Klaus Otte (theologian)

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Paul Adolf Klaus Otte (born January 14, 1935 in Wuppertal ; † April 28, 2020 in Altenkirchen (Westerwald) ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Live and act

Otte studied theology at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal and at the universities of Heidelberg, Bonn and Basel. In 1968 he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on Philo of Alexandria . In 1984 Otte was appointed professor at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut . From 1989 to 1991 he was on behalf of the Swiss East Asia Mission head of the "House of Encounters" founded by Werner Kohler in Kyoto . There Otte also taught as a visiting professor at the Christian Dōshisha University and at Kansei Gakuin Daigaku in Kobe .

After 1991, as a pastor, Otte tried to make interreligious dialogue an issue in a rural community in Germany. For this he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1999 .

Publications (selection)

  • Religion and nothing. Focal points of the philosophy of religion with Bernhard Welte and Keiji Nishitani. In: Phenomenology of Religion, Freiburg 2004, pp. 223–234
  • Reactions to secularization from Buddhism from a Christian perspective. In: Secularization as a Challenge for Buddhism and Christianity. (Japanese and German) Kyoto 2004.
  • Sign of a dream - Against forgetting. Altenkirchen and Basel 1st edition 2003, 2nd edition 2004
  • Get out of your fatherland - solidarity from 'nowhere'. Jews, Christians, Muslims and many others on the way. (Buddhist traces in the three book religions) Bonn Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Learning, Bonn 2003
  • "Frui Deo" - "Enjoy God". A religious ontological perspective of God in the Lord's Supper in a multi-religious world. Example of a historically factual hermeneutics from and in experience. In: Der one God and the world of religions, Würzburg 2003, pp. 417–442
  • World in worship - worship in the world. In: Church in rural areas, Altenkirchen 2002
  • Life in the Vow: Practical and Ethical Implications of the Three Book-Religions in the Modern World Compared with those of Shin Buddhism. In: The Pure Land NS Kyoto 2002, pp. 66-71
  • Interreligious Dialogue and Hermeneutics. In: Religions in Conversation (RIG) Volume 7, Balve 2002, pp. 315–332
  • Read in the writings of others - a German contribution. In: Spirituality and Ethical Education. Hamburg 2001, p. 129f.
  • God - Amida - Nirvana: Aspects of inductive hermeneutics in the religious-ontological dialogue between Shin Buddhism and Christianity. In: Buddhismus und Christianentum, Hamburg 2002, pp. 52–71
  • The answer of faith. Systematic theology in 50 articles. Unchanged reprint of the 3rd revised and expanded edition, edited by Klaus Otte, Stuttgart, Berlin and Cologne 1999 (together with Heinrich Ott ): especially Article 41
  • The absolute and the absolutists. In: Pluralistic Theology of Religions. Frankfurt am Main 1998, pp. 175-190
  • TAN-NI-SHO - The Favor of the Pure Land. Encounter between Buddhism and Christianity (together with Ryogi Okochi), Bern 1979 (a completed intercultural learning process).
  • Through the congregation to the sermon. To determine the relationship between theology and sermon with Alexander Schweizer and Alois Emanuel Biedermann. Frankfurt am Main 1979.
  • Learning as a reflexively realized existence. The analysis of a learning process in theology, presented to Karl Rahner: The life of the dead. With an accompanying word by Karl Rahner , Frankfurt am Main 1978

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Stroh: Mourning for Pastor retired Dr. Klaus Otte. In: kk-ak.de . May 4, 2020, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  2. ^ The understanding of language in Philo of Alexandria. Language as a means of hermeneutics. Tubingen 1968
personal data
SURNAME Otte, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2020
Place of death Altenkirchen (Westerwald)