Liebenzell 1979, ISBN 3-88002-080-9 .
• The destruction of the person. Verlag der Liebenzeller Mission, Bad Liebenzell 1981, ISBN 3-88002-132-5 .
• The lost standard - God's commandment in the chaos of this time. Verlag der Liebenzeller Mission, Bad Liebenzell 1983, ISBN 3-88002-178-3 .
• The betrayed Reformation. Bremen 1983, ISBN 3-9235-5601-2 .
• Ideological infiltration into church, theology and creed. Bad Liebenzell 1985, ISBN 3-88002-271-2 .
• Heaven is not on earth. On the misery of Protestantism. Herford 1986, ISBN 3-512-00759-7 .
• The other Bonhoeffer. The challenge of modernism. Wuppertal / Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-417-12570-7 .
• God's command or chaos - what will Europe's future hold? The Christian's political mission during the so-called turning point. Lahr 1992, ISBN 3-88002-499-5 .
• Overcoming the self-destruction of Christianity. Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-7751-2930-8 .
• Biblical Ethos in the Age of Moral Revolution. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 1999, ISBN 3-7751-3433-6 .

literature

• Otto Müller-Benedict, Hartwig Ammann: Bremer Pfarrerbuch : Die Pastoren, biographical information Vol. 2, p. 86. Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1996, ISBN 3-929902-96-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Huntemann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lilo Wemsheimer in DIE ZEIT, October 13, 1967 No. 41: Sex, Satan, Sin; Pastor Huntemann is too eccentric for his ministerial brothers
• “I couldn't march!” A controversial theologian completes his run - an obituary for Prof. Dr. Dr. Georg Huntemann.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olaf Latzel: 'Sermon on the Old Year's Eve 2012' (MP3; 25.3 MB)
2. ↑ Christian Frei: Georg Huntemann, one of the most distinctive and original theologians turns 80. In: STH-Postille 3, p. 3.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.1 MB)  
3. ↑ Rainer Hering: Women in the pulpit? ( Memento from November 26, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Huntemann: Overcoming the self-destruction of Christianity. P. 16.