Stefan Schweyer

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Stefan Schweyer (* 1970 in Wetzikon , Canton of Zurich ) is a Swiss Protestant pastor and professor of practical theology at the State-independent Theological University (STH) in Basel .

Life

Schweyer studied theology from 1990 to 1994 at the State Independent Theological University (STH) in Basel. From 1996 to 1997 he completed a theological training at the Trinitiy Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield near Chicago . From 1997 to 2008 he was pastor in the Free Evangelical Congregation in Bubikon , Zurich . From 2001 to 2006 he researched and wrote his dissertation on practical theological church theory, in 2006 he received his doctorate in theology at the Protestant Theological Faculty in Leuven in Belgium .

In 2007 he was the accreditation project manager and guest lecturer for practical theology at the STH Basel. Since 2008 he has been a lecturer in practical theology at the STH Basel. Since 2012 he has been doing a habilitation project on free church services at the Institute for Liturgy Studies at the University of Friborg . In 2016 he was appointed assistant professor for practical theology at the STH Basel.

Schweyer has been a member of the Working Group for Biblically Renewed Theology (AfbeT) since 2004 , where he has been a board member since 2010. He is also a member of the Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians (FEET), the conference of German-speaking pastoral theologians. V. and at the Societas Liturgica .

Teaching and Research

Schweyer deals with basic questions of practical theology, church theory and church building, worship , sermon and prayer . He understands worship first and foremost as an encounter with God, as a resonance space for God's speech and work. This is done in alignment with God, through reading the powerful Word of God and through prayer. It is more important to talk to God than to talk about him, there is still potential in strengthening this vertical dimension, especially in free church assemblies, which are in danger of becoming banal due to too loose everyday language and a lack of liturgy. On the contrary, regional churches tended to worship sober, abstract and distant, which would hardly affect and convince the visitors with their everyday questions. The task of the church is to turn to the Bible again and again and to be measured against it, especially in post-Christian Europe. He has written both scientific and popular writings on this.

Honors

Schweyer's dissertation 2007 with the title Contextual Church Theory. A critical and constructive examination of the church's understanding of more recent practical theological drafts was awarded the Johann Tobias Beck Prize in 2008 .

Works

As a sole author

  • Contextual Church Theory. A critical and constructive examination of the understanding of the church in recent practical theological drafts , Theologischer Verlag Zürich , Zürich 2007
  • Healthy Belief. Nutritious impulses for the Apostles' Creed , arteMedia , Riehen 2013

As co-author and co-editor

  • Free church services between liturgy and event , contributions to the conference at the state- independent Theological University Basel on June 20, 2011, Studies on Theology and the Bible 7, LIT, Vienna 2012.
  • with Lea Schweyer: "If we die, we die to the Lord." Funeral and memorial service from a Christian perspective , arteMedia, Riehen 2015.
  • Sing together in church services. Empirical knowledge and theological reflections , studies on theology and the Bible 16, LIT, Vienna 2016.
  • with Jürg H. Buchegger : Christozentrik . Festschrift on the retirement of Armin Mauerhofer , Studies on Theology and the Bible 17, LIT, Vienna 2016.
  • with Andreas Loos : All right? Talking about salvation with missional theology , Brunnen , Gießen 2017, ISBN 978-3-7655-9017-7 .
  • with Philipp Bartholomä: With the Bible - for practice. Contributions to a practical theological hermeneutics (Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Helge Stadelmann), Brunnen Verlag, Gießen 2017, ISBN 978-3-7655-9252-2
  • with Helge Stadelmann : Practical Theology - A Floor Plan for Study and Congregation , Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 2017, ISBN 978-3-7655-9568-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Schweyer's curriculum vitae on the STH Basel website
  2. ↑ Healthy Faith - STH lecturer calls for a changed perspective , Livenet September 9, 2013
  3. ^ Fritz Imhof: Divine service is more than the sermon. ideaSpektrum , Liestal / Wetzlar March 1, 2017, pages 20–21. ( Online interview )
  4. ↑ Karsten Huhn: Good sermons attract people , ideaSpektrum, Liestal / Wetzlar January 17, 2018, pp. 27–29
personal data
SURNAME Schweyer, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant practical theologian and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzikon , Canton of Zurich , Switzerland