Michael Wolter

Michael Wolter, 2003

Michael Wolter (born July 12, 1950 in Hanover ) is a German Protestant theologian . From 1993 until his retirement in 2016 he was professor for the New Testament at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn .

Life

Wolter grew up in Letter . After studying Protestant theology in Berlin, Heidelberg and Göttingen from 1969 to 1973 was followed by the First Theological Examination in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover doctorate to 1977 to the Dr. theol. at the theological faculty of Heidelberg University. From 1977 to 1983 he was editor of the Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE) at the Walter de Gruyter publishing house in Berlin. From 1983 to 1988 he was a research assistant and university assistant at the University of Mainz . In 1986, he completed his habilitation in the New Testament at the Protestant Theology department of the University of Mainz.

From 1988 to 1993 Wolter was a full professor for Biblical Theology at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the University of Bayreuth . From 1993 until his retirement in 2016, Wolter was Professor of the New Testament at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn.

His habilitation thesis was awarded the Hanns Lilje Prize for the Promotion of Scientific Theology by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in 1988 . From 1998 to 2001 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Theodor-Fliedner-Werk and from 2001 to 2003 chairman of the specialist committee “Protestant Theology” at the German Research Foundation (DFG) . From 2009 to 2017 he was a member of the Scientific Commission of the Union of German Academies of Sciences.

From 2002 to 2004 he was President of the Colloquium Oecumenicum Paulinum ( Rome ) and in 2017 and 2018 President of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.

Michael Wolter was visiting professor at the University of Pretoria (2000), the University of Oxford (2003), the Christian University of Saint Petersburg (2003) and the Facoltà Valdese di Teologia in Rome (2004, 2008, 2013 and 2016). Since 2004 he has been Honorary Professor at the Theological Faculty of the University of Pretoria and since 2012 Associate Professor at the North-West University Potchefstroom (South Africa).

Michael Wolter is a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas , the Colloquium Oecumenicum Paulinum , the Scientific Society for Theology , the Rudolf Bultmann Society , the Theological Working Group Pfullingen and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences .

Wolter was the managing editor of the journal for New Testament Science and Customers of the Older Church from 1998 to 2013 .

Honors

2016: Medal of Merit of the Warsaw Christian Academy

2016: Doctor honoris causa from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

research

Wolter's main research areas are the Corpus Paulinum and the Lucanian double work ( Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles ). He is also particularly interested in the ethos of the early Christian communities. In this context he drew attention to the functional importance of ethos for the representation of identity. In addition, he introduced the terms “eschatic” and “egalitarian reciprocity” into biblical exegesis .

Publications (selection)

• Justification and future salvation. Investigations on Rom 5: 1-11 (= BZNW 43). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1978
• Theology and Church in the Work of Hans von Soden. Letters and documents from the time of the church struggle 1933–1945 (= AKZ 2/2)., Göttingen 1984. 2nd edition 1986
• The pastoral letters as a Pauline tradition (= FRLANT 146). Goettingen 1988
• The epistle to the Colossians. The letter to Philemon (= ÖTK 12). Gütersloh / Würzburg 1993
• 5th Ezra book / 6th Ezra book (= JSHRZ III / 7). Gütersloh 2001
• The Gospel of Luke (= HNT 5). Tübingen 2008
  • English translation: The Gospel According to Luke. I. Luke 1-9.50, translated by Wayne M. Coppins and Christoph Heilig, Waco, TX 2016; II. Luke 9.51-24.52, 2017
• Theology and Ethos in Early Christianity Studies on Jesus, Paulus and Lukas (= WUNT 236)., Tübingen 2009
• Paul. An outline of his theology. , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2011
  • English translation: Paul. An Outline of his Theology , translated by Robert L. Brawley, Waco, TX 2015
• The letter to the Romans. Volume 1: Röm 1-8 , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2014
• The letter to the Romans. Volume 2: Rome 9-16 , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2019
• Jesus of Nazareth (Theol. Library 6), Göttingen 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Wolter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Wolter at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts