Otto-Hubert Kost

Otto-Hubert Kost (born October 7, 1929 in Dresden ; † October 31, 2015 in Hanover ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and theologian.

Life

Kost studied theology and Catholic canon law in Berlin, Heidelberg and Göttingen until 1954. He was ordained on April 13, 1958 and was a pastor in Winsen (Luhe) from 1962 to 1966 . In 1966 he was referred to the Office for Community Service of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover to work (from 1967 as pastor of the regional church). In 1970 he took up a position as second pastor at the Christ Church in Hanover. On November 1, 1994, he retired.

Since 1983 Kost had a teaching position in the Faculty of Education I at the University of Hanover . In 1994 he became an honorary professor there. He wrote works on religious-philosophical and church-historical topics.

Publications

• Christophorus. Its origin and its nature . Aachen: Patrimonium-Verlag , 2015
• Narcissus. Inquiries about the origin and the design of his myth . Heimbach / Eifel et al: Patrimonium, 2012
• Contemplation and homecoming. Cistercian monk theology and art at the choir and priest gate of the church in Steffenshagen in Mecklenburg . Heimbach / Eifel: Bernhardus-Verlag, around 2009
• From the possibility. The phenomenon of the self-creative possibility in its cosmogonic, mythical-personified and thought-artistic realizations as a divergent theological problem . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1978
• Eastern Lower Saxony in the investiture dispute. Studies on Bruno's book about the Saxon War . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1962
• The Saxon royal theology in the investiture dispute . Diss., Göttingen 1954

literature

• Obituary in: Ecclesiastical Official Gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover 2/2016, p. 86

Web links

• Obituary on the website of the Hannover City Church Association