Rudolf Brändle (theologian)

Rudolf Brändle (born August 25, 1939 in Aarau ) is a Swiss Protestant Reformed theologian and was Professor of the New Testament and Old Church History at the University of Basel . His research focus is on early church history and the New Testament.

Life

After attending school in the canton of Aargau, Brändle studied Protestant theology in Basel, Göttingen and at the Sorbonne in Paris . He then worked from 1964 to 1974 as a pastor in Kilchberg BL . In 1972 he received his doctorate in Basel, after which he attended a teaching course in Israel in 1973. From 1974 to 1977 he received a habilitation grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and then worked as pastor of the Leonhard congregation in Basel . After his habilitation in 1978, he was appointed private lecturer.

In 1985 Brändle accepted a professorship for the New Testament and Old Church History at the University of Basel and gave up his pastoral office. From 1986 to 1993 he was the central president of the Christian-Jewish Working Group and from 2000 to 2003 he was president of the concordat examining authority. In 2006 he retired.

Works

As a sole author

• The ethics of writing to Diognet . A resumption of Pauline and Johannine theology at the end of the second century. AThANT 64. Zurich 1975
• Matthew 25 : 31-46 in the work of John Chrysostom . A contribution to the history of interpretation and research into the ethics of the Greek Church at the turn of the 4th to the 5th century. BGBE 22. Tübingen 1979
• John Chrysostom. Eight speeches against Jews. Introduced and explained by Rudolf Brändle, translated by. V. Jegher-Bucher. BGrL 41. Stuttgart 1995
• Studies on the Old Church . Stuttgart 1999
• John Chrysostom. Bishop - reformer - martyr . Stuttgart 1999
  • Giovanni Crisostomo. Vescovo, riformatore, martire. Roma 2007
• Ioann Zlatoust . Moscow 2008

As co-editor

• Ekkehard W. Stegemann and Rudolf Brändle: Franz Overbeck's unanswered inquiries to Christianity, Munich 1988.
• Ekkehard W. Stegemann, Rudolf Brändle and Marianne Stauffacher-Schaub: Franz Overbeck, Works and Legacy, Volume 2: Writings up to 1880 , Metzler, Stuttgart 1994.
• Ekkehard W. Stegemann and Rudolf Brändle: Festheft. Biblical interpretation and ecumenical passion. De l'exégèse du Nouveau Testament à l'engagement oecuménique. The contributions of the Scientific Symposium on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Oscar Cullmann , in: Theologischer Zeitschrift 58/3, Basel 2002, pages 193-298.
• Martin Wallraff and Rudolf Brändle: Chrysostom Images in 1600 Years. Facets of the history of the impact of a church father, Berlin 2008.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Brändle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rudolf Brändle on the website of the Theological Faculty of the University of Basel

Individual evidence

1. ^ [1] Rudolf Brändle on the website of the Theological Faculty of the University of Basel