Karl Dienst

Karl Dienst (born January 24, 1930 in Weisel , Sankt Goarshausen district , Hesse-Nassau province ; † May 27, 2014 in Darmstadt ) was a German theologian and historian. He is considered a chronicler of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

Dienst passed his Abitur at the Rheingau School in Geisenheim in 1949 and studied Protestant theology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , where he received his doctorate in 1955. From 1959 to 1970 he was pastor in Giessen . He then worked as a senior church councilor in the church administration of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau in Darmstadt until 1994 , where he was the theological director for school and extracurricular education. Dienst was honorary professor for liturgy and hymnology at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main and honorary professor for liturgy, hymnology and practical theology at the University of Frankfurt .

Dienst was a long-time member of the Hessian Church History Association (HKV), whose yearbook he published from 1967 to 1993. On the occasion of his 65th birthday in 1995, the HKV dedicated a commemorative publication to him. He was also a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany , was rector of the German Institute for Education and Knowledge in Paderborn and second president of the Luther Society .

Karl Dienst was close to the confessional movement “No other gospel” , for whose information letter he also wrote regularly. He was also a member of the editorial team of the conservative homiletic-liturgical correspondence sheet - New Series . Furthermore, he belonged to the high church association of the Augsburg Confession and was temporarily its chairman.

As a student, Dienst joined the Mainz Wingolf in 1953 ; later he also became a member of the Giessener and Darmstadt Wingolf and the Arminia Dorpatensis.

Publications

• Mysticism as a form of Protestant piety , No other Gospel Info-Special No. 42, Hagen.
• "Society" versus "Community of the Saints" , No Other Gospel Info Special No. 138, Hagen.
• History of the Lutheran church service in the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main , Mainz, 1956 (dissertation, manuscript print).
• The teachable religion. Theology and pedagogy: An interim balance sheet , Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1982, ISBN 3-579-04520-2 .
• Faith, Religious Experience, Education. Religious educational contributions , Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1985, ISBN 3-579-00750-5 .
• The beginnings of the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Mainz . Verlag der Hessischen Kirchengeschichtliche Vereinigung, 2002, ISBN 3-931849-10-4 .
• The “other” church struggle : Wilhelm Boudriot - German National - Reformed - Karl Barth . Lit Verlag Berlin, 2007. ISBN 978-3-8258-9760-4 .
• Between science and church politics: on the importance of university theology for the identity of a regional church in the past and present . Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58365-4 .
• Religious education between school and church: Religious educational origins and development situations in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . Hessian Church History Association, 2009, ISBN 978-3-931849-29-0 .
• Church - school - religious instruction: investigation following the EKHN church struggle documentation . 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1843-2 .
• Giessen - Upper Hesse - Hesse. Contributions to Protestant church history. Publishing house of the Hessian Church History Association, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-931849-32-0 .
• Politics and religious culture in Hesse and Nassau between 'state change' (1918) and 'national revolution' (1933): causes and consequences , Peter-Lang-Verlagsgruppe , Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-60469-4 .
• Protestant 'icons' and the ban on images. In: Journal of Religious Culture , No. 191 (2014), ISSN  1434-5935 , p. 43 ( PDF )

literature

• JF Battenberg, E, Kätsch, H. Kemler, M. Sauer: Aspects of Protestant life in the Hessian and Nassau area: Festschrift for Karl Dienst on his 65th birthday (sources and studies on Hessian church history) . Hess. Church History Association, 1995, ISBN 978-3-931849-12-2 .
• Wolfgang Lück (Hrsg.): Memorial book Karl Dienst. Ecclesiastical, critical, conservative into the third millennium. Justus von Liebig Verlag, Darmstadt 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Dienst: "Chronicler of the Evangelical Church" is dead. In: ekhn.de , May 28, 2014, accessed on June 6, 2018.
2. ↑ Dr. In his new book, Karl Dienst illuminates the development of the Protestant Church In: giessener-allgemeine.de , July 27, 2010, accessed on June 6, 2018.
3. ↑ Prof. Prof. hc. Dr. theol. Karl Dienst (1930) ( memento from July 9, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) weiseler-geschichte.de ( updated biography )
4. ^ Hessian Church History Association (HKV) In: darmstadt-stadtlexikon.de
5. ↑ Information letter August 2014 . In: issuu . ( issuu.com [accessed November 28, 2016]).
6. ↑ Buchrucker, Armin-Ernst etc. (Ed.): Homiletic-liturgical correspondence sheet - new series . No. 118 . Flacius-Verlag, Fürth 2014.
7. ↑ Karl Dienst: Protestant 'Icons' and the Ban on Images , in: Journal of Religious Culture , No. 191 (2014), ISSN  1434-5935 , p. 43 ( PDF ).