Ulrich Duchrow

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Ulrich Duchrow (born June 13, 1935 in Hanover ) is a Protestant theologian and social ethicist .

Life

Ulrich Duchrow passed his Abitur in 1955 at the Martino-Katharineum grammar school in Braunschweig and then studied Protestant theology and philosophy in Tübingen , Heidelberg , Zurich and Basel . From 1960 to 1963 he worked on his dissertation on “Language Understanding and Biblical Listening with Augustine ”; he conducted research in Paris and Heidelberg and received his doctorate from Heidelberg University . In 1964 he passed the second theological exam , and in 1968 he completed his habilitation in systematic theology and social ethics with the thesis "Christianity and global responsibility - traditional history and systematic structure of the doctrine of two kingdoms".

From 1964 to 1970 Ulrich Duchrow worked as a scientific advisor at the interdisciplinary research center of the Evangelical Study Community (FEST), where his focus was on basic theological research for interdisciplinary discussions with philosophy, physics, biochemistry, peace research and Marxism. From 1968 he worked as a part-time lecturer at the theological faculty of Heidelberg University. From 1970 to 1977 he was director of the study department of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Geneva and headed an interdisciplinary team for contextual study work with member churches of the World Federation and the World Council of Churches . This activity resulted in an ecclesiology study on the topic “The identity of the church and its service to the whole person”.

From 1977 to 1978 Duchrow held a visiting professorship at the Ecumenical Institute Bossey . From 1979 to 2000 he was then the regional representative for mission and ecumenism of the Evangelical Church in Baden . Since 1984 the “ liberation theologian from an ecumenical perspective” has been teaching as an adjunct professor for systematic theology at the University of Heidelberg.

In 1963 Ulrich Duchrow married a high school teacher. The couple has three children and lives in Heidelberg.

engagement

Ulrich Duchrow was one of the initiators of the Council Process for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation at the VI. Full assembly of the World Council of Churches in Vancouver 1983. From 1985 to 1986 the World Council commissioned him to work out a framework for this process with its various departments and the Vatican . In connection with this process, Ulrich Duchrow is co-founder of Kairos Europa , a network that is established within the framework of the conciliar process. a. works for fairer economic relations with the countries of the south. From 1997 to 2004 he was a member of the international advisory group of the Reformed World Federation for the "process of recognition, learning and confession ( processus confessionis ) against economic injustice and the destruction of nature" and as such was involved in the general meetings of the Lutheran World Federation in Winnipeg 2003 and the Reformed World Federation in Accra 2004.

In the essay "An exchange of letters between rich and poor and its consequences" from 2005, Duchrow subjected neoliberalism to a critical analysis. He warned that Christians should reflect on their most important task and the roots of Christian and biblical claims. The focus of his work is the question of how the church can respond to economic globalization according to the neoliberal model. On Reformation Day 2008 he was one of the first to sign the appeal “Peace with Capital? An appeal against the adjustment of the Evangelical Church to the power of the economy ”. Duchrow is a member of Attac's scientific advisory board .

From 2010 Duchrow belonged to the coordination group of the international project " Radicalize the Reformation - provoked by the Bible and the crisis" ( Radicalizing Reformation ) and was largely responsible for the publication of the seven-volume series " Radicalize the Reformation " (2015-2017) as well as for the implementation of the 3rd International final conference of the project in January 2017 - at the beginning of the Reformation anniversary - in Wittenberg . At the end of this conference, the “Wittenberg Declaration 2017” with the title “Justice alone! Radicalizing the Reformation - provoked by today's systemic crisis ”, which Ulrich Duchrow had contributed significantly to and which he was one of the first to sign. It calls for the development of “just alternatives that enable life” to a capitalist civilization that is becoming more totalitarian; all forms of anti-Semitism as well as military, sexual, racist, structural and cultural violence are discarded in favor of nonviolent actions for life: “Peace to to practice means to live, speak and act without violence. "

In June 2019 Ulrich Duchrow was one of the 24 first signatories of an “Ecumenical Declaration on the Defamation of Nonviolent Resistance to Violations of International Law and Human Rights in Palestine / Israel by the German Bundestag”; She criticizes the Bundestag resolution of May 17, 2019, in which the BDS campaign (boycott, divestments and sanctions) and the calls for boycott against Israel are rejected and described as anti-Semitic. In the declaration of the theologians, reference is made to the “covered by UN resolutions” goals of the BDS movement: “Ending the occupation of the Palestinian territories by the State of Israel, equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis and the right to return or compensation of the Palestinian refugees ”; the authors admit that “under the cloak of BDS, as everywhere, there could also be anti-Semites”; their criminally relevant statements and actions belong in court. The anti-Semitism researcher Samuel Salzborn described the declaration as a “pamphlet” by a “small group of theology professors” and “quite a nonsense” and recalled that in May 2018 the EKD had already distanced itself from “anti-Israel statements” by Duchrow.

Anti-Semitism Discussion

In 2018, Hermann Lührs, an employee of the Diakonisches Werk Berlin , criticized an article by Duchrow from 2016 in the journal for Evangelical Ethics , in which he had spread “ anti-Semitic stereotypes ”; The article appeared again in a revised form in 2017 in the 7th volume of the series Die Reformation Radikalisiert, edited by Duchrow and Hans Günter Ulrich . Lührs' criticism was taken up in June 2018 by Deutschlandfunk in its "Schalom" series, also in an article by journalist Alan Posener in the newspaper Die Welt . Duchrow, according to Posener, suggests that Israel's Jews “forfeited the right to the land” because Israel broke the “covenant of justice” laid down in the Bible through its policies, which according to the prophets resulted in the loss of the land. The anti-Semitism commissioner of the federal government, Felix Klein , considered the book co-edited by Duchrow to be “clearly anti-Semitic”, similar to the coordination council of the societies for Christian-Jewish cooperation. The EKD also distanced itself from the publication. In issue 2/2019, the Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik published a reply by the Israeli economist Shir Hever to the article by Lührs published there, which provided the basis for the criticism of Ulrich Duchrow. Hever took the position that Lührs' remarks on the concept of anti-Semitism were based on a single investigation and that the author had not taken note of the international discussion on the Israel / Palestine problem. Martin Stöhr , a well-known representative of the Judeo-Christian dialogue, initially supported Duchrow in a letter to the editor: Duchrow neither delegitimized Israel, nor did he wish to destroy it. In a second letter to the editor, however, Stöhr kept his distance and criticized Duchrow for not applying the “standard applied to Israel” to “other empires and powers” ​​in a similarly critical manner.

Ulrich Duchrow told the Evangelical Press Service (epd) that he did not deny Israel the right to exist, but had pointed out the opposite: Justice was the prerequisite for long-term security for Israelis. The “central task” is to show that “justice serves the Jewish people in the long term”; the only losers would be those who benefit from war and violence. He also said that he was addressing an "extreme power asymmetry between Israelis and Palestinians" and wanted to break the "completely one-sided, uncritical attitude towards the State of Israel and its politics". Only "together [would] Israelis and Palestinians a future"; The precondition is justice.

Publications (selection)

  • Language understanding and biblical listening with Augustine. Hermeneutic Studies on Theology, Vol. 5, Mohr-Siebeck-Verlag, Tübingen 1965, DNB 451007794 .
  • Conflict over ecumenism. Confession of Christ - in what form of the ecumenical movement? Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1980 (2 editions in German and English)
  • Christianity and world responsibility. Traditional history and systematic structure of the doctrine of two kingdoms. 2nd Edition. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-608-93041-8 .
  • World economy today. A field for the Confessing Church? Christian-Kaiser-Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-459-01649-3 .
  • (Ed. With Gert Eisenbürger and Jochen Hippler ): Total war against the poor. Secret strategy papers of the American military. 2nd Edition. Christian-Kaiser-Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-459-01817-8 .
  • Alternatives to the capitalist world economy. Biblical Remembrance and Political Approaches to Overcoming a Life-threatening Economy. 2nd Edition. Gütersloher Verlag-Haus, Gütersloh 1997, ISBN 3-579-02282-2 .
  • (with Franz Josef Hinkelammert ): Life is more than capital. Alternatives to the global dictatorship of property. Publik-Forum, Oberursel 2002, ISBN 3-88095-117-9 .
  • An exchange of letters between rich and poor and its consequences. In: Carl Amery (ed.): Letters to wealth. Luchterhand-Literaturverlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-630-87186-0 .
  • (with Reinhold Bianchi, René Krüger and Vincenzo Petracca): Becoming human in solidarity. Mental and social destruction in neoliberalism - ways to overcome it. VSA, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-89965-167-7 .
  • (Ed. With Franz Segbers ): Peace with Capital? Against the adjustment of the Evangelical Church to the power of the economy. Publik-Forum, Oberursel 2008, ISBN 978-3-88095-179-2 .
  • Greedy money. Ways out of the capitalism trap - Liberation theological perspectives. Kösel, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-466-37069-6 .
  • Overcoming capitalism with Luther, Marx & Papst. A pamphlet. Hamburg, VSA 2017, ISBN 978-3-89965-753-1 .
  • (Ed. With Carsten Jochum-Bortfeld): Befreiung zur Gerechtigkeit / Liberation toward Justice. (= Radicalizing the Reformation / Radicalizing reformation, Vol. 1) LIT, Münster 2015.
  • (Ed. With Hans G. Ulrich): Liberation from Mammon / Liberation from Mammon. (= Radicalizing the Reformation / Radicalizing reformation, Vol. 2) LIT, Münster 2015.
  • (Ed. With Martin Hoffmann): Politics and Economics of Liberation / Politics and Economics of Liberation. (= Radicalizing the Reformation / Radicalizing reformation, Vol. 3) LIT, Münster 2015.
  • (Ed. With Craig Nessan): Liberation from Violence for Life in Peace. (= Radicalizing the Reformation / Radicalizing reformation, Vol. 4) LIT, Münster 2015.
  • (Ed. With Karen Bloomquist): Church liberates for resistance and transformation. Church Liberated for Resistance and Transformation. (= Radicalizing the Reformation / Radicalizing reformation, Vol. 5) LIT, Münster 2015.
  • (Ed. With Hans G. Ulrich): Religions for Justice in Palestine-Israel. Beyond Luther's enemy images. (= Radicalizing the Reformation / Radicalizing reformation, Vol. 7) LIT, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-13767-8 ( [1] , English version); second, improved and updated edition, Verlag Stiftung Hirschler, Otterstadt / Speyer 2018, ISBN 978-3-9818916-2-1 .

literature

  • Franz Segbergs / Simon Wiesgickl: "This economy kills" (Pope Francis). Churches together against capitalism. VSA: Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89965-656-5 (Ulrich Duchrow on his eightieth birthday).
  • Shir Hever : No anti-Semitism, but necessary criticism. Reply to Lührs' attack on Ulrich Duchrow in the Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik. In: ZEE March 2019, pp. 137–147.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See curriculum vitae ( memento of the original from March 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Retrieved August 22, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ulrich.duchrow.de.vu
  2. ↑ Franz Segbergs / Simon Wiesgickl: For Ulrich Duchrow . In: Franz Segbergs / Simon Wiesgickl: "This economy kills" (Pope Francis). Churches together against capitalism. VSA: Verlag, Hamburg 2015, p. 22.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Duchrow: Ecumenism and the capitalist empire: The conciliar process for justice, peace and the liberation of creation. In: Hans-Georg Link / Geiko Müller-Fahrenholz (ed.): Paths of hope. Groundbreaking impulses from the World Council of Churches over six decades. Lembeck, Frankfurt / Main 2008, pp. 291-320.
  4. ↑ WCC, World Council of Churches: Framework of the ecumenical process of mutual commitment (covenant) for justice, peace and the integrity of creation. Working paper for the WCC Executive Committee. March 1986. Supplement to: Junge Kirche , issue 4, April 1986, Bremen.
  5. ↑ Ulrich Duchrow: An exchange of letters between rich and poor and its consequences. In: Carl Amery (ed.): Letters to wealth. Luchterhand-Literaturverlag, Munich 2005.
  6. ↑ Peace with Capital? A call against the adjustment of the Evangelical Church to the power of the economy. (PDF)
  7. ↑ Members of the Attac Scientific Advisory Board ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (As of January 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.attac-netzwerk.de
  8. ^ LIT publishing house; [www.radicalizing-reformation.com radicalizing-reformation.com].
  9. ^ Radicalizing-reformation.com: Wittenberg Declaration 2017
  10. ↑ kairoseuropa.de: Ecumenical declaration on the defamation of nonviolent resistance against violations of international law and human rights in Palestine / Israel by the German Bundestag. 4th June 2019.
  11. ↑ Theologians criticize the Bundestag resolution against the boycott of Israel. www.evangelisch.de, June 4, 2019.
  12. ^ Samuel Salzborn: BDS: Action is expected from the church. www.juedische-allgemeine.de, June 20, 2019
  13. ↑ Hermann Lührs: “Legitimate Criticism or Anti-Semitism? An essay on Israel and Palestine in an anthology of the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt requires contradiction ” , Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik, 62nd volume, issue 1, January to March 2018, pp. 58–64.
  14. ↑ To be listened to on the DLF-Audio-Link , DLF, June 1, 2018
  15. ↑ Alan Posener: Christian anti-Semitism: With the Bible against Israel. www.welt.de, May 23, 2018
  16. ↑ Theologians against Israel. www.juedische-allgemeine.de, May 31, 2018
  17. ↑ "Deeply anti-Israel work." Www.fr.de, May 29, 2018
  18. ↑ Monika Schwarz-Friesel , Jehuda Reinharz : The language of hostility towards Jews in the 21st century. Berlin, New York, 2013.
  19. ↑ Shir Hever: No anti-Semitism, but necessary criticism. Reply to Lührs' attack on Ulrich Duchrow. In. Journal for Protestant Ethics (ZEE), number 2/2019, pp. 137–142.
  20. ↑ a b Martin Vorländer: Dispute Israel www.sonntag-sachsen.de, April 7, 2019
  21. ↑ domradio.de: New Debate on the Attitude of Christians to Middle East Policy (May 29, 2018; Author: Stephan Cezanne (epd), accessed on June 7, 2018.)
personal data
SURNAME Duchrow, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and social ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover