Michael Huettenhoff

Michael Hüttenhoff (born October 3, 1958 in Ewersbach / Dietzhölztal) is a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Hüttenhoff studied Protestant theology from 1977 to 1984 at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1984 to 1985 he was a research assistant at the Seminar for Ancient Church History of the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Münster (with Wolf-Dieter Hauschild ) and from 1987 to 1990 he was a research assistant at the Seminar for Systematic Theology, where he began his dissertation in Epistemology and Dogmatics. The epistemological problem of theology with IA Dorner, Fr. HR Frank and RA Lipsius was promoted.

In 1990/91 he completed a vicariate in Werne an der Lippe, and in 1991/92 a special vicariate at the denominational institute of the Evangelical Union in Bensheim. Hüttenhoff held a pastor's position from 1992 to 1993 at the Protestant resettlement work in the federal reception center for resettlers in Hamm / Westphalia, before he worked as a research assistant for a year and then as a research assistant at the seminar for Reformed theology in Münster from 1994 to 2000.

He completed his habilitation here in 1999 with religious pluralism as an orientation problem. Religious theological studies in systematic theology and received the venia legendi for systematic theology .

In 2000/01 he worked as a pastor in the parish of Hagen. Since 2001 he has been professor for historical and systematic theology at Saarland University .

His main research interests are theology of religions, Karl Barth , virtue ethics and the history of theology of the 19th century. The current focus of Hüttenhoff's work, with several ongoing projects, is currently on the history of theology in the 20th century: Günter Jacob (1906–1993). Understanding of the Church, Diagnosis of the Times and Church Action [DFG-funded]; The Protestant Churches and the German Question ; Karl Barth's reception in the GDR . In addition, together with Lucia Scherzberg , he heads the Ecumenical Research Center for Church and Theological History of the 20th Century at the Philosophical Faculty I of the Saarland University.

Fonts

As an author:

• Epistemology and Dogmatics. The epistemological problem of theology in IA Dorner, Br. HR Frank and RA Lipsius (= Unio and Confessio. Vol. 16). Bielefeld 1991.
• Religious pluralism as a problem of orientation. Religious theological studies. Leipzig 2001.

As editor:

• with Kai Horstmann and Heinz Koriath : Justice - an illusion? Interdisciplinary lecture series Saarbrücken WS 2002/3 (= symposium. Impetus for interdisciplinary understanding. Vol. 5). Munster 2004.
• with Wolfgang Kraus and Bernd Schröder : The Bible and Contemporary Culture. Saarbrücken lecture series in the summer semester 2006 (= Annales Universitatis Saraviensis: Philosophical Faculties. Vol. 27). St. Ingbert 2007.
• with Reinhold Bernhardt : Religion und Wissenschaft (= Theologische Zeitschrift . Vol. 67 [2011], No. 4). Basel 2011.
• with Michael Beintker and Peter Zocher: Karl Barth : lectures and smaller works 1930–1933 (= Karl Barth complete edition. Vol. 49). Zurich 2013.
• Christian Europe? Studies on a controversial concept. Leipzig 2014.
• with Hennig Theißen: Defense - Appropriation - Instrumentalization. On the reception of Karl Barth in the GDR (= Greifswald theological studies. Vol. 24). Leipzig 2015.
• with Michael Beintker and Peter Zocher: Karl Barth: lectures and smaller works 1934–1935 (= Karl Barth Complete Edition. Vol. 52). Zurich 2017.

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Hüttenhoff in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Homepage of Michael Hüttenhoff at Saarland University .