Walter Künneth Prize

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The Walther Künneth Prize is an award for personalities and works who “have made a biblical contribution to the preservation and dissemination of the Christian Reformation heritage in theology, preaching, diakonia and society”. The prize was awarded between 2004 and 2013 by the theologically conservative Church Collection of the Bible and Confession in Ansbach, Bavaria (KSBB), an association founded in 1967 as a counter-movement to modern theological approaches with members initially v. a. from Lutheran and popular missionary-pietist circles.

designation

The prize is named after the Erlangen professor of theology, Walter Künneth (1901–1997), who defended word-based Bible study. He criticized Bultmann's methodology as well as other trends in modern theology. He was, after initially good contacts to the Gestapo and the Reich Interior Ministry , in the wake of the ban on Apologetic Centrale , which he presided, by the Nazis writing and speaking ban imposed in the GDR his books were undesirable. His anti-Semitic theses are known z. B. about a "corrosive" effect of "world Jewry". In an opinion from April 1933, he considered it important that “the elimination of the Jews as foreign bodies in popular life does not take place in a way that contradicts Christian ethos. Any kind of violent persecution of Jews ... is therefore to be raised by the Church ”.

The prize consists of a 143 gram silver coin. The front is decorated with an image of Künneth, his name and the motto "The Lord is risen". Name and motto are separated by two KSBB logos. The name of the respective award winner and the year of the award are engraved on the back.

position

According to early documents about its own self-image, KSBB primarily campaigns against “excessive democratization of the church” and “against a zeitgeist theology that focuses more and more on people”, “against the penetration of modernist theology into Bavaria "and a" false worldliness ", specifically z. B. against women's ordination, against sex education, against existentialist approaches in theology and against approaches to demythologize biblical texts, as was common among Bultmann's students . Recently, KSBB has criticized multi-religious celebrations, including a. because “authoritative representatives” of Islam “tolerated open hatred against Christians and especially against Jews” or criticized attacks on evangelical events such as Christival and the International Congress for Psychotherapy and Pastoral Care as anti-Christian.

Award winners

  • 2004: Hans Apel , former Federal Minister D. (for his critical book Volkskirche ohne Volk ).
    The laudator was Jörg Müller-Volbehr, a state church lawyer from Marburg
  • 2005: Oskar Sakrausky , evang.-luth. Former Bishop of Austria (for his work against abortion ).
    The laudator was the Bavarian pastor and chairman of the Society for Internal and External Mission Wolfhart Schlichting .
  • 2006: Theo Lehmann , pastor and evangelist (for his evangelism efforts ).
    The laudator was the head of the Protestant news agency idea , Helmut Matthies .
  • 2007: idea , Protestant news agency (for its press work that is critical of the zeitgeist, in particular through the weekly magazine ideaSpektrum ).
    The laudator was the director of Bibel TV , Henning Röhl .
  • 2008: Susanne Geske, widow of Tilmann Geske, who was killed on April 18, 2007 in the context of the murders at Zirve-Verlag (for her forgiveness towards the murderers of her husband).
    The laudator was the chairman of the World Evangelical Alliance, Thomas Schirrmacher .
  • 2009: Maria Grundberger, Andrea Käppler, Tamar Küchler, Aline Queck and Kirsten Zeil, midwives (for their commitment against abortion).
    The general secretary of the German Evangelical Alliance , Hartmut Steeb, gave laudatory speech for the four evangelical midwives Käppler, Küchler, Queck and Zeil . The Auxiliary Bishop of Salzburg, Andreas Laun , gave the laudation for the Catholic midwife Grundberger .
  • 2010: Walter Obare Omwanza , Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya (among other things for his founding of a parallel church in Sweden, which, in contrast to the Swedish Church, rejects the ordination of women ).
    The laudator was the Bavarian pastor and chairman of the Society for Internal and External Mission Wolfhart Schlichting .
  • 2012: Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (including for the constitution of the Dodoma Declaration); The award was received on August 31, 2012 by Bishop Mameo in Arusha .
  • 2013: Evangelist Lutz Scheufler (Waldenburg in Saxony), among other things, for his resistance to the introduction of the Pastoral Service Act in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Angela Hager: A Decade of Hope : Reform Groups in the Bavarian Regional Church 1966–1976, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, p. 37ff et passim.
  2. ↑ Eberhard Röhm / Jörg Thierfelder: Juden, Christen, Deutsche , Vol. 1, 1933 to 1935, Calwer Pocket Library 8, Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-7668-3011-2 , p. 412.
  3. ↑ See: Walter Künneth: Answer to the Myth . The decision between the Nordic myth and the biblical Christ, Wichern Verlag, Berlin 1935; Ernst Klee: Persil notes and false passports . How the churches helped the Nazis. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, p. 133.181; Axel Töllner: A question of race? The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, the Aryan Paragraph and the Bavarian pastor families with Jewish ancestors in the “Third Reich”. (Dissertation University of Koblenz / Landau (Pfalz) 2003; Denomination and Society, Volume 36). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-17-019692-6 , p. 35ff, here p. 46; Eberhard Röhm / Jörg Thierfelder: Juden, Christen, Deutsche , Vol. 1, 1933 to 1935, Calwer Pocket Library 8, Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-7668-3011-2 , p. 371ff. W. Künneth: The völkisch religiosity of the present, Wichern Verlag, Berlin-Spandau / Stuttgart, 2nd A. 1932; W. Künneth: The Church and the Jewish Question in Germany , published as Das Judenproblem und die Kirche , in: W. Künneth / Helmuth Schreiner: Nation vor Gott , On the message of the Church in the Third Reich, Wichern Verlag, Berlin 1st edition 1933, Pp. 90-105 / 4th edition 1934; see. on this Klaus Scholder : The Churches and the Third Reich , Volume 1, Munich 1977 / New Edition 2000, p. 391ff et passim; Tanja Hetzer: "German hour": Volksgemeinschaft and anti-Semitism in political theology in Paul Althaus , Diss. Sussex 2007, Allitera, Munich 2009, p. 172ff; Wolfgang Maaser: Theological Ethics and Political Identity . The example of the theologian Walter Künneth, Bochum 1990; Manfred Gailus / Hartmut Lehmann (eds.): National Protestant Mentalities in Germany (1870-1970) , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, p. 71ff; 99ff; 314 et passim.
  4. ↑ Cf. Angela Hager: A Decade of Hope : Reform Groups in the Bavarian Regional Church 1966–1976, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, p. 37ff et passim.
  5. ↑ idea report June 2010, cf. [1] .
  6. ↑ idea report July 2009, cf. [2] .
  7. ^ Künneth Prize 2010 for Bishop Obare ( Memento from April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )