Siegfried Großmann (theologian)

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Siegfried Großmann (* 1938 in Aalen ) is a German Baptist pastor, educational advisor in the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches and the author of numerous theological books. He was a co-founder of the ecumenical center in Craheim Castle , president of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches and the Association of Evangelical Free Churches in Germany.

Life

Großmann graduated from the Schubart-Gymnasium in Aalen in 1957. He studied theology and worked as a pastor and education officer in the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches. He was a co-founder of the ecumenical center in Craheim Castle, he headed the Oncken Verlag and the adult education of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches (BEFG). In a crisis, he took over the presidency of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches (BEFG) from 2002-2007. He said of himself: "I am not a leader in the usual sense, but an integrator and try to create spaces so that as many people as possible can participate." For him, evangelism , mission , global responsibility and social justice belonged closely together, which he also addressed, emphasized and reinforced during his presidency. In 2003 he visited the Vatican with a Baptist delegation , where they spoke with Cardinal Walter Kasper mainly about similarities in the doctrine of justification . Not all Protestant Free Churches appreciated this conversation with Roman Catholic dignitaries.

After his retirement, Großmann continues to work as a speaker mainly in Baptist churches in Germany and writes theological non-fiction books.

Private

Großmann is married to Gudrun, they live in Seesen .

Teaching

For decades, Großmann has dealt with the Holy Spirit in particular, and with the charismatic movement and healing of the sick . He argues that healing should be understood holistically, because it was already complex in the Bible. God responds to requests for healing as follows:

  • He heals and with it gives answer to prayer
  • He heals through the actions of doctors
  • He wants to heal, but he finds no one to hope, pray, and create circumstances that promote healing
  • May he heal through the gate of death into eternity
  • He allows illness because it makes other areas important to us
  • He allows illness because he allows us to participate in his suffering in the world
  • He makes things happen that we cannot understand

In his book Conflicts Are Opportunities , published in 1998 , he presented 25 conflict resolution approaches that he had taken from the Bible and the human sciences:

His more recent works deal again more with the spiritual life and questions of the future from a biblical point of view.

Fonts

As a sole author

  • Effects. God in everyday life. Rolf Kühne Verlag, Craheim Palace 1969
  • Steward of God's grace. From the charismatic movement to the charismatic renewal of the church. Oncken , Kassel 1977. ISBN 978-3-78932115-3
  • Does the mind blow where we want? The Toronto Blessing and the Path of the Charismatic Movement. Oncken, Wuppertal 1995.
  • Conflicts are opportunities. Creatively relieve tension in everyday life and in the community. Oncken Wuppertal and Kassel 1998. ISBN 978-3-7893-8017-4
  • Between fear of the future and hope for the future. Brunnen , Giessen 2001. ISBN 978-3-76555-490-2
  • I need your strength every day. Live with the Holy Spirit. Brunnen, Gießen 2004. ISBN 978-3-76555-499-5 (2nd edition 2014)
  • I ask you to heal me. The gift of healing the sick in the New Testament and today. Brunnen, Giessen 2007. ISBN 978-3-76555-455-1
  • I want to hear what you say. Prayer as a conversation with God. Brunnen, Giessen 2007. ISBN 978-3-76555-496-4 (New edition 2014)
  • Departure into God's future. Jesus' eschatological speech and the challenges of the 21st century. Brunnen, Giessen 2011. ISBN 978-3-76551-477-7

As a co-author

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Report about Großmann on the occasion of taking over the presidium
  2. ^ [2] Portal Oncken to the Vatican visit from Großmann
  3. ↑ [3]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Lectures at the Elstal Education Center in 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.baptisten.de  
  4. ↑ [4] Topic healing in magazine insist April 2014
  5. ^ [5] Author Siegfried Großmann in the Brunnen Verlag
  6. ↑ [6] Book series Living Spiritually
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. To the book Departure into God's Future @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eann.de
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Lecture Departure into God's Future @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mittendrin.net
personal data
SURNAME Grossmann, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Baptist theologian, author, speaker and president of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bask