Luzia Sutter Rehmann

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Luzia Sutter Rehmann (born February 3, 1960 ) is a Reformed Swiss theologian .

Life

Luzia Sutter Rehmann teaches the New Testament as adjunct professor at the Theological Faculty of the University of Basel and is the director of studies in the working group for contemporary issues of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Biel-Bienne . Since 2007 she has been a radio preacher at the Swiss Radio DRS 2. She translated the Gospel of Luke for the Bible into righteous language (2006). She studied in Basel and Montpellier in the 1980s and belongs to the generation of women theologians who tried to combine family and work and who helped develop feminist theology . In 1988 she was the first female pastor in the Evangelical Reformed Church of Basel-Stadt to apply for and receive maternity leave. In 1993 she did her doctorate with Luise Schottroff ( University of Kassel ) and combined research on social history with a liberation theological perspective.

She was chosen for her 1999 book Vom courage to look closely. Feminist-liberation-theological interpretations of apocalyptic (Lucerne 1998) awarded the Marga Bührig Förderpreis; In 2006 she received the prize for ethical and theological communication from the Akademie Iserloh for her contributions to the German Protestant Church Congress on the subject of the resurrection . Since 2003 she has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Marga Bührig Foundation. Luzia Sutter Rehmann also writes poems on theological topics. She is married to the bioethicist Christoph Rehmann-Sutter and lives in Binningen near Basel .

Most important research contributions

  • on biblical apocalyptic ( Revelation of John , 4th Ezra , Paul , apocryphal apocalypses)
  • on marriage (freedom of marriage, celibacy) and divorce in the New Testament (Mk 10.1-12par; 1Cor 7) and the ancient Roman and Jewish divorce law (M. Gettim, M. Ketubim, M. Nedarim)
  • to resurrection
  • to the Gospel of Luke
  • on the "hermeneutics of hunger", which makes the often not expressed but assumed hunger visible in texts such as the Acts of the Apostles and the Gospels.

Fonts (selection)

  • Go ask the mother! Feminist liberation theological investigation of the uterus motif in apocalyptic . Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 1995.
  • The courage to look closely. Feminist liberation theological interpretations of apocalyptic . Edition Exodus, Lucerne 1999.
  • Article Revelation of John, 4th Ezra, Testament of Job. In: Luise Schottroff , Marie-Theres Wacker (ed.): Compendium Feminist Biblical Interpretation . Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 1998.
  • Conflicts between her and him. Socio-historical and exegetical studies on the succession problem of married couples. Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 2002.
  • Ed. With Sabine Bieberstein , Ulrike Metternich: Throw yourself in the arms of life. Resurrection Experiences . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2004 (3rd edition).
  • Edited with Ulrike Metternich, Ursula Rapp: Bringing to shine. Biblical texts about happiness . Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 2006.
  • Ed. With Isa Breitmaier: Learning justice. Seminar units on the three basic categories of justice . Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 2008.
  • with Friedrich Fechter: Article marriage, bride, virgin, man-woman. In: Frank Crüsemann u. a. (Ed.): Social history dictionary for the Bible . Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 2009.
  • with Kerstin Rödiger, The whole point. A seven-step guide to Bible reading . Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 2010.
  • Edited with Kathy Ehrensperger, Nathan MacDonald: Decisive Meals. Table Politics in Biblical Literature . T&T Clark, London 2012.
  • Anger in the stomach. Hunger in the New Testament. Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Sutter Rehmann, Luzia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sutter-Rehmann, Luzi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reformed Swiss theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1960