Helmut Umbach

Helmut Heinrich Bruno Umbach (born June 5, 1953 in Gudensberg , North Hesse ) is a German Protestant pastor and theologian.

Life

Umbach studied Protestant theology at the Bethel Church University and the Georg-August University in Göttingen . The first professional stations were the parish office in Bad Emstal and the evangelical preacher seminar Hofgeismar . With a doctoral thesis on the theology of Paul of Tarsus , he was awarded Dr. theol. PhD. In 1994 he came to the study house of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck in Göttingen as head of studies . At that time, already married, he became active in the Corps Teutonia-Hercynia Göttingen. 1995 recipiert , he played a regular activity with Fuchsen- and active time. He fought four lengths and ran several batches . In 2000 he became dean in the Fritzlar parish , after its merger in the Fritzlar-Homberg parish . As a lecturer , he completed his habilitation in 2004 at the University of Kassel . Since then he has been teaching there as an adjunct professor at the Institute for Protestant Theology. He retired in the church district in January 2016.

Baptized in Christ - delivered from sin. the church as a sin-free space with Paul. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999 (also Diss. Univ. Göttingen, 1992), ISBN 978-3-525-53865-4 .
Sacred spaces - gates of heaven. From the way Protestants deal with their churches. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005 (plus Habil. Univ. Kassel), ISBN 978-3-89971-240-7 .
Holy - in Christ. Studies on spatial aspects of Christology in the New Testament, on church space pedagogy and on Protestant church construction today. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8471-0303-5 .

personal data
SURNAME	Umbach, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Umbach, Helmut Heinrich Bruno (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant pastor and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	5th June 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gudensberg , North Hesse