List of German-speaking free church historians
The alphabetically arranged list of German-speaking free church historians includes those historians who publish in German (or who have published earlier) and whose research is largely concerned with the history of the newer free churches .
Research into the Anabaptist movement of the 16th century, which is often regarded as the beginning of the Free Church , is excluded here because it represents a topic of its own that has long been worked on intensively, and in general historians rarely use the term "Free Church" when describing the Anabaptists. .
Research into the history of the free churches
The history of the free churches of the last centuries is hardly dealt with in the theological faculties of universities . The church history lecturers of free church seminars and other members of free churches, especially pastors, devote themselves to it . These are mostly about the history of their own free church. Since around 1990, the year the Association for Free Church Research was founded , more general historical findings have been sought by means of cross-thematic comparisons between the denominations.
The respective main research areas are attached in brackets to the names of the historians selected here.
List of selected free church historians
- Günter Balders ( Baptists , Pietism , Hymnology )
- Ulrich Bister ( Brothers Movement )
- Oswald Eggenberger ( special communities )
- Heinold Fast ( Anabaptist , Mennonite )
- Erich Geldbach ( Baptists , Free Churches )
- Hans-Jürgen Goertz (Baptist, Mennonites)
- Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer ( Baptists , Austria )
- Wolfgang E. Heinrichs (Freikirchen, Wuppertal )
- Daniel Heinz ( Seventh-day Adventist )
- Walther Hermes ( Free Protestant Congregations )
- Frank Hinkelmann ( Austria )
- Stephan Holthaus ( Evangelicals )
- Kurt Hutten (special communities)
- Diether Götz Lichdi (Mennonites)
- Christoph Raedel (Methodist)
- Martin Rothkegel (Baptists, Anabaptists )
- Astrid von Schlachta ( Hutterites , Mennonites)
- Ulrike Schuler (Methodist)
- Andrea Strübind (Baptists, Anabaptists)
- Karl Heinz Voigt ( Methodists , Free Churches)
Bibliography on the history of the free churches
The free church research yearbook , published by the Association for Free Church Research , contains a 30-page bibliography on the history of the free churches . The majority of the authors of the publications listed there deal with the history of the free churches.
Remarks
- ↑ In the German-speaking area the expansion of the free churches took place mainly in the last 200 years; this is usually the focus of historical portrayals, such as in Karl H. Voigt: Free churches in Germany (19th and 20th centuries). Berlin 2004.
- ^ Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer: Free Churches in Austria since 1846. On the sources and on questions of method. In: Yearbook for the History of Protestantism in Austria 124/125 (2008/09), pp. 270–302, there 277f .: “Reasons for the lack of small church historical research”.
- ↑ Now the more comprehensive term “free church historian” is gradually being used; B. from the Friedensau University Library ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See e.g. B. the study Free Churches and Jews in the “Third Reich” (= Church - Denomination - Religion; 54), ed. by Daniel Heinz. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2011, or the lectures of the symposia of the Association for Free Church Research appearing in the yearbook Free Church Research; see a list of the topics of the symposia .
- ↑ The selection includes historians who are relevant in terms of Wikipedia and for whom there are for the most part their own Wikipedia articles.
