Thomas Kothmann

Thomas Kothmann

Thomas Kothmann (born April 22, 1965 in Hof ) is a Lutheran theologian , pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria and adjunct professor at the chair for religious education and didactics of religious education at the University of Regensburg .

Live and act

After graduating from the Schiller-Gymnasium in Hof, Thomas Kothmann studied Protestant theology from 1986 to 1993 at the Augustana University in Neuendettelsau , at the Australian Lutheran College in Adelaide , at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the Lutheran School of Theology ( Loyola University of Chicago ). In 1991 he received a Master of Arts in Religion. During his student years in Munich he received a scholarship from the Collegium Oecumenicum, an international Christian college.

After the vicariate (1993 to 1996) at the Johanneskirche in Coburg , he headed the Johann Hiltner student residence of the Protestant Alumneumsstiftung in Regensburg until 1998 . In 2000 he did his doctorate at the university there under Hans Schwarz in the subject of systematic theology with a thesis on Karl Heim (1874-1958) and then worked until 2004 as a research assistant at the chair for religious education and didactics of religious education.

In 2004 he completed his habilitation in the religious education department under Martin Bröking-Bortfeldt with an investigation into the history of Protestant religious education in Bavaria and has since been active in the training of religious teachers at the Institute for Protestant Theology at the University of Regensburg . In July 2011 he was appointed adjunct professor for at the chair for religious education and didactics of religious education. In March 2018 he was appointed visiting professor at Charles University in Prague by Rector Tomáš Zima .

Since 2015 he has been editor-in-chief of Confessio Augustana magazine . The Lutheran magazine for religion, society and culture , which is published by the Society for Inner and Outer Mission in the spirit of the Lutheran Church in Neuendettelsau .

Participation / membership in committees and associations

Thomas Kothmann has been officer of the German section of the International Loehe Society since 2011 , 2nd chairman of the Society for Inner and Outer Mission within the meaning of the Lutheran Church , member of the Karl Heim Society , the International Bonhoeffer Society, in the Society for Scientific Religious education, in the Association for Bavarian Church History and at 1. FC Nürnberg .

Awards

• For the dissertation Apologetics and Mission. The missionary theology of Karl Heim as a contribution to a mission theology of the present , he was awarded the Johann Tobias Beck Prize in 2002.
• In 2012, the Hussite Theological Faculty of Charles University in Prague awarded him the František Kovář (1888–1969) Medal of Merit for long-term cooperation in the annual German-Czech cooperation seminar.
• 2018 appointment as visiting professor at the Charles University in Prague.

Publications

Monographs / editors

• Are you united in the doctrine of justification? The statements of the document 'Doctrinal Condemnations-Church Separating?' and the latest debates on the doctrine of justification , Munich 1993, 48 p. (systematic-theological examination thesis in the context of the theological entrance examination).
• Apologetics and Mission. The missionary theology of Karl Heim as a contribution to a mission theology of the present , missiological research. New series vol. 15, Erlangen 2001, ISBN 3-87214-345-X .
• Protestant religious instruction in Bavaria. Aspects of the history of ideas and effects in the field of tension between state and church, Vol. 1: The 19th century , Neuendettelsau 2006, ISBN 3-86540-017-5 .
• Protestant religious instruction in Bavaria. In the context of state, school and church, Vol. 3: Current developments, documents, facts , Neuendettelsau 2007, ISBN 978-3-86540-045-1 .
• Cheerfully celebrate baptism. The celebration of becoming a child of God , Neuendettelsau 2008, ISBN 978-3-86540-063-5 .
• From good powers. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Trostlied , Neuendettelsau 2009, ISBN 978-3-86540-069-7 , 2nd revised and redesigned edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-946-08320-7 .
• Doing Theology in a Global Context. A Festschrift for the Rev. Prof. Dr. Hans Schwarz on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday (together with Craig L. Nessan), Bangalore / India 2009, ISBN 81-7086-510-7 .
• Messengers of God. Tracking angels , Neuendettelsau 2010, ISBN 978-3-86540-086-4 .
• My god - why? Experiencing suffering - finding consolation , Neuendettelsau 2011, ISBN 978-3-86540-095-6 .
• Belief and thought. Regional aspects of globalization. A theological appreciation. Faith and Thinking (together with Hans Schwarz), Frankfurt a. M. 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-63879-8 .
• Jesus of Nazareth. Hope for the world , Neuendettelsau 2013, ISBN 978-3-86540-118-2 .
• Faith and Life in the Church Year. The Christian festivals, commemorative and public holidays , Neuendettelsau 2014, ISBN 978-3-86540-1830 , 2nd edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-946-08319-1 .
• Keep us, Lord, by your word. Daily devotions by Martin Luther (together with Detlev Graf von der Pahlen), Neuendettelsau, 7th revised edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-946-08311-5 .
• Martin Luther. The first Protestant , Neuendettelsau 2017, ISBN 978-3-946-08323-8 .

Essays

• The Confessional Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer . In: Lutheran Forum 3 (1993), pp. 34-41.
• Bearing testimony of the truth of the gospel. Mission theological impulses from the work of Karl Heim . In: Hans Schwarz (ed.): Belief and thinking. Yearbook of the Karl-Heim-Gesellschaft , vol. 15, Frankfurt a. Main 2002, pp. 195-225.
• Changing Values ​​in Society - A Challenge for Churches and Religious Education . In: Martin Bröking-Bortfeldt, Martin Rothgangel (ed.): Belief and thinking. Yearbook of the Karl-Heim-Gesellschaft , vol. 16, Frankfurt a. Main 2003, pp. 137-160.
• On the importance of religious education in a pluralistic society . In: Anna Madsen (ed.): Belief and thinking. The importance of theology for society , Frankfurt a. Main 2004, pp. 31-50.
• The Generational Pact of Ancient Israel. On the topicality of the parenting command , In: Belief and Thinking. Yearbook of the Karl-Heim-Gesellschaft , vol. 17, Frankfurt a. Main 2005, pp. 113-131.
• “... learn to believe in the full world of this world.” Encounter with Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the service . In: Martin Bröking-Bortfeldt, Martin Rothgangel (ed.): Belief and thinking. Yearbook of the Karl-Heim-Gesellschaft , Vol. 18, Frankfurt a. Main 2006, pp. 157-190.
• “In religious education I heard something about God for the first time…” Religious learning as a task that connects learning locations . In: Andrea König (ed.): Belief and thinking. Christian existence in a predominantly non-Christian environment. Description of the situation, initiatives and perspectives for the future , Frankfurt a. M. 2008, pp. 25-53.
• To the dialogue of religions . In: Craig L. Nessan, Thomas Kothmann (Eds.): Doing Theology in a Global Context. A Festschrift for the Rev. Prof. Dr. Hans Schwarz on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday , Bangalore / India 2009, pp. 113–124.
• Teaching religion in Bavaria. In: Martin Rothgangel, Bernd Schröder (Hrsg.): Protestant religious instruction in the countries of the Federal Republic of Germany. Empirical data - contexts - developments. Leipzig 2009, pp. 29-64.
• Christianity between religions and a denunciating atheism. The task of a new apologetics , In: Martin Rothgangel, Ulrich Beuttler (ed.): Belief and thinking. Yearbook of the Karl-Heim-Gesellschaft , Vol. 22, Frankfurt a. Main 2009, pp. 21-46.
• Evangelical identity and worship. On the nature of Lutheran worship and its significance for a missionary-diaconal renewal of the church . In: Andrea König (ed.): Belief and thinking. Mission, Dialogue and Peaceful Coexistence. Living together in a multi-religious and secular society , Frankfurt a. M. 2010, pp. 29-51.
• Faith models in the individual biography . In: Martin Rothgangel, Hans Schwarz (ed.): Götter, Heroen, Heilige. From Roman gods to everyday saints , Frankfurt a. M. 2011, pp. 167-184.
• Melanchthon in Bavaria . In: Michael Fricke, Matthias Heesch (ed.): The humanist as a reformer. On the life, work and impact of Philipp Melanchthon , Leipzig 2011, pp. 27–69.
• Church and Israel. To redesign the relationship between Christians and Jews in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . In: Hans Schwarz. Thomas Kothmann (Ed.): Faith and Thinking. Regional aspects of globalization. A theological appreciation. Faith and Thinking , Frankfurt a. M. 2012, pp. 31-78.
• Wilhelm Löhe as an educator, religion teacher and catechist . In: Dietrich Blaufuß (Ed.): Wilhelm Löhe. Theology and History - Theology and History , Nürnberg 2014, pp. 205–253.
• Diaconal learning in family, school and community . In: Dumitru Meghesan, Hans Schwarz (ed.): Diakonie und Philanthropie. The Service of the Church to the World , Regensburg 2014, pp. 135–150.
• "... not only for the young people, but also to preserve both our classes, spiritual and secular." The Lutheran Reformation as an educational movement , In: Matthias Heesch / Thomas Kothmann / Craig L. Nessan (eds.), Faith and Thinking. Theology in the field of tension between church and politics, Frankfurt a. M. 2014, pp. 427-452.
• Hellas in Bavaria. The rebirth of antiquity under King Ludwig I (Bavaria) , In: Nachrichten der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Bayern 70 (2015), pp. 69–75.
• “People should teach one another about God and the tasks of ethics.” Philipp Melanchthon - Praeceptor Europae , In: Jan B. Lášek, Kamila Veverková, Jiří Vogel (eds.), Gratia autem Dei id quod sum et gratia eius in me vacua non fuit (FS for Zdeňku Kučerovi), Prague 2015, pp. 191–217.
• “Renewal of Church Life. Concept and history of the impact of the general catechumenate in the 19th century ” , In: Dietrich Blaufuß, Jacob Corzine (Eds.), Wilhelm Löhe and Education - Wilhelm Loehe and Christian Formation , Nuremberg 2016, pp. 199–236.
• "Sleep brother? How children deal with death ” , In: Confessio Augustana III (2016), pp. 59–66.
• “An uncomfortable reminder. In memoriam Hermann Sasse (1895-1976) “ , In: Confessio Augustana II (2016), pp. 85–92.
• “The Protestant alumneum. An ornament of the city ” , In: Hans-Martin Weiss (Ed.), Places of the Reformation: Regensburg , Leipzig 2016, pp. 32–33.
• “'Scholarly schools noble jewelry ...' Education and Reformation using the example of the Poeticum Gymnasium” , In: Hans-Martin Weiss (Ed.), Places of the Reformation: Regensburg , Leipzig 2016, pp. 48–53.
• " Kurt Frör (1905-1980). Teaching and Learning under the Gospel ” , In: Confessio Augustana III (2017), pp. 93–98.

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Kothmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the Institute for Protestant Theology at the University of Regensburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kothmann: Vita , uni-regensburg.de, accessed on June 2, 2014.
2. ^ Johann Tobias Beck Prize 2002 , afet.de