Wieland Zademach

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Wieland Zademach (born November 25, 1943 ; † November 2015 in Bonn ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, author and local politician . He taught Protestant theology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Zademach studied theology in Erlangen and Hamburg , especially with Peter Stuhlmacher and Helmut Thielicke, and did his doctorate with Helmut Gollwitzer at the Free University of Berlin . He was a parish priest in Upper Franconia , worked as an ecumenical officer, was the managing director of the Working Group of Christian Churches in Germany and was involved in the organization of East-West encounters.

Wieland Zademach lived in Unkel on the Rhine .

Act

Ecumenism and Dialogue with Islam

In the course of his ecumenical engagement , Zademach worked with the Roman Catholic Church , Old Catholic Church , Baptists , the Methodist Church , Adventists , Quakers , Armenians, Orthodox Churches and the Salvation Army . The spirituality he experienced enriched his theological and pastoral work.

In Nuremberg Islam Working Group Wieland Zademach developed in his capacity as ecumenical officer, together with the then dean Nuremberg Johannes Friedrich , handouts for intercultural ecclesial community work .

Religious socialism and political work

Zademach came to the fore through his theological publications on religious socialism . Wieland Zademach was on the editorial board of CuS - Christian and Socialist Kreuz und Rose - papers of the Association of Religious Socialists in Germany and wrote reading sermons in the service institute of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria .

Wieland Zademach was a member of the board of directors of the SPD Unkel and parliamentary group chairman in the Unkel city council.

Viewpoints

Spiritual dimension

Zademach turned to the positive chaos of diversity in church and society and called for overcoming particularism in science and society through a holistic spiritual dimension. As a community of questions , the church must not oversleep the current Kairos , but rather, as a society of contrast , should give testimony to how Christian truth can take shape in a multicultural world .

Charter Oekumenica

Zademach took up the utopia again and made it real in the principles of the Charter Oekumenica in Europe . Proposals for action were justified in the charter. As the house rules of a church of the future , the charter set impulses for the social organization of Europe and assumed ecological responsibility . She wanted to contribute to reconciliation between peoples and cultures, promote being a church and present it as a unity in community .

Works

  • Wieland Zademach (ed.): Kingdom of God for this world - theology against the grain. Legacy of the fathers: mission for today - hope for tomorrow. Hartmut Spenner, Waltrop 2001, ISBN 3-933688-65-5 .
  • Wolfgang Osterhage, Wieland Zademach (eds.): Church of the future - Church in the global world. Verlag Otto Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-87476-554-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Stettner: Culture of Ecumenical Honesty ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Current, website of the Working Group of Christian Churches in Bavaria, November 16, 2015, accessed on January 10, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ack-bayern.de
  2. ↑ UTOPIEkreativ (May 24, 2009)
  3. ↑ The Kingdom of God for this World - Theology Against the Grain (May 24, 2006)
  4. ↑ Kreuz und Rose ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (July 11, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brsd.de
  5. ^ Reading service (July 11, 2009)
  6. ↑ SPD Unkel am Rhein ( Memento from February 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (July 11, 2009)
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Osterhage, Wieland Zademach (ed.) Church of the future. Frankfurt am Main 2008. p. 8 (July 11, 2009)
  8. ↑ ibid. P. 9 (July 11, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Zademach, Wieland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theology
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1943
DATE OF DEATH between November 9, 2015 and November 15, 2015
Place of death Bonn