Reinhold Mokrosch

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Reinhold Mokrosch (born February 22, 1940 in Hamburg ) is a German Protestant theologian. He taught as a professor at the Institute for Protestant Theology at the University of Osnabrück .

Life

Mokrosch studied Protestant theology and religious studies from 1959 to 1965 in Tübingen, Zurich, Berlin and Hamburg. In 1965 he completed his studies with the 1st theological exam in Hamburg. From 1966 to 1972 he headed a Luther research project. In 1972 he was charged with a dissertation on Schelling and Tillich in Tübingen Dr. phil. PhD. From 1973 to 1976 Mokrosch worked as a vicar and pastor in Baden-Württemberg. In 1975 the second theological exam followed in Darmstadt. Then he was an academic senior counselor at the University of Darmstadt until 1984 . In 1984 he became professor for Ev. Theology and practical theology-religious education at the University of Osnabrück. From 1994 he was dean of the Department of Education and Cultural Studies for two years and from 2001 to 2003 he was director of the Institute for Protestant Theology.

In 1997 he completed his habilitation with the history of theol. and philos. Understanding of conscience and the conscience behavior of young people today to the Dr. theol. habil. in Vienna and was then a member of the teaching staff Ev. Theology in Vienna. He retired in 2005 and has taught since then.

Mokrosch held longer visiting professorships in 1997 at the Makumira College in Tanzania (Christian Education / Western Theology) and in 2002 at the University of Tartu (religious education); In addition, he was at Christian colleges in Bangalore, Kolkata, Dehradun, Delhi, Faridabad, Mangalore and Conoor in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014.

Mokrosch has been married since 1967 and has two children.

Research priorities

Mokrosch's main research areas are didactics of church history, value development and value education, conscience development, moral and religious development, religious education and religious didactics, ecumenical learning, interreligious learning and Islamic religious education. From 1992 to 2008 he was a member of the research center “Empirical Value Research”. From 1998 to 2002 he worked as chairman of the commission of the Evangelical Church in Germany for the reform of religious education.

Functions

  • 1983–1987 Chairman of the Association of University Teachers in Religious Education
  • 1983–1988 Chairman of the Federal Association of Protestant Parents and Educators
  • 1997–2006 chairman of the Osnabrück peace talks
  • since 2001 chairman of the support group of the Osnabrück peace talks
  • 2008–2014 2nd chairman of the German-Israeli Society Osnabrück and the German-Palestinian Society Osnabrück
  • since 2008 chairman of the "Round Table of Religions Osnabrück"
  • since 2007 chairman of Religions for Peace
  • since 2006 board member of the Remarque Society

Awards

  • 2012 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon "for merits in peace ethics and peace education"
  • 2015 Integration Prize / Aküyrek Prize of the City of Osnabrück "for interreligious and intercultural integration work in Osnabrück"

Publications (selection)

  • The religious conscience - for 15 to 19 year olds . Stuttgart 1979
  • with Dieter Stoodt and Hans P. Schmidt: Ethics and religious education . Stuttgart 1980
  • with Herbert Walz: Middle Ages. Theological and church history in sources . Neukirchen 1980
  • with Uwe Gerber and Heinz Schmidt : 6 school books for religion and ethics lessons . Frankfurt 1986-2000
  • Christian value education in changing values . Osnabrück 1987
  • with E. Franke: Value education and value development . Osnabrück 1989
  • The Sermon on the Mount in everyday life . Gütersloh 1991
  • with Ralph Sauer : Ecumenism in religious education . Gütersloh 1994
  • with Arnim Regenbogen: What does justice mean? . Donauwörth 1999
  • with Arnim Regenbogen: “Ethics” workbooks for high schools . Donauwörth 2000–2010
  • with Helmut Merkel : FS Krüger: Humanism and Reformation . Munster 2001
  • Less violence in schools. A school project . Osnabrück 2002
  • with Christian Gremmels and Friedrich Johannsen: D. Bonhoeffers Ethik . Gütersloh 2003
  • with E. Franke, FS Rainbow: Value Education and Value Ethics . Göttingen 2004
  • with Werner Haussmann among others: Handbook for Peace Education . Gütersloh 2006
  • with Rainer Lachmann and Erdmann Sturm : Religious instruction - orientation for teaching . Göttingen 2006
  • with Arnim Regenbogen: Handbook of Values ​​Education . Göttingen 2009
  • with Thomas Held and Roland Czada (eds.): Religions and world peace . Stuttgart 2013
  • with Carsten Gennerich: religious instruction cooperative . Stuttgart 2016
  • with Ulrike Graf u. a. (Ed.): Learning to live values: Justice, peace, happiness . Göttingen 2017

literature

  • Norbert Ammermann , Beate Ego and Helmut Merkel: (Ed.): Peace as a gift and task, contributions to theological peace research. Festschrift for R. Mokrosch . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005
  • Religious education between the gospel and the world. Conversation between N. Ammermann and R. Mokrosch . In: Peace as a gift and a task , pp. 17–21

Web links

  • Mokrosch at the University of Osnabrück

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mokrosch & the publisher Vandenhoeck Ruprecht
  2. ↑ Matthias Stoffregen: The Osnabrück religion expert Reinhold Mokrosch receives the Federal Cross of Merit . In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, January 13, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Mokrosch, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg