Wolfgang A. Bienert

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Wolfgang Artur Bienert (born September 24, 1939 in Berlin ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Wolfgang Bienert studied Protestant theology from 1959 to 1963 in Göttingen and at the Church University in Berlin . In 1963 he passed the first theological exam at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover . He then completed his vicariate in Caracas / Venezuela and Hildesheim and completed it in 1967 with the second theological exam.

From 1967 to 1977 Bienert was a research assistant and assistant at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität under Wilhelm Schneemelcher in the subject of church history (patristic) . In 1970 he was promoted to Dr. theol. did his doctorate and habilitation in 1977 in the subject of church history in Bonn .

1977/1978 Bienert was pastor at Sankt Urbani in Munster, from 1977 to 1983 lecturer for church history at the mission seminary in Hermannsburg . In 1979 he received his habilitation at the University of Göttingen . In 1983 he accepted a position as professor for the subject of church history (patristic) at the Philipps University of Marburg. In 1990 he turned down a professorship for the same subject at the Ruhr University Bochum .

Focus

In Wolfgang Bienert's work, patristicism comes first, especially the Alexandrian tradition ( Origen , Dionysius , Athanasios , Didymos ), the emergence of the ancient church and questions of orthodoxy and heresy . From this topos he developed ecumenical priorities, such as B. the relationship between Protestantism and Orthodoxy as well as Luther's relationship to the early church tradition.

Bodies

Wolfgang A. Bienert has been a member of the Commission for the Dialogue of the EKD with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople since 1980 , from 1988 to a member of the German Ecumenical Study Committee (DÖSTA) of the Working Group of Christian Churches in Germany , member since 1989 and moderator of the specialist working group from 1989 to 2007 Orthodoxy of the EKD and since 1991 member of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches .

Fonts (selection)

  • Thoughts on the Reformation Festival . Caracas 1967.
  • "Allegoria" and "Anagoge" in Didymos the blind of Alexandria . de Gruyter, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-11-003715-7
  • Dionysius of Alexandria, the received work / Dionysiu leipsana (= library of Greek literature , vol. 2). Introduced, translated and annotated by Wolfgang A. Bienert. Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-7772-7215-9
  • Dionysius of Alexandria. On the question of Origenism in the 3rd century (= Patristic texts and studies, vol. 21). de Gruyter, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-11-007442-7 (also: Habilitation thesis, Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn 1976/77)
  • In the sign of the cross of Christ. Character and significance of the Hermannsburg awakening movement . Verlag der Lutherische Buchhandlung Harms, Groß Oesingen 1986, ISBN 3-922534-37-6
  • together with Guntram Koch : Church History I / Christian Archeology (series of basic theology course ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-17-010555-8
  • "When in doubt closer to Augustin"? On the patristic background of Luther's theology . In: Damaskinos Papandreou, Wolfgang A. Bienert, Knut Schaferdiek (eds.): Oecumenica et Patristica. Festschrift for Wilhelm Schneemelcher on his 75th birthday . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-17-010792-5 , pp. 281-294.
  • History of dogma (series of basic theology course ). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-17-010810-7
  • We believe - we confess - we expect. An Introduction to Conversation on the Ecumenical Creed of 381 . Edited by Wolfgang A. Bienert, German Ecumenical Study Committee (DÖSTA). Franz Sales Verlag, Eichstätt 1997, ISBN 3-7721-0191-7
  • Becoming the Church - Working of the Spirit. Contributions to the church fathers and their aftermath (= Marburg Theological Studies, vol. 55). Elwert, Marburg 1999, ISBN 3-374-02533-1
  • Unity as a gift and an obligation . Otto Lembeck Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Bonifatius, Paderborn 2002, ISBN 3-87476-404-4 (Lembeck), ISBN 3-89710-219-6 (Bonifatius)
  • Church history in ecumenical responsibility. Selected studies (= Church-Denomination-Religion, Vol. 55). Edited by Peter Gemeinhardt and Karl Pinggéra. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2009

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SURNAME Bienert, Wolfgang A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bienert, Wolfgang Artur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and professor of church history at the Philipps University of Marburg
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin