Jürgen Schuster (theologian)

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Jürgen Schuster in 2011

Jürgen Schuster (born August 31, 1957 ) is a German missionary , theologian , author, lecturer, professor for intercultural theology at the International University of Liebenzell (IHL).

Live and act

From 1976 to 1981, Schuster studied theology at the theological seminar of the Liebenzeller Mission . Between 1981 and 1982 he was in England for English language studies and a short church internship. He then worked for a year in community and youth work in Germany. From 1983 to 1998 he worked as a missionary for the Liebenzeller Mission in the field of church planting and church building in Japan . In 1989 he graduated from Biola University in La Mirada , California , with an MA in Intercultural Studies . From 1991 to 1994 he was a board member of the Japanese Church Association LKKR. In 1996 he was visiting professor at the Pacific Islands Bible College in Chuuk , today's Pacific Islands University in Guam , Micronesia . Between 1997 and 1998 he worked on the theological committee of the Japanese Church Association JECA (Japan Evangelical Church Association). This was followed up in 2002 its mission Scientific studies at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois, where he in 2006 with his thesis on Christian mission in eschatological perspective: Lesslie Newbigin 's contribution to PhD PhD in Intercultural Studies. From 2002 to 2011 he was a lecturer in missiology at the theological seminar of the Liebenzell Mission, the forerunner of today's Liebenzell International University (IHL). Schuster has been deputy rector of the IHL since 2011, where he holds a chair for intercultural theology . He accompanied the expansion of the IHL Research Center for Interculturality and Religion into the LIMRIS ( Liebenzell Institute for Missiological, Religious, Intercultural and Social Studies ) research institute founded in 2017 , of which he was director until 2018.

Schuster has been a member of the American Society of Missiology since 2002, in the Working Group for Evangelical Missiology (AfeM) since 2003 and a member of the German Society for Missiology (DGMW) since 2013 . In 2009 he was the honorary coordinator of the Maisenbach Way of the Cross . In his former country of assignment, Japan, he led an aid team in 2011 after the earthquake and tsunami disaster . As a specialist lecturer, he gives lectures at the SRH University of Economics and Media Calw and at the theological workshop of the Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association .

Awards

  • In 2011, he was awarded the 500 Euro George W. Peters Prize for his dissertation on Lesslie Newbigin's contribution to understanding Christian mission .

Private

Schuster married Anette Vatter (daughter of Ernst Vatter ) in 1984 . The couple has one child and lives in Maisenbach (Bad Liebenzell) .

Publications

  • with Paul G. Hiebert: Culture and Evangelium: Steps in a Critical Contextualization , Verlag der Liebenzeller Mission, Bad Liebenzell 2005, ISBN 978-3-921113783 .
  • Christian mission in eschatological perspective: Lesslie Newbigin's contribution (dissertation), VTR, Nürnberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-941750-15-9 .
as co-editor
  • with Volker Gäckle : The Paradigm Shift in World Mission: Chances and Challenges of Non-Western Mission Movements , Lit Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12374-9 .
  • with Volker Gäckle: The Gospel and the Religions. Religious questions - religious theological conclusions , Lit Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-12886-7 .
  • with Bradford M. Smith and Ulrich Giesekus : Global Mental Health and the Church (Series: Interkulturalität & Religion: Liebenzeller Impulse Zu Mission, Kultur und Religion, Volume 4), LIT Verlag, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-90854- 4 .
  • with Volker Gäckle: Freedom of religion, freedom of expression and Christian belief (series: Interkulturalität & Religion, Volume 5), Lit Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-13829-3 .

Essays

  • The ratio of Dt. Evang. Alliance for the Pentecostal Movement in Germany in the course of the 20th century (case study), in: Japan Evangelical Church Association - Theological Commission (ed.): Essays on teaching about the Holy Spirit - basis for discussion, Tokyo 1999, pp. 91–120 .
  • Karl Hartenstein: Mission with a focus on the end . In: Mission Studies 19-1 / 37 (2002), pp. 53-81, ISSN  0168-9789 .
  • Shamanism and the Christian Church in Japan . In: Klaus W. Müller (Ed.): Mission in foreign cultures. Contributions to mission ethnology (= edition afem - mission academics 15). Nürnberg 2003, pp. 243-252, VTR, Nürnberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-933372918 .
  • The gospel and the religions. Theology of Religions with Lesslie Newbigin . In: Theological contributions 36/1 (2005), pp. 10–29, ISSN  0342-2372 .
  • Social missionary engagement in the context of the Kingdom of God: A short sketch of Lesslie Newbigin's contribution to the theology of mission . In: Andreas Kusch (Ed.): Transforming Faith, Renewed Culture, Socio-Economic Development: Missiological Contributions to a Transformative Development Practice . VTR, Nuremberg 2007, pp. 208-224, ISBN 978-3-937965789 .
  • Theology in Context: On the diversity and unity of contextual theologies . In: by Friedemann Walldorf, Lothar Käser , Bernd Brandl (eds.): Mission and reflection in context. Perspectives on Evangelical Mission Studies in the 21st Century . Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Nürnberg 2010, pp. 236-256, ISBN 978-3-938116920 .
  • Edinburgh 1910 and beyond: Mission in Unity. Historical, theological and practical reflections . In: Frampton F. Fox (Ed.): Edinburgh 1910 revisited - 'Give us Friends!' An India perspective on 100 years of mission. Papers from the 16th annual Center for Mission Studies Consultation . Union Biblical Seminary, Pune, Bangalore 2010, pp. 274-299.
  • Mission - from an eschatological perspective . In: Theo Schneider, Christoph Morgner , Michael Diener (eds.): Basic concepts of faith . Brunnen-Verlag, Giessen 2011, pp. 215-230, ISBN 978-3-765514753 .
  • The clue to history . In: Mark TB Laing and Paul Weston (Eds.): Theology in Missionary Perspective. Lesslie Newbigin's Legacy . Eugene, Oregon 2012, pp. 33-48, ISBN 978-1610975742 .
  • The 'Eschatology Office' Reopened. Notes on the importance of eschatology for mission theology today . In: Theological contributions 43/1 (2012), pp. 21–33, ISSN  0342-2372 .
  • Ecclesiological implications of the missiological paradigm shift: "The Household of God" - On the relevance of Lesslie Newbigin's ecclesiology. In: Jürgen Schuster / Volker Gäckle (ed.): The paradigm shift in world missions. Opportunities and challenges of non-western missionary movements, Berlin 2014, 111-130, ISBN 978-3-643-12374-9 .
  • "Can the West be converted?" Lesslie Newbigin's mission-theological impulses for witnessing the gospel as "public truth" in a secular and religiously plural culture. In: Thorsten Dietz / Norbert Schmidt (ed.): Word, Truth, Reality. Contributions to the conversation with Heinzpeter Hempelmann, Giessen / Basel 2015, 354-381.
  • Biblical marginal notes on dealing with the term "religion". In: Jürgen Schuster / Volker Gäckle (ed.): The gospel and the religions. Religious questions - religious theological conclusions, Berlin 2015, 39-59, ISBN 978-3-643-12886-7 .
  • Animism and Postmodern Spirituality. The return of angels, spirits and shamans. in: Theological contributions 47/5 (2016), 285-304, ISSN  0342-2372 .
  • The significance of eschatology for Christian action: On the relationship between testimony and testimony in Christian mission. Three paradigmatic basic decisions . In: Evangelische Missiologie 33/4 (2017), 199-209, ISSN 0177-8706.
  • Christian faith in a post-modern pluralistic mindset. A case study with cultural anthropological and theological reflections. In: Theological contributions 48/6 (2017), pp. 347-362, ISSN  0342-2372 . (also online at: http://theologische-beitraege.de/fileadmin/theo/downloads/Schuster_Juergen_-_Langfassung_ThBeitr_48_2017_H6.pdf ).
  • Intercultural theology as missiologia viatorum (pp. 32–45) and “Multiculturalism has failed!” Notes on cultural studies on our dealings with strangers (pp. 177–193). In: Klaus W. Müller and Elmar Spohn (eds.): Intercultural Theology versus Missiology. Contributions to History - Mission - Theology (Festschrift for Bernd Brandl on his 65th birthday), VTR Verlag, Nuremberg 2020, ISBN 978-3-95776-101-9 .
  • Contextualizing the Gospel. Basics of an understanding based on the incarnation of Christ . In: Heinzpeter Hempelmann , Benjamin Closer, Corinna Schubert, Patrick Todjeras and Markus Weimer (eds.): Handbook of milieu-sensitive communication of the gospel. Reflections, dimensions, practical implementations (Church and Milieu; Vol. 4), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-70277-2 , pp. 41-57.

Lexicon article

Various articles in the Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation , 2nd edition 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scientific conference of the Research Center for Interculturality and Religion , liebezell.org, report from June 18, 2013.
  2. ^ Lecturers of the Liebenzeller Mission , liebezell.org
  3. ↑ Professor at the IHL , ihl.eu, accessed on September 18, 2019.
  4. ↑ LIMRIS. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  5. ^ Way of the Cross Maisenbach. Retrieved November 5, 2018 .
  6. ^ Fates from the flood of images , schwarzwaelder-bote.de, message from June 30, 2011.
  7. ↑ Subject librarian at the SRH University for Business and Media, Calw , hochschule-calw.de, notification from May 23, 2013.
  8. ↑ Missiology Awards awarded , ead.de, notification from January 10, 2011.
  9. ^ Newbigin - Mission in Unity (PDF; 146 kB) , edinburgh2010.org


personal data
SURNAME Schuster, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and missiologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1957