Augustana Divinity School (Neuendettelsau)
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The Augustana College Neuendettelsau is a Theological College, which was founded in 1947 by decision of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria for the training of theologians in Neuendettelsau ( Middle Franconia ).
Training
The university has six theological chairs (Old Testament, New Testament, Church History, Systematic Theology, Intercultural Theology, Practical Theology ) and a chair of philosophy, professor of feminist theology, two lecturers of Classical Philology (Latin, Greek) and a lectureship in Hebrew. Through the scientific assistants and various lecturers the range of topics is complemented ( for example, voice training and liturgical singing, Bavarian church history, canon law ).
At the curriculum can basically everyone to participate as a guest student, except for the purchase of credits requires the general higher education and belonging to a Protestant Church in Germany (EKD ). An exception is the training of pastors managers who can also be completed without school.
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The Rector manages and represents the university. He is responsible for the proper implementation of the decisions of the organs of the university. Institutions of the University are the Rector, the Senate, the Faculty Board, the appeal committee and the Habilitation Committee. The involvement of other organs is governed by the provisions of the Articles of Association of Augustana College.
History
The roots of the University date back to the autumn of 1945, when the church leadership theologian Georg Merz thus commissioned to establish theological courses for returning home from war and captivity pastor. Half a year after the first theological college course began in April 1946, the first course for students of theology. Students and faculty were housed at that time still in the Diakonissenanstalt Neuendettelsau and the former Cistercian monastery Heilsbronn ( used until 1952). It was only in May 1949 moved the Augustana College over in a former military barracks, where it remains today.
In May 1947, it came to the official foundation of the university (then Theological College in Neuendettelsau - called Heilsbronn ) with Georg Merz as founding rector. From his pen comes enrollment spell until today still valid:
The establishment of the College were: Georg Merz (Rector until 1957, Practical Theology ), Ernst children ( Systematic Theology ) and Rudolf Stählin (New Testament and Early Church History ). 1948 this college was by Eduard Ellwein (New Testament ) and Wilhelm Zillinger (classical philology ) and 1950 by Martin Wittenberg (Old Testament) supplemented.
In 1956 he had a decent chair for " Mission Theology and Religious Studies " added, which was taken over by the then Inspector George Vicedom mission. This was the first Protestant missionary scientific Chair in Bavaria.
In December 1973 the university was awarded on the basis of the Bavarian Higher Education Act, the right to award doctorates in cooperation with the faculties of Erlangen and Munich. Since July 1974, the Augustana College is a member of the German Rectors 'Conference (then West German Rectors' Conference ).
Since December 1990, the university is the theological faculties at the universities legally equal and has the independent right to award doctorates and professorships. In September 1992, a second lectureship in Classics and a chair of philosophy was established. Since the winter semester 1997/98, there is a lectureship in Theology Women's Studies / Feminist Theology, which was converted to a professorship in the winter semester 2003/ 04.
1998, the carrying to date no name lecture buildings on campus by Wilhelm Freiherr von Pechmann ( 1859-1948 ) was named, was among the critics Meisers in the period of National Socialism.
On 3 May 2003, an article of theology professor Friedrich Wilhelm Graf was published in the SZ in which, among other things, the Augustana College was sharply attacked ( " Unkulturprotestantismus - The Bavarian church is on the way to the sect "). The very polemical held item triggered a continuing public debate for months.
By July 2006, a building of the university according to the Bavarian Bishop Hans Meiser ( 1881-1956 ) was appointed, to whom the allegation is made to have adopted the ideology of National Socialism.
Library
The university has a presence and lending library with a book stock of more than 150,000 volumes, mainly from the 19th to the 21st century, to a small extent to the 16th century, including a collection of pamphlets of the Reformation. The library is a member of the Association of ecclesiastical and academic libraries.