Volker Gäckle

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Volker Gäckle in 2011

Volker Gäckle (born November 7, 1964 in Stuttgart ) is a German theologian , pastor of the Württemberg regional church , rector of the Liebenzell International University and holds a chair for the New Testament there.

Live and act

Gäckle studied Protestant theology in Tübingen and Marburg from 1986 to 1992 . In 1992/1993 he was theological editor at R. Brockhaus-Verlag (Wuppertal). After the vicariate between 1993 and 1995 in the Württemberg regional church in Ostfildern-Ruit . After that he was a study assistant and study director for the New Testament at the Albrecht Bengel House in Tübingen until 2005 . Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jörg Frey received his doctorate in 2005 from the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a thesis on the strong and the weak in Corinth and in Rome. On the origin and function of the antithesis in 1 Cor 8: 1–11: 1 and in Rom. 14: 1–15, 13. After a year in pastoral service in Herrenberg, he was the seminar director of the theological seminar of the Liebenzeller Mission between 2006 and 2011 and one of the managing directors of the CTL non-profit GmbH. Gäckle has been Professor of the New Testament at the Liebenzell International University and its rector since 2011 . His main research interests are Pauline theology , the history of early Christianity and the theology and ethics of the New Testament. Between 2007 and 2013, again under the supervision of Jörg Frey, he worked on his habilitation thesis on the general priesthood. To metaphorize the title of priest in early Judaism and the New Testament . and received his habilitation in February 2014 from the Theological Faculty of the University of Zurich . He was granted the license to teach (Venia Legendi) in the field of "New Testament" and the title of private lecturer.

From 1998 to 2006 Gäckle was honorary chairman of the YMCA state association in Württemberg. He is involved in the round table of the Coalition for Evangelism in Germany , a working group of the evangelical Lausanne movement . He has been a member of the management team of this working group since 2012.

Gäckle's book The New Testament and Israel (2009) is devoted to much-discussed issues. In it he continues to see Israel as “the people of God ”, but also refers to the silence of the New Testament about the Old Testament promises to Israel; Gäckle speaks of a “delimitation” of the land promises of the Old Testament: Now the whole earth is the goal of God's rule.

Private

Volker Gäckle is married to Bettina. The couple has three children and lives in Stammheim near Calw .

Awards

In 2015 Gäckle received the Johann Tobias Beck Prize for his work on General Priesthood - On the Metaphorization of the Priesthood in Early Judaism and the New Testament . His habilitation thesis is “a demanding, exegetically solid and, in its differentiated presentations, powerful investigation”, according to AfeT chairman Christoph Raedel . Rainer Riesner gave the laudation .

Publications

as co-editor

  • with Joachim Rieger: Man in God's salvation event. A biblical anthropology for the church . SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 1996, ISBN 978-3-7751-2477-5 .
  • with Ulrich Scheffbuch: Why the cross? The question of the meaning of the death of Jesus. SCM R. Brockhaus , Wuppertal 1998, ISBN 978-3-4172-9080-6 .
  • with Ulrich Scheffbuch: Packed by God! A life with heavenly prospects , SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 1999. ISBN 978-3-7751-3352-4 .
  • with Jürgen Schuster : The paradigm shift in world missions: opportunities and challenges of non-western missionary movements , Lit Verlag , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12374-9 .
  • with Jürgen Schuster: The Gospel and the Religions. Religious questions - religious theological conclusions , Lit Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-12886-7 .
  • with Jürgen Schuster: Freedom of religion, freedom of expression and Christian belief (series: Interkulturalität & Religion, Volume 5), Lit Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-13829-3 .

Essays

  • On the interpretation of the death of Jesus in the Gospels , in: Why the cross? , Pp. 53-86.
  • Atonement and Reconciliation with Paul , in: Why the Cross? , Pp. 87-106.
  • The end time proclamation of Jesus , in: Rolf Hille (Hrsg.): What can we hope for? The future of the world and the promise of the kingdom of God , Wuppertal 1999, pp. 89–116.
  • Reflections on the interpretation of the Revelation , in: Rolf Hille (Ed.): What can we hope for? The future of the world and the promise of the kingdom of God , Wuppertal 1999, pp. 117–150.
  • Faith and individuality - the meaning of the spiritual experience in early Pietism , in: Eberhard Hahn (Ed.): What holds Christians together? The challenge of the Christian faith through individualism and adventure society , Wuppertal 2000, pp. 107–146.
  • Pious Wishes in Changed Times - Challenges for Pietism in the 21st Century , in: Hartmut Schmid (Ed.): What does Pietism want? Historical observations and current challenges , Wuppertal 2002, pp. 189–218. ISBN 978-3-417290950 .
  • Is it you who should come? - Historical and biblical arguments on the question of the Messiahship of Jesus , in: Martin Flaig (Ed.): Why Jesus? Answers to the question about the center of the Christian faith , Wuppertal 2003, pp. 33–58. ISBN 978-3-417290998 .
  • When you come together ... The worship services of the first Christians , in: Rolf Sons (Hrsg.): How do we celebrate worship? Community between tradition and adventure culture , Wuppertal 2005, pp. 37–60. ISBN 978-3-417291025 .
  • Historical analysis II: The Greco-Roman environment , in: Heinz-Werner Neudorfer and Eckhard J. Schnabel (Eds.): The Study of the New Testament , Wuppertal 2006, pp. 141–180. ISBN 978-3-765594304 .
  • The mission and love money - New Testament observations , in: Klaus W. Müller (Ed.): Money and Mission . Papers at the 2009 AfeM annual conference, Nuremberg 2009, pp. 11–31.
  • Justification - or: Why God's justice turns out to be grace , in: Michael Diener , Christoph Morgner and Theo Schneider (eds.): Basic concepts of faith - explained in an understandable way , Gießen 2011, pp. 231–242. ISBN 978-3-765514753 .
  • The concept of “holistic mission” in the light of the New Testament , in: em 26 (2010), pp. 6–23.
  • Mission theological questions and horizons of the 20th century , in: Michael Herbst and Birgit Winterhoff (eds.): From Lausanne to Cape Town. The third congress for world evangelization (BEG Praxis), Neukirchen-Vluyn 2012, pp. 11–15. ISBN 978-3-761558805 .
  • The Cape Town Commitment. A critical appraisal , in: Michael Herbst and Birgit Winterhoff (eds.): From Lausanne to Cape Town. The third congress for world evangelization (BEG Praxis), Neukirchen-Vluyn 2012, pp. 208–223. ISBN 978-3-761558805 .
  • The present and future βασιλεία in the proclamation of Jesus , pp. 11–34, in: Arthur Rempel GBFE (Ed.) Kingdom of God - Change - Future: Theology of the Kingdom of God in the horizon of eschatology , Verlag epubli 2014, ISBN 978-3 -8442-9736-2 .
  • Insights into the hereafter? Reflections on the biblical-theological evaluation of near-death experiences . In: Akzente für Theologie und Dienst , 114/2 (2019), pp. 60–67.
  • Misunderstood? Paulus, Luther and the "New Perspective on Paul" . In: Klaus W. Müller and Elmar Spohn (eds.): Intercultural Theology versus Missiology. Contributions to History - Mission - Theology (Festschrift for Bernd Brandl on his 65th birthday), VTR Verlag, Nuremberg 2020, ISBN 978-3-95776-101-9 , pp. 194-212.

Lexicon article

  • Article in Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation, 1st edition (ELThG1), 1999. ISBN 978-3-417246742 .
    • Absolute. The Apostles' Creed
    • Aristotle / Aristotelianism
    • Confessions
    • Belgium
    • Vocation - historical theology
    • Brethren Union, Württembergischer
    • Brunner, Peter
    • Covenant - systematic-theological
    • Repentance - systematic-theological
    • Repentance - historical of theology
    • Experience / theology of experience
    • France
    • Spirit, saint - historical of theology
    • Congregation - history of theology and denomination
    • Justice - systematic-theological
    • Justice - historically of theology
    • Gerhardt, Paul
    • Grace - systematic-theological
    • Goppel, Leonhard
    • Judgment of God. Corporeality
    • Machiavelli, Niccolo
    • Human - systematic-theological
    • Human - historical theology
    • Moritz of Saxony
  • Article in Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation, (ELThG2), Volume 1, 2017
    • Marriage II. - religious history
    • Rapture I. - Religious history
    • Idolatry - Biblical

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IHL teaching staff , ihl.eu, accessed on January 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ LMU Munich: Promotion Gäckle ( Memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), uni-muenchen.de, archived on March 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ Gäckle is the seminar director and one of the CTL managing directors ( Memento from April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), ctl-online.de, archived on April 25, 2009.
  4. ↑ Gäckle's habilitation thesis accepted ( memento from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), uzh.ch, accessed on March 1, 2014
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Volker Gäckle completed his habilitation in Zurich , ihl.eu, accessed on May 30, 2014.
  6. ↑ Chairman at the YMCA ( memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), ejwue.de, archived on March 1, 2014.
  7. ↑ Annual Report Round Table ( Memento from January 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 140 kB), lausannerbewendung.de, accessed on September 12, 2013
  8. ^ Compiled in the review by Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer in: Yearbook for Evangelical Theology 24, 2010, p. 283.
  9. ↑ Johann Tobias Beck Prize awarded , ead.de, message from September 16, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Gäckle, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and rector of the Liebenzell International University
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart