Karl Rennstich
Karl Wilhelm Rennstich (born March 20, 1937 in Stetten am Heuchelberg ; † December 19, 2015 ) was a German historian and Protestant theologian .
Life
Rennstich's father died in 1940. Rennstich studied Protestant theology in Wuppertal and Basel . He then became vicar of the Württemberg regional church . After his vicariate in Boll near Oberndorf am Neckar , he went to Sabah in East Malaysia for the Basel Mission in 1965 . He then taught as a lecturer at Trinity College in Singapore , where he also helped to build a Protestant congregation. In 1976 he was at the University of Basel with a dissertation on the subject of mission and economic development to Dr. theol. doctorate, in 1994 he completed his habilitation.
Since 1977 he was pastor in the parish office for mission and ecumenism in Heilbronn , in 1986 he became the executive director of studies at the Mission Academy at the University of Hamburg . Here he mainly looked after theology students from overseas. In 1979 he was as a private mission Sciences Theological Evangelical to the faculty of the University of Basel appointed. In 1992 he became head of the pastoral college in Bad Urach as well as church councilor and pastor in Seeburg. From 2002 he retired to Reutlingen . In 2005 he gave his last lecture at the University of Basel.
Since his first lectures in Singapore, Rennstich has mainly dealt with the topic of corruption , to which his habilitation thesis from 1994 was also dedicated, and in 2005 he published a book in which he dealt with corruption from the perspective of different world religions. He saw corruption as one of the central challenges for society and the church because of its harmful effects on many people.
Rennstich died on December 19, 2015 as a result of a serious fall.
Fonts
- Karl Rennstich wrote numerous articles in the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL)
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Rennstich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sabine Hellebrand: Karl Rennstich is 70 years old . ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Press release of the Württemberg regional church from March 14, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Mourning for Pastor Rennstich . swp.de , December 22, 2015.
- ^ Karl Rennstich: Penultimate Sunday of the church year (day of national mourning), November 14, 2004: Sermon on Romans 8, 18-25 . Göttingen sermons on the Internet , accessed on December 28, 2015.
- ^ Karl W. Rennstich: Korruption und Religion , Hampp, Mehring 2005, 131 pages.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rennstich, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rennstich, Karl Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian, Protestant theologian and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stetten am Heuchelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th December 2015 |