Theophil Spoerri (theologian)

This article is about the pastor and author. For the Romanists of the same name, see Theophil Spoerri , for the theology lecturer of the same name, see Theophil Spörri .

Theophil Spoerri (birth name and current pseudonym : Ben-Jizchak Feinstein ; * 1939 in Iași ) is a Swiss teacher , reformed pastor and pastor ; Brother of Daniel and Miriam Spoerri .

Life

Spoerri is the son of a Romanian Hasidic Jew and a Swiss woman with a pietistic background. After his father was murdered in the Iasi pogrom in 1941, his wife returned to Switzerland with their six children.

Spoerri became a primary school teacher and then studied theology at the Church Theological School in Basel . Long-standing, he worked as a pastor in the Evangelical Reformed congregation Oekolampad and as a chaplain at the University Hospital Basel .

He has been interpreting Yiddish songs under the name Ben-Jizchak Feinstein since around 1980 . He summed up his experiences as a parish priest and pastor in 2004 in his book Spitalseelsorge als Anachronismus . In 2010 he published the autobiographical fiction and family saga Perlen für Messiah . Spoerri is Vice President of the Basel social culture project 3 / Klang and lives in Basel.

Publications

Fonts

• Stories of Transition: Experiences of accompanying dying people. Theodor Boder Verlag, Mumpf 2004, ISBN 978-3-7245-0832-8 .
• Hospital pastoral care as an anachronism. With a foreword by Hartmut Raguse . F. Reinhardt , Basel 2004, ISBN 978-3-7245-1318-6 .
• Pearls for Messiah: The Goldstein-Hufschmid Saga. Huber , Frauenfeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-7193-1557-3 .
• Lydia's Thank You Booklet: A son on the trail of his mother. Theodor Boder Verlag, Mumpf 2013, ISBN 978-3-905802-54-2 .

Audio book

• Homer Bärndütsch: Odyssey. Theodor Boder Verlag, Mumpf 2013, ISBN 978-3-905802-30-6 .

Web links

• Profile of Theophil Spoerri on the Boderverlag website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Anna Wegelin: Theophil Spoerri: The two souls in the breast of the pastor and singer. The former Basel hospital chaplain and interpreter of Yiddish songs publishes a Christian-Jewish family saga. Article in OnlineReports from August 6, 2010.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Review of Perlen für Messiah on Inforel.ch
3. ↑ Team ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2012 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. on the project website, accessed December 16, 2013.