Jörg Homann

Jörg Homann (born August 9, 1940 in Kiel ) is a German Lutheran theologian , senior church councilor a. D. and former chairman of the Missionary Services Working Group (AMD).

Life

Homann grew up in Gronau near Hildesheim . It was shaped by the youth work of Pastor Heinrich Kemner , the founder of the pietistic Ahlden Brotherhood and the Krelingen Spiritual Armaments Center . At the age of 16 he had a conversion experience . Homann studied theology in Tübingen , Bonn and Göttingen . After a vicariate in Hanover , he became a pastor in Celle in 1970 . There he made contacts with the community movement and the German Evangelical Alliance . In 1980 he moved to Hanover in the Hanover State Church Office and was appointed to the Oberkirchenrat and later to the Oberlandeskirchenrat. As Oberlandeskirchenrat of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover , he was responsible for world missions , ecumenical diakonia , popular missions as well as contacts to the community movement and other piety movements. From 1997 to 2003 Homann was the chairman of AMD. He has been Bishop Axel Noack since 2004 .

Works

• Missionary Church in a Multi-Religious Context. Hamburg: Evangelical Mission in Germany 1996 (World Mission Today; No. 25: Study booklet)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Committed to the national church . In: Evangelical News Agency Idea (ed.): Idea spectrum . No. 31/32 , 2000, pp. 27 .
2. ^ Bishop Noack new chairman of AMD. Evangelical Church in Germany, archived from the original on January 27, 2013 ; Retrieved March 5, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.