Wolfgang Schrage
Wolfgang Schrage (born July 30, 1928 in Haspe , now Hagen ; † October 22, 2017 in Bad Honnef ) was a German Protestant theologian.
Live and act
Schrage studied Protestant theology in Bonn, Göttingen, Heidelberg and Bethel . From 1954 to 1959 he was Heinrich Greeven's assistant at the University of Kiel , where he received his doctorate in 1959 on the basis of a dissertation on the Pauline letters . In 1962 Schrage also completed his habilitation in Kiel, with an investigation into the Gospel of Thomas . In 1964 he was appointed professor for the New Testament at the University of Bonn , where he taught until his retirement in 1993.
His fields of work were the theology of Paul , with an emphasis on the 1st Corinthians , and the ethics of the New Testament, to which he devoted a presentation that was reprinted several times and translated into different languages. For many years he published the book series Research on Religion and Literature of the Old and New Testaments .
His students include Klaus Wengst and Rainer Stuhlmann .
Fonts (selection)
- The concrete individual commandments in Pauline pareneesis. A contribution to New Testament exegesis. 1961
- The relationship between the Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptic tradition and the Coptic Bible translations (= BZNW 29). Berlin 1964
- The Christians and the State according to the New Testament. 1971
- The Catholic Letters: The Letter of James, Peter and Judas (= The New Testament German 10). Göttingen 1973
- The Elijah Apocalypse (= Jewish writings from Hellenistic-Roman times. 3). Gütersloh 1980.
- New Testament ethics; NTD G-NT 4; 1982
- The first letter to the Corinthians (= Evangelical-Catholic Commentary on the New Testament VII / 1–4). 1991-2001.
- On the way to the oneness and unity of God. On the "monotheism" of Paul and his Old Testament early Jewish tradition (= Biblical-theological studies 48). Neukirchen-Vluyn 2002.
- Providence of God? Speaking of the providentia Dei in antiquity and in the New Testament. Neukirchen-Vluyn 2005.
- Studies on theology in 1st Corinthians (= Biblical-Theological Studies 94). Neukirchen-Vluyn 2007.
literature
- Klaus Wengst u. a. (Ed.): Yes and no. Christian theology in the face of Israel. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Wolfgang Schrage. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1998.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Schrage in the catalog of the German National Library
- Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn: Obituary for the death of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schrage (Hermut Löhr, Udo Rüterswörden)
- Patmos Verlag: Obituary by the editor of the Evangelical-Catholic Commentary on their colleague Wolfgang Schrage
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schrage, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hasp , now Hagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 2017 |
| Place of death | Bad Honnef |