Wolf Krötke

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Wolf Krötke (born October 5, 1938 in Berlinchen / Neumark ) is a German Protestant theologian.

Live and act

After graduating from the Philanthropinum Dessau , Krötke began studying theology at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig in 1957 . In 1958/59 he was a political prisoner in the penal institution in Waldheim / Saxony for "incitement and propaganda dangerous to the state and the production and distribution of inflammatory pamphlets". He then continued his studies at the Catechetical College in Naumburg (Saale) and at the Sprachenkonvikt Berlin . In 1967 he received his doctorate on Karl Barth's doctrine of nothingness and sin. In 1967 he was parish priest in Görschen / Krs. Naumburg (Saale). From 1970 Wolf Krötke was a student pastor in Halle (Saale) in the Jenastift in Rathausstrasse and from 1973 lecturer at the church teaching post at the Sprachenkonvikt in Berlin . In 1976 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Tübingen . In 1990 he was awarded the Karl Barth Prize of the Evangelical Church of the Union . From 1991 until his retirement in 2004, Wolf Krötke taught as a professor for systematic theology at the theological faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin . He has received numerous honors for his scientific achievements.

Memberships

Fonts

as an author

  • The problem “Law and Gospel” in W. Elert and P. Althaus (= Theological Studies. Volume 83). EZV-Verlag, Zurich 1965, DNB 452599199 .
  • Sin and nothing in Karl Barth (= Neukirchen contributions to systematic theology. Volume 3). 2nd Edition. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1983, ISBN 3-7887-0702-X (reprint of the Berlin 1971 edition).
  • In the spotlight. The historical god. Theological information for non-theologians. 2nd Edition. Edited by Johannes Adler, Christoph Demke , Uwe Dittmer, Brigitte Grell, Jürgen Henkys and F. Winter . Evangelical VA, Berlin 1978, DNB 780426126 .
  • Man and religion according to Karl Barth (= Theological Studies, Volume 125). Theological Publishing House, Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-290-17125-6 .
  • God's coming and human behavior. Essays and lectures on the problem of the theological understanding of "religion" and "irreligion" (= work on theology. Volume 69). Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-7668-0728-5 .
  • The universality of the revealed God. Collected essays (= contributions to Protestant theology. Volume 94). Verlag Kaiser, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-459-01592-6 .
  • Confess - proclaim - life. Barmer Theological Declaration and Congregational Practice (= work on theology. Volume 70). Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-7668-0739-0 .
  • Pray today (= Gospel specifically ). Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-466-25130-3 .
  • La chute du mur. L'église est-allemande et la "révolution pacifique" (= Éntrée libre. Volume 15). Afterword by Eberhard Jüngel . Translation by Sylvie Le Grand and Sylvain Fattebert. Éditions labor et fides, Geneva 1991, ISBN 2-8309-0634-9 (74 pages).
  • What is "really"? The necessary contribution of theology to the understanding of reality of our time. Inaugural lecture, February 1, 1995, Humboldt University Berlin, Faculty of Theology, Seminar for Systematic Theology (= public lectures at Humboldt University Berlin . Issue 79). Published by the President of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Humboldt University, Berlin 1996, DNB 950691712 .
  • God's clarities. A reinterpretation of the doctrine of the "attributes of God". Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147582-8 .
  • Created and explored. Man and the universe in theology and science. Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-88981-138-8 .
  • Language spaces for God, living spaces for people. Sermons. Evangelical VA, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-374-02593-0 .
  • Barmen , Barth , Bonhoeffer . Contributions to a contemporary Christ-centered theology (= Unio & Confessio. Volume 26). Luther-Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-7858-0564-0 ; 2nd edition 2014.
  • The theological faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin 1945–2010. In: History of the University of Unter den Linden 1810–2010. Volume 6: Self-Assertion of a Vision. Edited by Heinz-Elmar Tenorth in collaboration with Volker Hess and Dieter Hoffmann . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-004671-6 , pp. 47–90 ( PDF; 830 kB ).

as editor

literature

  • Christopher R. Holmes: Revisiting the doctrine of the divine attributes. In dialogue with Karl Barth, Eberhard Jüngel and Wolf Krötke (= Issues in systematic theology. Volume 15). Peter Lang Verlag, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-8204-8696-3 .
  • Heike Krötke (Ed.): A word, a shine, a flight, a fire ... theologians interpret poems. Wolf Krötke on his 60th birthday on October 5, 1998. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-7668-3604-8 .
  • Philip G. Ziegler: Doing theology when God is forgotten. The theological achievement of Wolf Krötke (= Issues in systematic theology. Volume 14). Peter Lang Verlag, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-8204-7874-6 .
  • Ehrhart Neubert :  Krötke, Wolf . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Events and personalities. History of ESG Halle (Saale). (No longer available online.) In: halle-esg.de. ESG Halle (Saale), archived from the original on May 7, 2018 ; Retrieved on May 24, 2019 (timeline with details of Wolf Krötke's term of office in Halle as student pastor, including portrait photography).
  2. ↑ Beintker, Michael : Professor Krötke celebrates his 80th birthday on October 5th… In: Wochenzeitung die Kirche. No. 40, October 7, 2018, p. 3.
  3. ↑ Friends of "Konvikt Borsigstrasse 5 eV": The association. In: daskonvikt.de, accessed on May 31, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Krötke, wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlinchen , Neumark