Horst Waldemar Beck

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Horst Waldemar Beck (born September 1, 1933 in Stuttgart ; † May 28, 2014 in Röt (Baiersbronn) ) was a German engineer, Protestant theologian , philosopher and author.

Life

Beck studied engineering / transport science , philosophy / theology and astronomy / cosmology and received his doctorate in engineering at the University of Stuttgart in 1964 and in theology at the University of Basel in 1973 with a habilitation for border issues between theology and natural science .

He taught at the Pastoralkolleg Freudenstadt, the Universities of Basel , Hohenheim (Stuttgart) , Karlsruhe , the Evangelical Theological Faculteit ( Belgium ) and at the Gustav Siewerth Academy . He gave guest lectures a. a. at universities in Korea, Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Canada , China . In 1999 he became professor hc of Yanbian University of Science and Technology .

In 1974 he founded the Karl-Heim-Gesellschaft based in Freudenstadt. Beck was married to Christa Beck-Rudert. The couple had six children and lived in Röt (Baiersbronn) in the Black Forest .

Fonts (selection)

  • Man and the thinking machine. Contours of a cybernetic worldview (= Radius projects. Volume 44). Radius-Verlag, Stuttgart 1971, DNB 455683220 .
  • World formula versus belief in creation. Theology and empirical science face a new interpretation of reality . Theological Verlag, Zurich 1972, ISBN 3-290-11311-6 (also dissertation, Basel 1972).
  • The world as a model. Against the myth of the closed worldview . R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1973, ISBN 3-7974-0045-4 .
  • Twilight of the idols in the sciences. Karl Heim - prophet and pioneer (= ABC team. A. Volume 902). Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1974, ISBN 3-7974-0045-4 .
  • Marxist materialism in the sheep's clothing of science. Christians ask Marxists (= ABC team. Belief and thought ). Aussaat-Verlag, Wuppertal 1975, ISBN 3-7615-0201-X .
    • Marxist materialism in the sheep's clothing of science. Christians ask Marxists (= ABC team. A. Volume 908). Second reviewed edition, Aussaat-Verlag, Wuppertal 1975, ISBN 3-7615-0201-X .
    • Marxist materialism in the sheep's clothing of science. Christians ask Marxists (= ABC team. A. Volume 908). 3rd edition, Aussaat-Verlag, Wuppertal 1977, ISBN 3-7615-0201-X .
  • The open circle. Truth as an explanatory model, truth as a claim and claim (= Europäische Hochschulschriften 23, Volume 68). Lang, Bern et al. 1976, ISBN 3-261-01964-6 .
  • Group psychotechnics. From the hope of freeing yourself and others. A theological inquiry (= ABC team. A. Volume 925). Aussaat-Verlag, Wuppertal 1978, ISBN 3-7615-0270-2 .
  • Biology and worldview. God, the creator and finisher, and the evolutionary concepts of man (= word and knowledge. Volume 1). Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-7751-0441-0 .
    • Biology and worldview. God, the creator and finisher, and the evolutionary concepts of man (= word and knowledge. Volume 1). 2nd revised edition, Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-7751-0441-0 .
  • The person in the system. Perspectives of a cybernetic culture (= steps across boundaries between technology and theology. Volume 1). Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-7751-0468-2 .
  • Creation and Consummation. Perspectives of a theology of nature (= steps across borders between technology and theology. Volume 2). Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-7751-0472-0 .
  • with Heiko Hörnicke and Hermann Schneider: The debate about the Bible and science in America. Encounters and impressions from San Diego to Vancouver (= word and knowledge. Volume 8). Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-7751-0539-5 .
  • with Edith Düsing : Human dignity and emancipation. Alienation and Concepts of Its Abolition. Critical treatise (= word and knowledge. Volume 9). Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-7751-0561-1 .
  • Genesis - current document from the beginning of mankind (= word and knowledge. Volume 15). Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-7751-0850-5 .
  • Biblical universality and science. Outline of interdisciplinary theology (= Acta dei - facta mundi ). Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-7751-1233-2 .
    • Biblical universality and science. Interdisciplinary theology in the horizon of the Trinitarian doctrine of creation . 2nd edition, Gustav Siewerth Academy, Weilheim-Bierbronnen 1994, ISBN 3-928273-10-8 .
  • Christian belief in creation in the context of today's science (= publication series of the Gustav Siewerth Academy. Volume 10). Gustav Siewerth Academy, Weilheim-Bierbronnen 1993, ISBN 3-928273-10-8 .
  • Variations on an interdisciplinary creation cosmology. Space-time as informed quantum foam (= Acta dei - facta mundi ). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1999, ISBN 3-631-34364-7 .
  • Marks of that eon. Science-critical and theological diagnoses (= Christian philosophy today. Volume 4). Publishing house for culture and science Schirrmacher, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-932829-81-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst W. Beck: Obituary notice
  2. ↑ "Creation theologian" Horst W. Beck died at the age of 80 , idea.de, message from May 31, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Horst Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2014
Place of death Rot (Baiersbronn)