Werner Jetter

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Werner Jetter (born February 4, 1913 in Schorndorf ; † July 19, 2004 ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian.

Jetter studied Protestant theology in Tübingen from 1931 to 1935 and then worked in various positions in the service of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . From 1952 Jetter worked as a pastor in Stuttgart at the Memorial Church, the new building of which was built under his direction. In 1952 he was in Tübingen with the investigation studies the history of the Church's doctrine of baptism by Augustine to the young Luther to Dr. theol. PhD. In 1961 he was appointed as the successor to Karl Fezer to the professorship for practical theology at the University of Tübingen , where he taught until his retirement in 1978. He also worked as an early preacher at the Tübingen collegiate church from 1961 and 1978 .

Homiletics was a focus in his publications .

Fonts (selection)

  • Young Luther's baptism. An investigation into the development of the Reformation view of the sacraments and baptism . Mohr: Tübingen 1954.
  • Memorial book of the Gedächtniskirche , State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart, 1963 (with woodcuts by the artist Wiltraud Jasper )
  • Who are we preaching to? Necessary questions for preachers and listeners . Calwer: Stuttgart 1964.
  • On the move with the word: reading sermons . Furrow: Hamburg 1966.
  • About the mind. Two attempts to make the Christian talk of the Holy Spirit understandable . Mohr: Tübingen 1968.
  • What will happen to the church? Observations, questions, suggestions . Cross: Stuttgart 1968; Gütersloher Verlagshaus 2 1971.
  • Homiletic acupuncture. Sympathetic notes regarding the sermon . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen 1976.
  • Symbol and ritual. Anthropological elements in worship . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen 1978; 2 1986.
  • Learn to trust. Try to speak of faith . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen 1981.

literature

  • Reformation and Practical Theology. Festschrift for Werner Jetter on his seventieth birthday . Edited by Hans Martin Müller and Dietrich Rössler . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen 1983.
  • Joachim Miltenberger: Bibliography Werner Jetter 1937–1998. For his 90th birthday on February 4, 2003 . Heidelberg 2003.
  • Volker Drehsen : A preacher of suffering love. On the death of the early preacher and practical theologian Werner Jetter in Tübingen . In: Pastoraltheologie 94, 2005, pp. 308-310.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Stuttgart Memorial Church
personal data
SURNAME Jetter, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Schorndorf
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 2004