Ulrich Nembach

Ulrich Nembach (* 11. December 1935 in Breslau ) is a German Protestant theologian and emeritus professor of practical theology at the Georg-August University of Goettingen .

Life

Ulrich Nembach was born as the older of two children of Kurt Nembach and his wife Elfriede (née Sroka). After the wanderings caused by the war and its end, the family ended up in the Rhineland. In 1956, Nembach completed his Abitur at the scientifically oriented Max Planck Gymnasium in Düsseldorf and then began studying theology and later also jurisprudence. In 1961 he completed his doctorate in theology at the University of Basel and in the same year passed the first theological exam in Düsseldorf. In 1964 Nembach passed the first state examination in law in Heidelberg . From 1965 to 1971 Nembach was a research assistant at the seminar for practical theology and religious education at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . During this period he received his doctorate in law (1969) and his habilitation in practical theology (1970). Following the dropped of Nembach 1971 second Theological Examination, the same year that followed the ordination of pastors of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck . Until 1977 Nembach worked as a director of studies at the Evangelical Academy Hofgeismar before he was appointed parish priest at the Neuwerkkirche in Goslar for a period of one and a half years . In 1978 Ulrich Nembach became professor for practical theology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. His main research interests include homiletics and religious education , subjects of canon law and the sociology of religion , as well as the relationship between church and media. Nembach is considered a thought leader in internet homiletics, which he practically implemented on the internet with the founding of the internet platform Göttingen Sermons . Nembach has repeatedly held visiting professorships at the Comenius University in Bratislava .

Ulrich Nembach is married and has two children.

Memberships and functions

• Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences (1997)
• Editor of the Göttingen Sermons on the Internet
• Editor of Theologie Online
• Managing editor of Informationes Theologiae Europae
• Member of the Society for Scientific Theology
• Member of the Societas homiletica
• Member of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion
• Member of the jury for the Sermon Prize (2001 to 2002)
• Member of the Board of Trustees for the Sermon Prize (since 2009)

Publications (selection)

• The position of the Protestant church and its press on the first Vatican council , Zurich 1962.
• The New Testament divorce law within the framework of Jewish law , Münster 1969.
• Preaching the gospel. Luther as a preacher, educator and rhetorician , Neukirchen-Vluyn 1972.
• Church in Radio and Television , Science and Practice in Church and Society 65, 1976, 372–379.
• The preached contribution to jurisprudence , in: Justifications of Law II. With the collaboration of Hans-Hartmann von Schlotheim, edited by Konrad von Bonin , (Göttingen theological works; 13), Göttingen 1979, 102–114.
• Religious orientation of young people , together with Hans-Joachim Griep, in: Youth and Religion in Europe. Symposium, ed. by Ulrich Nembach , (research on practical theology; 2), Frankfurt am Main 1987, 205–232.
• Radio seen again. Radio as a modern custom. A contribution to a theory of listening and broadcasting and for future broadcast homiletics , (Research on Practical Theology; 6), Frankfurt am Main 1989.
• Preach today. A manual , Stuttgart 1996.
• The Evangelical Union in the Silesian Church Struggle in the years 1934/35 , in: Erinnertes Erbe. Contributions to the Silesian church history; Festschrift for Christian-Erdmann Schott, on behalf of the Association for Silesian Church History. Edited by Dietrich Meyer , (Studies on the Silesian and Upper Lusatian Church History; 8), Herrnhut 2002, 289–309.
• Internet homiletics - a fascinating new discipline. Using the example of the “Göttingen Sermons on the Internet” , EvTh 66, 2006, 394–399.

Web links

• Biography on the website of the University of Göttingen