Jan Milič Lochman

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Jan Milič Lochman

Jan Milič Lochman (born April 3, 1922 in Nové Město nad Metují , Czechoslovakia ; † January 21, 2004 in Basel , Switzerland ) was a Czechoslovak-Swiss Protestant theologian .

Life

Lochman came from a family with an Evangelical- Hussite tradition. In 1941 he graduated from the Náchod grammar school . After the Czech part of Charles University was reopened in 1945, he studied theology and philosophy at the Hussite Theological Faculty and received his doctorate in 1948. He then became the pastor of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren ordained . After a short time as a preacher , he went back to the Comenius Faculty in Prague , where he completed his habilitation and worked as a lecturer. From 1960 he taught there as a professor of philosophy and systematic theology . After a year at Union Theological Seminary of Columbia University in New York City , he was in 1968 by the University of Basel to full professor nominated for Systematic Theology. In 1981 and 1982 he was rector of the University of Basel. From 1990 he was also able to give guest lectures at Czech and Slovak universities. In 1992 he retired .

Lochman served on ecumenical bodies for decades, particularly the World Council of Churches . From 1968 to 1975 he was a member of the WCC central and executive committee and from 1975 to 1991 a member of the WCC Faith and Order Commission. He also worked with the Reformed World Federation : from 1970 to 1982 as chairman of the theological department. His fundamental work originated in the field of systematic and ecumenical theology.

Jan Milič Lochman was one of the founders of the Christian Peace Conference . At its third meeting in 1960, he worked on the preparation of the First All-Christian Peace Assembly in 1961 in Prague . There he led the working group “ Cold War ” together with the Federal German Wolfgang Schweitzer and the Hungarian M. Pálfy .

Honors

Works (selection)

  • (with Gerhard Bassarak ) Church in the changed world. Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1963.
  • The need for reconciliation. Reich, Hamburg-Bergstedt 1963.
  • Reign of Christ in the secularized world. EVZ, Zurich 1967.
  • Political Theology Perspectives. Theological Verlag, Zurich 1971, ISBN 3-290-15042-9 .
  • Christ or Prometheus? The core question of the Christian-Marxist dialogue and Christology. Furche, Hamburg 1972, ISBN 3-7730-0052-9 .
  • The radical legacy: Attempts theological orientation in East and West. Theological Publishing House, Zurich 1972, ISBN 3-290-11294-2 .
  • Encountering Marx: What unites and divides Christians and Marxists. Mohn, Gütersloh 1975, ISBN 3-579-03804-4 .
  • (with Fritz Buri and Heinrich Ott ) Dogmatics in Dialog. Mohn, Gütersloh 1973–1976.
  • (Ed., With Hans Thimme ) Barmen 1974: Romanticism? Orthodoxism? Call Forward! Lectures before the Synod of the Evangelical Church of the Union. Luther-Verlag, Witten 1974, ISBN 3-7858-0193-9 .
  • Does Christian hope bear or deceive? Biblical Heritage in the Challenges of Time. Theological Publishing House, Zurich 1974, ISBN 3-290-11346-9 .
  • (Ed., With Jürgen Moltmann ) God's right and human rights: Studies and recommendations of the Reformed World Federation. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1976, ISBN 3-7887-0510-8 .
  • Reconciliation and Liberation: Rejection of a one-dimensional understanding of salvation. Mohn, Gütersloh 1977, ISBN 3-579-03641-6 .
  • Direction of Freedom: Outline of Ethics from the perspective of the Decalogue. Mohn, Gütersloh 1979, ISBN 3-579-03761-7 .
  • Kingdom, power and glory: the relationship to life between faith and confession. Kaiser, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-459-01348-6 .
  • Comenius. Imba, Freiburg / Switzerland 1982, ISBN 3-85740-110-9 .
  • The creed: outline of the dogmatics following the creed. Mohn, Gütersloh 1982, ISBN 3-579-00170-1 .
  • From the meaning of the festivals: meditations on Christmas, Easter and Pentecost. Reinhardt, Basel 1982, ISBN 3-7245-0492-6 .
  • Our Father: Interpretation of the Our Father. Mohn, Gütersloh 1988, ISBN 3-579-00271-6 .
  • The Search for Truth and Tolerance: Memories of an Ecumenical Cross-Border Commuter. TVZ, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-290-17238-4 (translated from the Czech).

literature

  • The Universal Prayer: Studies on the Lord's Prayer. Dedicated to Jan Milič Lochman on the occasion of his 70th birthday by the Theological Faculty of Basel (= Theological Journal. Vol. 48, no. 1). Reinhardt, Basel 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theologian of polyphony: On the death of Jan Milic Lochman , NZZ Online , January 24, 2004, accessed on April 25, 2019.
  2. ↑ Berta Hess-Cohn Foundation ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Internet excerpt, commercial register of the canton of Basel-Stadt, accessed on March 6, 2012. Explanation: The place of citizenship indicated (“from Basel”) shows that Lochman was naturalized in Switzerland.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bs.powernet.ch
  3. ↑ Jan Milič Lochman , website of the Philosophical Faculty of Masaryk University , accessed on March 6, 2012.
  4. ^ Rectors of the University of Basel , 550 Years of the University of Basel, University of Basel website, accessed on March 6, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Lochman, Jan Milič
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lochman, Jan Milic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak-Swiss Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Nové Město nad Metují , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2004
Place of death Basel , Switzerland