Institute Church and Judaism

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The Institute for Church and Judaism - Center for Christian-Jewish Studies (IKJ) is an affiliated institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin and a work of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia . The head of the institute is Christoph Markschies .

history

The Institute for Church and Judaism (IKJ) was founded in 1960 by the then Church University of Berlin , the church leadership of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg and the “Service to Israel” committee (later “Berlin Working Group Christians and Jews”) as a joint institution justified. In 1990, after the theological training institutions at the Humboldt University had been merged , the IKJ was also reconstituted at the Humboldt University as a work of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO) .

It is intended to promote the perception of Judaism as an “independent and unique entity” in Christianity, to research the connections between Judaism and Christianity from the biblical basis to the present day and to make an active contribution to combating anti-Jewish resentment.

The Berlin New Testament scholar Günther Harder (1902–1978) founded the institute - also with a view to the failure of the Protestant churches towards Judaism during the Nazi era. He prepared a new perspective on the theology of Israel of the Apostle Paul and recognized that a reappraisal of the guilt history of Christian churches must not begin in the 20th century, but must concern the entire history of Christianity.

Under Peter von der Osten-Sacken , the institute gradually expanded its profile from 1974 onwards, which made it a well-known institution far beyond the academic boundaries. Osten-Sacken maintained the close connection between exegetical research on the New Testament and the work of the institute, but also made fundamental contributions to an interpretation of Reformation theology against the background of the Judeo-Christian dialogue. The institute's publishing activities were significantly intensified under Osten-Sacken’s leadership and contributions to the scientific reflection of the Christian-Jewish relationship in the past and present have been published in several series of publications. The international Christian-Jewish summer university he founded has been held at regular intervals since 1987. For his commitment, he received the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal of the Coordination Council of the Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in 2005 and the Moses Mendelssohn Medal of the Senate of Berlin in 2016 .

After Osten-Sacken retired, Old Testament scholars Rüdiger Liwak (2007–2010) and Markus Witte (2010–2015) took over the management of the institute. Church historian Christoph Markschies has been head of the institute since 2015 .

Core tasks

Scientifically correct information about the past and present of the most varied forms of belief, life and thought in Judaism within the framework of theological training and for the wider public.

Scientific research into the history of the Christian-Jewish relationship and scientific work on the theological (re) definition of the relationship between Christianity and Judaism against the background of previous history, the catastrophes and the new beginnings in the twentieth century .

literature

  • Christoph Markschies, Reformation anniversary 2017 and the Judeo-Christian dialogue, Leipzig 2017. ISBN 978-3-374-04424-5 ( online )
  • Markus Witte (ed.), The Messiah in Interreligious Dialogue. Christian, Jewish and Islamic voices from the past and present, Leipzig 2015. ISBN 978-3-374-04054-4 ( online )
  • Sascha Gebauer / Rüdiger Liwak / Peter Welten, pilgrim, researcher, adventurer. The Holy Land in early photographs from the Greßman Collection, Leipzig 2014. ISBN 978-3-374-03873-2 ( Online )
  • Alexander A. Fischer, Death and Beyond in the Old Orient and in the Old Testament, Leipzig 2014. ISBN 978-3-374-03734-6 ( online )
  • Peter von der Osten-Sacken, The God of Hope. Collected essays on the theology of Paul, Leipzig 2014. ISBN 978-3-374-03086-6 ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moritz Wiederaenders: Institute Church and Judaism (IKJ) - Faculty. Retrieved October 20, 2017 .
  2. ↑ www.ekbo.de | Institute Church and Judaism. Retrieved October 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ www.ikj-berlin.de | Employees. Retrieved October 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Such an advertising sheet from the Board of Trustees from 1961, quoted from Peter von der Osten-Sacken: Institute Church and Judaism (1960–2005). History, goals, perspectives . In: EPD documentation No. 9/10. Balance sheet and perspectives of the Christian-Jewish dialogue . 2005, p. 7-16 .
  5. ↑ www.ikj-berlin.de | Publications. Retrieved October 20, 2017 .
  6. ↑ www.ikj-berlin.de | Moses Mendelssohn Prize 2016. Accessed October 20, 2017 .