Thomas Zippert

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Thomas Zippert (born July 20, 1961 in Marburg ) is a German Protestant theologian , former holder of the Chair of Diakonics at the Diakonie University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld and .Coordinator on the subject of "Sexual violence" of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck .

Career

He is a son of Christian Zippert , the former bishop of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck . After studying Protestant theology in Marburg , Heidelberg , Jerusalem and Munich , he was ordained in Lippoldsberg on April 25, 1993 and worked as a parish priest in the Eschwege parish . He wrote his dissertation in 1992 on the theologian Johann Gottfried Herder . From 1997 Thomas Zippert was director of studies for pastors' training in the first years of office at the Hofgeismar seminary . From 2002 he was head of the academy for social professions in the Hessian Diakoniezentrum Hephata in Schwalmstadt . In 2009 he was a candidate for the office of regional bishop of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany , but was defeated by the Stuttgart senior church councilor Ilse Junkermann . From January 1, 2011 to January 31, 2019, Zippert was Professor of Diakonics at the Diakonie University of Applied Sciences in Bethel , of which he was Rector from May 2013 to April 2015. He was also pastor of the local Evangelical Institution Church Community (Zionsgemeinde). On February 1, 2019, Zippert was appointed pastor of a regional church project agency "Coordinator on the topic of sexual violence".

Zippert is an active member of the voluntary fire brigade and active in emergency pastoral care. He is married and has three children.

Research priorities

Publications (selection)

  • The importance of the human sciences for diaconal-charitable fields of action using the case study of the “Anstalten Hephata” (Hessen) . Lecture at the workshop Dynamic Times for Diakonie and Caritas - New beginnings and upheavals in denominational welfare organizations in the 1960s , Section IV: Boosts in professionalism in social work (Bochum 30/31 May 2008), in press.
  • Community work - work in the “milieu”? On the relationship between community work and milieu theory . In: Volker Herrmann, Martin Horstmann (Hrsg.): Wichern Drei - community diaconal impulses . Neukirchen-Vluyn 2010, pp. 177-190.
  • The office of deacons in a church of growing inequality. New establishment of his "normality" alongside parish and teaching post . In: Pastoral Theology . 96/2007, pp. 291-309.
  • Institution community - disabled communities . In: Gottfried Lutz, Veronika Zippert (Ed.): Borders in a wide area. Theology and disability . Leipzig 2007, pp. 222-232.
  • Emergency counseling. Foundations - orientations - experiences . (= Publications of the Diakoniewwissenschaftliches Institut 25), Heidelberg 2006.
  • Christoph Bultmann, Thomas Zippert (Ed.): Johann Gottfried Herder, Theologische Schriften . (= Johann Gottfried Herder, Werke, Vol. 9/1), Dt. Klassikerverlag, Frankfurt 1994.
  • Education through revelation. The young Herder's understanding of revelation as the basic motif of his theological-philosophical-literary life's work . (= MThS 39), Marburg 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Thomas Zippert is the new rector. Change at the top of the Diakonie University of Applied Sciences. v. Bodelschwinghsche Stiftungen Bethel, May 3, 2013, accessed on September 4, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Change of leadership at the Diakonie University of Applied Sciences. v. Bodelschwinghsche Stiftungen Bethel, April 21, 2015, accessed on April 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Personnel and job matters . In: Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck, Landeskirchenamt (Ed.): Church Official Gazette . No. 2/2019 . Kassel February 28, 2019, p. 46 .
personal data
SURNAME Zippert, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg