Rosmarie Holland

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Rosmarie Holland (born December 23, 1935 in Westphalia ) is a German Protestant theologian , founder of women's associations and author .

Live and act

Rosmarie Holland grew up in Westphalia and studied Protestant theology . She was chairman of the Collection of Confessing Evangelical Women (SEBF) founded in 1978 , which ceased its work at the end of 2002. She asked its members to become involved in the Biblical Women’s Work Group (ABF), which was founded in 1987 to create work materials for Christian women’s work. Holland helped shape the work of the “Filia - Christian Forum for Women” association as well as the SBEF, which arose as a reaction to the influence of the 1968 movement on education and the family, initiated the Württemberg Forum for Missionary Women and further developed the breakfast meeting for women .

She also became known as a critical companion of the World Day of Prayer . In their opinion, this has developed into a politically emancipatory action. She criticized showing solidarity with Palestinian women or, in 1982, the “prayer to mother earth” at the official World Prayer Day liturgy. This led in 1997 to the fact that the German Prayer Day Committee, based in Stein near Nuremberg, threatened legal action against "manipulations in a way that distracts and distorted the meaning". Holland saw an alternative to holding evangelical women's prayer meetings as part of the annual Alliance prayer week .

In order to invite women of different denominations and countries to pray together, she published work aids with supplementary materials for the official World Prayer Day liturgy.

Private

Rosmarie Holland is married to the theologian Martin Holland . The couple has four children and lives in Tübingen .

Publications

  • with Martin Holland: You are mine - Biblical couples , SCM R. Brockhaus , Witten 1989, ISBN 978-3-417-20444-5 .
  • World day of prayer for women: called by God to answer; A working aid with supplementary materials for the prayer day liturgy on March 1st from the Collection of Confessing Evangelical Women (SBEF) , Idea Documentation, Wetzlar 1996.
  • A star shows us the way: Blessings for the Christmas season , SCM R.Brockhaus, Witten 1998, ISBN 978-3-417-21717-9 .

literature

  • Dorothea Killus: Rosmarie Holland 70 years . In: Diakrisis: Topic: Reborn to follow the cross , issue 1/2006. ISSN  0174-5506

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evangelical women's associations go together . In: SELK-Informations, No. 273 from January 2003, p. 13 ISSN  1617-7614
  2. ↑ Founder of women's organizations: Evangelical theologian Rosmarie Holland is 80 , idea , article from December 23, 2015.
  3. ↑ Versatile evangelical commitment: Rosmarie Holland is 70 , ead.de, article from December 16, 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Holland, Rosmarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, founder of women's associations and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Westphalia