Karlmann Beyschlag

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Karlmann Beyschlag (born March 9, 1923 in Berlin ; † February 1, 2011 in Erlangen ) was a German theologian and church historian .

Life

As the son of Rudolf Beyschlag (1891–1961) and great-grandson of Willibald Beyschlag (1823–1900), Beyschlag grew up in the middle of the troubled first years of the Weimar Republic in Berlin . From 1941 to 1945 he performed the war service in North Africa, Russia and France, which had a defining influence on him. 1945–1946 he was a prisoner of war.

From 1946 to 1951 he studied Protestant theology at the Bethel Church University as well as in Erlangen and Marburg . From 1951 to 1953 he was a parish priest in Hessen. In 1953 he was with a study on the Sermon at St. Francis of Assisi and Martin Luther in Erlangen, Dr. theol. doctorate, then he became a repetitionist for the New Testament. In 1955 he completed his habilitation with Walther von Loewenich in Erlangen for historical theology and was ordained in Eschwege . From 1956 he taught as a private lecturer or adjunct professor (from 1963) for church history. From 1971 to 1988 he was full professor for historical theology (older church history) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , 1979–1981 dean of the theological faculty.

Karlmann Beyschlag was married to Anna-Katharina Beyschlag, born in 1951. Bode. They had two children together.

Services

As a church historian with a Lutheran, biblical and pastoral orientation, Beyschlag shaped several generations of students with Reinhard Slenczka , Manfred Seitz , Niels-Peter Moritzen (* 1928) and Ingetraut Ludolphy (* 1921) and won them over to work on patristics and the Bible. Together with Manfred Seitz, he initiated so-called "life word groups", which had the spiritual life of theology students in view, u. a. through weekly memoratio et meditatio of a Bible verse. In addition, he advocated a look at the Erlangen school ( Adolf Harleß , Johann Wilhelm Friedrich Höfling , Gottfried Thomasius , Hermann Olshausen and Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann ) and the Erlangen theological traditions ( Theodor Zahn , Franz Delitzsch , Franz Hermann Reinhold von Frank , Theodosius Harnack and others). In doing so, he envisaged embedding theology in the church and from 1982, in the tradition of Adolf von Harnack and Reinhold Seeberg, was the first to venture a profiled panorama of the history of dogma from an ecumenical perspective ( outline of the history of dogma ). In addition to this, Beyschlag's scientific legacy is the monumental representation of Erlangen theology (1993). From 1991 he acted as editor of the Homiletic-Liturgical Correspondence Journal New Series (Flacius Verlag Fürth ).

His openness to encounters and the support of conservative training centers ( Spiritual Armory Center Krelingen , Albrecht-Bengel-Haus Tübingen , Lutheran Theological University Oberursel, etc.) is just as characteristic of him as his distinctive, unconventional teaching, which goes beyond clichés, and which clearly defines his own point of view. Critically of the church, he lamented the anticipation of eschatology , a detachment from the Bible and confession in church-theological judgments and called for a high-profile education against mere information. He was committed to the legacy of Werner Elert , Hermann Sasse and Paul Althaus . Since the late 1970s, he has been in close correspondence with the Neuendettelsau Old Testament scholar Martin Wittenberg . In addition to the Sermon on the Mount , Franz von Assisi , Martin Luther and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , he devoted himself to studies on Simon Magus , Clemens Romanus and Dag Hammarskjöld . In 2001 he was awarded the Hermann Sasse Prize of the SELK in Oberursel .

Works

  • The Erlangen theology. (Individual works from the church history of Bavaria 67). Erlangen 1993, ISBN 3-87513-086-3 .
  • Outline of the history of dogma :
    • Vol. 1: God and the world. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-534-04610-2 .
    • Vol. 1: God and the world. rework. u. exp. Edition. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1988, ISBN 3-534-04610-2 . (Japanese translation 1996)
    • Vol. 2: God and man. Part 1: The Christological Dogma. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1991, ISBN 3-534-08088-2 . (Japanese translation 1997)
    • Vol. 2: God and man. Part 2: The Occidental Era. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-534-11166-4 .
  • In terms of Althaus / Elert. Objection to Berndt Hamm. In: Homiletic-Liturgical Correspondence Sheet. New episode 8. (1990/91) 153-172.
  • Dag Hammarskjold. Grandi mistici. Bologna 2016, ISBN 9-788-81051-510-5.

literature

  • Bernd Jaspert : Monasticism and Protestantism. Problems and ways of research since 1877. Volume 3: From Karlmann Beyschlag to Martin Tetz . St. Ottilien 2007, ISBN 978-3-8306-7286-9 .
  • Wolfgang A. Bienert : Hermann Sasse and Karlmann Beyschlag - two Lutheran theologians in the 20th century . In: Ders .: Church history in ecumenical responsibility. Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89971-753-2 , pp. 241-252.
  • Reiner Andreas Neuschäfer : Karlmann Beyschlag (1923–2011). An underrated Erlangen theologian . In: Homiletic-Liturgical Correspondence Sheet New Series No. 4/2014, pp. 23–37.
  • Reiner Andreas Neuschäfer:  Beyschlag, Karlmann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 35, Bautz, Nordhausen 2014, ISBN 978-3-88309-882-1 , Sp. 153-164.
  • Reiner Andreas Neuschäfer: Beyschlag, Karlmann (1923–2011) . In: Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation (new edition), 1, 2016.
  • Armin Wenz: Karlmann Beyschlag. The Last Twentieth-Century Erlangen Theologian . In: Logia. A Journal of Lutheran Theology XXII-2 2013, pp. 53-55.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The professors and lecturers at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen (1743-1960). P. 10. (online at: opus.ub.uni-erlangen.de ) (PDF; 856 kB)
  2. ↑ "At the beginning, the participants will be familiarized with spiritual scripture reading and Christian meditation. In the further course the students meditate daily for themselves a jointly determined Bible verse, the" word of life ". What they experience is discussed in groups. The aim is that the Activity as a pastor is carried and permeated by the word of life. " Wolfgang Bub u. a. (Ed.): Word of life. Erlangen university sermons by FS Manfred Seitz, Erlangen 1988, p. 7.
  3. ↑ (online)
personal data
SURNAME Beyschlag, Karlmann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 2011
Place of death gain