Klaus W. Müller

Klaus W. Müller (born April 21, 1945 in Mühlhausen an der Enz ) is a German evangelical theologian and missiologist .

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After completing primary school in Mühlhausen / Enz, Müller initially trained as an art carpenter . He practiced this profession until 1963, then obtained his secondary school leaving certificate at the Technical High School in Pforzheim and studied from 1964 to 1969 at the mission seminar of the Liebenzeller Mission . In 1985 he received his MA in Missiology at Fuller Theological Seminary , 1993, he was at the University of Aberdeen with a thesis on Georg Friedrich Vicedom for Ph.D. PhD. From 1970 to 1981 Müller was a missionary in Micronesia . In 1982 he founded the research center for German-speaking, evangelical missions . His main area of research is the contextualization of the Christian faith in non-European countries. From 1981 to 1998 he lectured at the seminar for missionary training at the Free University for Mission in Korntal and from 1994 to 1998 was also professor for mission at the German branch of Columbia International University . Afterwards Müller taught at the Free Theological University Gießen (FTH) and at the state- independent Theological University Basel . He also works on the doctoral program of the Belgian Evangelical Theological Faculty in Leuven . He was chairman of the Working Group for Evangelical Missiology (AfeM) and editor of the journal Evangelical Missiology .

Müller married Ulrike Düffert on Oneop in 1971. The couple has three children and lives in Biebertal .

Elenkik: The doctrine of the shame and guilt-oriented conscience , evangelical missiology 12 (1996), pp. 98–110, ISSN 0177-8706 .
Georg F. Vicedom as missionary and peacemaker: his missionary practice in New Guinea . (Dissertation) Erlanger Verlag, Neuendettelsau 2002, ISBN 978-3-872143280 .
The conscience in culture and religion , VTR, Nuremberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-933372055 .
as editors: David J. Hesselgrave and Marita Wilczek (transl.): Missionary proclamation in a cultural context: An introduction , Brunnen Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-765517396 .
The Protestant Mission on the Chuuk Islands in Micronesia: History, Strategy, and Methods Theology; 1873-1979 . (Master's thesis 1981: The Protestant mission work on the Truk Islands in Micronesia ), VTR, Nuremberg 2014.
with Elmar Spohn (Ed.): Intercultural Theology versus Missiology. Contributions to History - Mission - Theology (Festschrift for Bernd Brandl on his 65th birthday), VTR Verlag, Nuremberg 2020, ISBN 978-3-95776-101-9 .

Friedemann Walldorf , Lothar Käser , Bernd Brandl (eds.): Mission and reflection in context. Perspectives on Evangelical Mission Studies in the 21st Century. Festschrift for Klaus W. Müller on his 65th birthday . edition afem, mission academics 31, Nuremberg / Bonn. VTR / VKW 2010. ISBN 978-3938116920 .

↑ ^a ^b Lothar Käser: Klaus W. Müller - An Approach (PDF; 676 kB) ( Memento from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in Evangelical Missiology 2/2011, missiologie-afem.de
↑ A pioneer of evangelical missiology is 70 , idea.de, message from April 21, 2015.
↑ Guest lecturers at the STH Basel , sthbasel.ch, accessed on April 23, 2015.
^ Staff at the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Leuven ( memento from April 23, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), etf.edu
↑ Eckart Graumann: A trailblazer in evangelical missiology: Prof. Dr. Klaus W. Müller turns 65th Giessener Zeitung, April 21, 2010, accessed on March 13, 2013 .
^ Müller: Vita ( Memento from July 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), fthgiessen.de

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Klaus W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Müller, Klaus Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	evangelical theologian, missiologist and missionary
DATE OF BIRTH	April 21, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mulhouse (Enz)