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Michael Diener (born August 5, 1962 in Pirmasens ) is a German theologian, author and President of the Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association . He is also a member of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).

Live and act

Michael Diener grew up as the younger twin son of Adolf and Beate Diener in Pirmasens. There he was a member of the Evangelical City Mission. Diener studied Protestant theology from 1982 to 1989 at the Spiritual Armory Center in Krelingen (Walsrode), in Heidelberg, Erlangen and Tübingen. From 1990 to 1993 he worked in Heidelberg on a dissertation on the former Gnadauer President Walter Michaelis .

After his vicariate from 1992 to 1994 in Altenkirchen in the Palatinate and in adult education at the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate , he was pastor of the Johanneskirche in Pirmasens from 1996 to 2005. From 2005 to 2009 Diener was dean of the Pirmasens church district and pastor of the Luther parish. Since autumn 2009 he has been the President of the Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association . In September 2011 he was elected honorary chairman of the German Evangelical Alliance from January 2012 to succeed Jürgen Werth . Diener was the youngest chairman of the German Evangelical Alliance since the reunification in 1991.

On March 9, 2016, the German Evangelical Alliance announced that Diener is giving up his honorary position as chairman of the German Evangelical Alliance at the end of the year for health reasons. This decision had already been made in October 2015 when he informed the Executive Board that, in the event of an election to the EKD Council, he would resign from his position as chairman of the German Evangelical Alliance at the end of 2016, in accordance with a specification by his employer would. The executive board and he had mutually confirmed this decision in their closed meeting on December 7th and 8th, 2015 in Berlin. In December 2016, Ekkehart Vetter was elected as his successor as First Chairman.

Positions

In a conversation with the newspaper Die Welt in mid-December 2015, Diener spoke out in favor of ending the dispute with the EKD over gay marriage and mission. He called on the Pietists he represented to practice self-criticism in addition to firm belief . Die Welt published the article entitled "Evangelical Chief Wants To Stop Homo Damnation".

Thereupon the evangelist, pro-Christian speaker and former YMCA general secretary Ulrich Parzany mobilized against Diener's positions and stimulated the network Bible and Confession . This amalgamation of conservative Evangelical communities in Germany should represent a counterpoint to Diener's positions. On January 28, 2016, Diener apologized. He regretted that his words on the understanding of the Bible and on ethical questions had triggered “deep rebellions and irritations in the pietistic-evangelical world”. At the same time, more than 40 evangelical and other church representatives stood behind Diener and his original statements. They wrote a letter calling on the boards of the evangelical associations to "stand behind Michael Diener with all their might". The signatories of the appeal also included the Greifswald bishop Hans-Jürgen Abromeit , the theology professor Michael Herbst and Hans-Hermann Pompe (head of the EKD center for missions in the region).

Honorary positions

Works

as (co) editor

Web links

Commons : Michael Diener  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography. Gnadauer Verband, accessed on August 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: a man from the Palatinate will lead the community movement in future ), in: idea.de from February 7, 2009 (offline)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.idea.de
  3. ↑ Christian Starke: I am a person who has been revered. in: ideaSpektrum , 7/2009.
  4. ↑ Palatine Dean to President of the pietists are in: idea spektrum , 51/2008.
  5. ↑ Message ( memento of March 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the Evangelical Gnadau Community Association (web archive version)
  6. ^ Homepage of the Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association ( memento from February 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 16, 2013
  7. ^ Diener takes over chairmanship of the Evangelical Alliance. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Press release, Evangelical Church of the Palatinate, September 26, 2011
  8. ↑ Servant follows Werth. Christian media association KEP, archived from the original on September 23, 2011 ; Retrieved September 23, 2011 .
  9. ^ Letter from the Chairman of March 1, 2016 ( Memento of March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ President of the “Mülheim Association” Ekkehart Vetter becomes the new chairman of the Evangelical Alliance , notification dated December 12, 2016.
  11. ↑ welt.de
  12. ↑ Quoted from idea [1] , viewed on Jan. 29, 2016
  13. ↑ epd: Evangelical top man regrets "rejections and irritations". In: epd.de. January 28, 2016. Retrieved January 29, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Evangelical Church has a new council: 14 council members elected in Bremen , report from the EKD, dated November 10, 2015, accessed on November 11, 2015
  15. ↑ a b c d e f g h Short biography on the website of the Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association ( Memento from November 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ The board of the ProChrist e. V. , accessed on July 9, 2014
  17. ↑ Pietist on the GEP Supervisory Board , pro-medienmagazin.de, message from March 17, 2018.
predecessor Office successor
Jürgen Werth First chairman of the German Evangelical Alliance
2012–2016 		Ekkehart cousin
personal data
SURNAME Servant, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, President of the Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirmasens