Wilhelm Kersten-Thiele

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Wilhelm Kersten-Thiele (born September 12, 1913 in Dortmund , † December 8, 1988 in Göttingen ) was a German theologian and missiologist .

Life

Kersten-Thiele passed his Abitur and studied Protestant theology . He was particularly interested in religious studies and mission history . After completing his Vicariate , he was appointed pastor ordained . Kersten-Thiele earned his doctorate in theology.

He was married to Valeska Kersten-Thiele geb. Strauch, with whom he fathered five children: Peter, Renate, Gisela, Ulrich and Klaus.

Kersten-Thiele held one of his pastoral posts in Koethen . He represented the völkisch nationalist positions of the German Christians and declared in 1939 that he was working at the institute for research and elimination of the Jewish influence on German church life .

After 1945, Kersten-Thiele worked on the board of the German East Asia Mission and published several books in line with it. In 1948 he was pastor in Göttingen-Grone and in 1954 in Düsseldorf . From 1960 to 1964 he was a religion teacher at the Rethel-Gymnasium (or Jacobi-Gymnasium) Düsseldorf and between 1968 and 1973 he was a pastor in Sereetz . Then he went back to the Rheinische Landeskirche.

Fonts

author
  • The church historiography of Valentin Ernst Löscher. 1937 (dissertation)
  • The Mission of the Church in East Asia. 1956
Editor and correspondent
  • The mission in the technical age. 3 volumes, 1956
  • Current Problems of the Japanese University. In: Wilhelm Kersten-Thiele (ed.): Christ from world responsibility in the challenge of the present. FS Gerhard Rosenkranz. Series of publications by the German East Asia Mission, Düsseldorf 1966, pp. 167–200
  • Hunzinger, Walther Clarus Otto Hans Heinrich: Epiphany Sermon. Held at the Baden state conference of the German East Asia Mission in Mannheim-Neckarau on January 6, 1960. In: Wilhelm Kersten-Thiele (Ed.): Christ from world responsibility in the challenge of the present. FS Gerhard Rosenkranz. Series of publications by the German East Asia Mission, Düsseldorf 1966, pp. 14–17

literature

  • Religion in the past and present. Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. 3rd edition, register volume (edited by Wilfried Werbeck), JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1965, Sp. 120.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gravestone of Dr. Wilhelm Kersten-Thiele at the Göttingen-Geismar cemetery
  2. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer: We went astray, Cologne 1987, p. 150.
  3. ↑ Community letter of the Pansdorf - Ratekau - Sereetz region, No. 7, September – November 2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 6; Community letter of the Pansdorf - Ratekau - Sereetz region, No. 12, October – November 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 14@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.michaeliskirche-pansdorf.de  @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.michaeliskirche-pansdorf.de  
personal data
SURNAME Kersten-Thiele, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1988
Place of death Goettingen