Werner Brändle

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Werner Brändle (born October 15, 1941 in Esslingen a. N. ) is a German Protestant theologian , literary scholar and university professor emeritus.

Life

From 1963 to 1968, Brändle studied Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen and at the University of Marburg with Gerhard Ebeling , Ernst Käsemann , Carl Heinz Ratschow and Ernst Fuchs, among others , and completed the training course for parish ministry with the first and second theological exams (1968/1971) and ordination (1970). He then studied literature and philosophy , passed the first and second state exams for German and Protestant religion for teaching at grammar schools (1973/1976) and received his doctorate in Tübingen with a thesis on Martin Walser's dramatic pieces (1975). phil.

At the University of Osnabrück he took on a scientific assistant in 1976 and received his doctorate in 1980 at the Protestant theological faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster with the thesis Rescue of the Hopeless. The Theological Implications of Theodor W. Adorno's Philosophy . From 1986 to 1989 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Religious Education in Loccum and completed his habilitation in 1989 at the Bethel Church University in the subject of Systematic Theology with the thesis Heilvolle Nahe Gottes. Studies on a theological theodicy . In 1989 Brändle was appointed to the chair for systematic theology and religious education at the University of Hildesheim, which he held until his retirement in spring 2007. From 1998 to 2000 he was also vice president of the university.

Brändle has lived and worked on Reichenau on Lake Constance since 2007. He is married and has two grown sons.

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Brändle's scientific contributions are determined by the conversation between theology, literary studies and philosophy. The award of the honorary doctorate to Martin Walser by the University of Hildesheim , as well as the speeches for Walser's 70th birthday and the lecture series were based on Brändle's initiative. Trinity theological perspectives are characteristic and determining for his numerous theological and religious education publications, which are also brought to bear with a view to a Christian answer to the theodicy problem.

Fonts (selection)

• The dramatic pieces of Martin Walser. Variations on the misery of the bourgeois subject (= Stuttgart work on German studies). Stuttgart 1978.
• Rescuing the hopeless. The theological implications of the philosophy of Th. W. Adornos. Göttingen 1984.
• Holy closeness to God. Studies on a theological theodicy. .
• Paperback book of theological terms. Gutersloh 1990.
• Workbook for the Bible - teaching work for upper secondary level. Hanover 1993.

As editor and co-author:

• The game. Scenes from the 16th century. With materials. Frankfurt a. M. 1978.
• (with Horst Georg Pöhlmann :) Philosophy of religion. An introduction with selected texts. Gütersloh 1984.
• (with Ralf Stolina :) Spirit and Church. Festschrift for Eckhard Lessing . Frankfurt a. Main 1995.
• (with Gottfried Leder and Dieter Lüttge :) Tolerance and religion. Perspectives on interreligious discussions (= Hildesheimer Contributions to Educational and Social Sciences, 36), Hildesheim 1996.
• (with Gerhard Wegner :) Unavailable certainty. Protestant ways to dialogue between religions. Luth. Verl.-Haus, Hanover 1997.
• Identity and writing. A commemorative publication for Martin Walser. Lecture series at the University of Hildesheim in the winter semester 1996/97. Olms, Hildesheim 1997.
• With Theo Keller: The power of pictures: The Ottonian murals in the Church of St. Georg on the monastery island of Reichenau. Beuron 2011.

literature

• Norbert C. Baumgart , Gerhard Ringshausen (ed.): Philosophical-theological impulses for judgment formation. Festschrift for Werner Brändle (= Lüneburg Theological Contributions, Vol. 5). LIT, Berlin / Münster 2006.

Web links

Language and theology. Farewell to Prof. Dr. Dr. Werner Brändle. In: University of Hildesheim. Retrieved September 30, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norbert C. Baumgart, Gerhard Ringshausen ,: Philosophical-theological impulses for judgment formation: Festschrift for Werner Brändle . Lüneburg Theological Contributions, Münster 2006.