Heinz Röhr

Heinz Röhr (born May 20, 1931 in Marburg ; † March 5, 2005 in Bad Laasphe / Lahn) was a Protestant theologian , religious educator and religious scholar .

Life

From 1951 to 1956 he studied history and philosophy of religion, theology , philosophy , political science , musicology and classical philology in his hometown with Friedrich Heiler , Georg Wünsch , Wolfgang Abendroth and others.

In 1956 he married Christel Kuhli, with whom he had their daughter Esther in 1959 - the year he received his doctorate .

After the teaching examinations required for the teaching profession, he worked as a student councilor in Bad Arolsen from 1958 and moved with his family to Frankfurt am Main in 1965 to join the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University as senior student councilor . In 1972 he was professor of religious and church history there. He held this position until his retirement in 1996.

In addition, he was involved as a religious socialist , but also in the Bund für Free Christianity and, since 1979, as a Quaker in the "Religious Society of Friends" - a community he had known since 1946.

His research focused on mysticism , religious socialism and the understanding of other religions - including interreligious dialogue .

Publications (selection)

• The influence of religious studies on Heinrich Frick's theory of mission . Dissertation Marburg 1959.
• The world religions in class. Hanau 1964 (Free Christianity Series, Vol. 48/49).
• Indian and Christian religion of grace with Rudolf Otto . Stuttgart 1987 (Forum Free Christianity. Working Texts of the Federation for Free Christianity. 10).
• Exchange of words (poems), Darmstadt 1991.
• To be a Quaker between Marx and mysticism. Bad Pyrmont 1992, 2nd edition 1996 (Richard-L. Cary lecture 1992).
• Extra-Christian mysticism. Stuttgart 1993 (Forum Free Christianity 27).
• The reputation of religions. Selected essays. ed. v. Peter J. Winzen, Marburg 1996.
• Friedrich Heiler and India. Stuttgart 1997 (Forum Free Christianity 35).
• On the way to an ecumenism of religions. Stuttgart 2003 (Free Christianity, Forum series 46).
• Buddha and Jesus in their parables. In: New magazine for systematic theology and philosophy of religion 15, 1973, pp. 65–86.
• Buddhism and Christianity. In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 25, 1973, pp. 289–303.
• Mystical Elements in Unification Theology. In: Günter Kehrer (Ed.): The emergence of a new religion. The example of the Unification Church. Munich 1981, pp. 79-107 (Forum Religionswissenschaft 3); also in: Fritz Piepenburg (Ed.): Blickpunkt Vereinigungskirche. Contributions from theology, the humanities and on my own behalf. Schmitten 2002, pp. 41-76.
• Bhakti and Christian Faith According to Rudolf Otto (1869-1937). In: Edmund Weber, Tilak Raj Chopra (Ed.) Shri Krishna Caitanya and the Bhakti Religion. Frankfurt / M. 1988, pp. 163-182 (Studia Irenica 33); also in: Journal of Religious Culture 14/1998 (o. p.); German: Bhakti u. Christian faith with Rudolf Otto. In: Oswald Berger (ed.): Myth and Religion. Interdisciplinary aspects. Stuttgart 1990, pp. 133-148.
• Martin Buber and the religious socialists. In: Werner Licharz , Heinz Schmidt (eds.): Martin Buber (1878-1965). International symposium on the 20th anniversary of death, II. Frankfurt / M. 1989, pp. 121-149.

literature

• Esther Röhr: The author. In: The Call of Religions ..., ed. v. Peter J. Winzen, Marburg 1996, p. 13 (photo by H. Röhrs on p. 12; bibliography by H. Röhrs on pp. 269–275).
• Edmund Weber : Died: Heinz Röhr. In: Uni-Report / Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt / Main, vol. 38/2, Frankfurt 2005, p. 21.
• Claus Bernet :  Röhr, Heinz. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 26, Bautz, Nordhausen 2006, ISBN 3-88309-354-8 , Sp. 1261-1273.
• Claus Bernet: Quakers from politics, science and art. 20th century. A biographical lexicon. Nordhausen 2007, pp. 140-142.