Heinrich Schlier

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Heinrich Schlier (born March 31, 1900 in Neuburg an der Donau , † December 26, 1978 in Bonn ) was a German , first Evangelical Lutheran, then Roman Catholic theologian .

Vita

Heinrich Schlier was born the son of a military doctor in Neuburg. He attended high schools in Landau and Ingolstadt , interrupted in 1918 by military service in the First World War. After graduating from high school in 1919, he studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Marburg and Leipzig . In 1926 Schlier received his doctorate with the dissertation Research on the History of Religions on the Ignatius Letters to Licentiate (Lic. Theol.). He was ordained that same year . From 1927 to 1930 Schlier worked as a pastor in Casekirchen . During his work as a pastor, he completed his habilitation in 1928 at the University of Jena with a habilitation thesis on Christ and the Church in the Ephesians . From 1930 he was a lecturer for the New Testament in Marburg, Halle an der Saale and at the church college in Wuppertal . Schlier belonged to the Confessing Church ; In 1935 he was appointed head of the Wuppertal Church University. In December 1936, the Gestapo finally closed the Wuppertal Church University, which after being closed for the first time under the umbrella of the Elberfeld Theological School , was able to continue working with restrictions. In 1937 Schlier became pastor of the denominational community in Wuppertal-Elberfeld. He was a member of the confessional working group of Lutheran pastors in the Rhineland , to which u. a. and Joachim Beckmann and Peter Brunner belonged and from which, after the Second World War the Lutheran convent in the Rhineland developed.

After the end of the Second World War, Schlier was appointed to the prestigious Chair for New Testament and Old Church History at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn .

Over the years, however, he became increasingly distanced from Protestantism because he came to believe that the ecclesiological paradigms of the New Testament were most clearly anchored in the Roman Catholic Church , as he explained in his Brief Account. Consequently, Schlier retired in 1952 and converted to the Roman Catholic Church a year later.

Schlier could not get a full chair at a Catholic theological faculty, because at that time these were reserved for priests alone. As an honorary professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn, Schlier was still able to give lectures and seminars on New Testament theology. Pope Paul VI appointed him to the Pontifical Biblical Commission . In addition, Schlier was involved in the creation of the standard translation of the Bible and together with Karl Rahner published the series Quaestiones disputatae .

Heinrich Schlier is one of the great New Testament scholars of the 20th century. On November 9, 1972, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Salzburg .

Heinrich Schlier married Hildegard Haas in 1927. The couple had four children.

Fonts (selection)

Exegetical commentaries on New Testament books

  • The letter to the Romans . (= Herder's theological commentary on the New Testament, vol. 6). Herder, Freiburg, 3rd edition 1987. ISBN 3-451-16769-7 .
  • The letter to the Galatians . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 15th edition 1989. ISBN 3-525-51545-6 .
  • The epistle to the Ephesians. A comment . Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf, 7th edition 1971.
  • The apostle and his church. Interpretation of the 1st letter to the Thessalonians . Herder, Freiburg 1972. ISBN 3-451-16560-0 .

To the New Testament theology

  • Christ and the Church in Ephesians . JCB Mohr, Tuebingen 1930.
  • Powers and Powers in the New Testament . Herder, Freiburg 1958; New edition: Johannes-Verlag, Einsiedeln 2007. ISBN 978-3-89411-398-8 .
  • Basics of a Pauline theology . Herder, Freiburg 1978. ISBN 3-451-18159-2 .

Church political writings

  • The Church's responsibility for theological teaching , Rheinisch-Westfälischer Gemeindetag Unter dem Wort , Wuppertal-Barmen 1936.

Collective works

  • Exegetical essays and lectures . Herder, Freiburg
    • Vol. 1: The time of the church . 1956.
    • Vol. 2: Reflection on the New Testament . 1964.
    • Vol. 3: The end of time . 1971.
    • Vol. 4: The Spirit and the Church . 1980.

Literature (selection)

  • Reinhard von Bendemann:  Schlier, Heinrich Otto Ludwig Albin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 88 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Reinhard von Bendemann : Heinrich Schlier. A critical analysis of his interpretation of Pauline theology . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 1995. ISBN 3-579-02004-8 .
  • Grzegorz Bubel: Bring the matter up. The Christ event as interpreted by Heinrich Schlier . Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 2002. ISBN 3-7820-0863-4 .
  • Thomas Ervens: No theology without a church. A critical examination of Erik Peterson and Heinrich Schlier . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2002. ISBN 3-7022-2483-1 .
  • Jean-Paul Hernández: “The Lord has truly been raised.” Heinrich Schlier's post-dialectical Easter theology . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2013. ISBN 978-3-631-62808-9 .
  • Biographical timetable . In: Veronika Kubina, Karl Lehmann (ed.): The Spirit and the Church , Herder, Freiburg 1980, pp. 303-306.
  • Werner Löser, Claudia Sticher (ed.): God's word is light and truth. In memory of Heinrich Schlier . Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-429-02514-1 (contains essays on the life, work and importance of Heinrich Schlier).
  • Thomas Stübinger: Theology as a whole. On the threefold construction point of Joseph Ratzinger's theological thought . Pustet, Regensburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-7917-2625-0 . Therein chap. II: Heinrich Schlier: an exegete and its relevance for dogmatic theology , pp. 38–96.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Biographical timetable . In: Veronika Kubina, Karl Lehmann (Ed.): The Spirit and the Church . Pp. 303-306, here p. 303.
  2. ↑ On the Church University of Wuppertal in the time of National Socialism see Hartmut Aschermann , Wolfgang Schneider: Study on behalf of the church. The beginnings of the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal 1935 to 1945 (= series of publications of the Association for Rhenish Church History, vol. 83). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne / Habelt, Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-7927-0882-5 .
  3. ↑ Biographical timetable . In: Veronika Kubina, Karl Lehmann (Ed.): The Spirit and the Church . Pp. 303-306, here p. 305.
  4. ^ Heinrich Schlier, Brief Account , in: Confession to the Catholic Church, ed. by Karl Hardt, Echter-Verlag Würzburg, 2nd edition 1955, pp. 167-193
  5. ↑ Biographical timetable . In: Veronika Kubina, Karl Lehmann (ed.): The Spirit and the Church , pp. 303–306, here p. 304.

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personal data
SURNAME Schlier, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German, first Evangelical Lutheran, then Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuburg on the Danube
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1978
Place of death Bonn