Hanna Nouri Joshua

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Hanna Nouri Josua (* 1956 in Lebanon ) is an Arabic Protestant theologian, pastor , founder and manager of the "Evangelical Salam Center" and author .

Live and act

Hanna Nouri Josua grew up in Lebanon, studied political science and the history of Islam at the American University of Beirut and at the Evangelical Theological Faculteit Leuven Evangelical Theology , where he worked as a licentiate from 1996 and in 2005 with his dissertation on "Ibrahim, the friend of God. Idea and Problem of an Abrahamic Ecumenism ”.

Meanwhile blind, Joshua completed an apprenticeship as a deacon and preacher at the Protestant mission school in Unterweissach. He is pastor of the Arab Evangelical Congregation in Stuttgart and two other subsidiary congregations in southern Germany and lives in Backnang . He is the managing director of the Evangelische Ausländerseelsorge e. V. in Weissach im Tal , which was renamed in 2018 to "Evangelisches Salam-Center. Association for the Promotion of the German-Oriental Community ”. The Salam Center includes four Arab Protestant communities in Stuttgart, Heilbronn, Singen and Weißenburg (Middle Franconia).

Josua is a member of the Islam working group of the German Evangelical Alliance , its representative in the EKD's Conference for Islamic Issues and a member of the International Association for Mission Studies. He is visiting professor at the “Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary” (JETS) in Amman / Jordan, head of the Arab telephone pastoral care of the television channel SAT-7 for Germany and head of the Protestant pastoral care for foreigners.

Joshua has lived in Germany since 1980, originally only wanted to escape the civil war in his Lebanese homeland for a few years and stay for the duration of a Bible translation project. Here he met his wife Heidi and stayed. She is an orientalist from Württemberg, with whom he has been married since 1982. The couple have five children and live in Backnang .

Awards

In 2017 Josua was awarded the Johann Tobias Beck Prize for his doctoral thesis as a study on Abrahamic ecumenism .

Publications

  • Alone the crucified one. The cross in the field of tension between Christianity and Islam (as publisher), Hänssler Verlag, Holzgerlingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-7751-3939-7 .
  • Ibrahim, the friend of God. Idea and problem of an Abrahamic ecumenism (also dissertation, Evangelische Theologische Faculteit in Leuven / Belgium, 2005), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-16-150145-6 .
  • The Muslims and Islam. Who or what belongs to Germany? , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3-374-05871-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Werner: Arab Christians in Stuttgart: A Pastor for the Persecuted , stuttgarter-zeitung.de, article from June 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ Managing Director of the Evangelischer Ausländerseelsorge e. V. , Auslaenderseelsorge, accessed on October 28, 2017.
  3. ↑ From “Evang. Foreign chaplaincy "becomes" Evang. Salam-Center " , salam-center.de, message from May 15, 2018.
  4. ↑ About Dr. Hannah Joshua
  5. ↑ Jonathan Steinert: "Abraham is the first Muslim" , pro-medienmagazin.de, interview from December 13, 2017.
  6. ↑ Andreas Main: Arab-Protestant theologian: "Religion must not have the upper hand" , deutschlandfunk.de, interview of August 5, 2019.
  7. ↑ Heidi Josua: Arab communities: “Salam Center” develops digital offer , idea.de, article from May 8, 2020.
  8. ↑ JTB Prize 2017 , afet.de
personal data
SURNAME Joshua, Hanna Nouri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Arabic Protestant pastor and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Lebanon