Helmut Burkhardt

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Helmut Burkhardt (born January 23, 1939 in Breslau ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Burkhardt became a Christian after coming into contact with the missionary torchbearer movement at the age of 20 . He studied classical philology and theology, from the 3rd semester only theology, in Kiel and Tübingen, here mainly with Otto Michel . After the first exam and a two-year vicariate, the second exam and ordination followed . From 1967 to 1976 he worked as theological advisor to the Pastor's Prayer Brotherhood (PGB) and was particularly responsible for their holiday seminars for theology students. From 1977 to 2008 he was a lecturer in systematic theology at the Theological Seminary St. Chrischona (TSC) in Bettingen near Basel. Burkhardt was from 1977 to 1993 chairman of the working group for evangelical theology (AfeT) . In 1988, in Goettingen promotion to Dr. theol. in the New Testament subject with Hartmut Stegemann with a thesis on Philo of Alexandria . After being appointed head of the St. Chrischona Deaconess Mother House (1999-2004), Burkhardt was a guest lecturer at the TSC until 2008.

From 1970 to 2014 Burkhardt was co-editor of the magazine Theologische Posts and from 1980 to 2014 a member of the theological advisory board of the Theologische Verlagsgemeinschaft Brockhaus-Brunnen (TVG) .

Burkhardt has been married since 1968 and has three grown children.

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Burkhardt's main work is his three-volume ethics (4 parts), the specialty of which is that Burkhardt, inspired by Klaus Bockmühl , derives the “general ethics”, the standards of which apply to all people and which should therefore also be generally compatible, from the “specifically Christian Ethics ”, whose standards apply only to Christians, and in which the Christian community ( koinonia ), Christian prayer ( leiturgia ), Christian witness ( martyria ) and Christian service ( diakonia ) become topics of ethics. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm , at that time still professor for systematic theology and contemporary theological questions in Bamberg, critically examined Burkhardt's ethics in a review in the Theologische Literaturzeitung , but described the reading as worthwhile “far beyond the evangelical context of discussion, not only because B. . makes biblical insights fruitful for ethics in many places, but also because he successfully endeavors to broaden narrow horizons of belief and thought and still convey a clear basis for orientation. ”In addition to criticism of the content, Strohm praised that Burkhardt's ethics were suitable, that one may have from evangelical theology to be subjected to a critical examination. "

Awards

  • 1989 Johann Tobias Beck Prize for his dissertation The Inspiration of Sacred Scriptures from Philo of Alexandria
  • 2009 German textbook award for good behavior. Ethics II, 2

literature

  • Rolf Hille / Herbert H. Klement (eds.): A person - what is that? On theological anthropology. Dedicated to Helmut Burkhardt on the occasion of his 65th birthday, Wuppertal 2004, ISBN 3-417-29483-5 ; (With a detailed bibliography up to 2004, including the essays and journal articles by Burkhardt, compiled by Werner Neuer, pp. 359–376).

Publications

  • The biblical testimony of the new birth , Giessen 1974, 2nd ed. 1981; English: The Biblical Doctrine of Regeneration , Outreach and Identity 2, Downers Grove, Illinois 1978
  • The biblical doctrine of conversion , Giessen 1978, 2nd edition 1985
  • How historical are the Gospels? , Giessen 1979
  • The inspiration of holy scriptures from Philo of Alexandria , Giessen 1988, 2nd edition 1992
  • Return of religiosity? , Giessen 1990, 2nd extension. Edition 1993 under the title: One God in all religions? Return of religiosity - opportunity and danger
  • Introduction to Ethics. Reason and norm of moral action (fundamental ethics ) , Ethik I, Giessen 1996, 3rd edition 2012
  • To become a Christian. Conversion and rebirth - the beginning of the Christian life , Giessen 1999 (significantly expanded 3rd edition of the writings on rebirth and conversion)
  • What does a Christian actually believe? Basel 2000
  • Economy without ethics? Biblical contributions to basic questions of economic life , Giessen, 2000
  • The good deal. General material ethics: religious ethics, life ethics, social ethics (Ethics II, 1), Gießen 2003
  • The good deal. General material ethics: Sexual ethics, business ethics, environmental ethics, cultural ethics (Ethics II, 2), Giessen 2008 (2nd edition 2014)
  • The better justice. Specifically Christian material ethics (Ethics III) , Gießen 2013

Editing

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entire generation of preachers shaped: Helmut Burkhardt turns 80 , Idea-Pressedienst, article from January 18, 2019.
  2. ↑ On the vita, cf. in detail: Werner Neuer: Biblical Theology in Scientific Responsibility. Helmut Burkhardt on his 65th birthday . In: Rolf Hille, Herbert H. Klement (Ed.): A person - what is that? On theological anthropology , Wuppertal, Gießen and Basel: Brockhaus / Brunnen, 2004, pp. 353–358.
  3. ↑ since 2001 "Pastors' Prayer Association" (PGB)
  4. ↑ Brief vita , brunnen-verlag.de, accessed on October 16, 2015.
  5. ↑ Introduction to Ethics. Reason and norm of moral action (fundamental ethics), Ethik I, Giessen 1996, 3rd edition 2012.
    Das Gute Arbeit. General material ethics: religious ethics, life ethics, social ethics (Ethics II, 1), Gießen 2003.
    The good action. General material ethics: sexual ethics, business ethics, environmental ethics, cultural ethics (Ethics II, 2), Giessen 2008.
    The better justice. Specifically Christian material ethics (Ethics III), Gießen 2013.
  6. ↑ Theologische Literaturzeitung No. 130, 2005, Sp. 1240–1242
  7. ↑ Theologische Literaturzeitung No. 130, 2005, Col. 2124
personal data
SURNAME Burkhardt, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw