Johannes Dantine

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Johannes Dantine, 1998

John Dantine (* 5. July 1938 in Upper Austria Wallern an der Trattnach , † 24. August 1999 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Evangelical Lutheran theologian and priest Oberkirchenrat the Evangelical Church in Austria .

Life

Dantine's father Wilhelm was a professor of systematic theology at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna . His mother Charlotte was also a Protestant theologian and a champion for equal opportunities for women in the Evangelical Church AB in Austria. After graduating from high school , Johannes Dantine studied Protestant theology in Vienna, Basel , Göttingen , Lausanne and Paris . In 1965 he became a Doctor of Protestant Theology doctorate . His church work began in 1964 as a teaching vicar in Spittal an der Drau , and the following year in Vienna- Gumpendorf . On July 3, 1966, Dantine was ordained a pastor in the Gustav-Adolf-Kirche in Vienna-Gumpendorf . He was a pastor in this parish for 25 years. He also worked as a university lecturer for systematic theology at the Evangelical Theological Faculty. In 1990 he was awarded the title of “Extraordinary University Professor” and taught as a professor in Vienna until his death after a long and serious illness.

From 1982 to 1990 Dantine was chairman of the Evangelical Academy in Vienna . In 1984 he was elected to the Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the General Synod . In the following years he became a member of the Theological and Legal and Constitutional Committees. In 1988 he took over the leadership of the theological committee. In 1990 Johannes Dantine was elected to the clerical high church councilor. In the church leadership he was responsible for science , education , religious instruction , international programs and cooperation as well as ecumenism . In 1995 he was defeated in a runoff election to succeed Bishop Dieter Knall to the Carinthian superintendent Herwig Sturm , who was Bishop of the Evangelical Church AB in Austria until the end of 2007. Bishop Sturm wrote in 1998 about his collaboration with Dantine:

“ He is just as much at home in theory and practice as he is in ecumenism and a helpful conversationalist on political, economic and ethical issues. It is nice to work with him, this committed and sensitive theologian and contemporary. That's not to say it's always easy; but it's always worth it. "

Johannes Dantine's 33-year pastoral activity in the Evangelical Church was also a path “from the opposition to the government”. His official church activity began under Bishop Oskar Sakrausky , who among other things was a staunch opponent of the anti-racism program of the World Council of Churches , which supported violent liberation movements. Dantine supported this program. Father and son Dantine were theological and political opponents of Sakrausky. At the beginning of the 1970s, Johannes Dantine was one of the co-founders and spokesmen of the “Salzburg Group”, an intra-ecclesiastical and socio-political reform group in the Evangelical Church - and he, together with Ulrich Trinks and others, managed to keep the Evangelical Academy Vienna alive after all church funds were canceled to obtain. As part of the church leadership, Dantine (herself) remained critical. In his " Testament " he wrote about his relationship with the Church:

"I loved her with all my passion and all my anger, I worked many a night for her and finally smoked myself to death."

- Olivier Dantine : on Facebook

In October 1998, Michael Bünker and Thomas Krobath published the book “Church - lernbaren for the future?” (Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck) as a commemorative publication (a few months late) for Johannes Dantine's 60th birthday.

Johannes Dantine was also president of the Austria-Vietnam Society for several years , a member of the advisory board of the anti-apartheid movement in Austria and a member of the “Coordination Committee for Christian-Jewish Cooperation”.

Dantine took part in the 5th All-Christian Peace Assembly in Prague in June 1978 and in the 8th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Harare in December 1998.

His son Olivier Dantine has been superintendent of the diocese of Salzburg-Tyrol since September 1st, 2012 .

Awards

Works

  • Protestant mentalities. German first edition. Passagen-Verlag, Vienna 1999.
  • Church: capable of learning in the future? Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1998.
  • Evangelical. 1st edition. Evangelical Press Association, Vienna 1995.
  • Live conflicts. 1st edition. Evangelical Academy, Vienna 1992.
  • Austria's contribution to the Leuenberg Agreement . Evangelical Upper Church Council, Vienna 1988.
  • Prophetic contemporaneity. Evangelical Academy, Vienna 1988.
  • Twenty years after the council . Action Critical Christianity, Vienna 1985.
  • Robert Kissinger, Johannes Dantine, Ulrich Trinks: Education explosion. Evangelical Academy, Vienna 1984.
  • The Church before the question of its truth. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1980.
  • The doctrine of predestination in Calvin and Beza . Goettingen 1965.

literature

  • Michael Bünker , Thomas Krobath (Ed.): Church - capable of learning for the future? Festschrift for Johannes Dantine for his 60th birthday. Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1998, ISBN 3-7022-2178-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jörg Ernst: The development policy public relations work of the Protestant churches in Germany and Switzerland. LIT Verlag Münster, 1999, ISBN 9783825845728 , p. 137. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  2. ↑ Farewell letter to his church on Facebook
  3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Dantine, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theologian, senior church councilor
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallern on the Trattnach
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1999
Place of death Vienna