Richard Baumann (theologian)

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Richard Baumann (born August 5, 1899 in Stuttgart , † January 2, 1997 in Tübingen ) was a German theologian and author.

After studying Protestant theology in Tübingen and Marburg , Baumann was pastor of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg from 1922 . Due to his Bible study and under the impression of the church struggle during the Third Reich as well as intensive contact with Catholic Christians BC a. During the Second World War , from 1941 onwards, he came to the conclusion that according to Matthew 16 : 18f. and John 21: 15-17 commission given by Jesus to Simon Peter was to be understood as an office that continued to the end of time and was realized in the Roman Pope . Since a mystical experience on August 19, 1942 in Binzwangen , he saw himself commissioned to unite the Evangelical Church with the Roman Catholic Church.

This the first time in 1946 publicly expressed view brought him into conflict with his Evangelical Lutheran Church , which considered this incompatible with their basic beliefs and Baumann 1947 in -waiting replied. Since he did not want to give up his office voluntarily, the first teaching breeding process in the history of the EKD took place in 1953 . This process, based on a specially issued doctrinal breed regulation, ended with Baumann's removal from the parish. Protestant authors (including Hans Asmussen and Max Lackmann ) z. T. heavily criticized.

A key point of the criticism of the teaching process against Richard Baumann is that the church ruling college, chaired by the regional bishop, had refused to submit a binding teaching on the question of the duration of the Petrus office (as Baumann had requested; in this case he had one Revocation of his theses), but at the same time de facto made the prevailing doctrine legally binding through the judgment against Baumann.

At the Second Vatican Council Baumann participated as an unofficial observer. After trying in vain for a long time to get a hearing within the Protestant Church for his concern about reunification with Rome, he converted to the Catholic Church in 1982.

Works

  • Lord is it you (Stuttgart 1946)
  • Peter's Confession and Key (Stuttgart 1950)
  • Evangelical trip to Rome (Stuttgart 1951)
  • Primacy and Lutheranism (Tübingen 1953)
  • Rock of the World (Tübingen 1956)
  • Trial of the Pope (Tübingen 1958)
  • A general free council (Würzburg 1960)
  • A Lutheran in the Vatican (Essen 1962)
  • From John to Paul (Munich 1963)
  • Hope from Sankt Paul (Essen 1966)
  • On Luther's Paths in Rome (Rottweil / Neckar 1969)
  • Protestant praise to Mary today (Rottweil / Neckar 1969)
  • Pilgrimage (Rottweil / Neckar 1970)
  • Our name is Petrus (Rottweil / Neckar 1970)
  • The big sign (Aschaffenburg 1971)
  • The co-redeemer (Aschaffenburg 1973)
  • The teaching process (Rottweil / Neckar 1974)
  • Maria's hour is coming (Aschaffenburg 1974)
  • Stuttgart-Rome, On Reconciliation in Christendom (Rottweil 1975)
  • Luther's oath and ban (Aschaffenburg 1977)
  • God's wonderful counsel (Abensberg 1984)
  • What Christ promises Peter (Stein am Rhein 1988)
  • The one Upper Room (Heiligkreuztal 1988)
  • My 90th year (Heiligkreuztal 1991)

literature

  • Literature by and about Richard Baumann in the catalog of the German National Library
  • Ekkehard Kaufmann: belief, error, right. On the didactic breeding process in the Protestant Church with special consideration of the Richard Baumann case (Stuttgart 1961)
  • The rock of the world (in Komm-Mit No. 5/90 Münster June 15, 1990)
  • "Petrus in Schwaben", Richard Baumann's life testimony for the unity of Christians, diploma thesis by Martin Hölter with Arnold Angenendt, Catholic-Theological Faculty Münster 1997

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personal data
SURNAME Baumann, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1997
Place of death Tübingen