Horst Bürkle

Horst Bürkle (born June 9, 1925 in Nieder-Weisel ; † April 24, 2015 ) was a German Protestant , from 1987 Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

Since 1926 he lived in Cologne . After attending high schools in Cologne, Zweibrücken , Betzdorf , Wernigerode and Gleiwitz ( Abitur ), he was a soldier from 1943 to 1945 (wounded on the Eastern Front in 1944 ). He completed his studies (1945–1952) in Protestant theology at the Universities of Bonn , Tübingen , Cologne and at the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York in 1952 with a theological master's thesis with Paul Tillich in New York City , and in 1951 the first theological service examination and 1954 the second theological service exam. After the vicariate (1952–1954) in Essen -Altstadt he was ordained in 1954 in Wuppertal - Barmen . From 1954 to 1956 he was study inspector of the preacher's seminary of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland in Wuppertal-Barmen. After receiving his doctorate in 1956 as Dr. theol. through the theological faculty of the University of Hamburg with the dissertation with Helmut Thielicke he was from 1956 to 1959 student pastor in the general secretariat of the Protestant student communities in Germany in Stuttgart. In 1959 he became head of the Mission Academy at the University of Hamburg . In 1963 he married Dorothee Weisbach (daughter Britta in 1965, daughter Anja in 1967). After his habilitation in 1964 for the subject of missions and religious studies at the theological faculty of the University of Hamburg with the thesis “Religion of the Spirit” and the kerygma , the private lecturer taught from 1965 to 1968 as a visiting professor at the University of East Africa in Kampala . From 1968 to 1987 he lectured as professor and director of the Institute for Missionary and Religious Studies in the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (research stays and lectures in Brazil , India and New Guinea and visiting professor in Seoul , Kyoto and Innsbruck ). In 1987 he joined the Roman Catholic Church . From 1989 until his retirement in 1991 he taught as a professor at the seminar for Christian worldview, religious and cultural theory at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He was a member and chairman of various scientific societies (advisory board of the Görres Society for the Care of Science; founding member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea ).

Fonts (selection)

• Eschatology and understanding of time. An examination of the relationship between theological eschatology and philosophical understanding of time in modern Protestant theology . New York City 1952, OCLC 505318332 (also Master's thesis, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York 1952).
• Dialectical understanding of time and existential concept of time. An investigation into the relationship between Karl Barth's early dialectical theology and Martin Heidegger's ontology . Hamburg 1957, OCLC 313981265 (also dissertation, Hamburg 1957).
• Be a student - but how? An information booklet from the Evangelical Student Community in Germany . General Secretariat of the Evangelical Student Congregation in Germany, Stuttgart 1958, OCLC 73734381 .
• as editor with Hans Jürgen Schultz : Jan Hermelink: Christ in the world horizon . Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart 1962, OCLC 898773719 .
• Dialogue with the East. Radhakrishnan's New Hindu Message in the Light of Christian World Mission . Evangelisches Verlagswerk, Stuttgart 1965, OCLC 981290579 (also habilitation thesis, Hamburg 1964).
• as editor: Indian contributions to contemporary theology . Evangelisches Verlagswerk, Stuttgart 1966, OCLC 720309413 .
• as editor: Theology and Church in Africa . Evangelisches Verlagswerk, Stuttgart 1968, OCLC 248388439 .
• Mahatma Gandhi. Lecture on the hundredth birthday . Department of Culture, Darmstadt 1969, OCLC 831044991 .
• The reaction of religions to secularization . Freimund-Verlag, Neuendettelsau 1969, OCLC 641530601 .
• Death in the African communities. On the question of theologically relevant aspects in African thinking (= working aid of the Evangelical Mission in Southwest Germany ). Evangelical Mission in Southwest Germany, Stuttgart 1972, OCLC 830203211 .
• The mind and the spirits. 3 contributions by Hans P. Schmidt, Walter J. Hollenweger u. Horst Bürkle on the diversity of religious forms in our time . Bahn, Konstanz 1976, ISBN 3-7621-3056-6 .
• Introduction to the theology of religions (= Theology ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1977, ISBN 3-534-07043-7 .
• as editor: Theological contributions from Papua New Guinea (= Erlanger paperbacks . Volume 43). Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission, Erlangen 1978, ISBN 3-87214-089-2 .
• as editor: Mission Theology. Helmut Thielicke on his 70th birthday on December 4, 1978 (= Theological Science . Volume 18). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne / Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-17-001136-7 .
• as editor with Gerold Becker : Communicatio fidei. Festschrift for Eugen Biser on his 65th birthday . Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0769-8 .
• The Christian message in a secular culture (= forum free Christianity . Issue 5). Tempelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1986, OCLC 74796587 .
• Church and Politics. Different and common tasks (= Idea eV Documentation . 1987 number 20). Idea, Wetzlar 1987, OCLC 74937004 .
• as editor: New age. Critical inquiries to an enticing movement (= writings of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria . Volume 127). Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-491-77699-6 .
  • as editor: New age. Critical inquiries to an enticing movement (= writings of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria . Volume 127). 2nd edition, Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-491-77699-6 .
• as editor: Basic values ​​of human behavior in religions (= religious studies . Volume 6). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-631-44740-X .
• Man in search of God - the question of religions (= AMATECA . Volume 3). Bonifatius, Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3-87088-894-6 .
  • Maria Elżbieta Kowalska (translator): Człowiek w poszukiwaniu Boga. Problem różnych religii (= Amateca, podre̜czniki teologii katolickiej . Volume 3). Pallottinum, Poznań 1998, ISBN 83-7014-330-X .
  • Kaposi Tamás (translator): Az istenkereső ember. A világvallások istenkeresése (= AMATECA. Rész 1 Az istenkereső ember . Volume 3). Agapé, Szeged 1998, ISBN 963-458-140-4 .
  • Josip Oslić (translator): Čovjek traži Boga. Religijski pristup (= Priručnici . Volume 49) (= Niz AMATECA . Volume 3). Kršćanska Sadašnjost, Zagreb 2000, ISBN 953-151-339-2 .
  • Rafael Saráchaga García (translator): Čovjek traži Boga. Religijski pristup (= Associazione di Manuali di Teologia Cattolica . Volume 3). EDICEP, Valencia 2002, ISBN 84-7050-692-7 .
• The Mission of the Church (= AMATECA . Volume 13). Bonifatius, Paderborn 2002, ISBN 3-89710-144-0 .
  • Salvador Castellote (translator): Człowiek w poszukiwaniu Boga. Problem różnych religii (= Associazione di Manuali di Teologia Cattolica . Volume 13). EDICEP, Valencia 2002, ISBN 84-7050-695-1 .
• as editor with Drago Pintaric : Thinking in the space of the sacred. Festschrift for Fr Ansgar Paus OSB . EOS, Sankt Ottilien 2007, ISBN 3-8306-7267-5 .
• Writings on missionary dialogue. Knowing and confessing . EOS, Sankt Ottilien 2010, ISBN 978-3-8306-7405-4 .
• Writings on missionary dialogue. Faith seeks encounter . EOS, Sankt Ottilien 2013, ISBN 978-3-8306-7612-6 .
• Writings on missionary dialogue. Secret of the peoples . EOS, Sankt Ottilien 2013, ISBN 978-3-8306-7579-2 .
• Taken from oblivion. Memories . EOS, Sankt Ottilien 2013, ISBN 978-3-8306-7623-2 .

Literature (selection)

• Klaus Krämer and Ansgar Paus as editors: Die Weite des Mysteriums. Christian identity in dialogue. For Horst Bürkle . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-451-27343-8 .

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