Jennifer Wasmuth

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Jennifer Wasmuth (born February 24, 1969 in Osnabrück ) is a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research (Strasbourg) .

Life

After graduating from the Greselius Gymnasium in Bramsche and studying at York College of Pennsylvania , she studied Protestant theology and Slavic studies in Münster and Heidelberg . A one-year study visit to the Spiritual Academy of St. Petersburg was followed by a dissertation, which was supervised by the Erlangen Eastern Church historian Karl Christian Felmy . Under the leading question of Protestant influences on the Russian academy theology of the 19th and 20th centuries. Century the phenomenon of a “liberal orthodox theology” is examined in the dissertation. In 2006 the dissertation was awarded the Klaus Mehnert Prize .

From 2004 to 2017 she worked at the Humboldt University of Berlin at Heinz Ohme 's chair for ecclesiastical and denominational studies / Eastern Church Studies . There she coordinated the project of a Russian-German theological dictionary funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). During this time, she also completed her habilitation, in which the significance of the Nicene Creed, which is central to ecumenism, for Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon is researched.

Jennifer Wasmuth is an ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover . She has been involved in dialogues with Orthodox churches for many years. These include the bilateral dialogue between the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and the Moscow Patriarchate and the international dialogue between the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Byzantine Orthodox churches.

Since April 2018 she has been director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg.

Works (in selection)

Monographs

  • Protestantism and Russian theology. On the reception and criticism of Protestantism in the magazines of the spiritual academies at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (= research on systematic and ecumenical theology 113). Göttingen 2007.
  • Academic theology in tsarist Russia in its significance for the newer Orthodox theology (= Erfurt studies on the cultural history of Orthodox Christianity 11). Erfurt 2012.

Anthologies

  • Between images of foreign and enemy. Interdisciplinary contributions to racism and xenophobia (= foreign proximity 16). Munster 2000.
  • with Reinhard Flogaus (Ed.): Orthodoxie im Dialog. Historical and current perspectives. FS for Heinz Ohme (= work on church history 130). Berlin 2015.
  • with Vasilios Makrides a. Stefan Kube (ed.): Christianity and human rights in Europe. Perspectives and debates in East and West (= Erfurt studies on the cultural history of Orthodox Christianity 11). Frankfurt a. M. 2016.
  • with Karl Pinggéra a . Christian Weise (Ed.): Hildegard Schaeder . Impulses for the Evangelical-Orthodox encounter. Selected writings from 1949 to 1972. With a biographical introduction by Gisa Bauer (= Forum Orthodox Theology 17) Berlin 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jennifer Wasmuth. Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ https://www.dgo-online.org/klaus-mehnert-preis/
  3. ↑ DFG - GEPRIS - Russian-German / German-Russian theological dictionary. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ https://www.strasbourginstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Website_Wasmuth_Publikationen_Stand_2019_06_03.pdf
predecessor Office successor
Theodor Dieter Director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research (Strasbourg)
2018-
personal data
SURNAME Wasmuth, Jennifer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück