Peter Beyerhaus

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Peter Paul Johannes Beyerhaus (born February 1, 1929 in Hohenkränig , Neumark / Mark Brandenburg , today Krajnik Górny in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship ; † January 18, 2020 in Gomaringen ) was a German Protestant clergyman , theologian and missionary . As a missiologist , he shaped modern German mission theology.

Life

After studying Protestant theology in Berlin , Halle (Saale) , Heidelberg , Bonn , Uppsala and Bethel , Beyerhaus was vicar in the German Evangelical Mission Council with Walter Freytag from 1953 to 1954 . In 1952 and 1953, and from 1955 to 1956, he conducted mission science studies under Bengt Sundkler in Uppsala. 1956 followed the doctorate on the subject The independence of the young churches as a missionary problem at the University in Uppsala.

In 1955 he was in Berlin by Bishop Otto Dibelius ordained . 1955–1957 Beyerhaus was pastor in Berlin and 1957–1965 in the service of the Berlin Mission Society in South Africa , most recently as rector of the Lutheran Theological College in Umphumulo, near Maphumulo , Natal .

From 1965 to 1997 Beyerhaus was full professor for missiology and ecumenical theology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , from 1970 to 1974 he was the founding rector of the Albrecht Bengel House , in 1972 president of the theological convention of the Conference of Confessing Communities, which he co-founded in 1969 and chairman from 1978 and since 2009 honorary chairman of the International Conference of Confessing Communities . In 1970, at the second meeting of the Theological Convention of the Confessional Movement, Beyerhaus presented the draft of the “ Frankfurt Declaration on the Fundamental Crisis of Mission”. This declaration was published in the same year and was a juxtaposition of the evangelical understanding of mission against the ecumenical new approach that mere development aid is the contemporary form of mission. This declaration met with a worldwide response and also led to the merger of all German evangelical missions in the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Evangelicaler Missions (AEM). Beyerhaus was a co-founder of the Lausanne Movement for World Evangelization. He gave one of the plenary lectures at the first congress in Lausanne in 1974 and at the second conference in Manila in 1989.

1974/75 he was dean of the theological faculty in Tübingen and from 1989 to 1996 rector of the Free University for Mission in Korntal near Stuttgart. In addition to mission and the ecumenical movement, his research areas were the African Independent Churches .

In 1987 Beyerhaus founded the confessional brotherhood of St. Peter and Paul , based in Gomaringen, of which he was ordained episcopal director in 1989. In 2010 he initiated the amalgamation of related Lutheran liturgical fraternities in the Amelungsborn Monastery to form the Union of Apostolic Brotherhoods. In 1997 he founded the Diakrisis Institute in Gomaringen near Tübingen , where he was editor of the magazine "Diakrisis". The institute is supported by the Theological Convention of Confessing Communities in the Protestant Churches in Germany and the International Conference of Confessing Communities, of which he was honorary president until his death in spring 2020. Since then, Beyerhaus has worked with the institute.

In 2004 he founded the Confessional Ecumenism movement as an association of conservative Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox. From 2009 he was an honorary member of the German Vatican Society founded in 2006 .

Beyerhaus was one of the first to sign a "confessional ecumenical declaration" against the "anti-Christian" gender - " ideology " which, among other things, postulates the equality of all sexual orientations, including homosexuality. He was the author of the magazine "Renewal and Defense" of the Evangelical Emergency Community in Germany .

In his main scientific work "He sent his word" from 1996, he developed his understanding of mission under the auspices of an ecumenical movement centered on Christ. His life theme "confessional ecumenism" was inspired by Vladimir Sergejewitsch Solowjow's short story of the Antichrist , in which Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants unite in the face of end-time persecution in the confession of Christ and each of the three major denominational families brings the inheritance of their theology and spirituality.

Private

Beyerhaus married Ingegärd Kalén in 1955 in her native Tingstad near Norrköping . The marriage had five children. Beyerhaus lived in Gomaringen .

Honors

Beyerhaus received an honorary doctorate from the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) in Deerfield (Illinois) , USA , in 1995 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The independence of the young churches as a missionary problem , Wuppertal-Barmen 1956.
  • He sent his word. Theology of Christian Mission , SCM-Verlag 1996, ISBN 978-3-417294125 .
  • No other name: The uniqueness of Jesus Christ and the conversation with non-Christian religions. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Peter Beyerhaus , VTR, Nuremberg 1999, ISBN 978-3-933372-25-3 .
  • Mission and Apologetics , VTR Publications, Nuremberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-937965-44-4 .
  • Worldwide community in suffering for Christ , VTR, Nuremberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937965-59-8 .
  • The mystery of the Trinity in the witness of the Church: Trinitarian worship - teach - live. A confessional ecumenical manual , VTR / Dominus, 2009, ISBN 978-3-937965-84-0 (VTR) / ISBN 978-3-940879-04-2 (Dominus).
  • Christian witness in our time. Volume 1: The Faith Struggle of the Confessing Evangelical Communities in Germany (autobiography, with the collaboration of Dorothea Killus and Rolf Sauerzapf ), VTR Verlag for Theology and Religious Studies, Nuremberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-95776-042-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mission scientist Prof. Beyerhaus has died , idea.de, report from January 20, 2020.
  2. ↑ Beyerhaus: Vita , ikbg.net, accessed on June 4, 2014.
  3. ↑ Board of the IKBG , ikbg.net queried on November 2, 2016
  4. ↑ Erhard Berneburg: The relationship between proclamation and social action in the evangelical mission theory. SCM R. Brockhaus 2003, ISBN 978-3-417-29425-5 , p. 51.
  5. ↑ Markus Müller: Trends 2016: Love the Future , Brunnen Verlag, Gießen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7655-1450-0 .
  6. ↑ a b Rolf Hille : Prof. Beyerhaus: The cheerfulness of faith preserves in the confessional struggle , idea.de, obituary of January 22, 2020.
  7. ↑ Vita of Peter Beyerhaus , bekenntnisbruderschaft.de, accessed on August 14, 2015.
  8. ↑ IKBG Board of Directors , ikbg.net, accessed on September 20, 2015.
  9. ^ "German-Vatican Society: General Assembly in Regensburg 2009" ( Memento from May 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Stuttgarter Zeitung , November 19, 2008.
  10. ↑ Call for action: Countering anti-Christian 'gender ideology' on www.kath.net, November 20, 2014
  11. ↑ Evangelical Movement and Evangelical Church in the Federal Republic of Germany: History of a fundamental conflict (1945 to 1989) by Gisa Bauer Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, 2012 - 796 pages
  12. ↑ God's blessing on the Diamond Wedding! , bebekanntnisbruderschaft.de, article from August 6, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Beyerhaus, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beyerhaus, Peter Paul Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman, theologian and missionary
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenkränig , Mark Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2020
Place of death Gomaringen