Peter Stuhlmacher

Peter Stuhlmacher ( born January 18, 1932 in Leipzig) is a Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar and taught most recently as Professor of New Testament at the University of Tübingen.

Life

Stuhlmacher studied at the St. Thomas School in Leipzig in 1951 and put his Abitur in Stuttgart from. He then studied until 1958 Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen. From 1959 to 1968 he worked as an assistant at the Evangelical Theological Seminary of the University of Tübingen, 1962, he received a doctorate in theology .. In 1967 he qualified as a professor for the subject of the New Testament in Tübingen. From 1968 to 1972 he worked at the Theological Faculty of the Friedrich- Alexander -University Erlangen- Nuremberg as a professor of New Testament, 1972, he returned to Tübingen back to the Faculty of Protestant Theology. In 2000 he became emeritus professor of New Testament in Tübingen.

Work

Even with his early work on the apostle Paul was acquired Stuhlmacher international reputation. Started with the program of a " post-critical exegesis ," he sought in connection, inter alia, to develop with Hartmut Gese a 'biblical theology', in which the scientific biblical exegesis is complemented by a "spiritual exegesis ". Together with the Württemberg Altlandesbischof Theo Sorg, he published the book " The preaching of the cross ," in which the critique of feminist theologians in the sacrifice and atonement thoughts of death of Jesus Christ is rejected.

Biblical exegesis, church and mission stand for Stuhlmacher directly related. So he pleads for example, for a stronger orientation of church at the example of the first Christians, advocated house churches as the oldest form of community and emphasizes mission as the central theme of the New Testament. Because of these beliefs reinforced he got in recent years contacts with pietistic groups within the Protestant clergy. In the 90 years he put his Biblical Theology of the New Testament, provide an overall design, in which he focused his interpretation of Scripture and the widely attracted attention.

Stuhlmacher was an opponent of Rudolf Bultmann and an enhancer of the premise system of Ernst Troeltsch.

Writings

  • Righteousness of God in Paul ( FRLANT 87), Göttingen 1965
  • The Pauline gospel. I. History ( FRLANT 95), Göttingen 1968
  • Interpretation of Scripture on the way to biblical theology, Göttingen 1975
  • The letter to Philemon ( EKK, Vol 18), Neukirchen, 1975 ( 3rd edition 2004)
  • From the understanding of the New Testament. A hermeneutics, floor plans of the New Testament, NTD Supplementary Series ( Volume 6 ), Göttingen 1979 ( 2nd edition 1986)
  • Along with Helmut Claß: The Gospel of reconciliation in Christ, Stuttgart 1979
  • Reconciliation, Law and Justice. Essays on biblical theology, Göttingen 1981
  • Jesus of Nazareth - Christ of faith, Stuttgart 1988
  • The Epistle to the Romans (NTD 6), Göttingen 1989 ( 15th edition 1998)
  • Foundation. From Jesus to Paul, Biblical Theology of the New Testament (Volume 1), Göttingen 1992 ( 3rd edition 2005)
  • How to drives Biblical Theology? , Biblical - Theological Studies 24, Neukirchen 1995
  • Together with Theo Sorg: The word of the cross. For the sermon on Good Friday, Calw pocket library Volume 52, Stuttgart 1996
  • Gospel - exegesis - church. Festschrift for Peter Stuhlmacher on his 65th birthday, edited by J. Adna, SJ Hafemann, Otfried Hofius, Göttingen 1997
  • What happened at Golgotha ​​?, Stuttgart 1998
  • From the school of Paul to the Book of Revelation. The canon and its interpretation, Biblical Theology of the New Testament ( Volume 2 ), Göttingen 1999 ( 1st Edition )
  • Biblical theology and gospel. Collected Essays, (WUNT 146), Tübingen 2002
  • The proclamation of Jesus Christ, Wuppertal 2003
  • The birth of Immanuel. The Christmas story from Luke and the Gospel of Matthew, Göttingen 2005
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