Marco Frenschkowski

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Marco Frenschkowski (born July 7, 1960 in Hamburg ) is a German Protestant theologian and religious scholar . In addition to scientific work, he also publishes on general cultural-scientific topics. He is known to a wider audience because of his lectures and seminars in Germany and around the world on topics of interreligious dialogue, e. Partly through his work on fantastic and uncanny literature.

Life

Frenschkowski studied Protestant theology and Greek studies in Mainz and Tübingen from 1978 to 1983 . He received his doctorate in the New Testament under Otto Böcher in 1994 and received his habilitation in 2001. After teaching at the Universities of Mainz, Koblenz, Duisburg-Essen and Kassel and the Church University of Wuppertal, Frenschkowski has been Professor of New Testament at the Theological Faculty of Leipzig University since 2011 . Frenschkowski was pastor of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau (ordination 1986), for which he mainly did educational and ecumenical work. He has two children and lives in Hofheim am Taunus .

Research topics

Religious studies

Frenschkowski works on ancient religious history, especially early Christianity, its writings and its environment, on modern religious cultures (especially on New Religious Movements), and on topics of interreligious dialogue. His contribution “The part and the whole. What does religious studies do? ”Defines his approach to a theory of religion. His studies of the ancient development of Christianity into a new religion in analogy to today's new religions attracted particular scientific attention.

Cultural imaginations, alterity

Frenschkowski is also an expert on magical and esoteric subcultures and on fantastic and eerie literature. He has published numerous studies in both areas and edited classical texts (including the history of alchemy, European occultism and Renaissance magic). Frenschkowski is contributing the commentary section to the German-language complete edition of the writings of HP Lovecraft (also the most comprehensive internationally commented edition of this author) published by Edition Phantasia (13 volumes so far).

Publications

In addition to numerous scientific studies, Frenschkowski has also published a number of books written for a broader audience (including Holy Scriptures , 2007; The Secret Societies , 3rd edition 2008). He is a contributor to over 30 German and American specialist lexicons and encyclopedias, including the Theologische Realenzyklopädie (articles on "Dream", "Vision"), the fourth edition of Religion in Past and Present (especially on New Religious Movements ) Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception , at the Reallexikon für Antiquity and Christianity (articles like “Kyrios”, “Lamb of God”, “Magic”) and at the Historical Dictionary of Philosophy . In the Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales, Frenschkowski published mainly overview articles on religious studies topics ( "New Testament", "Sacrifice", "Fate", "Creation", "Soul", "Blessing", "Taboo", "Devil", "Theogony", "Verwünschung" et al), as well as in the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). His first major study was Revelation and Epiphany (2 volumes, Tübingen 1995–1997). Frenschkowski's literary guide Theology and Religious Studies (Paderborn 2004) was the first relevant bibliographical overview in book length that treated books and Internet resources equally.

  • Revelation and Epiphany. Volume 1: Basics of the late antique and early Christian belief in revelation , Tübingen 1995, ISBN 978-3-16-146433-1
  • Revelation and Epiphany. Volume 2: The hidden epiphany in late antiquity and early Christianity , Tübingen 1997, ISBN 978-3-16-146456-0
  • Holy Scriptures of the World Religions and Religious Movements , Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-86539-915-1
  • The witches. A cultural-historical analysis , Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8438-0276-5
  • Magic in ancient Christianity. A study on the old church and its surroundings , Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-7772-1602-7
  • The secret societies - A cultural-historical analysis , Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-86539-926-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In: J. Court et al. (Ed.): Ways and Worlds of Religions. FS U. Tworuschka. Frankfurt a. M. 2009, pp. 113-124.
  2. ↑ Programmatically in: “Early Christianity as a New Religious Movement. New Testament Science and Research into New Religious Movements in Discussion ”. In: Oda Wischmeyer (ed.): Origin and future of New Testament science. Tübingen 2003, pp. 131-164; ders .: “Jesus a Jewish Messiah. Religious studies remarks on the millenarian and messianic frame of reference of the Jesus movement. ”In: Friedrich Schweitzer (Ed.): Communication across borders. Congress volume of the XIII. European Congress for Theology (2008) in Vienna. Gütersloh 2009, pp. 409-429.
personal data
SURNAME Frenschkowski, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg