Paul Metzger (theologian)

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Paul Metzger (* 1973 in Meisenheim am Glan) is a German theologian and pastor of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate .

Life

Metzger grew up in Roth (Bad Kreuznach district) and Kaiserslautern . He studied Protestant theology at the Bethel Church University (Bielefeld), the University of Marburg , the Facoltà Valdese di Teologia in Rome and the University of Heidelberg . From 2000 to 2005 he was a research assistant in the Protestant Theology department at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with Otto Böcher and Christof Landmesser . He was born in 2004 with a thesis on “ Katechon . 2. Thess 2,1-12 in the horizon of apocalyptic thinking ”. In 2005 he received the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz award for his dissertation. From 2005 to 2008 he completed his vicariate in the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate. From 2008 to 2009 he worked as a teacher for special tasks ( New Testament and Bible didactics) at the Institute for Protestant Theology at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Koblenz Campus). Since then he has been teaching as a lecturer in Koblenz. From 2009 to 2017 he was a Catholica consultant at the denominational institute of the Evangelical Federation in Bensheim, where he was responsible for the areas of Catholic fundamental theology , dogmatics as well as theological epistemology and biblical theology . He has been the owner of the Ludwigshafen-Pfingstweide parish office since 2017 . Metzger is a board member of the Palatinate Biblical Association, with numerous broadcast devotions involved in church preaching activities in the Southwest Broadcasting Corporation (SWR) and delegate of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate in the Working Group of Christian Churches in Germany and Switzerland (ACK) Region Southwest. In 2018, based on a format of the Evangelical Adult Education Center in North Rhine-Westphalia, he founded the “ Laien-Uni Theologie Pfalz”, which enables interested people to get to know theology as a science on an elementary basis.

Works (selection)

  • Catechon. II Thess 2,1-12 in the horizon of apocalyptic thinking. BZNW 135, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 978-3110184600 .
  • (together with Markus Risch): Interpret the Bible. Exegesis for beginners. Praxishandbuch Bibel, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-7668-4147-6 .
  • (together with Michael Landgraf ): Teaching the Bible. Basic knowledge - Bible didactic basic questions - Elementary Bible texts. Praxishandbuch Bible, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-7668-4180-3 .
  • The devil . Wiesbaden 2012.
  • (together with Michael Landgraf and Stephan Meißner): Jesus Christ. The man from Nazareth, introduction - materials - creative ideas. ReliBausteine ​​6, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-7668-4210-7 .
  • Ecumenical focus. Local opportunities. With a foreword by Johanna Rahner and an afterword by Abbot Marianus Bieber, Speyer 2014, ISBN 978-3-939512-65-3 .
  • You about yourself. An exegetical inquiry into the authority of Scripture from an ecumenical perspective. Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3772086489 .
  • (together with Gisa Bauer ): Basic knowledge of denominational studies. utb, Tübingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8252-5254-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Metzger
  2. ↑ Contact person - region
  3. ↑ Biblical Association contact persons
  4. ^ Church in the SWR authors
  5. ^ Paul Metzger
personal data
SURNAME Butcher, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and pastor of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Meisenheim am Glan