Werner Neuer

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Werner Neuer (born May 6, 1951 ) is a German Protestant pastor . From 2000 to 2016 he was a lecturer in theology at the St. Chrischona Theological Seminary . He is considered an expert on the Swiss theologian Adolf Schlatter .

Career

Werner Neuer studied history , politics and geography at the University of Heidelberg from 1970 to 1972 and Protestant theology at the universities of Heidelberg and Tübingen from 1973 to 1977 . In 1985 he did his doctorate at the University of Marburg under CH Ratschow in the field of systematic theology . In 1989 the vicariate and ordination in the Württemberg regional church followed . From 1990–1997 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Mission Studies and Ecumenical Theology at the University of Tübingen, then theological consultant at the Württemberg regional church and completed pastoral training in Bad Urach.

From 2000 until his retirement in 2016 he lectured dogmatics , ethics , ecumenical theology , religious studies and theology of religions at the St. Chrischona Theological Seminary (TSC). He was also a guest lecturer at the Gustav Siewerth Academy in Bierbronnen and at the State-independent Theological University (STH) Basel. Neuer is the only Protestant who has been a permanent guest of Joseph Ratzinger's group of students since 2004 .

Neuer has been married since 1978, has seven children and lives in Schallbach near Lörrach .

Works

His extensive theological publications so far (2012) include over 200 articles on the history of theology, dogmatics, ethics, ecumenical theology and theology of religion. His great biography of Adolf Schlatter ( Adolf Schlatter. A Life for Theology and Church , 1996) became particularly well-known , with around 60 reviews that met with an unusually large and almost invariably positive response internationally and across denominations. A short biography of Schlatter, which was later translated into English (1995) and Korean (2002), was published eight years earlier. In total, Neuer dedicates around a quarter of his 200 published works to this Swiss theologian.

In the award-winning work Heil in all world religions? The understanding of revelation and salvation in the pluralistic theology of religion John Hicks (2009) shows Neuer the sometimes considerable contradictions in Hicks theory.

In his book Man and Woman in a Christian Perspective (1993), which has also been translated into English , he emphasizes the equality of man and woman, but also - against feminism - the essential difference between men and women as well as the leadership role of men and the rejection of the ordination of women .

Positions

Neuer is of the opinion that Christian marriage not only includes the mutual complementation and happiness of the partners, but also the conception of children. Pope Benedict XVI he welcomed 2005 as "a gift also to evangelical Christianity". In Catholic circles, Neuer is an opponent of artificial contraception and defender of the encyclical Humanae vitae from 1968 by Pope Paul VI. known. As a member of the “Initiativkreis Evangelisches Kirchenprofil” in Baden, he rejects the admission of practicing homosexuals to the Protestant pastoral office.

Publications (selection)

as author (selection)

  • The connection between dogmatics and ethics in Adolf Schlatter. A study on the foundation of Christian ethics (dissertation), Brunnen-Verlag, Gießen / Basel 1988, ISBN 978-3-7655-9320-8 .
  • Chemical war against children? An analysis ... on questions of contraception , idea documentation, Wetzlar 1990.
  • Man and woman in a Christian perspective , 5th edition, Gießen / Basel 1993, ISBN 3-7655-9503-9 .
  • Adolf Schlatter - A life for theology and the church , Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-7668-3390-1 .
  • The encyclical “Humanae Vitae” in the light of the Bible and tradition, in: R. Süßmuth (ed.), Contraception. Facts, backgrounds, contexts, Holzgerlingen 2000, 1031-1071.
  • Salvation in all world religions? The understanding of revelation and salvation in the pluralistic theology of religion John Hicks. Giessen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7655-1755-6 , ISBN 978-3-86540-074-1 .

as editor or co-author (selection)

  • Adolf Schlatter: The service of the Christian. Contributions to a theology of love , Giessen, 2nd ed. 2002.
  • Adolf Schlatter: Understand the Bible. Essays on Biblical Hermeneutics , Gießen 2002.
  • Alexander Garth / Werner Neuer: The EKD Mission Synod. Balance of the year 2000. The 24 German regional churches after the Leipzig EKD Synod of November 1999 , Idea-Documentation, Wetzlar 2001.
  • Heinzpeter Hempelmann / Werner Neuer / Johannes Lüpke (eds.): Realistic theology. An introduction to Adolf Schlatter , Brunnen-Verlag, Gießen / Basel 2006, ISBN 978-3-7655-1384-8 .

literature

In 2016 a commemorative publication was published on the retirement of Neuer, in which 25 authors from different denominations and disciplines contributed. Stefan Felber is the editor of this book, the title of which is: Knowing and Loving in the Presence of God. Festschrift for Werner Neuer on his 65th birthday. Series: Studies on Theology and the Bible , Volume 18, Lit-Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-80227-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beate Gsell: Teaching and writing - this is the lecturer's craft, in: Chrischona Panorama 8/2007, p. 18 (PDF file) ( Memento from November 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ New: Vita , tsc.education, accessed on June 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ http://www.sthbasel.ch/de/gesichter/lehrkoerper/weiter-dozenten.html
  4. ↑ Hans-Joachim Vieweger: The Protestant Pope student , in: Evangelisches Sonntagsblatt für Bayern, issue 8/2012 from February 19, 2012 ( http://www.sonntagsblatt-bayern.de/news/aktuell/2012_08_11_01.htm ); see. also The Protestant among the Pope students ( online ( memento from August 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )) and the radio show “Evangelical Perspectives” on Bavaria 2 from February 19, 2012, 8: 30–9: 00, there as MP3 podcast available. ( http://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/programmkalender/sendung221582.html ).
  5. ^ Pro Conscientia, Info Letter No. 16, Nov. 2006.
  6. ↑ See e.g. B. the reviews of Stupperich (Yearbook for Westphalian Church History 91 [1997], pp. 341–343), E. Lohse (Theologische Rundschau 66 [1997], pp. 238–240), F. Mussner (Theologische Revue 93 [1997 / 3], pp. 225-227) or F. Neugebauer (Theologische Literaturzeitung 122 [1997], pp. 769-783). An exception is the review by K. Nowak ( http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezension-sachbuch-mit-den-waffen-der-wissenschaft-den-freisinn-bekaempfen-11309220.html ) .
  7. ↑ Werner Neuer: Adolf Schlatter, Wuppertal 1988.
  8. ↑ Werner Neuer, Heil in all World Religions ?: Understanding Revelation and Salvation in the pluralistic religious theology John Hicks , Giessen 2009. ISBN 3765517550
  9. ↑ Compare this excerpt from Werner Neuer's book Man and Woman in a Christian Perspective . The excerpt is published in: horst-koch.de . Horst Koch, September 2010, accessed and received on March 3, 2018.
  10. ↑ Ibid .: "Evangelical Christians who voluntarily renounce their children without serious reasons (e.g. due to illness) can therefore neither refer to the Holy Scriptures nor to the Reformation ethos."
  11. ^ Diakrisis vol. 2, 2005.
  12. ↑ See e.g. B. http://www.humanae-vitae.de/einf.htm
  13. ↑ http://www.bibubek-baden.de/html/aktuell.php?seite=Initiativkreis0Ev004600Kirchenprofil0zut0Orientierung
  14. ↑ Stefan Felber: tsc lecturer Rev. Dr. Werner Neuer emeritus. A commemorative farewell. Chrischona Panorama 6, 2016, pages 17-18
personal data
SURNAME Neuer, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1951