Thorsten Dietz

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thorsten Dietz (* 1971 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German Protestant theologian. He teaches as a professor of systematic theology at the Evangelical University of Tabor and is a private lecturer at the University of Marburg .

Life

Thorsten Dietz studied theology , philosophy and German in Münster, Tübingen and Marburg. Inspired by Dostoyevsky's books , Dietz, who had been an atheist since his youth , took a serious look at Christianity and developed a personal belief during his studies. In particular from 1993 to 2007 he published several articles in the theological journal ichthys . In 2002 he passed his second ecclesiastical exam and then worked as vicar and pastor for employment in Castrop-Rauxel until 2005 .

Dietz has been a lecturer at the Tabor Evangelical University in Marburg since 2005 . In 2008 he was at the Department of Theology of the University of Marburg with a thesis on the concept of fear at Martin Luther to Dr. theol. PhD . In 2010, he was awarded the Martin Luther Prize for young academics by the Luther Society for his dissertation . In 2011 Dietz received a professorship at the Evangelical University of Tabor . In 2014 he completed his habilitation at the University of Marburg for the subject of systematic theology with a thesis on the subject of “Religious Feelings”, and he received a private lectureship in the department of Protestant theology there. In 2016 Dietz was appointed as a permanent guest to the Chamber for Theology of the Evangelical Church in Germany . He has been a member of the ERF sponsoring association since 2020 .

criticism

In his book on sin , Dietz tried to make this Christian topic understandable even to people who are not Christians. This concern has been recognized in reviews, but some critics believe that Dietz only rudiments the meaning of the Bible. Tanja Bittner points out that Dietz puts the Bible alongside other “narratives” (such as novels or films). This shows similarities. Anything else that the Bible says is being neglected. Sin is then only when the great values ​​of "tolerance, relativism or self-development" are violated. Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer judges similarly ; He draws the following conclusion: "In his book I find good questions, original approaches, numerous allusions and paraphrases, but no condensed illumination of this important topic based on the Bible as divine revelation."

Memberships and committees

Publications (selection)

Monographs

As editor

  • (with Harald Matern): Rudolf Otto . Religion and Subject (Christianity and Culture 12). Theological Publishing House, Zurich 2012.
  • (with Norbert Schmidt): Word, truth, reality. Contributions to the conversation with Heinzpeter Hempelmann. Giessen 2015.
  • (with Henning Freund): Prayer and experience (= writings of the Evangelical University Tabor, vol. 5). LIT, Berlin 2015.
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer : Theological letters from "Resistance and Surrender" (= Great Texts of Christianity, Volume 2). Leipzig 2017.

Lectures

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thorsten Dietz: Sermon at the ICF congregation in Basel. October 15, 2017, accessed June 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ ERF Medien lays the foundation stone for the future , erf.de, press release of May 11, 2020.
  3. ↑ Tanja Bittner: Review of the book Sünde by Thorsten Dietz, in: Belief and Thinking Today , 2018, Edition 1, pp. 59–62.
  4. ^ Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer: Review of the book Sünde by Thorsten Dietz, in: AfeT reviews , April 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Dietz, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen