Norbert Schmidt

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Norbert Schmidt (* 1957 ) is a German Protestant theologian . He is professor for practical theology and missiology and rector at the Tabor Evangelical University in Marburg .

Career

Norbert Schmidt studied theology at the Tabor Theological Seminary (today Tabor Evangelical University). From 1979 to 1982 he worked as a youth pastor for the Protestant parishes of Bracht - Breyell and Lobberich . Between 1982 and 1985 he studied theology in Deerfield / IL, USA, with the degrees M. Div. and M. Th. From 1985 to 1990 he was a lecturer in New Testament and practical theology (missiology) at the Tabor Theological Seminary. In Erlangen he studied theology from 1987 to 1990 and graduated as Dr. theol. He then worked as a missionary in Brazil between 1990 and 1995. From 1992 to 1995 he was a lecturer in missiology at the Centro de Pastoral e Missão in Curitiba , Brazil. He has been a lecturer in Tabor since 1995 and as a professor since 2011. Since 1996 he has been director of the theological seminary and since 2009 rector of the Tabor Evangelical University.

Memberships and committees

• German Society for Mission Studies
• American Society of Missiology
• Associação dos Professores de Missões do Brasil
• Theology working group of the Federation of Protestant Communities
• Co-editor of the "Writings of the Evangelical University Tabor" (SEHT)

Publications (selection)

• From evangelism to church planting. The history of the Marburg Brazil Mission. Marburg 1991.
• with Jürgen Mette : Ecclesiological considerations on church development in the Gnadau context. In: Helge Stadelmann (ed.): Building blocks for the renewal of the church. Church building on the basis of a biblically renewed ecclesiology. Basel, 1998.
• Missionaries for the 21st Century. In: Heinzpeter Hempelmann (Ed.): Why in all the world mission? Bad Liebenzell 1999, pp. 88-109.
• The motivation of early Christian pagan missions in the context of ancient pluralism. In: Herbert H. Klement: Theological Truth and Postmodernism. Wuppertal / Gießen 2000, pp. 278-293.
• Contextualization processes. In: Heinz-Werner Neudorfer , Eckhard J. Schnabel (ed.): The study of the New Testament. Volume 2. Wuppertal / Gießen 2000, pp. 315–338.
• Theology for the head and heart. In: Jürgen Mette, Norbert Schmidt (eds.): “Hoch anstimmen”. Festschrift for Theo Wendel's 80th birthday. Marburg 2006, pp. 108-123.
• How do we understand “mission” in the context of interreligious dialogue? In: Theology for Practice. 34/2008, pp. 18-32.
• Church in the south in the tension of dynamic growth and the abandonment of sound theology. In: Rolf Hille , Ulrich Neuhausen (ed.): Church of Jesus Christ in a globalized world. Social, ecclesiastical and theological perspectives. TVG Monographs, Witten 2013, pp. 27–45.
• Coming Christianity - Brazilian Perspectives. In: Jürgen Schuster, Volker Gäckle (ed.): The paradigm shift in world mission. Opportunities and challenges of non-western missionary movements. Münster 2014, pp. 83–98.
• with Frank Lüdke (Ed.): '... then come forward now!' Evangelism as a media staging of the gospel , LIT Verlag, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-643-13997-9 .
• with Frank Lüdke (Ed.): Old wine in new bottles? Community movement and community development since the 1970s , LIT Verlag, Münster 2020, ISBN 978-3-643-14579-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norbert Schmidt. Retrieved March 19, 2018 .