Michael Weinrich (theologian)

Michael Weinrich (born January 13, 1950 in Gadderbaum near Bielefeld ) is a German Reformed theologian.

Life

After studying Protestant theology at the Theological Seminary Bethel and the Universities of Mainz and Goettingen (also studied philosophy and pedagogy) and working as an assistant at the University of Comprehensive University of Paderborn was Weinrich 1978 in Goettingen the Dr. theol. PhD . As an academic advisor at the University of Siegen from 1979 to 1982, he qualified as a professor in systematic theology . In 1982 he became a professor at the University of Paderborn and in 1996 switched to the chair for systematic evangelical theology at the Free University of Berlin . In 2004 he worked with John Burgess as a visiting professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Pittsburgh, PA) for one semester. In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from the Debrecen Theological University in Hungary. Since 2005 he has been Professor of Systematic Theology at the Ruhr University in Bochum and Director of the Ecumenical Institute of the Evangelical Theological Faculty. In spring 2009 he was visiting professor at the theological faculty of the Waldenese Church in Rome for one semester. As a representative of the World Community of Reformed Churches , he took part in the 13th Synod of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome in October 2012 as a “Fraternal Delegate”. He retired in August 2015 and now continues to perform various functions on a voluntary basis.

Main research areas are: Reception of idealism in theology, personalism (especially Martin Buber), Johannes Calvin and Karl Barth, problems of theology adapting to the modern age, Judeo-Christian dialogue, religious discourse, theology of religions, Reformation ecclesiology and ecumenism. Together with Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt and Dieter Schellong he gave from 1983 to 1990, the book series interjections out with Jürgen Ebach , Magdalene L. Frettlöh and Hans-Martin Gutmann from 2001, the book series Jabboq . Since 2014 he has been in charge of the research series on Reformed Theology together with Marco Hofheinz and Georg Plasger .

Weinrich is u. a. Member of the working group Jews and Christians at the German Evangelical Church Congress , the moderator of the Reformed Federation , the German Ecumenical Study Committee (DÖSTA) of the Working Group of Christian Churches in Germany (ACK), the Meissen Commission of the Evangelical Church in Germany and the Church of England as well as the “Global Theological Network” of the World Fellowship of Reformed Churches (WGRK). He has been a member of the Council of the Community of Evangelical Churches in Europe (CPCE) since 2012 (from 2015 to 2018 one of the presidents in the three-person Presidium) and various ecumenical dialogues at European and world level.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Encounter reality ... Studies on Buber, Grisebach, Gogarten, Bonhoeffer and Hirsch . Neukirchen-Vluyn 1980 (also dissertation).
• Christian religion in a 'world that has come of age'. Theological considerations on an inquiry by Dietrich Bonhoeffer with further intentions . Aachen 1982.
• (together with Peter Eicher ) The good contradiction. The unexplored testimony of Karl Barth . Neukirchen-Vluyn / Düsseldorf 1986.
• Frontier workers. Martin Buber's impetus to go further (Treatises on Christian-Jewish Dialogue 17). Munich 1987.
• Is ecumenism at the end? Plea for a new realism . Neukirchen-Vluyn 1995.
• Church believe. Evangelical approaches to an ecumenical ecclesiology . Wuppertal 1998.
• Theology and biography. On the relationship between teaching and life . Wuppertal 1999.
• John Calvin and the Unity of the Church . German-Korean edition, ed. by Cho Yong Seuck. Seoul 2009.
• The Reformation and Ecumenism Today. Contributions to ecumenism , selected and translated by Cho Yong Seuck. Seoul 2010 (in Korean).
• Religion and Criticism of Religion. A work book. Göttingen 2011, 2nd edition 2012.
• The modest uncompromisingness of Karl Barth's theology. Lasting impulses for the renewal of theology . Göttingen 2013.
• Karl Barth. Life - work - effect . Göttingen 2019.

Editorships

• (together with Hans-Georg Geyer , Johann Michael Schmidt , Werner Schneider) “If not now, then when?” Essays for Hans-Joachim Kraus on his 65th birthday . Neukirchen-Vluyn 1983.
• Criticism of Religion in Modern Times. Philosophical, sociological and psychological texts . Gütersloh 1985.
• Critique of Theology in Modern Times. Theological texts from the 18th to 20th centuries . Gütersloh 1988.
• (together with Eberhard Mechels ) The Church in Word. Workbook on ecclesiology . Neukirchen-Vluyn 1992.
• (together with Jörg Mertin, Dietrich Neuhaus) "Nothing is done with our power ..." Festschrift for Dieter Schellong on his 65th birthday (= Arnoldshainer Texte 80). Frankfurt am Main 1993.
• "On the path of righteousness there is life ..." The 'other' righteousness. Biblical-theological, systematic-theological and Reformation accents (= Reformed accents 1), Bovenden 1996.
• (together with Susanne Hennecke) "Abirren". Dutch and German contributions by and for Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt , Knesebeck 1998.
• (together with Christine Lienemann-Perrin , Hendrik M. Vroom) Reformed and Ecumenical. On Being Reformed in Ecumenical Encounters (= Currents of Encounter 15). Amsterdam / New York 2000.
• Confess unity. In search of ecumenical commitment . Wuppertal 2002.
• (together with Rainer Kampling ) Dabru emet - speaks truth. A Jewish challenge to dialogue with Christians . Gütersloh 2003.
• (according to Christine Lienemann-Perrin, Hendrik M. Vroom) Contextuality in Reformed Europe. The Mission of the Church in the Transformation of European Culture (= Currents of Encounter 23). Amsterdam / New York 2004.
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt : Let's go with Jesus. Dahlem sermons and texts about the ways of Jesus. 1956-2001 . OO 2004.
• (together with John Burgess) What is Justification about? Reformed Contributions to an Ecumenical Theme . Grand Rapids, et al. 2009.
• (together with Ulrich Möller) Calvin today. Impulses of Reformed Theology for the Future of the Church . Neukirchen-Vluyn 2009, 2nd edition 2010; engl. Translation ed. according to with Michael Welker , Ulrich Möller: Calvin Today. Reformed Theology and the Future of the Church . London / New York 2011.
• (together with Ulrich Möller, Vicco von Bülow, Heike Koch) Churches in fellowship - church fellowship? Impulses from the Leuenberg Agreement for the ecumenical future . Neukirchen-Vluyn 2014.

literature

• Marco Hofheinz , Georg Plasger , Annegreth Schilling (eds.): Become binding. Reformed existence in ecumenical encounter. Festschrift for Michael Weinrich on the occasion of his 65th birthday (= Research on Reformed Theology, Vol. 4). Neukirchener Theologie, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2015 ( ISBN 978-3-7887-2908-0 ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Weinrich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Weinrich on the website of the Ruhr University Bochum