Gunther Wenz

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Gunther Wenz (born August 18, 1949 in Weißenburg in Bavaria ) is a German Protestant theologian of Lutheran character and emeritus professor for systematic theology of the Protestant theological faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He currently heads the Wolfhart Pannenberg Research Center at the Munich University of Philosophy .

life and work

After studying Protestant theology Wenz in 1976 with an in Wolfhart Pannenberg -made dissertation on Paul Tillich to Dr. theol. PhD. The habilitation took place in 1980 after two years in the service of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria and ordination to the spiritual office; The subject of the habilitation thesis was: The History of the Doctrine of Atonement in Protestant Theology of Modern Times . In 1984 Wenz took on an extraordinary professorship in Munich, and in 1987 he was appointed professor for Protestant theology with a focus on systematic theology and contemporary theological issues at the University of Augsburg . He declined calls to Kiel and Strasbourg. In 1995 he returned as Pannenberg's successor to the chair for Systematic Theology I (Dogmatics) and in the directorate of the Institute for Fundamental Theology and Ecumenism at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the LMU, where he taught until his retirement at the end of March 2015. Since 2015 he has been head of the Pannenberg Research Center at the Philosophical Faculty of the Munich University of Philosophy.

In a ten-volume work on the study of systematic theology, Wenz thematically developed the overall context of dogmatics (religion, revelation, church; God, Christ, spirit; creation, sin, reconciliation, perfection). Special research interests focused on the Lutheran confessional tradition, the problems of an ecumenical theology and the modern history of philosophy and theology, with particular attention to the traditions of German idealism .

For many years, Wenz was editor of the journal Kerygma und Dogma , scientific director of the Protestant Ecumenical Working Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians , member of the General Synod of the VELKD and the Synod of the EKD as well as the Chamber for Theology of the EKD and numerous other committees and study committees. The Bavarian Academy of Sciences it belongs since 1998 as a full member.

Awards

In 1999 Wenz was awarded the Hermann Sasse Prize . In 2009 he received an honorary doctorate from the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj (Klausenburg / Romania).

Fonts (selection)

  • Subject and being. The development of the theology of Paul Tillich . Munich 1979.
  • History of the Doctrine of Atonement in Protestant Theology of Modern Times . Volume 1–2, Munich 1984/1986.
  • Introduction to the evangelical doctrine of the sacraments . Darmstadt 1988.
  • Theology of the Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. A historical and systematic introduction to the Konkordienbuch , Volume 1–2, Berlin / New York 1996/1998.
  • Basic questions of ecumenical theology. Collected essays . Volume 1–2, Göttingen 1999/2010.
  • Lutheran identity. Studies on the legacy of the Wittenberg Reformation . Volume 1–2, Hanover 2000/2002.
  • Moved by God. Zinzendorf, Schleiermacher and Tholuck . Munich 2000.
  • Tillich in context. Perspectives from the history of theology . Munster 2000.
  • The cultural protestant. Adolf von Harnack as a Christian theorist and controversial theologian . Munich 2001.
  • Wolfhart Pannenberg's Systematic Theology. An introductory report . Goettingen 2003.
  • Hegel's friend and Schiller's assistance. Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer (1766-1848) . Göttingen 2008.
  • as editor: "Representing a New Humanity" - Philosophy of Religion as World Responsibility and World Shaping. Opening of the Wolfhart Pannenberg Research Center at the Munich University of Philosophy, Philosophical Faculty SJ (= Pannenberg Studies : Volume 1). Göttingen 2015
  • as editor: Church and Kingdom of God. On the ecclesiology of Wolfhart Pannenberg . Göttingen 2017
  • Study of systematic theology . Göttingen:
  1. Religion. Aspects of their concept and theory in modern times . 2005
  2. Epiphany. Problem horizons of modern Protestant theology . 2005
  3. Church. Perspectives on Reformation ecclesiology with ecumenical intent . 2005
  4. God. Implicit requirements of Christian theology . 2007
  5. Christ. Jesus and the beginnings of Christology . 2011
  6. Ghost. On the pneumatological process of early church teaching development . 2011
  7. Creation. Protological case studies. 2012
  8. Sin. Hamartiological case studies. 2013
  9. Reconciliation. Soteriological case studies. 2015
  10. Completion. Eschatological perspectives. 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pannenberg Research Center - Munich University of Philosophy. In: www.hfph.de. Retrieved April 25, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Wenz, Gunther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Weißenburg in Bavaria