Wilhelm Bender (theologian)

Wilhelm Bender (born January 15, 1845 in Munzenberg ( Hesse ), †  April 8, 1901 in Bonn ) was a Protestant theologian.

Bender studied in Göttingen and Gießen from 1863 , attended the Friedberg seminary from 1866–67 and became a religion teacher at the grammar school and assistant preacher in Worms ; In 1876 he followed a call to Bonn as a full professor of theology.

In 1883 his celebratory speech on the 400th birthday of Martin Luther provoked a storm of indignation on the part of the Orthodox Pietist evangelical clergy in the two western Prussian provinces, who felt they had been hurt. In 1888 he switched to a professorship for general religious studies in the Philosophical Faculty in Bonn.

Fonts

• The New Testament concept of miracles. Frankfurt 1871
• Schleiermacher's theology. 2 vols. Nördlingen 1876–78
• Johann Konrad Dippel , the free spirit from Pietism. Bonn 1882
• Reformation and Churchism, an academic speech to celebrate the 400th birthday of Martin Luther. Bonn 1884 (in 9 editions)

literature

• Willibald Beyschlag: The Bender'sche dispute in the Protestant Church of the Rhine Province, Bonn 1884.
• Johann Clüver: The Bender Luther speech and its opponents, Bonn 1885.
• Heinrich Karpp:  Bender, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 39 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  BENDER, Wilhelm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 481.
• Joachim Weinhardt: Wilhelm Bender (1845–1901). From mediation theology to evolutionary philosophy of religion. ZNThG 10 (2003), pp. 26-64.
• Hermann-Peter Eberlein: Reformation and Churchism - Topicality and Limits of Bender's Luther Speech 1883. Yearbook for Evangelical Church History of the Rhineland 63 (2014), pp. 251-259.