Gilberto da Silva

Gilberto da Silva (* 1965 in Florianópolis ) is a Brazilian Lutheran theologian.

Life

He studied Protestant theology in São Leopoldo and Erlangen and history in Canoas . After ordination in 1992 he was pastor in São Leopoldo and Lage - Blomberg . After completing his doctorate in 2001 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , he was professor for systematic theology at the Lutheran Theological University in Oberursel from 2002 to 2003 , lecturer in historical theology from 2003 to 2008 and has been professor of historical theology since 2008 .

His main research interests are the history of missions and religions, the late Middle Ages and the Reformation, and the history of independent Evangelical Lutheran churches in Germany.

Fonts (selection)

• In the beginning there was the sacrifice. René Girard from an Afro-Indiol-Latin American perspective (= contributions to missiology and intercultural theology. Volume 16). LIT-Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-8258-5469-8 (also dissertation, Erlangen 2001).
• Encontro de mundos. O imaginário colonial brasileiro refletido nos sermões do Padre Antônio Vieira . Editora da ULBRA, Canoas 2006, ISBN 85-7528-137-2 .
• as editor with Werner Klän : Sources on the history of independent Evangelical Lutheran churches in Germany. Documents from the area of ​​Concord Lutheran Churches (= Oberurseler Hefte supplementary volumes 6). Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-7675-7138-9 .
• as editor with Stefan Süß: And it happened 19 years later ... The accession of the Evangelical Lutheran (Old Lutheran) Church in the former GDR to the self-employed Ev.-Luth. Church 1991 (= Oberurseler Hefte. Issue 51). Lutheran Theological University, Oberursel 2011, ISBN (incorrect) 978-3-921613-52-3.
• as editor with Werner Klän: The Leuenberg Agreement in the Inner Lutheran Controversy. International perspectives from three denominations (= Oberurseler Hefte supplementary volumes 9). Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 3-8469-0100-8 .
• as editor with Werner Klän: Lutheran and independent. Introduction to the history of independent Evangelical Lutheran churches in Germany . Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8469-0106-9 .
• as editor with Werner Klän: Mission and Apartheid. An inescapable legacy and its processing by Lutheran churches in southern Africa (= Oberurseler Hefte supplementary volumes 13). Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 3-8469-0132-6 .
• as editor with Christoph Barnbrock : “The unifying center”. Theology in denominational and ecumenical responsibility. Festschrift for Werner Klän (= Oberurseler Hefte supplementary volumes 20). Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 3-8469-0298-5 .

Web links

• Lutheran Theological University of Oberursel