Jörg Baur

Jörg Baur (born July 17, 1930 in Tübingen ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Live and act

Baur studied Protestant theology in Tübingen , Erlangen and Göttingen . From 1958 to 1962 he was a repetitionist at the Evangelical Monastery in Tübingen , from 1964 to 1969 pastor in Leuzendorf near Rothenburg ob der Tauber . Baur received his doctorate from Paul Althaus in Erlangen, where he later also completed his habilitation. Since 1969 he has been professor of systematic theology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and since 1978 at the Georg August University in Göttingen . He has been retired since 1997.

Baur, who is considered to be a connoisseur of Luther's theology and Lutheran orthodoxy up to the 18th century, sees himself as a conscious Lutheran who primarily endeavors to bring the Lutheran theological heritage into the issues of modernity. He is critical of the ecumenical movement that he believes is instrumental in church politics. He abstained from the final vote on the Leuenberg Agreement between Lutheran and Reformed churches, on which he himself had worked on the articles on baptism and Christology, because of unionist interpretations. In addition, he denied - with many other Protestant theologians - the viability of the so-called Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification .

Baur's point of view is based on the conviction that the Reformation knowledge of the justification of the godless “for the sake of human needs” should be proclaimed in full. The interdisciplinary orientation of his work is documented, among other things, by his contributions to the Goethe manual.

Awards

• 1997: Hermann Sasse Prize

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Salus Christiana. The doctrine of justification in the history of the Christian understanding of salvation, I: From Christian antiquity to the theology of the German Enlightenment , Gütersloh 1968.
• Freedom and emancipation. A philosophical-theological treatise , Stuttgart 1974.
• Truth of the Fathers - Help for Tomorrow. 400 Years of the Agreement Formula , Stuttgart 1977.
• Agree on justification? To examine the justification chapter of the study of the Ecumenical Working Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians: “Doctrinal Condemnations - Church Separating?” , Tübingen 1989.
• together with Notger Slenczka : Has the Church falsified the Gospel? Jutta Voss and her book “Das Schwarzmond-Tabu”. The theological opinion in the teaching process. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-7668-3280-8 .
• Reformation Christianity in crisis. Reflections on Christian identity on the threshold of the 21st century , Tübingen 1997.
• Free by justification. Lectures on the occasion of the Roman Catholic / Lutheran "joint declaration" , Tübingen 1999.

Essays and sermons

• Insight and belief ; 2 volumes; Göttingen 1978, 1994.
• Luther and his classical heirs. Theological essays and research , Tübingen 1993.
• Lutheran figures - heterodox orthodoxies. Historical-systematic studies , Tübingen 2010.
• Word in the change of time. Sermons 1989–1995 , Stuttgart 1996.
• In the end: God's word. Sermons 1996–2002 , Neuendettelsau 2002.
• Experienced life - liberating word. Sermons 1990–2011 , Leipzig 2013.

Autobiographical

• Contribution by Jörg Baur in: Christian Henning (ua) (Ed.): Systematic Theology of the Present in Self-Representations , Tübingen 1998, pp. 40–57

literature

• Notger Slenczka (ua) (Ed.): Luthers Erben. Studies on the reception history of Luther's Reformation theology. Festschrift for Jörg Baur on his 75th birthday ; Tübingen 2005 (with detailed bibliography)

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg Baur in the catalog of the German National Library