Notger Slenczka

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Notger Slenczka (born February 4, 1960 in Heidelberg ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Notger Slenczka - son of the theologian Reinhard Slenczka - studied Protestant theology in Tübingen , Munich and Göttingen after completing school in Bern and Heidelberg and graduating from high school in 1978 . There he passed the first church exam in 1986. In 1989 he received his doctorate at the theological faculty of the University of Göttingen and worked there from 1991 to 1997 as a research assistant . After the second church exam in 1992, he was ordained in 1996 and habilitation in 1997 . After substituting professorships in Mainz and Giessen , Slenczka was appointed to the professorship for systematic theology at the University of Mainz in 1999 . In 2006 he accepted a position at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

The Church and the Old Testament (2015)

In 2015 (two years after publication), his essay The Church and the Old Testament , in which he questioned the significance of the Old Testament for the Protestant Church and the piety (canonicity of the Old Testament) lived in it, caused a stir . He wanted the Old Testament to be understood as apocryphal for Christians , as Marcion , Friedrich Schleiermacher and Adolf von Harnack had done before him. Because the Old Testament is primarily the writing of the people of Israel. Slenczka had started his contribution, which some colleagues found provocative, programmatically with the sentence: "'Provocare' means: to call out." The German Coordinating Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation and other German theologians rejected Slenczka's position and rated it as a "scandal" and anti-Judaist . Martin Weyer-Menkhoff established a more differentiated and mediating position in the theological dispute in the German Pfarrerblatt 10/2015.

Private

Notger Slenczka is married to Ruth Slenczka, b. from Campenhausen . The marriage has four children.

Publications (selection)

  • Real presence and ontology. Investigation of the ontological foundations of the doctrine of transignification (= research on systematic and ecumenical theology. Vol. 66). Göttingen 1993.
  • together with Jörg Baur : Has the Church falsified the Gospel? To the book by Jutta Voss : Das Schwarzmondtabu. The theological report in the teaching process. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-7668-3280-8 .
  • Faith and its reason. FHR von Frank, his analysis of A. Ritschl and the continuation of his program by L. Ihmels (= Studies on Erlangen Theology. Vol. 1; = Research on Systematic and Ecumenical Theology. Vol. 85). Göttingen 1998 [habilitation thesis, first part].
  • Self-constitution and experience of God. W. Elert's interpretation of modern subjectivity (= studies on Erlangen theology. Vol. 2; = research on systematic and ecumenical theology. Vol. 86). Göttingen 1999 [habilitation thesis, second part].
  • The Church and the Old Testament . In: Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt and Reiner Preul (eds.): The Old Testament in der Theologie (= Marburger Jahrbuch Theologie. Vol. 25; = Marburger Theologische Studien. Vol. 119). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-374-03628-8 , pp. 83–119.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Notger Slenczka: The Church and the Old Testament . In: Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt (Ed.): The Old Testament in theology . Leipzig 2013, pp. 83–119.
  2. ↑ Reinhard Bingener: Bible dispute. Der Gott des Gemetzels faz.net , April 21, 2015. Texts for discussion are available on the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin website.
  3. ↑ Micha Brumlik : Anti-Judaism in a new guise? , Jewish General , April 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ Notger Slenczka: The Church and the Old Testament . Leipzig 2013, p. 83.
  5. ^ Opinion. German Coordination Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, April 27, 2015, accessed on April 29, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Martin Weyer-Menkhoff: A Passion Story? The Old Testament in Berlin , Deutsches Pfarrerblatt 10/2015.
  7. ↑ Thomas Klatt: The theses of the Berlin theologian Notger Slenczka: Not without the Old Testament? , December 16, 2015, deutschlandfunk.de .

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personal data
SURNAME Slenczka, Notger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg