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Jobst Schöne DD (born October 20, 1931 in Naumburg (Saale) ) is a bishop emeritus of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church .

Life

After attending school from 1940 to 1952, he studied Protestant theology at church colleges and universities in Bethel , Tübingen , Oberursel and Münster . In 1957/58 he was an assistant at the Ecumenical Institute in Münster, whereupon his teaching vicariate followed until 1960 in Berlin. On November 30, 1959, he was ordained as a pastor.

His first pastoral position took him to Cologne, after which he worked from 1962 to 1985 as a pastor at the St. Marien Church (Berlin-Zehlendorf) and the Heilig-Geist-Kirche (Berlin-Spandau) . During his time in Berlin, he married Ingrid Germar and received his doctorate in theology in Münster in 1968. In 1978 the Concordia Theological Seminary of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod in Fort Wayne ( Indiana / USA) awarded him an honorary doctorate . From 1972 to 1985 he was superintendent for Berlin-West. On November 3rd, 1985 Schöne was elected bishop of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church and introduced to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Cross in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. He retired on November 30, 1996 and lives with his wife in Berlin again. Schöne is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Prayer Society .

meaning

Schöne dealt primarily with the celebration and understanding of the Lutheran mass liturgy and the altar sacrament in the SELK. During his term of office, the Evangelical Lutheran Church Hymnbook (ELKG) was introduced in 1987 and the Evangelical Lutheran Church agende for the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK) was introduced in 1997 . Likewise, during his time as bishop, the SELK was united with the Evangelical Lutheran (Old Lutheran) Church of the GDR in 1991. In the 1990s, Schöne defended his church 's rejection of the ordination of women . In an essay, Hermann Schreiber describes him as a pastoral friend of Axel Springer , whom Schöne married in 1978 with Friede Riewerts and buried in 1985 in the Evangelical Churchyard in Berlin-Nikolassee .

Publications (selection)

  • Church and Church Regiment in the Work and Thinking of Georg Philipp Eduard Huschke (= work on the history and theology of Lutheranism, volume 23). dissertation
  • About Christ's Sacramental Presence: The Saliger Supper Controversy . Berlin 1966.
  • Luther's confession of the sacrament of the altar. Berlin 1970.
  • Liturgy as a confession of faith (= For Church, Word and Sacrament, 18). Braunschweig 1987.
  • Pastoral Letter on the Question of the Ordination of Women to the Office of the Church . Groß Oesingen 1994.
  • The heresy of fundamentalism in contrast to the Lutheran understanding of the scriptures. In: Jürgen Diestelmann (Ed.): Loyalty to Scripture and Confession (FS Wolfgang Büscher). Braunschweig 1994, pp. 171-183.
  • Ambassadors for Christ. Tries. Groß Oesingen 1996.
  • Preface to the Evangelical Lutheran Church Agenda , Volume I. Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna, 1997.
  • Recall what is valid. Contributions to Lutheran theology. Edited by Michael Schätzel . Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7675-7135-8 .
  • Confession in Lutheran (= practice of faith). Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8469-0015-4 .

As editor

  • with Ernst Seybold : Arthur Carl Piepkorn : The liturgical vestments in the Lutheran Church since 1555 , Marburg 1965 (2nd edition: Lüdenscheid 1987).
  • Martin Luther : Kurtz Confession of the Holy Sacrament (1545). Facsimile and translation into today's German. Edited by Jobst Schöne. Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8469-0267-7 .

literature

  • Jürgen Diestelmann / Wolfgang Schillhahn (eds.): Teaching in harmony. Festschrift for Bishop Dr. Jobst Schöne DD Groß Oesingen 1997.

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personal data
SURNAME Beautiful, Jobst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bishop of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg