Matthias Wolfes

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Matthias Wolfes (born August 28, 1961 in Buchholz in the Nordheide ) is a Protestant theologian .

Life

Wolfes completed his studies in theology and philosophy in 1989 with a church exam and a diploma. After assistantship and doctorate, he worked on various scientific research projects at the Humboldt University in Berlin , the University of Kiel and the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. Since 2000 he has worked as a university lecturer and in church service.

The focus of his publications is the recent history of Protestant theology . He has published larger works on cultural Protestantism during the Weimar period and on Friedrich Schleiermacher . Further areas of work are the dogmatic doctrine of God and the theory of religion . He is a member of the “Berlin Theological Colloquium” and the Dresden working group “Religion and Symbolic Communication” and is a regular author of the “ Göttingen Sermons on the Internet ”.

Publications

  • Protestant theology and the modern world. Studies on the history of liberal theology after 1918. Walter de Gruyter , Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-016639-9 .
  • Theology studies and parish office. A church-sociological study on the relationship between university theological training and pastoral work. Lutherisches Verlagshaus, Hannover 2000, ISBN 3-7859-0823-7 .
  • Hermann Mulert (1879–1950). Life picture of a liberal theologian from Kiel. Compiled and edited by Matthias Wolfes, ed. from the Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History; Wachholtz-Verlag, Neumünster 2000, ISBN 3-529-04050-9 .
  • Alf Özen, Matthias Wolfes: Register for the concise dictionary "The religion in past and present". First edition 1908–1914. Studies and texts on the school of religious history. Volume 6; Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2001, ISBN 3-631-38547-1 .
  • Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher: Small writings 1786–1833. Edited by Matthias Wolfes and Michael Pietsch ; Critical complete edition. First department. Volume 14; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017658-0 .
  • Public and civil society. Friedrich Schleiermacher's political effectiveness ; Schleiermacher Studies, Volume 1, Two Part Volumes; Verlag Walter de Gruyter: Berlin / New York 2004; ISBN 3-11-017579-7 ( review by H-Soz-u-Kult ).
  • Schleiermacher and Judaism. Aspects of the history of anti-Judaism in German cultural Protestantism ; in: Ashkenaz. Journal for History and Culture of the Jews 14 (2004), pp. 485-510.
  • Religion and symbolic form of language. Preliminary reflections on a theory of responsible religious communication ; in: Klaus Tanner (Hrsg.): Religion and symbolic communication ; Evangelical Publishing House: Leipzig 2004; ISBN 3-374-02073-9 .
  • "The highest good that God could give to all creatures was and remains one's own existence." Herder's ideal of free religiosity, in: Johann Gottfried Herder . Aspects of his life's work. Edited by Martin Keßler and Volker Leppin (Work on Church History. Volume 92), Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2005, 293–307.
  • Keeper of tradition ; in: Deutsches Pfarrerblatt 107 (2007) ( Internet version ).
  • Republicanism and Understanding of Science in Protestant Theology ; in: Andreas Wirsching , Jürgen Eder (Hrsg.): Rational Republicanism in the Weimar Republic ; Franz Steiner Published by Stuttgart 2008.
  • Construction of freedom. The idea of ​​a civic political culture in Friedrich Schleiermacher's state-theoretical thinking ; in: Bärbel Holtz (Ed.): Crisis, Reforms - and Culture ; Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2010.
  • Reconciliation and the Kingdom of God. Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze and the paradigm of an intercultural theology, in: Claus Arnold / Johannes Wischmeyer (eds.): Transnational Dimensions of Scientific Theology (publications of the Institute for European History Mainz - Supplements. Volume 101), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, 293-316.
  • Faith as a way of life. On the relationship between religious subjectivity, "community spirit" and "total life", in: Hans-Hermann Tiemann (Ed.): Personally speaking. Celebrate worship as appropriate to the situation. Volume 2, Bielefeld: Luther-Verlag, 2016, 458–480.
  • Thinking belief . Reflections on the character of the Protestant sermon, in: Ibid., 481–509.
  • Business ethics as a critique of capitalism. Georg Wünsch's model of a non-formalistic ethics of values ​​and the "autonomous teleology of the economy", in: Matthias Casper , Karl Gabriel and Hans-Richard Reuter (eds.): Capitalism criticism in Christianity. Positions and discourses in the Weimar Republic and the early Federal Republic, Frankfurt am Main / New York: Campus Verlag, 2016, 37–78.

Wolfes is the author of numerous articles in the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL).

literature

  • Religion Past and Present . Fourth, completely revised edition. Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning, Bernd Janowski, Eberhard Jüngel. Register volume, JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck): Tübingen 2007, p. 440.
  • List of publications (until 2004): Universitätsbibliographie 24 (2004). Edited by the university library of the Free University of Berlin. Editing: Sabine Kawczynski, Antje Meye, Alexandra Kalkowski and Manfred Volk, Berlin 2006, pp. 250–253.

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personal data
SURNAME Wolfes, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchholz in the north heath