Georg Plasger

Georg Plasger

Georg Plasger (born November 14, 1961 in Nordhorn , Grafschaft Bentheim ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Plasger, who grew up in Schüttorf , studied Protestant theology from 1981 to 1988 at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal and the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . After completing his studies, he was between 1988 and 1991 as vicar in Schöller and assistant assistant to Jürgen Fangmeier at the chair for systematic theology at the Wuppertal Church University. In 1991 the second theological exam and the doctorate theologiae followed on the basis of the dissertation paper Die Not-Wendigkeit der Gerechtigkeit. An Inquiry into Cur Deus Homo by Anselm of Canterbury .

Georg Plasger was a pastor and religion teacher in Lünne from 1992 to 1993 . From 1993 to 2000 he was Eberhard Busch's research assistant at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1999, Plasger completed his habilitation in Göttingen with the work The Relative Authority of Confession with Karl Barth .

From 1999 to 2000, Plasger was a substitute professor for systematic theology at the University of Essen . In addition, from 1997 to 2005 he was an honorary Ephorus of the Reformed Study House in Göttingen and has been an honorary member of the Moderamen of the Reformed Federation since 2002 .

After Plasger was theological assistant at the Evangelical Reformed Church from 2001 to 2004 and during which time he held a substitute professorship for systematic and ecumenical theology at the University of Siegen , he has been professor for systematic and ecumenical theology at the University of Siegen since 2005 .

Plasger is considered an international expert on the Reformation of the reformers Johannes Calvin and Huldrych Zwingli . He also researches the theologian Karl Barth. Other main research areas are: Anselm von Canterbury, Christology , Criticism of Religions as well as Peace Ethics, Medical Ethics and Bioethics . He is a member of the International Reformed Theological Institute.

Web links

• Staff page at the University of Siegen
• Literature by and about Georg Plasger in the catalog of the German National Library