Rainer Kampling

Rainer Kampling, here in 2015 in Hanover ;
at the study conference For God's Will - Religion in Secular Society of the German Coordination Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation (DKR)

Rainer Kampling (born December 2, 1953 in Neuenkirchen , Münsterland) is a Roman Catholic German theologian . His research focus is the theology and history of Jewish-Christian relations.

Life

Rainer Kampling studied Roman Catholic theology , Latin philology and Jewish studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University . 1983 he was with the dissertation The Blood of Christ and the Jews. Mt 27.25 with Latin-speaking Christian authors up to Leo the Great . Kampling has been Professor of Biblical Theology / New Testament at the Free University of Berlin since 1992 . He is a signatory of the memorandum “ Church 2011: A Necessary Awakening ”. One of his research projects is devoted to the Catholic Tübingen School of the 19th century.

Fonts

• with Bruno Schlegelberger : Perception of the foreign. Christianity and other religions , More Verlag, Berlin 1996.
• with Josef Schreiner : The neighbor, the stranger, the enemy. Perspectives of the Old and New Testaments (= The New Real Bible. Topics , Volume 3). Echter, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-429-02169-3 .
  • Polish translation: Blizni, obcy, nieprzyjaciel. Z perspektywy Starego i Nowego Testamentu. Krakow 2001.
  • Italian translation: Il Prossimo, lo Straniero, il Nemico. Bologna 2001.
• In the face of Israel. Studies on the historical and theological relationship between the Church and Israel , Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 2002.
• Edification. Speak of the word . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rainer Kampling in the catalog of the German National Library