Hans-Jürgen Benedict

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Hans-Jürgen Benedict (* 1941 in Hamburg ) is a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, peace researcher, author and emeritus professor for diaconal science .

Life

Hans-Jürgen Benedict studied Protestant theology at the universities of Hamburg , Heidelberg , Tübingen and Marburg . After his exams, he worked as a research assistant to Hans-Eckehard Bahr at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1967/68 he corresponded with Hannah Arendt ; the correspondence was published in 2008. In 1972 he was in Bochum with a dissertation on The Christian peace witness in world politics: a case study of the political responsibility of the World Council of Churches during the Korean War to Dr. theol. PhD.

Shield from the term of office of Hans-Jürgen Benedict at the Martin-Luther-King-Church

In 1977/78 he was a substitute professor at the University of Hamburg. From 1979 to 1981 he was pastor in Recklinghausen . In 1981 he came to the Martin Luther King Church in Hamburg-Steilshoop as a pastor . The community, from the beginning in the problem-laden new building area in exemplary social and diaconal activity , became a center of the anti-nuclear and peace movement .

As the successor to Ulfrid Kleinert, with whom he in the 1980s (anti-) Brokdorf -Gottesdienste had organized, he received in 1991 appointed professor for diaconal theology at the Evangelical School of Social Work and Diakonie sponsored by the Foundation The Gray House in Hamburg, where he taught until his retirement in 2006.

In retirement he is particularly concerned with the relationship between literature and theology. He is co-editor of the magazine Junge Kirche .

Works

  • with Hans-Eckehard Bahr (ed.): Churches as carriers of the revolution: A political model for action using the example of the USA. Hamburg: furrow 1968 (= concretions 3)
  • with Theodor Ebert: Power from below: civil rights movement, extra-parliamentary opposition and church reform. Hamburg: furrow 1968 (= concretions 5)
  • The New Protestantism: Motives and Forms of the Church's War Opposition in the USA. Stuttgart Kohlhammer 1972 ISBN 978-3-17-071217-1
  • From Hiroshima to Vietnam: US Containment Strategy and Ecumenical Peace Policy. Darmstadt, Neuwied: Luchterhand 1973 (= Luchterhand Collection: Theology and Politics 5 series)
  • The Christian Peace Witness in World Politics: A Case Study of the Political Responsibility of the Ecumenical Council of Churches during the Korean War. 1973, also Bochum, UniversitÄt, Department of Protestant Theology, Diss. 1971
  • Internationalism and Ecumenism: Problems of Practiced Solidarity. Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne, Mainz: Kohlhammer 1975 ISBN 978-3-17-001991-1 (= Urban pocket books 610: T series)
  • with Hans-Eckehard Bahr (ed.): Interventions in the armaments industry: Initiatives from below. Darmstadt, Neuwied: Luchterhand 1975 ISBN 978-3-472-61186-8 (= Luchterhand collection: Theology and Politics series 9)
  • Civil disobedience as a Christian virtue. Frankfurt am Main: Athenaeum 1989 ISBN 978-3-610-04726-9 (= Athenaeum paperbacks 126)
  • The fine arts, the social and the question of God. Bielefeld: Kleine 2001 ISBN 978-3-89370-359-3
  • with Friedhelm Grundmann , Karin Berkemann , Frank Pieter Hesse: Tomorrow's architecture! Hamburg's post-war churches. Dölling and Galitz, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-93790460-3
  • Mercy and diakonia: from saving love to a successful life. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2008 ISBN 978-3-17-020158-3 (= Diakonie 7)
  • The Enlightenment: How Gotthold Ephraim Lessing encouraged the religions to tolerate. Berlin: Wichern 2010 ISBN 978-3-88981-298-8 (= Wichern portraits)
  • What God owes to the poets: literary forays and encounters. Berlin: EB 2011 ISBN 978-3-86893-023-8
  • "The voice of the Lord in the fire": Hamburg's catastrophes and their theological interpretation. Hamburg: Archives of the Hamburg-Ost church district 2011 (= publications of the archives of the Hamburg-Ost 9 church district), ( full text )
  • Matthias Claudius: why the poet sang about the moon and praised life. Berlin: Wichern 2014 ISBN 978-3-88981-381-7 (= Wichern portraits)
  • Fear, anger, lamentation, shame & joy: theological-aesthetic explorations of great feelings. Kiel: Lutherische Verlagsgesellschaft 2015 ISBN 978-3-87503-184-3
  • Reformation and freedom of thought: witty criticism of religion from Heine to Brecht. Bielefeld: Luther-Verlag 2016 ISBN 978-3-7858-0694-4 (study series Luther 11)

literature

  • Wolfgang Kraushaar : Hannah Arendt and the student movement. Notes on the correspondence between Hans-Jürgen Benedict and Hannah Arendt. In: Mittelweg 36 2008, p.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pastor Hans-Jürgen Benedict at rundfunk.evangelisch.de , accessed on September 16, 2017
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Benedict / Hannah Arendt: Correspondence. In: Mittelweg 36 2008, p.
  3. ↑ Ulfrid Kleinert: Resist nonviolently: Brokdorf protocols against batons and stones. Reinbek: Rowohlt 1981, p. 113
  4. ↑ See the memory of this in Benedict's sermon on June 7, 2015 in the main church Sankt Katharinen (Hamburg)
personal data
SURNAME Benedict, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, peace researcher, author and emeritus university professor for diaconal science
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg