Wolfgang Lipp (theologian)

Wolfgang Lipp (* 1939 in Stuttgart ) is a German theologian, pastor and university professor.

Life

Lipp studied philosophy and evangelical theology in Tübingen , Zurich and Marburg . Between 1966 and 1970 he was a repetitionist at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Bad Urach . From 1970 he was the first student pastor in the ESG for the then newly founded University and University of Applied Sciences Ulm . In 1983 he obtained his doctorate in theology in Marburg, and from 1984 he worked as a parish pastor and preacher at the Martin Luther Church in Ulm . In 1996 there was a teaching position and later a professorship at the Biberach University of Construction and Economics in the Faculty of Architecture . His main research interests and areas of study are urban sociology , urban history and cultural history . He has been living in Ulm since 2005.

Wolfgang Lipp researched the different routes of the St. James Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela , which can be determined in southern Germany . To this end, he drew on knowledge of the history of art , but also research on ancient Roman and medieval routes. Lipp was just as interested in the spiritual dimension of pilgrimage . He also interpreted the diverse art history of the Ulm Minster theologically in an independent way . This was reflected in various publications on the building history of the cathedral and on the interpretation of individual architectural features of the largest Protestant sacred building.

Works

Architecture and cultural history

• The Way to Santiago - Way of St. James in Southern Germany , Ulm 1991, ISBN 3-88294-164-2
• Pictures and meditations on the Marienportal of the Ulm Minster , Langenau 1983, ISBN 3-88360-042-3 .
• Guide through the Ulm Minster , Langenau 1999, ISBN 3-88360-011-3 .
• The legacy of James. On the prehistory and history, on the theological and religious significance of the pilgrimage to St. James. With an appendix on the German pilgrimage routes. Images and photographs by Fritjof Betz, Rainer Brockmann u. a., C&S Verlag, Laupheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-937876-18-4 .

theology

• Die - suggestions of a study day for further thinking , ed. by Wolfgang Lipp, Armin Vaas Verlag Langenau-Albeck, 1981, ISBN 3-88360-030-X
• Who is god - 1. Corinthians 13 , in: Gottesdienstpraxis "Funeral" (edited by Erhard Domay ), Gütersloh 1996, p. 103ff, ISBN 3-579-02981-9
• But where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom - Sermons , Reutlingen 1999