Word house

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Word house e. V. is a non-profit association founded in 2010 with headquarters in Tübingen , which has set itself the goal of making established knowledge of Christian university theology ( non- denominational) known to a larger audience. For this purpose, video and audio presentations are made available free of charge in a media library on worthaus.org . They were recorded at lecture series and conferences, usually several days long, organized by Worthaus. Worthaus finances its work from the participation fees for these events as well as from donations.

history

The founders of Worthaus met in 2010 in a private apartment in Bielefeld; the initiator was the project manager Martin Christian Hünerhoff. For the project to make scientific theology generally understandable via the Internet, Siegfried Zimmer was initially only available as a speaker, then Thomas Breuer joined them. As Worthaus became more well known, it was possible to win a number of professors as speakers, especially from Heidelberg University ( Wilfried Härle , Manfred Oeming and Michael Welker ) and Leipzig University ( Marco Frenschkowski , Andreas Schüle and Peter Zimmerling ).

Conferences

The five-day annual meetings initially took place in Weimar, and since 2014 in Heidelberg. If 40 participants came to the first event, there were over 600 participants in June 2019 in Tübingen.

Speakers

  • Patrick Becker (Systematic Theology)
  • Thomas Breuer (Church History)
  • Thorsten Dietz (Systematic Theology)
  • Marco Frenschkowski (New Testament)
  • Wilfried Härle (philosophy of religion, dogmatics and ethics)
  • Christine Jacobi (New Testament)
  • Georg Langenhorst (Didactics of Catholic Religious Education and Religious Education)
  • Heidrun Mader (New Testament)
  • Manfred Oeming (Old Testament)
  • Simone Paganini (Biblical Theology)
  • Stefan Schreiber (New Testament)
  • Andreas Schüle (Old Testament)
  • Friedrich Schweitzer (Religious Education, Practical Theology)
  • Klaus von Stosch (Catholic theology and its didactics)
  • Christiane Tietz (Systematic Theology)
  • Peter Wick (New Testament)
  • Michael Welker (Systematic Theology)
  • Siegfried Zimmer (Religious Education)
  • Peter Zimmerling (Practical Theology)

reception

Wordaus became known nationwide in the evangelical world, among other things through the positive reporting from Livenet . A younger audience was addressed by being present at the Freakstock Festival.

In the evangelical spectrum, Worthaus e. V. judged controversially. A critical contribution by Markus Till was one of the much shared articles in Christian blogs in 2017 . In February 2019, the head of the Wort und Wissen study group , Reinhard Junker , contradicted the speaker Christiane Tietz because of what he believed to be a misleading representation of intelligent design . Tietz had declared it impossible to infer a Creator ( Thomas Aquinas : the "unmoved mover") from observations in space and time ; rather, statements about God are only possible from the perspective of faith. In 2015, the speaker Siegfried Zimmer was sharply criticized by Michael Kotsch ( Biblical Association ) for his positions on the subject of homosexuality .

According to the theologian Jürgen Mette , for some evangelicals the lecture series is "a tool to strengthen theological judgment and a liberating broadening of horizons", for others word house has nothing to do with evangelical positions. Bernhard Olpen calls the work of Worthaus “an example of the consequences of a hermeneutics that makes the human horizon of understanding and time-related views the basis”. This leads Siegfried Zimmer to a re-evaluation of biblical texts, which as time-bound documents of a bygone era could no longer claim validity today.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ word house. In: Prof. Dr. theol. Siegfried Zimmer. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Modern Biblical Studies: The Word House Phenomenon. In: livenet.ch. June 13, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019 .
  3. ^ Contributions to a revision of the faith. In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt. June 11, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Markus Till: Does the “word house” theology divide? In: idea. November 3, 2017. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Markus Till: Word House - University Theology for Evangelicals? from October 3, 2017 on the blog Sighing deep in God's presence .
  6. ↑ idea / JBJ: These are the most successful Christian blogs 2017 In: The daily mail from January 9, 2018.
  7. ↑ Exchange of blows about creation. In: idea. February 20, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Defamation as the "best argument". Prof. Zimmer wants to convince conservative Christians about homosexuality. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Jürgen Mette : The Evangelicals: neither unique nor well-behaved: a biographical-theological interior view. GerthMedien, Aßlar 2019, ISBN 978-3-95734-548-6 ; limited preview in Google Book search
  10. ↑ Bernhard Olpen: The struggle for the interpretation of writing. In: Bernhard Olpen, Matthias C. Wolff, Marcel Locher: Understanding of writing and the consequences for one's lifestyle. Bund Freikirchlicher Pfingstgemeinden, Erzhausen 2019, ISBN 978-3-942001-90-8 ; limited preview in Google Book search