Martin Engels

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Martin Engels (born December 12, 1980 ) is a German Protestant Reformed theologian. From 2015 to 2019 he was the moderator of the Reformed Federation in Germany.

Life

Having grown up in Lennep and Michigan , Engels studied Protestant theology in Wuppertal , Heidelberg , Kyoto and Bochum after graduating from high school in Remscheid . In 2008 he passed the first theological exam in Düsseldorf and began his vicariate in the Evangelical Reformed Congregation in Ronsdorf in 2009 . After passing the second theological exam in 2012, Engels was appointed project manager of the exhibition project Lived Reformation - The Barmen Theological Declaration at the Gemarker Church in Wuppertal-Barmen. On June 10, 2012, Martin Engels was ordained in the Reformed Church in Ronsdorf . From 2014 to 2018 he was project manager for the Reformation anniversary 2017 in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . Since March 1, 2019, Engels has been the head of the Evangelical Forum , an adult education institution in the Bonn church district .

Fonts (in selection)

  • Europe's Road to Justice - The Project: "Europe Covenanting for Justice". In: Martina Wasserloos-Strunk, Martin Engels (Ed.): Break the Chains of Oppression and the Yoke of Injustice and let the Oppressed go free. Hanover 2010, p. 111f.
  • Europe on the way to justice - the joint project “Europe Covenanting for Justice”. In: Martina Wasserloos-Strunk, Martin Engels (ed.): Thinking and acting for justice. I have come for all of them to have abundant life. Hanover 2011, pp. 61–68.
  • Europe's Federation for Economic and Ecological Justice. In: Martina Wasserloos-Strunk, Martin Engels (ed.): Thinking and acting for justice. I have come for all of them to have abundant life. Hanover 2011, p. 131f.
  • You always meet twice in life. A sermon on Genesis 50: 15-21. In: Katholisches Bibelwerk eV / Andreas Leinhäuptl: The Joseph story. Family conflicts, dreams and a conciliatory ending. Stuttgart 2013, pp. 124–129.
  • Against the synchronization. The Barmen Theological Declaration. In: Evangelical Church in Germany (ed.): Reformation. Power. Politics. The magazine for the theme year 2014 Reformation and Politics. Hanover 2013, p. 84ff.
  • Church Point of View - A Thematic Introduction. In: Martin Engels, Antoinette Lepper-Binnewerg (Ed.): Lived Reformation - Barmer Theological Declaration. Book accompanying the exhibition. Neukirchen-Vluyn 2016, pp. 11-14.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Reformed Federation has a new moderator , reformiert-info.de, accessed on April 7, 2018
predecessor Office successor
Peter Bukowski Moderator of the Reformed Federation
2015–2019 		Kathrin Oxen
personal data
SURNAME Engels, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1980