Joachim Scharfenberg

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Joachim Scharfenberg (born May 10, 1927 in Erfurt , † March 11, 1996 in Kiel ) was a German practical theologian , pastoral psychologist and psychoanalyst .

Live and act

Scharfenberg initially studied medicine, but after a few semesters switched to Protestant theology. It was founded in 1953 with a thesis on Johann Christoph Blumhardt Dr. theol. PhD. After his ordination as a Lutheran pastor, he took 1953/54 as one of the first Germans in a course in Clinical Pastoral Care ( Clinical Pastoral Education in part) in the US. He became a hospital chaplain in Berlin and at the same time trained as a psychoanalyst at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute . Since the beginning of the 1960s he was active in pastoral training and further education at the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg . In 1968 he completed his habilitation at the University of Tübingen with a thesis on Sigmund Freud and his criticism of religion as a challenge to the Christian faith .

In 1971 he was appointed to the chair for practical theology at Kiel Christian Albrechts University . As an academic teacher, university preacher at the University Church (Kiel) and as an author, he shaped generations of students. In addition to his teaching post, he continued to have a psychoanalytic practice. Pastoral care as a conversation and introduction to pastoral psychology and (together with Horst Kämpfer) Living With Symbols became standard works of his writings .

In 1972, Scharfenberg was one of the founders of the German Society for Pastoral Psychology (DGfP) and for over 40 years the editor of the magazine “ Paths to People” . In 1977 he was elected President of the Ferdinand Tönnies Society in Kiel, but gave up the post after a year for health reasons.

Fonts

  • Johann Christoph Blumhardt and church pastoral care today. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1959.
  • Maturity and sexuality. Attempt to help create a meaningful design of sexuality , Gelnhausen, Burckhardthaus-Verlag 1967.
  • Sigmund Freud and his criticism of religion as a challenge for the Christian faith , Göttingen 1968, 2nd edition 1970, 3rd edition 1971, 4th edition 1974, ISBN 3-525-01603-4 , English: Sigmund Freud and his critique of religion. Philadelphia: Fortress Press 1988, ISBN 0-8006-0848-8 .
  • The future of the family and the church , (= the talk, issue 86), Wuppertal-Barmen, Jugenddienst-Verlag 1970
  • Religion between delusion and reality: collected contributions on the correlation between theology and psychoanalysis (= concretions, volume 13), Hamburg 1972.
  • Pastoral care as a conversation: On the theory and practice of pastoral conversation (= reference library for advice and pastoral care, Volume 8) Göttingen 1972, 5th edition 1991, ISBN 3-525-62142-6 .
  • Christian identity: sermons in university church services , Göttingen 1977, ISBN 3-525-60348-7 .
  • (with Horst Kämper): Living with symbols. Sociological, psychological and religious conflict management . Walter-Verlag Olten / Freiburg 1980. ISBN 3-530-72930-2 .
  • Introduction to Pastoral Psychology (= UTB, Volume 1382), Göttingen 1985, 2nd edition 1990 ISBN 3-525-03261-7 , reprint 1994 ISBN 3-8252-1382-X .

literature

  • Jacob A. Belzen: Reflections on the Passing Away of a Trailblazer: Joachim Scharfenberg 1927-1996 , in: The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 7 (1997), pp. 53-55
  • Anne M. Steinmeier (ed.): The invention of pastoral psychology. In memory of Joachim Scharfenberg , Ways to People, Volume 60, Issue 1, January / February 2008 (with contributions by Eckart Nase, Ulrike Wagner-Rau, Hartmut Raguse, Heribert Wahl , Hans Christian Knuth , Redlef Neubert-Stegemann, Dietrich Stollberg , Siegfried Dreher)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Note in Die Deutsche Universitätszeitung united with Hochschul-Dienst , Volume 33, Verlag Dr. Josef Raabe, 1977, p. 536.
  2. ↑ Uwe Carstens : Chronicle of the Ferdinand Tönnies Society. For the 30th anniversary of the Ferdinand-Tönnies-Haus 1962-1992 . Kiel 1992.
personal data
SURNAME Scharfenberg, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, practical theologian and pastoral psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1996
Place of death Kiel