Peter von der Osten-Sacken (theologian)

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Peter von der Osten-Sacken , completely Peter Christian Freiherr von der Osten-Sacken and von Rhein (born March 3, 1940 in Gnojau ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Von der Osten-Sacken was born in 1940 in the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia . He graduated from the Ernestinum Celle and studied Protestant theology in Göttingen , Kiel and Heidelberg . In 1967 he received his doctorate in Göttingen with a thesis on the Dead Sea Scrolls . In 1968 he completed a six-month vicariate near Göttingen. 1973 followed, also in Göttingen, the habilitation with a thesis on the Pauline theology . From 1973 to 1993 he was Professor of New Testament at the Church University of Berlin (West) , of which he was Rector from 1980 to 1982. After the church university merged with the theological faculty of the Humboldt University , von der Osten-Sacken was Professor of New Testament and Christian-Jewish Studies at the Humboldt University until his retirement in 2005.

From 1974 to 2007 he headed the Institute for Church and Judaism , which was located at the Church University until 1994 and was then affiliated to the Humboldt University. Osten-Sacken is one of the co-founders of the Study in Israel program . Between 1975 and 1995 he regularly organized block seminars with students in Jerusalem in collaboration with the Ratisbonne Institute and Israeli colleagues. In 1987, as part of the institute's work, he founded the Christian-Jewish Summer University, which is still held every two years.

Awards

Von der Osten-Sacken was awarded the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal in 2005 by the German Coordination Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation . In 2006 he received the Honoris Causa Doctor of Humane Letters from the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles / New York. Due to his special services to the renewal of biblical theology and the Judeo-Christian dialogue , the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies at the Free University of Berlin awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2007. In 2016 the Berlin Senate awarded him the Moses Mendelssohn Prize .

Works (selection)

  • God and Belial: traditional historical investigations into the dualism in the texts from Qumran. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1969
  • Romans 8 as an example of Pauline soteriology . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1975
  • (Ed.): Loyalty to the Torah: Contributions to the middle of the Christian-Jewish conversation: Festschrift for Günther Harder on his 75th birthday. Berlin 1977
  • Impetus from the scriptures: work for pastors u. Communities. Neukirchen-Vluyn 1981
  • Basic features of a theology in Christian-Jewish conversation. Kaiser , Munich 1982
  • together with Pierre Lenhardt: Rabbi Akiva: Texts and interpretations on rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament. Berlin 1987
  • Catechism and Siddur: Awakening with Martin Luther and the Teachers of Israel, 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Berlin 1994
  • Martin Luther and the Jews: re-examined using Anton Margaritha's “Der gantz Jüdisch Glaub” (1530/31). Kohlhammer , Stuttgart 2002
  • (Ed.): The misused Gospel: Studies on theology and practice of the Thuringian German Christians . Berlin 2002
  • together with Chaim Z. Rozwaski (ed.): The world of Jewish worship: festivals, celebrations and prayers , 2nd, improved and supplemented edition. Berlin 2014
  • The God of Hope: Collected Essays on Paul's Theology . EVA , Leipzig 2014
  • End of Enmity - Beginning of Friendship? Martin Luther, Old Testament and Judaism - Essays and Lectures . Encounters issue 1/2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter von der Osten-Sacken: Speech on the occasion of the award of the Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal 2005. (pdf, 64 kB) In: Week of Brotherhood 2005. Documentation. Bad Nauheim, December 10, 2005, archived from the original on January 11, 2007 ; Retrieved on July 25, 2018 (published on the website of the Church and Judaism Institute).
  2. ↑ Honorary doctorate for theologian Peter von der Osten-Sacken. Freie Universität Berlin, February 15, 2007, accessed on March 22, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Osten-Sacken, Peter von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freiherr von der Osten-Sacken and von Rhein, Peter Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and professor of the New Testament
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Gnojau , Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia