Magdalene L. Frettlöh

Magdalene L. Frettlöh (born November 11, 1959 in Beddelhausen , today: Bad Berleburg / Siegen-Wittgenstein district) is a German Protestant theologian.

After studying Protestant theology at the Theological Seminary Bethel and the Universities of Heidelberg and Bern and worked as a curate in Bielefeld and as an assistant at the Universities of Bern and Bochum Frettlöh 1997 in Bochum Dr. theol. PhD. Her dissertation “Theology of Blessing” was awarded the Wilhelm Hollenberg Prize . The work has "meanwhile achieved the status of a standard work", judged Johannes Schnocks five years after the first edition was published. In 2004 she qualified as a professor in Bochum with the text “Gott Give Weight” for systematic theology . In 2007, her habilitation thesis was awarded the scientific advancement award of the Marga Bührig Foundation in Basel. In 2006 she became the rector of distance learning in the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . Since the winter semester 2011 she has been Professor of Systematic Theology at the Theological Faculty of the University of Bern.

Her research focuses in particular on the doctrine of election , the doctrine of God , Christology and eschatology , the theology of Karl Barth as well as the Judeo-Christian dialogue and the theological gender discourse in the context of the ban on images .

Publications (selection)

Monographs and essays:

• Theology of blessing. Biblical and dogmatic perceptions , Gütersloh 1998; 5th edition 2005.
• When man and woman are in the image of God ... About gender-specific images of God, the image of God and the ban on images , Wuppertal 2002.
• Give weight to god. Building blocks of a gender-equitable doctrine of God , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2006, 2nd edition 2009.
• Words are food. Ecclesiastical and theological everyday food , Wittingen 2007.
• God where are you Ecclesiastical-theological everyday food. Vol. 2 , Wittingen 2009.
• (together with Volkhard Knigge): Where was God in Buchenwald? (Lectiones 1), Weimar 2010.
• One word gives the other. Sermons and other word gifts from church distance learning , Wittingen 2010.
• (together with Andreas Krebs / Torsten Meireis): Talking about God tentatively. Three systematic-theological inaugural lectures from Bern , Zurich 2013.
• "Mutuum colloquium ...". Related bills and Widerworte of God and man . (Erev-Rav-Hefte. Biblical Explorations 17), Uelzen 2016.

Editorships:

• (Ed. together with Jan-Dirk Döhling): The world as God's place - God as the place of the world. Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt's theological utopia in conversation , Gütersloh 2001.
• (Ed. together with Hans P. Lichtenberger): Perceiving God. Festschrift for Christian Link on his 65th birthday , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2003.
• (Ed. together with Achim Detmers): Making treasures shine. Ecclesiastical distance learning 1960-2010: Protestant theology for voluntary preaching service and everyday communication of faith , Leipzig 2010.
• (Ed. together with Kerstin Schiffner / Steffen Leibold / Jan-Dirk Döhling / Ulrike Bail): Questions against the answers. Festschrift for Jürgen Ebach on his 65th birthday , Gütersloh 2010.
• (Ed. together with Katharina von Bremen / Steffen Leibold): From generation to generation. Farewell words by and for Jürgen Ebach , Schwerte-Villigst 2010.
• Hannah Michaelsen: Adieu, Raphael! Memories of a survivor , ed. and with an afterword essay, Uelzen 2014.
• (Ed. together with Andreas Krebs): "From Jerusalem to Athens and back via ...". Documentation of the farewell symposium for Hans P. Lichtenberger on December 13, 2013 , Würzburg 2016.
• (Ed. together with Frank Mathwig / Matthias Zeindler): "God's powerful claim". The Barmer Theological Declaration as a formed key text . (reformed! 2), Zurich 2016.
• (Ed. together with Frank Mathwig / David Plüss / Matthias Zeindler): "In your hand my times ...". The church year in a reformed perspective with ecumenical accents . (reformed! 4), Zurich 2017.

Web links

• Literature by and about Magdalene L. Frettlöh in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the University of Bern

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bible and Church 2/2003, p. 136.