Thorsten Latzel

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Thorsten Latzel

Thorsten Latzel (born September 29, 1970 in Biedenkopf ) is a German Protestant theologian and director of the Evangelical Academy in Frankfurt .

Life

Latzel grew up in an interdenominational family and attended the high school Schloss Wittgenstein in Bad Laasphe . From 1990 to 1997 he studied Protestant theology at the Philipps University in Marburg . In 2002 he received his doctorate in systematic theology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . His dissertation made, as part of the DFG - Research Training Group "Religion and normativity", was entitled Theological Principles of the Heidelberg Catechism : A fundamental theological examination of his approach to faith communication .

In the Hanau-Land parish of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck , Latzel worked from 2000 as a vicar in Rodenbach and then as a pastor in Erlensee . In 2005 he became senior church councilor in the church office of the Evangelical Church in Germany , where he initially worked as a consultant for structural and planning issues as well as for freedom, recreation and tourism. In 2007 he also took over the management of the Reform Process Church on the Move project office . Latzel has been director of the Evangelical Academy in Frankfurt since 2013 .

reception

Latzel has been a blogger on Facebook since the end of 2018 . Under the title Theological Impulse , he publishes new texts every week that reach a national readership and are also published as a series of books. The content is Latzel's observations on the zeitgeist , which he combines with theological interpretations and poems he wrote himself . The Catholic theologian Gotthard Fuchs wrote: “The great response to Latzel's texts is certainly related to the successful mixture of personal experience, theological reflection and current reference, also with the happy small format of aphoristic exaggeration and alienation.” The contributions had “nothing more doctrinal Righteousness or church jargon, but contained "an abundance of original and everyday references with aisles in the fundamentals".

During the COVID-19 pandemic wrote Latzel several weeks to Corona - Blog Queres from the quarantine . The article “ Ten Commandments for the Corona Period” and a text about dying in isolation wards caused a stir , in which Latzel suggested, among other things, the pastoral use of “mourning tablets ”.

Personal

Latzel is married, has three children and lives in Darmstadt . His older siblings Olaf Latzel and Claudia Latzel-Binder are Protestant pastors.

Publications

  • Thorsten Latzel: Theological fundamentals of the Heidelberg Catechism: A fundamental theological investigation of his approach to the communication of faith . Elwert, Marburg 2004, 978-3-374-02551-0.
  • Jan Hermelink , Thorsten Latzel (ed.): Church empirical: A tool . Gütersloher Verlagshaus , Gütersloh 2008, 978-3-579-05587-9.
  • Thorsten Latzel, Gerhard Wegener (Eds.): Congregational Studies Worldwide: The Future of the Parish and the Free Congregation . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt , Leipzig 2017, 978-3-374-04902-8.
  • Frank Dittmann, Thorsten Latzel, Henning Theißen (eds.): Curious thinking: the teaching and theological work of Hans-Georg Geyer . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2018, 978-3-374-05741-2.
  • Thorsten Latzel: Nevertheless: From spiritual strength to resistance in a crazy world . Books on Demand , 2019, 978-3-7504-1326-9.
  • Thorsten Latzel: Risse: About the beautiful, vulnerable and contradicting life . Books on Demand, 2020, 978-3-7504-0636-0.
  • Thorsten Latzel: Queres out of quarantine: Spiritual thoughts on the pandemic . Books on Demand, 2020, 978-3-7519-7259-8.
  • Thorsten Latzel: Unconditional: From support in fragile times . Books on Demand, 2020, 978-3-7519-7278-9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gotthard Fuchs : Truth in small things. In: Christ in the Present . January 26, 2020, accessed August 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Friederike Meier: Theologe: "It's also about being there for others". In: Frankfurter Rundschau . April 2, 2020, accessed August 16, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Thorsten Latzel: Ten Commandments for the Corona period. In: efo-magazin.de. March 14, 2020, accessed August 16, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Helen Schindler: Corona crisis: consolation through the ringing of bells. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . March 24, 2020, accessed August 16, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Tobias Rösmann: Dying in the isolation ward . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 20, 2020, accessed August 16, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Karsten Huhn: The hippest disputation since there were doctoral theses. In: Evangelical news agency idea . November 28, 2018, accessed August 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Latzel, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 29th September 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Biedenkopf