Kurt Hutten

Kurt Hutten (born March 6, 1901 in Langenburg , † August 17, 1979 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German Protestant theologian , apologist and publicist .

Education

After completing the mandatory schooling, Hutten attended the Evangelical Seminars in Maulbronn and Blaubeuren from 1915 to 1919 . He then studied Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen . Here he also became a member of the Tübingen royal society Roigel . In 1923 he passed the first theological exam and was vicar in Schnaitheim and Mergentheim until 1927 . Hutten completed his doctorate in philosophy in 1928 with the Tübingen religious scholar Jakob Wilhelm Hauer .

Professional activity

The stages of Hutten's professional career were:

1930 managing director of the Evangelical People's Union of Württemberg
1935 Editor of the Evangelical Press Service (EPD)
1939 Editor of the Evangelical Community Gazette for Württemberg
1941 representative of Württemberg at the Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany in Berlin

From mid-1943 Hutten was called up for military service and was taken prisoner by the Americans until September 1945 . From 1952 to 1960, Hutten was then responsible for the German Pastor's Gazette and then headed the Protestant Central Office for Weltanschauung questions in Stuttgart for eight years . In 1970 he was appointed “Commissioner for Religious Minorities” by the EKD Council.

Hutten's main work seers, brooders, enthusiasts

His sect book seers, brooders , enthusiasts - first published in 1950 - became a " classic ". In 1982 it was published in its final version, which was reprinted three times unchanged until 1997. This standard work is used again and again. In his preoccupation with special communities, Hutten also saw an occasion for church self-criticism. He spoke of an “office of the sects”: “We must pay attention to the office that God has also given to the sects.” For such communities point to gaps in church preaching and shortcomings in church practice. Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer refers to this attitude and specifies it in the chapters “Learning processes through encounters with sect members” and “Theological insights through observation of the sect scene”.

Publications

National Socialism and Christianity . Evangelical Volksbund, Stuttgart 1932
Christ or German faith? A fight for the German soul . Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1935
A New Gospel? On the demand for a “national reformation” of the church . Quell, Stuttgart 1936
Seers, brooders, enthusiasts. The book of traditional sects and special religious movements . Quell, Stuttgart 1950; 12. A. ibid. 1982, ISBN 3-7918-2130-X
The belief world of the sectarian. Sectarianism as an anti-reformist denomination - its claim and its tragedy . Furche, Hamburg 1957
Space, man and heaven . Calwer (Issues 43), Stuttgart 1961
Asia missionaries in the West (edited with Siegfried von Kortzfleisch ). Kreuz, Stuttgart 1962
Migration of souls - hope or nightmare for humans? (with Siegfried von Kortzfleisch). Kreuz, Stuttgart 1962; 2nd supplement A. ibid. 1966
Christians behind the Iron Curtain . 2 volumes. Quell, Stuttgart 1962/63
What do the sects believe? Model, ways, question marks . Quell, Stuttgart 1965
The press as a pulpit? Annunciation in journalism 1938–1967 . Quell, Stuttgart 1967
Future - Paradise or the end of the world? Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1974, ISBN 3-417-00471-3

literature

Hermann Ehmer: Hutten, Kurt. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 696-701. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Literature by and about Kurt Hutten in the catalog of the German National Library
In memoriam Kurt Hutten, on the 30th anniversary of his death, in Christ im Dialog 2009 ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

Single receipts

↑ The Evangelical Church Lexicon . Internationale theologische Enzyklopädie , Vol. 4, Göttingen 1996, Col. 196, states about this work: “comprehensive description and literature” (in the article sect , by Wolfgang Marhold).
^ So Hutten in the foreword of his book Seher, Grübler, Enthusiasten , already in the 1st edition from 1950.
^ Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer: Warnings against wrong ways or self-questioning as a church. In: Christian Herrmann, Rolf Hille (ed.): Believe responsibly. A thematic book on Christian apologetics . VTR, Nuremberg 2016, pp. 284–293, there 289f.
↑ Graf-Stuhlhofer: Warning of wrong ways or self-questioning as a church. The church debate with so-called "sects". In: Herrmann, Hille: Believing responsibly. 2016, pp. 290-293.

personal data
SURNAME	Hutten, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian and sect scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	March 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Langenburg
DATE OF DEATH	17th August 1979
Place of death	Ludwigsburg

[1] The Evangelical Church Lexicon . Internationale theologische Enzyklopädie , Vol. 4, Göttingen 1996, Col. 196, states about this work: “comprehensive description and literature” (in the article sect , by Wolfgang Marhold).

[2] So Hutten in the foreword of his book Seher, Grübler, Enthusiasten , already in the 1st edition from 1950.

[3] Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer: Warnings against wrong ways or self-questioning as a church. In: Christian Herrmann, Rolf Hille (ed.): Believe responsibly. A thematic book on Christian apologetics . VTR, Nuremberg 2016, pp. 284–293, there 289f.

[4] Graf-Stuhlhofer: Warning of wrong ways or self-questioning as a church. The church debate with so-called "sects". In: Herrmann, Hille: Believing responsibly. 2016, pp. 290-293.