Klaus Eickhoff

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Klaus Eickhoff (born February 24, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German Protestant theologian , evangelist , church advisor and author.

Life

Eickhoff trained as an engraver in 1951 . At the age of 18 he found the Christian faith . He gave up his profession and completed a theological training from 1956 to 1959 at the Johanneum Evangelist School in Wuppertal. After that he was city missionary of the Berlin city mission for five years . From 1965 to 1974 he was an evangelist in the Office for Missionary Services of the Hanover Regional Church. Between 1968 and 1973 he studied Protestant theology at the Theological Academy in Celle , Lower Saxony. After ordination in 1973 and the second theological exam, he was pastor from 1974 to 1979 in the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Marien (Uelzen) . There he built up a large youth work through the confirmation class, which he saw as a focus in addition to the sermon, the Uelzen “Common Evening”. After studying practical theology in the USA in 1979/1980, Eickhoff was rector of the Evangelism and Congregation Plant in the Evangelical Church A. B. in Austria until his retirement in 1997. In predominantly Catholic Austria, his ecumenical outlook earned him many friends, including among Catholics. In 2006 he did his doctorate with Hendrik Pieterse at the University of South Africa (UniSA) as Doctor of Theology with his dissertation in Practical Theology: Where preaching leads: The mission-oriented congregation as the goal of biblical preaching .

Eickhoff was chairman of the Working Group for Congregation Development (AGGA), is co-founder of the Academy for Christian Leaders (AcF) and has been a lecturer there since 1999, as well as lecturer in practical theology at the Martin Bucer Seminar . He is the author of numerous books. In addition to several theological publications, he wrote writings on the subject of conveying the faith.

Private

Klaus Eickhoff was married to Renate from 1960 until her death in 2011. He has six children (including Klaus-André Eickhoff ), eleven grandchildren and one great-grandson. He is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and lives in Villach , Carinthia. In 2014 he married the pedagogue Margit Ofner. The couple lives in Austria.

Publications

  • I have to talk to you: About the most important thing in the world , Brockhaus 1971, Brunnen 1997, ISBN 978-3-417-22024-7 , (with translations in French, Dutch and Hungarian).
  • Not from bread alone , Brockhaus, Witten 1972, ISBN 978-3-417-004052 .
  • Teenager problems , Brockhaus, Witten 1972, 15th edition 1992, ISBN 978-3-417-20196-3 .
  • Ik móét je spreken , Gideon Verlag, Hoornaar 1974, ISBN 978-9-06067401-7 .
  • Being young, your chance , Kawohl-Verlag, Wuppertal 1975, ISBN 978-3-88087-106-9 .
  • Accepted - taken seriously: When young people are Christians , Brockhaus, Witten 1976, 5th edition 1990, ISBN 978-3-417-22009-4 .
  • Hunger: Short Stories and Reflections , Brockhaus, Witten 1978, ISBN 978-3-417-20259-5 .
  • And since he saw the people ... Thoughts on the proclamation , Kawohl-Verlag, Wuppertal 1978, ISBN 978-3-88087-308-7 .
  • Your sadness should be transformed into joy , Kawohl-Verlag, Wuppertal 1979, ISBN 978-3-88087-163-2 .
  • What matters? , SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 1980, ISBN 978-3-7751-1179-9 .
  • Take a break , Brockhaus, Witten 1980, 7th edition 1997, ISBN 978-3-7751-1647-3 .
  • Is there anything nicer? , SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 1980, ISBN 978-3-7751-0527-9 .
  • Why are we not doing well when we are doing well ... , Brockhaus, Witten 1985, ISBN 978-3-417-35228-3 .
  • Cheerful and lively instead of boring all around , Brockhaus, Witten 1990, ISBN 978-3-417-21208-2 .
  • Millionaire fever: For athletes and their fans , Brockhaus, Witten 1991, ISBN 978-3-417-24629-2 .
  • Developing a community for the people's church of the future: Suggestions for practice , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1992, ISBN 978-3-525-60382-6 .
  • My parents are at a difficult age , Oncken, Kassel 1986; SCM R. Brockhaus, Witten 8th edition 1996, ISBN 978-3-417-22018-6 .
  • Assess the sermon: Congregation thinks with you , Brockhaus, Witten 1998, ISBN 978-3-417-11133-0 .
  • Like a sparrow in a cage: Finding the freedom that really counts , SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2000, ISBN 978-3-7751-3596-2 .
  • Letter to a house group. Steps to new enthusiasm , Gerth Medien, Aßlar 2000, ISBN 978-3-89490342-8 .
  • I have to talk to you. On the longing to pack life , Brunnen-Verlag, Gießen 2002, ISBN 978-3-7655-1131-8 .
  • Klüngel, the crocodile with the bell , SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7751-4892-4 .
  • Harmless, powerless, aimless: The crisis of the sermon - and how we overcome it , (dissertation), SCM R. Brockhaus, Witten 2009, ISBN 978-3-417-26281-0 .
  • How do you kidnap a crocodile ?: Klüngel's great journey , SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-7751-5238-9 .
  • On the secret of suffering , SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-7751-5302-7 .
  • On the way I found home: Stations of a transit , (autobiography) SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2012, 2nd edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-7751-5420-8 .
  • Seeing and acting: on the essence of spiritual leaders , Verlag der Lutherischen Buchhandlung, Groß Oesingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86147-337-4 .
  • Life - and what for? Data. Facts. Worth knowing (from the series "in brief"), with Hartmut Jaeger, Markus Wasch (ed.), Christliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Dillenburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86353-153-9 .
  • Gates for the kingdom of heaven. What Christians can learn from footballers , Kawohl Verlag, Wesel 2017, ISBN 978-3-86338-013-7 .
  • Grace knows no doldrums , Christliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Dillenburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86353-460-8 .
  • Joy. Why we can't get enough of it , Christliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Dillenburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86353-611-4 .

as co-editor:

literature

  • David Neufeld (ed.): Experiences in the ministry. If I could start all over again ... , (pp. 52-64), Neufeld Verlag, Schwarzenfeld 2005, ISBN 978-3-937896144 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation Doctor of Theology: Doctoral Thesis (PDF; 2331 kB) , unisa.ac.za, accessed on December 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ Eickhoff: Vita , bucer.de, accessed on January 28, 2017.
  3. ↑ Lecturers of the AcF ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , acf.de, accessed on December 27, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.acf.de
  4. ^ Lecturer in practical theology at the Martin Bucer Seminar , bucer.de, accessed on December 27, 2014.
  5. ↑ Eickhoff: Vita ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , acf.de, accessed on December 27, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.acf.de
  6. ↑ They said yes ( memento of the original from December 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , radentheiner.at, report from April 13, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radentheiner.at
personal data
SURNAME Eickhoff, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin