Marc Lienhard

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Marc Lienhard in June 2013

Marc Lienhard (born August 22, 1935 in Colmar ) is a French Lutheran theologian.

Life

Lienhard attended the Jean Sturm high school in Strasbourg and then studied at the university there as well as at the Faculté de Théologie Protestante de Montpellier and the University of Basel Protestant theology . After military service from 1959 to 1961, he became vicar and later pastor in Bischheim . From 1963 to 1968 he was pastor in Uhrwiller and was able to write a dissertation during this time, on the basis of which he was awarded a doctorate in Strasbourg in 1965. sc. rel. received his doctorate. As a research professor at the Ecumenical Institute of the Lutheran World Federation from 1968 to 1973, he took part in many ecumenical conferences and, among other things, played a leading role in drafting the Leuenberg Agreement of 1973.

After completing his habilitation in 1971 with a study of Martin Luther's theology , Lienhard was appointed professor of modern church history at the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Strasbourg in 1973 , where he taught until his retirement in 2003. From 1991 to 1996 he was dean . He held visiting professorships in Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Neuchâtel and Berlin, among others. In addition to Luther and the history of the Alsatian Reformation, his main research interests include the Anabaptists and other nonconformist movements within the Reformation. In 1975 he founded the Groupe de recherche sur les non-conformismes religieux du XVIe siècle et l'histoire des protestantismes (GRENEP) to research them and edited many sources.

Lienhard also held numerous church offices as a full-time university professor. From 1977 to 1991 he was a member of the senior consistory of the Église de la Confession d'Augsbourg d'Alsace et de Lorraine and from 1997 to 2003, as church president, spiritual leader of this church. During the same period he also served as President of the Conference of Churches on the Rhine and President of the Chapter on St. Thomas ( Chapitre de Saint-Thomas ). 1988–1991 and 1998–2003 he was a member of the council of the Fédération Protestante de France .

Honors and memberships (selection)

Fonts (selection)

  • Lutheran Reformed Church Fellowship Today. The Leuenberg Draft Agreement in the context of the Lutheran Reformed dialogues to date . Lembeck, Frankfurt a. M. 1972, 2 1973.
  • Luther, témoin de Jésus-Christ. Les étapes et les thèmes de la Christologie du Réformateur . CERF, Paris 1973.
    • Martin Luther's Christological testimony. Development and basic lines of his Christology . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1979.
    • Luther: Witness to Jesus Christ. Stages and Themes of the Reformers Christology . Minneapolis 1982.
  • Foi et vie des protestants d'Alsace, Présence protestante en Alsace . Strasbourg-Wettolsheim 1981.
  • La Reforme à Strasbourg. In: G. Livet, F. Rapp (eds.): Histoire de Strasbourg , Vol. 2. Strasbourg 1981, pp. 363-540.
    • Strasbourg and the Reformation . Morstadt, Kehl u. a. 1981, 2 1982.
  • Martin Luther. Un temps, une vie, un message . Labor et Fides, Paris-Genève 1983, 4 1998.
  • L'Evangile et l'Église chez Luther . CERF, Paris 1989.
  • Martin Luther. La passion de Dieu . Bayard, Paris 1999.
  • Identité confessionnelle et quête de l'unité. Catholiques et protestants face à l'exigence œcuménique . Olivétan, Lyon 2007.
  • Histoire et aléas de l'identité alsacienne . La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 2011.
    • Tension areas of an identity. The Alsatians . Steiner, Stuttgart 2013.
  • Le jour vient. Prédications et méditations . Olivétan, Lyon 2011.
  • Luther. Ses sources, sa pensée, sa place dans l'histoire. Labor et Fides, Genève 2016.
As (co-) editor
  • Testimony and service of Reformation churches in contemporary Europe . Lembeck, Frankfurt a. M. 1977.
  • The Origins and Characteristics of Anabaptism (= Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idées 87). Nijhoff, The Hague 1977.
  • Horizons européens de la Réforme en Alsace . Mélanges Jean Rott, Société Savante d'Alsace et des régions de l'Est, Grandes Publications 17, Strasbourg, 1980.
  • Martini Buceri Opera latina I. Brill, Leiden 1982 (with Cornelis Augustijn and Pierre Frænkel).
  • Les dissidents du XVI e siècle entre l'humanisme et le catholicisme . Koerner, Baden-Baden 1983.
  • Sources on the history of the Anabaptists Alsace III. Part, City of Strasbourg 1536–1542 (= sources and research on the history of the Reformation, vol. 53). Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 1986.
  • Sources on the history of the Anabaptists, Part IV, City of Strasbourg 1543–1552 . Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 1988.
  • Philipp Jacob Spener: Pia Desideria (traduction française). Arfuyen, Paris 1990.
  • La foi des Églises luthériennes. Confessions et catéchismes . Cerf-Labor et Fides, Paris-Genève 1991.
  • Martin Bucer and Sixteenth Century Europe. Actes du colloque de Strasbourg, 28-31 août 1991 (= Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought 52-53). Brill, Leiden 1993.
  • Luther. Oeuvres. Vol. I. La Pléiade, Gallimard, Paris 1999.
  • La Théologie. Une anthology. Renaissance et Réformes. Cerf, Paris 2010.
  • Church history on the Upper Rhine - ecumenical and cross-border . Regional culture publisher, Ubstadt 2013.
  • Martin Luther, Traités polémiques. Contre Latomus. Contre Jean le Pitre . Labor et Fides, Genève 2015.

A complete bibliography can be found on Lienhard's personal homepage.

literature

  • Bernard Vogler : Marc Lienhard. In Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne 24 (1995), p. 2369.
  • Positions Luthériennes 48, 2000, issue 3 (commemorative publication for the 65th birthday).
  • La Reformation. Un temps, des hommes, un message (= Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie religieuses 85, 2005) (Festschrift for the 70th birthday).

Web links

Commons : Marc Lienhard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ member entry of Marc Lienhard at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 10.27.17
  2. ↑ http://www.marclienhard.fr/spip.php?article3 .
personal data
SURNAME Lienhard, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Colmar