Hartmut Ruddies

Hartmut Ruddies (born November 2, 1946 in Leer (East Frisia) ; † July 3, 2020 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German Protestant systematic theologian .

Live and act

Ruddies spent childhood and youth in Leer, later in the Rhineland . He came from a family from Memelland . He studied theology and history at the church college in Wuppertal and at the universities of Bonn and Göttingen . He followed the stations of his most important theological teacher, Hans-Georg Geyer . He worked for him as an assistant, initially in Göttingen and from 1982 to 1989 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , before returning to Göttingen as an employee at the Karl Barth Institute. In 1994 he completed his doctorate in Göttingen on the relationship between Karl Barth and liberal theology . In 2002 he followed his wife Hildegard Hamdorf-Ruddies (1952–2018), who had taken over the leadership of the pastoral care seminar of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany , to Halle (Saale) . Here he developed an extensive teaching activity at the theological faculty until the end of his life.

He also worked regularly as a guest lecturer at the Theological Seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Central Asia (ELCRAS) in Novosaratovka near St. Petersburg . In addition, he has been a board member of the Ernst Troeltsch Society since the 1990s and has been president of the annual Karl Barth conference on Leuenberg (in Hölstein near Basel ) for many years .

Hartmut Ruddies died on July 3, 2020 in Halle.

Publications (selection)

• together with Friedrich Wilhelm Graf : Ernst Troeltsch Bibliography. JCB Mohr, Tübingen 1982, ISBN 3-16-144562-7 .
• together with Dietrich Korsch (Ed.): Truth and Reconciliation. Theological and philosophical contributions to the doctrine of God . Mohn, Gütersloh 1989, ISBN 3-579-00272-4 .
• together with Pierre Gisel (Ed.): Histoire et théologie chez Ernst Troeltsch. Labor et Fides, Genève 1992, ISBN 2-8309-0668-3 .
• Karl Barth and Liberal Theology: Case Studies on a Theological Change of Epoch . Diss. Göttingen, 1994.
• Protestantism and Democracy in West Germany. In: Claudia Lepp and Kurt Nowak (eds.): Evangelical Church in divided Germany (1945–1989 / 90) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-01623-9 , pp. 206-227.
• Gospel and culture. The controversy between Adolf von Harnack and Karl Barth. In: Kurt Nowak and Otto Gerhard Oexle (eds.): Adolf von Harnack. Theologian, historian, science politician. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-35477-0 , pp. 103-126.
• together with Hans T. Goebel, Dietrich Korsch and Jürgen Seim (eds.): Andenken. Theological essays by Hans-Georg Geyer . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 978-316-14-8065-2 .
• Mendelssohn Bartholdy as a Protestant. In: Hans Joachim Marx (Ed.): Hamburg Mendelssohn Lectures (Volume 1). Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1415-6 , pp. 61-80.
• Karl Barth as a liberal theologian. A sketch of the beginnings of his theology. In: Roderich Barth u. a. (Ed.): Protestantism between enlightenment and modernity. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-631-53586-4 , pp. 389-402.
• The National Socialist infiltration of the German universities. In: Christian Danz and Werner Schüßler (eds.): Religion - Culture - Society. The early Tillich as reflected in new texts (1919–1920). Lit, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1297-3 , pp. 303-312.
• Hans-Georg Geyer: Life and Work. A portrait in perspective. In: Katharina von Bremen (ed.): God and freedom. Theological food for thought by Hans-Georg Geyers. Institute for Church and Society, Schwerte-Villigst 2008, ISBN 978-3-939115-12-0 , pp. 9–24.
• Liberal Protestantism and Liberal Judaism . In: Christentum und Judentum (2012), pp. 611–621.

literature

• Jörg Dierken and Dirk Evers (eds.): Religion and Politics. Historical and current constellations of an exciting network. Hartmut Ruddies on his 70th birthday (Contributions to Rational Theology, Volume 22). Lang, Frankfurt (center) a. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-70114-0 .

Web links

• Obituary of the theological faculty in Halle