Peter lamp

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Peter Lamp (2012)

Peter Lampe (born January 28, 1954 in Detmold ) is a German Protestant theologian and professor of New Testament science at the theological faculty of Heidelberg University .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1971, Peter Lampe studied Protestant theology , philosophy and archeology in Bielefeld, Göttingen and Rome with grants from the German National Academic Foundation . He received his doctorate and habilitation at the University of Bern under Ulrich Luz with work on the urban Roman Christians in the first two centuries and on the concept of church unity in the Pauline Letters . From 1981 he worked in Bern as a research assistant. In 1987 he took up a New Testament professorship at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia , USA. In 1992 he moved to the chair for the history and archeology of early Christianity and its environment at the University of Kiel , where he was also ordained pastor of the North Elbe Evangelical Lutheran Church . In 1997 he founded the Societas Theologicum Ordinem Adiuvantium in Kiel. In 1999 he moved to Heidelberg University .

His main focus is on the social history of early Christianity (groundbreaking, e.g., on ancient Christianity in Rome in the 1st / 2nd century; among other things, Lampe played a major role in the paradigm shift towards a more situational reading of the letters to the Romans ); with the Hellenistic background of early Christianity; with Pauline research (including Pauline rhetoric); with early Christian archeology and epigraphy ; as well as with methodological and hermeneutical questions, including his work on constructivism , which since the mid-1990s pioneered constructivist categories for New Testament exegesis and hermeneutics. He is also one of the few who discovered early on the possibilities of psychological interpretation for their subject. He has also published volumes of sermons.

In 2003 he received the ecumenical sermon Price of publishing for the German economy . In 2008 he was awarded an honorary professorship at the Universiteit van die Vrystaat in Bloemfontein , South Africa. In 1987 in the United States, his book "Die Stadttrömischen Christisten" was recognized as "Scholar's Choice" ("significant current theological literature from abroad"). He is co-director of the Research Center for International and Interdisciplinary Theology (FIIT) in Heidelberg, which he co-founded in 2005 ; also curator of the literary journal Belletristik and co-editor of international specialist book series and journals.

Since 2001 he has been leading annual settlement archaeological campaigns in Phrygia in what is now Turkey. In the course of these interdisciplinary archaeological surveys , numerous previously unknown ancient settlements were discovered and archaeologically documented. On the basis of various indications, two of them are the most promising candidates in the history of research for identification with the main locations of ancient Christian Montanism , Pepouza and Tymion , which research had been looking for since the 19th century.

Books

  • Eschatology and peacebuilding. Exegetical contributions to the question of Christian responsibility for peace (with U. Luz et al.) Katholisches Bibelwerk (SBS 101), Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-460-04011-4
  • The beginnings of Christianity. Old world and new hope (with J. Becker et al.) Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-17-001902-3
  • Peter Lampe, J. Becker: Christian Beginnings: Word and Community from Jesus to Post-Apostolic Times . Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, KT 1993, ISBN 978-1-56338-264-2 . - translation of the 1987 The Beginnings of Christianity: Old World and New Hope
  • The urban Roman Christians in the first two centuries. Studies on social history . Mohr (WUNT 2/18), Tuebingen 1987; 2nd amendment A. ibid. 1989, ISBN 3-16-145422-7 ; again added in the engl. Translation:
  • From Paul to Valentinus. Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries . Fortress, Minneapolis and Continuum, London 2003, 6th ed. 2010, ISBN 0-8006-2702-4 , ISBN 978-0-8006-2702-7 , ISBN 0-8264-8102-7 , ISBN 978-0-8264- 8102-3 , E-book (2006) ED001856
  • Pocahontas . The Indian princess at the English court . Diederichs, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-424-01325-0
  • The letters to the Philippians, Thessalonians and Philemon (with N. Walter, E. Reinmuth). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (NTD 8/2), Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-51381-X
  • Rocks in the river. Scriptures in a provocative interpretation on topics of the time . Neukirchener, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2004, ISBN 3-7975-0071-8
  • Word glass splinters. Lyric and epic . Athena, Oberhausen 2005, ISBN 3-89896-225-3
  • Reality as an image. The New Testament as a basic document of occidental culture in the light of constructivist epistemology and sociology of knowledge . Neukirchener, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2006, ISBN 3-7887-1624-X
  • Did Jesus kiss Magdalene in the middle of the mouth? Provocations, objections, clarifications . Neukirchener, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2007, ISBN 978-3-7975-0142-4
  • Pepouza and Tymion. The Discovery and Archaeological Exploration of a Lost Ancient City and an Imperial Estate (with W. Tabbernee). DeGruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019455-5
  • New Testament exegesis in dialogue. Hermeneutics - History of Effects - Matthäusevangelium (Ed., With M. Mayordomo, M. Sato). Neukirchener, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2008, ISBN 978-3-7887-2283-8
  • New Testament boundaries: Symposium on the critical reception of Gerd Theissen's work (ed., With H. Schwier), Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-53393-2
  • Paul and Rhetoric (Eds., With JP Sampley). New York / London 2010, ISBN 978-0-567-02704-7
  • New Testament Theology in a Secular World: A Constructivist Work in Philosophical Epistemology and Christian Apologetics (translated by Robert L. Brawley from the 2006 German edition, with substantial subsequent revisions and augmentations by the author; London / New York: T&T Clark International, 2012 ) ISBN 978-0-567-32417-7 (hardcover) and ISBN 978-0-567-38888-9 (paperback)
  • Ad ecclesiae unitatem: An exegetical-theological and social-psychological Paulus study (437 pp; habilitation thesis; University of Bern: Bern, 1989) online: Heidelberg University Library: Heidelberg 2019, DOI: 10.11588 / diglit.48669; https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/ Lampe1989

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus (Göttingen); Bellerophon: Studies on the ancient and Christian cultural and religious history (Möhnesee).
  2. ^ Cristianesimo nella storia (Bologna) until 2008; Interpretation (Richmond, VA, USA; English and Japanese) until 1992; Journal for New Testament Science (Berlin); Archivum Historiae Pontificiae (Rome: Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana).
personal data
SURNAME Lamp, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold