Gerhard Marcel Martin

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Gerhard Marcel Martin (* 21st March 1942 in Dusseldorf ) is a German Protestant practical theology and emeritus professors .

Career

Martin studied Protestant theology and philosophy in Wuppertal , Tübingen , Heidelberg and Bonn . In 1964 he went on a five-month study trip through the Middle East. He completed his studies in 1967 with the first theological examination at the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . From 1970 to 1975 he worked as a research assistant at the Department of Protestant Theology at the University of Tübingen (Professor Jürgen Moltmann ). There he did his doctorate in 1973 on the subject of "Decisionism in Rudolf Bultmann's theology? Theological, anthropological and logical problems of the theological talk of 'decision'" as a doctor of theology. This was followed in 1973/74 by an academic year with teaching assignments in New York (Union Theological Seminary) and St. Louis, combined with studying "art of moving" with Katya Delakova, New York. Since then he has been working in cooperation with artists, educators, psychologists and theologians on the development of the "bibliodrama" as a holistic and multidimensional approach to biblical texts.

From 1975 to 1982 he was director of studies and later deputy director at the Evangelical Academy Arnoldshain . In 1976 he submitted the 2nd Theol. Examination at the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau and was ordained a pastor. From 1982 to 2007 he was professor of practical theology at the Philipps University of Marburg , and since the summer semester of 1999 he has also been a university preacher . From 2006–2008 he was visiting professor at the (Buddhist) Ōtani University of Kyoto in Japan.

Focus of work

GM Martin deals in particular with questions of the multidimensional hermeneutics of religious and literary texts, played a key role in developing the bibliodrama in Germany , researches questions of spirituality and promotes and deals with the relationships between theology, depth psychology and aesthetics .

Publications

Monographs

  • "We want to be here on earth ..." The right to happiness, Stuttgart 1970
  • Festival and everyday life. Building blocks for a theory of festivals, Stuttgart 1973 (American Philadelphia 1976; Korean Seoul 1985)
  • From unbelief to belief. On the theology of decision in Rudolf Bultmann, Zurich 1976
  • America up close. Profane and religious experiences, Munich 1977
  • Hope worldwide. Impulses and texts from Bangalore, Frankfurt aM 1979
  • Art pieces. On the dialogue between art and faith, Munich 1981
  • End of the world. Danger and meaning of apocalyptic visions, Stuttgart 1984 (Japanese Tokyo 1997)
  • Become a passerby. The Thomas Gospel between the Old Church and the New Age, Stuttgart 1988
  • Bird-free. Torques of the encounter with Christ, Stuttgart 1992
  • Nonfiction Bibliodrama. Praxis und Theory, Stuttgart 1995, 2001 (2nd, updated and expanded edition) (3rd revised edition, Berlin 2011) (Hungarian: Bibliodráma. Gyakorlat és elmélet 2003) (Finnish: Pyhä ja karkea bibliodraama - teoria ja käytäntö. Suomen Pipliaseura 2007) (Korean: Lapis Press Seoul 2010)
  • The Gospel of Thomas. A spiritual commentary, Stuttgart 1998
  • Sermon and liturgy aesthetic. Perception - Art - Art of Living, Stuttgart 2003
  • What it means: Do theology, Stuttgart 2005
  • Buddhism blatant. Messages of the Japanese Hijiri monks, Munich 2010
  • Apocalypse. Doomsday - inside and outside, Marburg 2012 (6th edition 2018)
  • Living spaces - spaces of God. Practical theological topics from an encyclopedic perspective, Stuttgart 2017

Essays and others

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b G.M. Martin CV
  2. ↑ - Playful church subculture. Retrieved on February 10, 2020 (German).


personal data
SURNAME Martin, Gerhard Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf