Stephan Bitter

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Stephan Eckehard Bitter (* 1942 in Posen ) is a Protestant church historian .

Life

From 1948 to 1961 he attended schools in Celle and Düsseldorf . After graduating from high school in Düsseldorf in 1961, he studied Protestant theology in Bonn , Berlin and Göttingen from 1961 to 1967 , especially with Rudolf Smend and Philipp Vielhauer . After the first theological exam in 1967 at the Theological Faculty in Göttingen, he was a research assistant in Münster from 1967 to 1969 (Institute for New Testament Text Research). From 1969 to 1971 he had a PhD scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1971 to 1982 he was a research assistant in Bonn and study inspector at the Evangelical Theological Foundation at the University of Bonn (Hans-Iwand-Haus). After receiving his doctorate in 1974 ( Old Testament ) as Dr. theol. In 1974/1975 he completed the vicariate in the Kreuzkirche (Bonn) in Göttingen . From 1978 to 1979 he taught at the Ursuline School in Hersel and from 1986 to 1989 at the Aloisius College in Bad Godesberg . From 1982 to 2001 he was pastor in Bonn-Bad Godesberg. In the 80s and 90s he was a member of regional church committees and the theological examination commission of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland ; Member of the board of the Association for Diakonie in Bad Godesberg, lecturer for church history at the University of Cologne and head of the Bonn regional seminar for vicars. From 1989 to 2001 he was superintendent of the Evangelical Church District Bad Godesberg and Bad Godesberg-Voreifel. From 2002 to 2018 he was an emeritus lecturer for church history at the University of Bonn .

He is a member of the Baltic Historical Commission and the board of the Association for Rhenish Church History .

Fonts (selection)

  • The marriage of the prophet Hosea . A historical interpretation study (= Göttingen theological works . Volume 3). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1975, ISBN 3-525-87352-2 (also dissertation, Göttingen 1974).
  • Johann Eduard Erdmann . Church sermon and philosophical speculation in the development of a theological Hegelian (= work on the history of theology . Volume 1). CMZ-Verlag, Rheinbach-Merzbach 1994, ISBN 3-87062-019-6 .
  • with Hans-Heinrich Gurland (Ed.): Invisible Church. Rudolf Gurland's experience of Bolshevism and National Socialism. (= Documents from theology and church . Volume 1). 2nd Edition. CMZ-Verlag, Rheinbach 2000.
  • Ed .: Thinking - thinking ahead. Evangelical Perspectives at the Turn of the Century . CMZ-Verlag, Rheinbach 2000. ISBN 3-87062-047-1 .
  • Reinterpretation of Christianity. The Baltic theologian Erich Seeberg under National Socialism. In: Baltic German, Weimar Republic and Third Reich. Volume 1. Ed. On behalf of the Karl Ernst von Baer Foundation in conjunction with the Baltic Historical Commission by Michael Garleff. 2nd Edition. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2008, pp. 267–296.
  • God alone knows the right time. Superintendent reports to the Bad Godesberg-Voreifel district synod 1989–2001 . CMZ-Verlag, Rheinbach 2002, ISBN 3-87062-043-9 .
  • with Reinhard Schmidt-Rost and Martin Dutzmann (eds.): Theology as mediation. Portraits of 19th century Protestant theologians from Bonn. (= Work on the history of theology . Volume 2). CMZ-Verlag, Rheinbach 2003, ISBN 3-87062-061-7 .
  • Life, time and unrest are one - The German Sunday, preached in Russia in 1875. In: Hans-Joachim Tambour, Friederike Immanuela Popp (Hrsg.): Stories change history. Perspectives on the inexhaustibility of the Biblical Word. Festschrift for Friedrich Erich Dobberahn. Via verbis Verlag, Taufkirchen 2010, pp. 282-296.
  • Altar Candles or Word of God? A theological perplexity in the integration of refugees and displaced persons in the post-war period (= series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History. Small series . Issue 1). Habelt, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-7749-3831-1 .
  • with Joachim Rott (ed.): Protestant profiles. 200 years of the Evangelical Community of Bonn (= special print from Bonner Geschichtsblätter. Volume 66). Bonn 2016.
  • Against unbelief? The Bonn study house in the horizon of modernity. Lecture Bonn, April 19, 2017. In: Contributions on the occasion of the reopening of the Adolf Clarenbach House on April 19, 2017. (= special issue of the communications of the “Friends of the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Bonn”. ) 2017, pp. 12–49 . (freunde.ev-theol.uni-bonn.de)
  • From the history of the Bonn Protestant Theological Faculty after the Second World War: Two letters from the New Testament scholar Philipp Vielhauer . In: Yearbook for Evangelical Church History of the Rhineland. Issue 67, 2018, pp. 191–236.
  • with Thomas Bitter (ed.): Adolf Harnack: About scientific knowledge, Riga 1913 . (= Publication series of the Association for Rhenish Church History. Small series 10). Habelt, Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-7749-4218-9 .

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SURNAME Bitter, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bitter, Stephan Eckehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant church historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses