Henning Kiene
Henning Kiene (born July 21, 1959 in Essen-Werden ) is an Evangelical Lutheran theologian .
Live and act
Henning Kiene grew up in the east of Hamburg. He attended a Waldorf school , the Rudolf Steiner School in Hamburg-Wandsbek. After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology and general rhetoric at the Universities of Göttingen , Tübingen and Hamburg . From 1987 to 1988 Kiene was able to complete the vicariate in the Preetz seminary and the parish of Plön / Holstein. He was ordained with his year in the main church St. Jacobi in Hamburg in the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church .
After the vicariate, Henning Kiene was sent to serve in the St. Jürgen parish in Flensburg as part of the people's missionary project “pastor evangelist” . In 1990 he changed as pastor z. A. to the St. Marien Church in Rendsburg . In 1993 he was elected as pastor for life on the North Sea island of Amrum . Kiene was able to make himself better known through the publication of some Christian distribution pamphlets in the Kreuz-Verlag and the " Agentur des Rauhen Haus " as well as as an author and speaker in the church programs of the North German Radio . As part of his work on the island, he had to organize the offers of tourist pastoral care and created a church summer academy.
In 2002 Henning Kiene was elected provost of the Süderdithmarschen parish with the official seat in Meldorf . Under his leadership, the church district u. a. the national missionary "Taufprojekt" Nordelbische Evangelical Lutheran Church for the Sprengel Schleswig. In connection with a broad theological discussion about “Christian values” in society, the offers of the Protestant day-care centers should be reorganized. As managing director, he led the geriatric welfare society and transferred the care facilities of the church district to the sponsorship of the "Diakoniewerk Kropp Foundation".
Kiene initially criticized the North Elbe church reform processes that began in 2003. But then he was involved in the reform process. He was a member of the working group which, on behalf of the church leadership, prepared the layout of the major parishes of the North Elbe Church.
After three years in Meldorf, he applied for the post of chief pastor at the Hamburg Michel in 2005, the “solid island pastor” lost to the “brilliant theologian” Alexander Röder .
From 2007 to 2009, as chairman of the steering group, he led the merger of the church districts in Dithmarschen. Kiene brought the supraregional church services together with the other church districts on the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein under the umbrella of the Evangelical Regional Center Breklum (ERW).
On May 1, 2009 he became the first provost of Ev.-Luth. Dithmarschen church district . His office was the old pastorate on Heider Marktplatz. The St. Jürgen Church in Heide was his sermon place.
In 2009 he successfully applied for the position of creative director of the Verein Andere Zeiten in Hamburg. As editor-in-chief for the offers of the ecumenically oriented association, he was only able to hold onto from October 2009 to September 2010. During this time, Henning Kiene was on leave from the service of the North Elbe Church. He then found a job in the Hanover Church Office, where he works in the Reform Process project office of the Evangelical Church in Germany.
Henning Kiene lives in Hanover.
Other function
- Editorial board of the journal Pastoralblätter Kreuz-Verlag Stuttgart
- Author and speaker of the Evangelical Broadcasting Unit for devotional series in NDR
Works
- They gave him gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Diamond meditation. Rauhen Haus agency, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-7600-0728-7 .
- When water turns into wine. The seven miracles of the Gospel of John. Rauhen Haus agency, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-7600-0767-8 .
- It is nearly time. Celebrate confirmation. Rauhen Haus agency, Norderstedt 1998, ISBN 3-7600-8033-2 .
- The early bird catches the worm. Morning devotions. Rauhen Haus agency, Norderstedt 1999, ISBN 3-7600-8059-6 .
- Signs of hope. Thoughts in the evening. From the series "Gesegneten Abend" from NDR 1 Welle Nord. Rauhen Haus agency, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-7600-1306-6 . (Ed. With Ralf Meister)
Web links
- Literature by and about Henning Kiene in the catalog of the German National Library
- Henning Kiene
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kiene, Henning |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Evangelical Lutheran theologian and the editor-in-chief of the association "Andere Zeiten eV" in Hamburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eat-becoming |