Wilfried Harle

Wilfried Härle (born September 6, 1941 in Heilbronn ) is a German Protestant theologian who was professor of theology at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1978 to 1995 and professor of systematic theology and ethics at the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg from 1995 to 2006 .

Life

Wilfried Härle studied Protestant theology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in Heidelberg and at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen. He received his doctorate in 1969 from the Ruhr University Bochum in Bochum. theol. His dissertation was called: The theology of the "early" Karl Barth in its relationship to the theology of Martin Luther . 1973 followed the habilitation for systematic theology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel on the subject of being and grace - the ontology in Karl Barth's church dogmatics .

From 1977 to 1978 Härle held a lectureship at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands before he was appointed to the Philipps University in Marburg in 1978, where he held a professorship until 1995. From 1995 to 2006 Härle was professor for systematic theology and ethics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg.

From 1997 to 2010 Wilfried Härle was chairman of the Chamber for Public Responsibility of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) . At the same time he was a member of the Enquête Commission of the German Bundestag "Ethics and Law of Modern Medicine" from 2002 to 2005 . He also spoke publicly about human dignity and self-determination. He advocated seeing and living them in an answerable, responsible counterpart to God and a caring, royal steward of the earth.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• The theology of the "early" Karl Barth in relation to the theology of Martin Luther , dissertation Bochum 1969.
• Test case church. Evaluation of a questionnaire campaign in the area of ​​the Northwest German Conference of the Evangelical Methodist Church (The Employee. Supplements 14), Stuttgart 1973.
• Scripture and Revelation (Infocop 7), Stuttgart 1974.
• Being and grace. The ontology in Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics (Theological Library Töppelmann 27), Berlin / New York 1975.
• The question of God (letter of study in the distance learning course for Protestant religion teachers III / 2), Tübingen 1978.
• (in accordance with Eilert Herms) justification. The understanding of reality of the Christian faith. A workbook , Göttingen 1979.
• Systematic philosophy. An introduction for theology students (studium theologie 6), Munich / Mainz 1982, 2nd edition 1987.
• Phasing out nuclear energy? Entry into responsibility! (Border talks 13), Neukirchen-Vluyn 1986.
• For example Gulf War. The service of the church in crisis situations in our secular society (templates.NF 14), Hanover 1991, 2nd edition 1992.
• Dogmatik , Berlin / New York 1995, 2nd edition 2000, 3rd edition 2007, 4th edition 2012.
• What you hang your heart on ... About belief, unbelief and doubt in our time , Hanover 1996.
• Human being in relationships. Studies on the doctrine of justification and anthropology , Tübingen 2005.
• Christian faith in our living environment. Studies on ecclesiology and ethics , Leipzig 2007.
• (together with Jörg Augenstein, Sibylle Rolf and Anja Siebert) Growing against the trend. Analyzes of communities that are on the up , Leipzig 2008, 3rd edition 2010, 4th edition 2012.
• Searching for traces of God. Studies in fundamental theology and doctrine of God , Berlin / New York 2008.
• Would. Think big of people , Munich 2010.
• Ethics , Berlin / New York, de Gruyter 2011 (Korean. Translation Seoul 2016); 2nd edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-053975-2 .
• Between heaven and hell. Unvarnished childhood stories , Barleben 2012.
• Why god For people who want to know more (Theologie für die Gemeinde I / 1), Leipzig 2013, 2nd ed. 2014.
• Outline of Christian Doctrine. An Evangelical Dogmatics , Grand Rapids / Cambridge 2015.
• (together with Ilze Ķezbere-Härle) See with the heart. Sermons for the entire church year. With short instructions on how to develop sermons on biblical texts , Leipzig 2015, 2nd edition 2016.
• "... and would have liked to have found him". God on the trail , Leipzig 2017.
• Called by Christ. A biblical plea for ordination and ordination of women , Leipzig / Paderborn 2017

Editorships

• (in accordance with H. Leipold) Freedom of teaching and teaching objection , Vol. 1: Theological texts , Vol. 2: Canonical documents , Gütersloh 1985.
• (together with Eberhard Wölfel) Religion in the Thinking of Our Time (Marburg Theological Studies 21), Marburg 1986.
• (together with Harald Wagner) theological dictionary. From the Church Fathers to the Present , Munich 1987, 2nd edition 1994; Italian translation: Lessico dei Teologi. Dai Padri della Chiesa ai nostri giorni , Brescia 1991.
• Church and Society. Analyzes - Reflections - Perspectives (Marburg Forum Philippinum 20), ed. with the assistance of E. Stock, Stuttgart 1989.
• (together with M. Marquardt and W. Nethöfel) Our world - God's creation. Eberhard Wölfel on his 65th birthday , (Marburg Theological Studies 32), Marburg 1992.
• In the continuum. Approaches to a relational epistemology and ontology (Marburger Theologische Studien 54), Marburg 1999.
• (together with Heinz Schmidt and Michael Welker ) That is Christian. Reflecting on the essence of Christianity , Gütersloh 2000.
• (together with M. Heesch and Reiner Preul ) Liberating Truth. Festschrift for Eilert Herms on his 60th birthday (Marburg Theological Studies 60), Marburg 2000.
• (together with Peter Neuner) In the light of God's grace. On the present meaning of the message of justification. Joint symposium of the Evangelical and Catholic Theological Faculty Day Lutherstadt Wittenberg, October 2002 (Studies on Systematic Theology and Ethics 42), Münster et al. 2004.
• (in accordance with Bernd-Michael Haese et al.) Systematically practical. Festschrift for Reiner Preul on the occasion of his 65th birthday (Marburg Theological Studies 80), Marburg 2005.
• Martin Luther: Latin-German study edition , vol. 1: The human being before God , ed. with the collaboration of Michael Beyer, Leipzig 2006, 2nd edition 2016.
• Basic texts of modern Protestant theology , Leipzig 2007, 2nd edition 2012; Latvian translation: Evangeliskas teologijas teksti no Sleiermahera lidz musdienam , Riga 2012; Lithuania. Translation: Dievo pedsakais XIX-XX a. evangeliskosios teologijos antologija , Vilnius 2013; Estonian.Translation: Uuema Evangeelse Theoloogia Põhitekstid , Tartu 2013.
• (together with Bernhard Vogel) "On the right that was born with us". Current problems of natural law , Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 2007.
• (in accordance with Bernhard Vogel) Justification of human dignity and human rights , Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 2008.
• Ethics on the Continuum. Contributions to relational epistemology and ontology (Marburger Theologische Studien 97), Leipzig 2008.
• Martin Luther: Latin-German study edition , vol. 3: The church and its offices , ed. by Günther Wartenberg and Michael Beyer, introduced by Wilfried Härle, Leipzig 2009.
• (together with Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer) Predestination and free will. Luther, Erasmus, Calvin and their impact history. Festschrift for Theodor Mahlmann on his 75th birthday (Marburg Theological Studies 99), Leipzig 2009.
• (together with Reiner Preul) Marburger Jahrbuch Theologie , Vol. 1–21, Marburg 1987–2007 / Leipzig 2008–2009:
  • Vol. 1: God's Action (Marburg Theological Studies 22), Marburg 1987.
  • Vol. 2: Theological interpretation of the present (Marburg Theological Studies 24), Marburg 1988.
  • Vol. 3: Life experience (Marburg Theological Studies 29), Marburg 1990.
  • Vol. 4: Faith (Marburg Theological Studies 33), Marburg 1992.
  • Vol. 5: Gute Werke (Marburg Theological Studies 34), Marburg 1993.
  • Vol. 6: Phenomenology. On the subject matter of dogmatics (Marburg Theological Studies 38), Marburg 1994.
  • Vol. 7: Sexuality - Life Forms - Love (Marburg Theological Studies 41), Marburg 1995.
  • Vol. 8: Church (Marburg Theological Studies 44), Marburg 1996.
  • Vol. 9: Life (Marburg Theological Studies 45), Marburg 1997.
  • Vol. 10: Trinity (Marburg Theological Studies 49), Marburg 1998.
  • Vol. 11: Kingdom of God (Marburg Theological Studies 53), Marburg 1999.
  • Vol. 12: Ecumenism (Marburg Theological Studies 64), Marburg 2000.
  • Vol. 13: What is ethics based on? (Marburg Theological Studies 67), Marburg 2001.
  • Vol. 14: Ethics and Law (Marburg Theological Studies 71), Marburg 2002.
  • Vol. 15: Religion. Concept, phenomenon, method (Marburg Theological Studies 74), Marburg 2003.
  • Vol. 16: The Self in Evolution (Marburger Theologische Studien 84), Marburg 2004.
  • Vol. 17: Human dignity (Marburg Theological Studies 89), Marburg 2005.
  • Vol. 18: Understanding across borders (Marburger Theologische Studien 94), Marburg 2006.
  • Vol. 19: Personality of God (Marburg Theological Studies 101), Marburg 2007.
  • Vol. 20: Sin (Marburg Theological Studies 105), Leipzig 2008.
  • Vol. 21: Truth (Marburg Theological Studies 107), Leipzig 2009.

Festschriften

• Life and church. Festschrift for Wilfried Härle on the occasion of his 60th birthday (Marburg Theological Studies 70), ed. by Uta Andrée et al., Marburg 2001, new edition Leipzig 2007.
• Nobody is an island. Humanity at the intersection of anthropology, theology and ethics. Festschrift for Wilfried Härle on the occasion of his 70th birthday (Theological Library Töppelmann 156), ed. by Christian Polke et al., Berlin / Boston 2011.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilfried Härle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Prof. Wilfried Härle

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vita on Wilfried Härle's website
2. ↑ Michael Pawlik: Better not to fill your mouth too full. The conflict shows what the justifications for the postulate of human dignity are good. Wilfried Härle provokes with her theological derivation. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 7, 2011