Klaus Bockmühl

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Klaus Bockmühl (born May 6, 1931 in Essen , † June 10, 1989 in Vancouver , Canada) was a Protestant theologian and professor of systematic theology . The focus of his publishing was on ethics , his 1990 book Listening to the God Who Speaks was his legacy, which influenced many people and had several editions.

Life

At the age of sixteen, Bockmühl attended youth services in the Weigle House in Essen , which was founded by the well-known pastor Wilhelm Busch (1897–1966). In the Weigle House he encountered a form of Christianity that was convincing for him, so that he finally made a conscious and very uncompromising return to Jesus Christ as part of a holiday camp.

After graduating from high school in 1951, Bockmühl studied from 1951 to 1958 in addition to Protestant theology , philosophy and, at times, sociology ; Study locations were Wuppertal , Göttingen , Tübingen , Basel and London . I.a. he attended seminars with Karl Barth , whom he also got to know personally.

Bockmühl received his doctorate in 1959 with Hendrik van Oyen in Basel. Then he was assistant to Jürgen Moltmann in Wuppertal from 1958 to 1961. After his marriage in 1961 he was ordained and worked as an assistant preacher . From 1962 to 1965 Bockmühl was an assistant researcher for the history of Christian ethics with Hendrik van Oyen in Basel. From 1965 to 1968 he worked as a student pastor in Heidelberg . After a three-year parish office in Schmieheim (Black Forest), he became a lecturer at the preachers and mission seminar (today the theological seminar ) St. Chrischona in Bettingen near Basel. He had been a guest lecturer there since 1965. From 1976 to 1980 he was a member of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance WEA . In 1977 Bockmühl became professor of theology and ethics at Regent College in Vancouver, where he died in 1989.

Awards

  • In 1988 he was awarded the Johann Tobias Beck Prize for his work on Law and Spirit: A Critical Appreciation of the Legacy of Protestant Ethics .
  • In 2011, 30 former lecturers, employees and scholarship holders celebrated the 80th birthday of Klaus Bockmühl, who had taught there for 12 years, in Memoria at Regent College in Memoria

Works (excerpt)

  • Sense and nonsense of the new morality - criticism and self-criticism , Brunnen Verlag (Gießen) 1973
  • What does mission mean today? Decision-making issues in recent mission theology , Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1974
  • Evangelical Social Ethics - Article 5 of the Lausanne Obligation , Brunnen, Giessen / Basel 1975
  • Books - what for? Opportunities for Christian literary work , Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1976
  • The sending Lord - the new creation , Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1976
  • The Service of Theology , Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1976
  • Challenges of Marxism , Brunnen, Giessen / Basel 1977
  • Man in search of humanity , Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1979
  • The greatest bid , Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1980
  • Corporeality and Society - Studies on the Critique of Religion and Anthroposophy in the Early Work of Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Marx , Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1980
  • On the way - instructions for the succession , Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1981
  • Life from the Gospel , Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1982
  • Theology and Lifestyle - Collected Essays II , Brunnen Gießen / Basel 1982
  • God in exile? - On the Critique of New Morals - Atheism in Christianity II , Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1984
  • The Topicality of Pietism , Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1985
  • Atheism in Christianity - The Unreality of God in Theology and Church , Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1985
  • Law and Spirit - A Critical Appreciation of the Legacy of Protestant Ethics , Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1987
  • The Christian doctrine of conversion between Marxism and modern theology , Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1989
  • Listening to the God who speaks , Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1990 (3rd edition 2009 under the title: Living with the God who speaks , ISBN 978-3-7655-9441-0 )
  • Christian Lifestyle - An Ethic of the Ten Commandments , Brunnen, Gießen 1999
  • Responsibility of belief. Protestant theology in the 19th and 20th centuries , BWA (Bockmühl-Werkausgabe III), 3, Brunnen, Gießen 2001, ISBN 978-3-765594458 .
  • Responsibility of Faith through the Ages. Protestant theology in the 19th and 20th centuries , (BWA III, 3), Brunnen, Gießen 2001, ISBN 978-3-765594458 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Ehrat: Listening to the God who speaks , Chrischona Panorama 3/2017, pp. 24-25
  2. ↑ afet: winners of the Johann-Tobias-Beck Award
  3. ↑ Matthias Mockler: The best colleague I have ever had! Klaus Bockmühl in memoriam , St. Chrischona October 12, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Bockmühl, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German evangelical theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1989
Place of death Vancouver