Tobias Faix

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Tobias Faix (* 1969 ) is a German Protestant theologian and non-fiction author . He is professor for practical theology at the YMCA University in Kassel with a focus on community education , intercultural and empirical theology. He is also an associate professor at the State University of South Africa .

Life

Faix studied theology at the Biblical-Theological Academy in Wiedenest and the Academy for World Mission Korntal, a partner institute of the Christian Columbia International University (South Carolina, USA), and did his doctorate in empirical missiology at the University of South Africa . From 1997 to 2005 he was youth pastor and pastor of the free "Evangelical Community Eben Ezer eV" in St. Georgen in the Black Forest . From 2005 to 2015 he taught community education and missiology at the Marburg Education and Study Center , where he headed the Marburg Transformation Studies . Since 2013 he has been an adjunct professor in the Department of Mission Studies, Church History and Christian Spirituality at the University of South Africa. Since September 2015 he has been professor for practical theology with a focus on community education, intercultural and empirical theology at the YMCA University in Kassel. There he also heads the empirica research institute for youth, culture and religion.

Public work

In 2007 he founded the research institute empirica for youth, culture and religion, whose research focus is on empirical youth research and the correlation between life and religion . Together with Pastor Stefan Pahl, Faix founded the "Christian Mentoring Network", of which he heads the board. Faix is ​​also Vice Chairman of the Society for Education and Research in Europe (GBFE). Faix is ​​actively involved in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district synod and sits as a permanent guest in the EKD's Chamber for Social Order.

Transformation studies

Faix became known in Germany through the founding of the Transformation Studies, an interdisciplinary master’s degree that promotes research on current change processes in society, theology and the church in order to enable specialists and managers to actively and creatively shape change processes and to stimulate social innovation. The master's degree "Transformation Studies: Public Theology & Social Work" is affiliated with the YMCA University in Kassel and aims to help churches and congregations to become socially relevant and profile-oriented in times of the Christian break with tradition. The academic series “Transformation Studies”, initiated by Faix and co-sponsored by Johannes Reimer , now comprises nine volumes and is currently being translated into several languages ​​(Portuguese, English, Russian and Chinese).

Private

Faix is ​​married and lives with his family in Marburg . His father is the theologian Wilhelm Faix .

Memberships

  • IAPT International Academy of Practical Theology (since 2017)
  • DGMW German Society for Mission Studies (since 2015)
  • IAMS International Association for Mission Studies (since 2015)
  • IASYM International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry (since 2014)
  • ISERT International Society for Empirical Research in Theology (since 2012)

Publications (selection)

Books

  • Living mentoring: promoting people through support. Down to Earth, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86270-928-1 .
  • Logbook calling: Navigational aids for a successful life. Neufeld, Schwarzenfeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-86827-411-0 .
  • DranStudie 19plus Young Adults & Community. The research results. A nationwide survey among young adults between the ages of 19 and 29. Bundes-Verlag, Witten 2010.
  • Creative teen work. Aussaat, Neukirchen 2010. 4th edition, ISBN 978-3-7615-5119-6 .

Co-author and editor

  • with Tobias Künkler and Johanna Weddigen: Christian singles: How they live, believe and love . SCM R.Brockhaus, Witten 2020, ISBN 978-3-417-26903-1 .
  • Edited with David Gutmann, Fabian Peters, André Kendel and Ulrich Riegel: Church - yes please! Innovative models and strategic perspectives for successful membership orientation . 2nd edition. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2020. ISBN 3761566670 .
  • with Tobias Künkler: Generation Praise and the Future of the Church. The book for the empirica youth study 2018 . Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen 2018. ISBN 978-3-7615-6542-1 .
  • Edited with Florian Karcher: Praxisbuch Teenagerarbeit. Important basics, creative methods, innovative ideas . Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen 2017. ISBN 978-3-7615-6485-1 .
  • Ed. With Tobias Künkler and Damaris Müller: Free education - give support. Christian education for imperfect parents. A practice book. SCM R. Brockhaus, Witten 2017. ISBN 978-3-417-26828-7 .
  • with Tobias Künkler: Between fear and freedom. The Dilemma of Christian Education . SCM R. Brockhaus, Witten 2017. ISBN 978-3-417-26813-3 .
  • with Thomas Kröck and Dietmar Roller: A cry for justice . Francke, Marburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-86827-578-0 .
  • Edited with Ulrich Riegel and Tobias Künkler: Theologies of young people. Empirical investigations into theologically relevant constructions of young people . Empirical Theology, Vol. 27. LIT Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-643-13052-5 .
  • with Martin Hofmann and Tobias Künkler: Why we are allowed to believe as adults: Paths to a resilient faith. SCM R. Brockhaus, Witten 2015. ISBN 978-3-417-26664-1 .
  • with Martin Hofmann and Tobias Künkler: Why I no longer believe: When young adults lose faith. SCM R. Brockhaus, Witten 2014. ISBN 978-3-417-26583-5 .
  • Edited with Steve Volke , Rolf Zwick, Dietmar Roller and the Micha Initiative Germany: Hope for all. The Bible of Justice. The complete Bible with 3000+ highlighted verses on poverty and justice. Brunnen, Giessen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7655-6185-6 .
  • with Volker Brecht, Tobias Müller and Stefan Bösner: Tat. Place. Faith. 21 inspiring practical examples between community and society. Francke, Marburg 2013. ISBN 978-3-86827-385-4 .
  • with Udo Bußmann and Silke Gütlich: When young people talk about faith - Creating shared spaces of experience: A practical book for youth workBased on the empirica study “Spirituality of Young People”. Sowing, Neukirchen 2013. ISBN 978-3-7615-6017-4 .
  • with Robert Badenberg , Friedemann Knödler and others: Evangelism and transformation: two coins or one coin with two sides? Lectures at the 2013 annual conference of the working group for evangelical missiology. VTR, Nuremberg 2013. ISBN 978-3-941750-79-1 .
  • with Stefan Jung and Tobias Künkler: Evangelical Highly Religious in Discourse , Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-17-037484-3 .
  • Volker Kessler , Tobias Faix, Andreas Heiser, Elke Meier (eds.): Mission - Reconciling the World . Festschrift for Johannes Reimer . LIT Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-643-14745-5 .

Articles in magazines and books

  • Creating places of religious experience Opportunities and challenges for culturally and religiously sensitive work in church and diakonia by highly religious young people. In: #religionsundkultursensibel: Perspectives for working with children and young people in Protestant contexts . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2020. ISBN 978-3374056446 .
  • How does the Church speak to our world? Charles Taylor's "Inhabitants" and "Seekers" and Their Importance to the Church. In: Ethics and Society 1/2019.
  • with Ulrich Riegel: Disaffiliation motives as indicator to better understand the relationship between religious institutions and individuals in modern Western society . In: Ulrich Riegel, Stefan Heil, Boris Kalbheim and Alexander Unser (eds.): Understanding Religion. Empirical Perspectives in Practical Theology - Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Ziebertz. Münster / New York, Waxmann 2019, pp. 179–193, ISBN 978-3-8309-4054-8 .
  • with Ulrich Riegel and Thomas Kröck: The Relational Dimension of Disaffiliation: Thematic Analysis on the Relevance of Relationship in the Process of Leaving the Roman-Catholic Church . In: Journal of Empirical Theology 31 (2) 2019, pp. 137–166.
  • with Ulrich Riegel and Thomas Kröck: Why people leave the Catholic Church. An exploratory study of exit motifs in mixed-methods design . In: Markus Etscheid-Stams, Regina Laudage-Kleeberg and Thomas Rünker (eds.): Leaving the church or not - how the church has to change. Herder, Freiburg 2018, pp. 125–207, ISBN 9783451380716 .
  • with Silke Gütlich: Does youth bring church to life? Empirical research on the relationship between highly religious youth and the church. In: Stefan Jung and Thomas Katzenmayer (eds.): Lebendige Kirchen. Management - Ethics - Organization, Vol. 5. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018, pp. 57–70, ISBN 978-3-8471-0827-6 .
  • with Tobias Künkler: Deconversion as a post-secular phenomenon: results of an empirical-theological study . In: Frank Lüdke and Norbert Schmidt (eds.): Pietism - Neupietism - Evangelicalism: Identity Constructions in Awakening Protestantism. LIT Verlag, Berlin 2017, pp. 244-272, ISBN 978-3-643-13482-0 .
  • Let the church be the church again. About the transformative power of the church in public space. In: Lukas Amstutz and Hanspeter Jecker (eds.): Fit for the world. Festschrift for Bernhard Ott's 65th birthday . Edition Bienenberg, Vol. 6. Neufeld Verlag, Schwarzenfeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-86256-084-4 .
  • From the end of faith. Why young adults turn away and what that has to do with church . In: Wilfrid Haubeck and Wolfgang Heinrichs (eds.): I know what I believe in. Theological impulses. SCM Bundes-Verlag, Witten 2017, pp. 118–129, ISBN 978-3-86258-064-4 .
  • Reach indifferent young adults. In: Hans-Hermann Pompe and Daniel Hörsch (eds.): Indifferent? I am normal. Indifference as an irritation for church thinking and action. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 9783374051755 .
  • Social Transformation as a Challenge for a Church of Just Peace (2016). In: EKD Documentation How to become a just peace church - Social change and renewal of the church based on the spirit of just peace.
  • Hybrid Identity: Youth in Digital Networks A Model of Contextualization for Christian Youth Ministry . In: Journal of Youth and Theology 1/2016, pp. 65–87.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release on the professorship
  2. ↑ Unisa: workforce in the missiology department
  3. ↑ Marburg Bible Seminar: Employees ( Memento from August 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Prof T Faix. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Three mbs lecturers switch to the CVJM University , idea.de, notification from July 28, 2015.
  6. ^ Institut Empirica: Team. Retrieved February 17, 2020 .
  7. ^ Institut Empirica. Retrieved February 17, 2020 .
  8. ↑ About us - Christian Mentoring Network (cMn). Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
  9. ^ Board of the GBFE
  10. ^ EKD: Chamber for Social Order
  11. ↑ Transformation Studies | Public Theology & Social Work (MA). Retrieved January 28, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Profile. Retrieved January 28, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Transformation Studies . Francke, Marburg an der Lahn 2009.
  14. ↑ CVJM University: Tobias Faix. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 29, 2017 ; Retrieved July 7, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cvjm-hochschule.de
  15. ↑ a b c d Tobias Faix | University of South Africa - Academia.edu. Retrieved July 6, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Members | ISERT. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 13, 2017 ; Retrieved July 6, 2017 (American English). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.isert.info
  17. ↑ Tobias Faix: “How does the Church speak to our world?” About Charles Taylor's “Inhabitants” and “Seekers” and their significance for the Church. In: Ethics and Society . tape 0 , no. 1 , August 13, 2019, ISSN  2365-6565 , doi : 10.18156 / eug-1-2019-art-6 ( ethik-und-gesellschaft.de [accessed February 17, 2020]).
  18. ^ Riegel Ulrich, Faix Tobias, Kröck Thomas: The Relational Dimension of Disaffiliation: Thematic Analysis on the Relevance of Relationship in the Process of Leaving the Roman-Catholic Church . In: Journal of Empirical Theology . tape 31 , no. 2 , November 21, 2018, ISSN  1570-9256 , p. 137–166 , doi : 10.1163 / 15709256-12341375 ( brill.com [accessed February 17, 2020]).
  19. ↑ How to become a just peace church. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Tobias Faix: Hybrid Identity: Youth in Digital Networks . In: Journal of Youth and Theology . tape 15 , no. 1 , April 28, 2016, ISSN  2405-5093 , p. 65-87 , doi : 10.1163 / 24055093-01501005 ( brillonline.com [accessed July 7, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Faix, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1969