Johannes Wirsching

Johannes Wirsching (born November 20, 1929 in Gumbinnen ; † March 13, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Wirsching already specialized in systematic theology during his studies at Heidelberg University . After receiving his doctorate (1960) with Edmund Schlink , whose assistant he was, he wrote numerous studies on systematics and dogmatics . From 1969 he worked as a lecturer at the University of Education in Freiburg , and since 1971 as a full professor. In 1973 he moved to the Church University of Berlin-Zehlendorf as a full professor for systematic theology . After the political change he moved to the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1993 . In 1998 he retired. In 2000 he was awarded the Hermann Sasse Prize .

tomb

He is buried in the Evangelical Churchyard Nikolassee .

Fonts (selection)

• God in history. Studies on the history of theology and the systematic foundation of Martin Kähler's theology , Munich 1963.
• What is Scriptural? Studies on the theology of the external biblical word , Gütersloh 1971.
• Learning objective belief. Introduction to Theology , Gütersloh 1976.
• Church and pseudo-church. Contours of Heresy, Göttingen 1990.
• Do not be afraid, just believe. Sermons , Frankfurt 1996.
• Faith in conflict. Selected articles and lectures , Vol. 1–3, Frankfurt 1988/1993/1999.
• I am leaving the church. From a theological correspondence , Waltrop 2000.
• Allah alone is God. On the challenge of the Christian world through Islam , Frankfurt 2002.
• Down there. Liebesnovelle , Neuendettelsau 2005.

editor

• Contexts. New contributions to historical and systematic theology (series editor)
• Living Dogma , Frankfurt 2004.

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 18th Edition (2001), p. 3576
• Elke Axmacher / Klaus Schwarzwäller (ed.): Taught Faith. Festschrift for Johannes Wirsching on his 65th birthday , Frankfurt 1994.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Wirsching in the catalog of the German National Library