Peter Gerlitz

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Peter Gerlitz

Peter Gerlitz (born June 23, 1926 in Winzig , Lower Silesia ; † January 17, 2013 in Bremerhaven ) was a German pastor and religious scholar.

Life

Gerlitz studied Protestant theology and comparative religion at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen , the Philipps University in Marburg and the Georg August University in Göttingen . With a doctoral thesis with Hans-Joachim Schoeps , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. He wrote the theological dissertation with Friedrich Heiler in Marburg, so that in 1960 he also received a D. theol. received his doctorate.

Having entered the service of the Bremen Evangelical Church , he was appointed pastor at the Mayor Smidt Memorial Church in 1962 . He completed his habilitation in 1984 at the University of Bremen for religious studies and taught as a private lecturer . In addition, he was involved in the German East Asia Mission and in the Federation for Free Christianity . Appointed honorary professor in Bremen , Gerlitz retired as pastor in 1991 after 29 years .

Works

  • Is the universal religion coming? Christianity and the other world religions between yesterday and tomorrow . Hamburg 1969.
  • The religions and the new morality: Effects of a worldwide secularization . Munich 1971. ISBN 978-3532712146 .
  • God has many faces: the image of God in the religions of the present . Hamburg 1972.
  • God awakens in Japan: new Far Eastern religions and their message of happiness . Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna 1977.
  • Religion and matriarchy: on the significance of the matrilineal structures in the history of religion among the Khasi of Meghalaya with special consideration of the national-religious reform movements . Wiesbaden 1984. GoogleBooks
  • Convergence and divergence in interreligious dialogue . Stuttgart 1985.
  • My totem is angry: man and nature in archaic cultures . Olten, Freiburg im Breisgau 1992.
  • Man and Nature in the World Religions: Fundamentals of a Religious Ecology . Darmstadt 1998. ISBN 978-3896780935 .
  • Compass Baha'i . Hanover 1999.
  • Symbolon - yearbook for symbol research: end of the world and redemption - sacrifice and rite . Frankfurt am Main 1999. ISBN 978-3631343562 .
  • Sacred tree - sacred animal: man and nature in archaic cultures . Düsseldorf 2003. ISBN 978-3491691018 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary Nordsee-Zeitung
  2. ↑ Philosophical dissertation: Fasting in the historical-religious comparison: a phenomenological-systematic investigation of the main fasting practices with special consideration of the high and world religions
  3. ↑ Theological dissertation: Extra-Christian influences on the development of the Christian trinity dogma at the same time an attempt to explain the origin of homousie in the history of religion and dogma
  4. ^ Habilitation thesis: Religion and Matriarchy .
personal data
SURNAME Gerlitz, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor and religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Tiny , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 2013
Place of death Bremerhaven