Trutz Rendtorff

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Trutz-Gotthilf Peter Rendtorff (born January 24, 1931 in Schwerin ; † December 24, 2016 in Munich ) was a German Protestant theologian and professor of systematic theology with a focus on ethics at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich from 1968 to 1999.

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Rendtorff how the Old Testament scholar Rolf Rendtorff a son of the Mecklenburg country Bishop Heinrich Rendtorff , visited the Marienstiftsgymnasium in Szczecin and made in Kiel in Kiel Gelehrtenschule 1951 High School. From 1951 to 1956 he studied Protestant theology and sociology in Kiel, Bloomington ( Indiana State University ), Göttingen, Basel and Münster. At the University of Kiel he was chairman of the General Student Committee (AStA). In 1956 he was awarded a Dr. theol.PhD. He then worked as an assistant at the Institute for Christian Social Sciences at the University of Münster . In 1961 he qualified as a professor for systematic theology in Münster . From 1962 to 1968 Rendtorff was a lecturer and adjunct professor at the University of Münster, from 1968 to 1999 full professor for systematic theology with a focus on ethics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1999 he retired.

Rendtorff is a co-founder of the TTN (Technology-Theology-Natural Sciences) Institute at the University of Munich and was chairman of the TTN sponsoring association from 1998 to 2003.

From 1979 to 1984 Rendtorff was chairman of the Scientific Society for Theology . Until 1994 he was President of the Ernst Troeltsch Society, which he co-founded in 1981 .

Rendtorff also performed numerous functions in the church area of ​​Rendtorff. From 1979 to 1997 he was a member of the EKD Synod . From 1980 to 1997 he was chairman of the EKD Chamber for Public Responsibility; During this time, the Friedensdenkschrift ( preserving peace, promoting and renewing , 1981), the Democracy Memorandum ( Evangelical Church and Freedom Democracy , 1985) and the Economic Memorandum ( Gemeinwohl und Eigennutz , 1991) appeared.

Rendtorff died on Christmas Eve 2016. He was buried in the Solln forest cemetery .

Rendtorff lived in Munich-Solln , in a villa on Linastraße 3a, where bishops, theologians and politicians went in and out and where he also held senior seminars. While first daughters and citizens, then also citizens' initiatives such as the Bavarian Monument Network, campaigned for the preservation of the historic building after his death, the owner, the Evangelical regional church in Bavaria, wanted to create affordable living space instead of “old garden city glory”. At least half of the apartments are for nurses from the Ev. Care center Munich Sendling planned, which have little chance on the Munich housing market. The majority of the 2,000 square meters will remain green despite the construction of the apartment building, it was initially said, then again a new building behind the Rendtorff villa was up for debate. Daughter Verena Rendtorff pleaded for the preservation of the villa on Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Awards and honors

Fonts (selection)

  • The social structure of the community. The ecclesiastical ways of life in today's social change. A church-sociological study . Hamburg: Furche-Verl., 1958 ( studies on Protestant social theology and social ethics; 1). At the same time extended dissertation, Münster / Westphalia.
  • Church and Theology. The systematic function of the concept of the church in modern theology . Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus Mohn, 1966. Habilitation thesis, Münster / Westphalia, revision.
  • Christianity theory. Historical-theological studies on its modern constitution . Gütersloh: Mohn, 1972, ISBN 3-579-04097-9 .
  • Political mandate of the churches? Basic questions of a political theology. Trutz Rendtorff answers Winfried Hassemer . Düsseldorf: Patmos-Verlag, 1972, ISBN 3-491-00326-1 .
  • God, a word of our language? A theological essay . Munich: Kaiser, 1972, ISBN 3-459-00830-X ( Theological Existence Today; [NF], 171).
  • Political Ethics and Christianity . Munich: Kaiser, 1978, ISBN 3-459-01153-X ( Theological Existence Today; [NF], 200).
  • Ethics. Basic elements, methodology and concretions of an ethical theology . Vol. 1 + 2 Stuttgart, Berlin: Kohlhammer, 1980/1981 (2nd, revised edition 1990, reprint Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150715-1 ).
  • Theology in the modern age. About religion in the process of enlightenment . Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus Mohn, 1991, ISBN 3-579-00189-2 (Troeltsch studies. Vol. 5).
  • Diverse. Protestant contributions to ethical culture . Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne: Kohlhammer 1991, ISBN 3-17-011544-8 .
  • Religious Freedom - Crisis of Christianity? On the basic legal status of human rights in the perspective of Christianity theory . In: Theological Ethics of the Present, ed. by Friederike Nüssel . Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009, pp. 207–225.
As editor

literature

  • Exceed limits. Festschrift for Trutz Rendtorff's 70th birthday. Edited by Roger J. Busch. Utz, Munich 2001.
  • Reiner Anselm : Ethical Theology. On the ethical conception of Trutz Rendtorff. In: Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik 36 (1992), pp. 259–274.
  • Martin Laube: Theology of modern Christianity. Studies on the genesis and profile of Trutz Rendtorff's theory of Christianity. Tuebingen 2006.
  • Stefan Atze: Ethics as a way of enhancing theology? Berlin New York 2008.
  • In conversation with Trutz Rendtorff . In: Klaus Tanner (ed.): Christianity theory . Leipzig 2008, pp. 239-273.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Graf: Trutz Rendtorff died. In: nzz.ch. December 27, 2016, accessed December 27, 2016 .
  2. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Graf : Christianity to live in freedom. With the theologian Trutz Rendtorff, modern German-speaking Protestantism has lost one of its formative minds. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of December 27, 2016, p. 31.
  3. ↑ Controversy over old villa: Preserved or creating new living space? In: SZ.de. June 3, 2018, accessed June 4, 2018 .
  4. ↑ A villa moves the neighborhood. In: SZ.de. July 27, 2018, accessed July 28, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Fight the housing shortage or protect buildings? In: SZ.de. August 26, 2018. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ "Definitely worth preserving". In: SZ.de. October 3, 2018, accessed October 4, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Bavarian Church builds apartments in metropolitan areas. In: sonntagsblatt.de. September 1, 2018, accessed August 8, 2019 .
  8. ^ Jürgen Wolfram: New building behind the Rendtorff Villa. In: SZ.de. August 21, 2019, accessed August 23, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Küpper: Spatial Justice - Responsibility for equal living conditions. I.a. Trutz-Rendtorff-Villa conflict. The Evangelical Church and its real estate. (Podcast) Bayern 2 , July 22, 2019, accessed on August 23, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rendtorff, Trutz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rendtorff, Trutz-Gotthilf Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2016
Place of death Munich