J. Marius J. Lange van Ravenswaay

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J. Marius J. Lange van Ravenswaay (2008)

Jan Marius Jacob Lange van Ravenswaay (born May 24, 1952 in Essen ) is a German Protestant theologian and was scientific director of the Johannes a Lasco Library in Emden until 2017 and Protestant Reformed pastor in Moormerland until 2018 .

biography

Lange van Ravenswaay spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands . School time in Koblenz , Fontainebleau (Ecole Internationale) and Lingen (Ems) ( Gymnasium Georgianum (Lingen) ). In 1971 he was the 2nd state winner in Lower Saxony at Jugend forscht in the subject of geophysics . After graduating from high school in Lingen in the same year , he studied Protestant theology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster , the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen and the Georg-August University of Göttingen . After his first theological examination in 1977, he completed his vicariate in the Evangelical Reformed parishes of Lingen and Uelsen until 1979 .

After passing his second theological examination, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for the Late Middle Ages and Reformation at the Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen until 1981. From 1981 to 1985 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Church and Dogma History with Heiko Augustinus Oberman in Tübingen and deputy head of the late Augustinism project area in the late Middle Ages and Reformation Collaborative Research Center. In 1986 he received his doctorate as Dr. theol. in Tübingen with the dissertation Augustinus totus noster. The understanding of Augustine in John Calvin . At the time he was working as a pastor coll. In the Evangelical Reformed parish of Borkum .

He was ordained pastor on March 1, 1987, and was pastor of the Protestant Reformed parish Neermoorpolder in the East Frisian Moormerland until March 31, 2018 . From 2001 to 2017 he was chairman of the Society for the History of Reformed Protestantism and from 2010 to 2017 scientific director of the Johannes a Lasco library in Emden .

Since 2002 he has been co-editor of the Reformed Confessions and since 2010 on the editorial board of the files and documents of the Synod of Dordrecht. From 2013 to 2019 he was Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Wittenberg Research Library for the History of the Reformation.

Web links

Fonts (selection)

  • Augustine totus noster. The understanding of Augustine in Johannes Calvin (= research on church and dogma history . Volume 45). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1990.
  • Calvin and Farel. Aspects of their relationship . In: Pierre Barthel, Rémy Scheurer and Richard Stauffer (eds.): Actes du colloque Guillaume Farel, Neuchatel 29 September – 1 October 1980 (= Cahiers de la Revue de Theologie et de Philosophie . Volume 9.1). Geneva / Lausanne / Neuchatel 1983, pp. 63-72.
  • Initia Augustiniana Calvini. News on the genesis of Calvin's understanding of Augustine . In: Congresso Internazionale su S. Agostino nel XVI centenario della conversione, Roma 15-20 September 1986, Atti III. Studia ephemeridis "Augustinianum" 26 . Rome 1987, pp. 257-274.
  • Johannes von Paltz: De conceptione sive praeservatione a peccato originali sanctissimae. The genetricis virginis Mariae . In: Johannes von Paltz Works III . Ed. And edit. by Chr. P. Burger, A. Czogalla, JMJ Jange van Ravenswaay and others (= Late Middle Ages and Reformation, texts and studies . Volume 4). Berlin / New York 1989, pp. 139–155.
  • Johannes von Paltz: De septem foribus seu festis beatae virginis / The seven portes or feasts of the Mother of God . In: Johannes von Paltz Werke III , pp. 285–354.
  • Calvin and the Jews - an open question? In: Heiko A. Obermann (Hrsg.): Reformed legacy. Festschrift for Gottfried W. Locher on his 80th birthday . Volume 2. Zurich 1993, pp. 183-194.
  • The Jews in Calvin's sermons . In: Achim Detmers and J. Marius J. Lange van Ravenswaay (eds.): Bundeseinheit und Gottesvolk. Reformed Protestantism and Judaism in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries (= Emden contributions to Reformed Protestantism . Volume 9). Wuppertal 2005, pp. 59-69.
  • Een corte undersouckinghe des gheloofs (1553) in the version from 1555 . In: Reformed Confessions . Volume 1/3 (1550-1558). Neukirchen-Vluyn 2007, pp. 277-294.
  • Calvin and the Jews . In: Herman J. Selderhuis (Ed.): Calvin Handbuch . Tübingen 2008, pp. 143-146.
  • Calvin and the Jews . In: Herman. J. Selderhuis (Ed.): The Calvin Handbook . Grand Rapids / Cambridge 2009, pp. 143-146.
  • Kálvin János és a zsidóság . In: Confessio. A Magyarországi Református Egyház Figyelöje . 2009/3, Budapest 2009, pp. 28–34.
  • Jean Calvin and the Jews. Key points of a characterization . In: RheinReden 2010. Texts from the Melanchthon Academy Cologne , pp. 69–77.
  • The importance of the John a Lasco library Emden / Germany for the history and theology of the Reformed churches . In: Revival and unity of reformed churches. ICRefC, International Congress of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches, Seoul / Korea, May 2-7, 2013 . Seoul 2013, pp. 666-685.
  • The Emden Synod of 1571 . In: J. Marius J. Lange van Ravenswaay, Klaas-Dieter Voss and Wolfgang Jahn (eds.): Emden (= Places of the Reformation . Volume 13). Leipzig 2014. pp. 57–59.

Editorships

  • with Herman J. Selderhuis: Reformed traces. Lectures of the 4th Emden conference on the history of Reformed Protestantism (= Emden contributions to Reformed Protestantism . Volume 8). Wuppertal 2004, ISBN 3-932735-89-7 .
  • with Achim Detmers: Federal Unity and God's People. Reformed Protestantism and Judaism in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries (= Emden contributions to Reformed Protestantism . Volume 9). Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 3-932735-97-8 .
  • with Matthias Freudenberg: History and Effect of the Heidelberg Catechism. Lectures of the 9th International Emden Conference on the History of Reformed Protestantism (= Emden Contributions to Reformed Protestantism . Volume 15). Neukirchener Theologie, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2013.
  • with Klaas-Dieter Voss and Wolfgang Jahn: Emden. City tour; Reformation in Emden (= places of the Reformation . Volume 13). Evangelical Publishing House, Leipzig 2014.
  • with Jochen Bepler, Ingeborg Feige a. a .: Yearbook of ecclesiastical books and libraries . NF1. Regensburg 2013ff, ISBN 978-3-7954-2713-9 .
  • with Herman J. Selderhuis: Reformed Majorities in early modern Europe (= Refo500. Academic Studies . Volume 23). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015.
  • with Herman J. Selderhuis: Luther and Calvinism. Image and Reception of Martin Luther in the history and theology of Calvinism (= Refo500. Academic Studies . Volume 42). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017.
  • with Matthias Freudenberg: Diakonie in Reformed Protestantism. Lectures of the 11th International Emden Conference on the History of Reformed Protestantism (= Emden Contributions to Reformed Protestantism . Volume 17). Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-7887-3231-8

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portrait on the website of the Society for the History of Reformed Protestantism , accessed on April 23, 2018.
  2. ^ Reformiert.de: Retirement for Marius Lange van Ravenswaay ( memento of April 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 23, 2018.
  3. ^ Farewell to Pastor Dr. JMJ Lange van Ravenswaay , accessed April 23, 2018.
  4. ↑ Ostfriesen-Zeitung of November 1, 2017: The JaLB's board of trustees is retiring , accessed on April 23, 2018.
  5. ↑ www.rfb-wittenberg.de , accessed on January 2, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Lange van Ravenswaay, J. Marius J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lange van Ravenswaay, Jan Marius Jacob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH eat