Jochen Cornelius-Bundschuh

Jochen Cornelius-Bundschuh (born July 30, 1957 in Fulda ) is a German Protestant theologian and regional bishop of the Evangelical Church in Baden .

Jochen Cornelius-Bundschuh (2019)

Life

Cornelius-Bundschuh grew up in a new development in Fulda, his father was a teacher at a vocational school, his mother a housewife. He passed his Abitur in 1976 in his hometown and studied on a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation at the theological faculties in Göttingen , Tübingen and Edinburgh . In 1988 he was ordained pastor in the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck and received his doctorate with his presentations on liturgy between tradition and renewal . Cornelius-Bundschuh joined the parish office in 1995 after his time as an assistant in Göttingen and looked after the parish in Fuldabrückpastoral. In 2000 he was in Göttingen to work Church of the Word - homiletic interested contributions to preaching and community habilitation and was appointed associate professor in Göttingen in 2008, and since 2010 he has taught as an adjunct professor in Heidelberg .

In 2001 he took over the leadership of the preachers' seminar of the church of Kurhessen-Waldeck in Hofgeismar , from 2009 he was head of the theological training department and the examination office in the Evangelical Upper Church Council of the Baden regional church. In July 2013, Cornelius-Bundschuh was elected by the regional synod in Bad Herrenalb as regional bishop of the Evangelical regional church in Baden for twelve years. He prevailed against Heinz-Martin Döpp and Kerstin Gäfgen-Track . On June 1, 2014, he succeeded Ulrich Fischer .

Private

Cornelius-Bundschuh is married to a pastor and has three children.

Publications

• Liturgy between tradition and renewal: Problems of Protestant liturgical science in the first half of the 20th century illustrated in the work of Paul Graff , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1991, ISBN 978-3-525571842 .
• The Church of the Word: On the Protestant understanding of preaching and the congregation (works on pastoral theology, liturgy and hymnology) , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 978-3-525623664 .

as a co-author

• Healing Powers: Sermons for Everyday Life , BoD Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-732288991 .

as editor

• Not by force, but by the word. The sermon and the shape of the church , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt , Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374029815 .
• With the Bible through the year 2015: Ecumenical Biblical Interpretations , Kreuz Verlag , Freiburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-451612688 .
• With the Bible through 2016: Ecumenical Biblical Interpretations , Kreuz Verlag, Freiburg 2015 2015, ISBN 978-3-451613609 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jochen Cornelius-Bundschuh in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Jochen Cornelius-Bundschuh  in the German Digital Library
• Portrait on the pages of the Evangelical Church of Baden
• Cornelius-Bundschuh on the website of Heidelberg University
• Press release on the election

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sunday, December 21, 2014, p. 3.
2. ↑ Thomas Kurtz, Bruno Knöller: New Baden regional bishop receives a clear majority in the last ballot , in: Pforzheimer Zeitung from July 19, 2013, accessed on July 21, 2013