Edmund Schlink

Edmund Schlink ( born March 6, 1903 in Darmstadt; † 20 MAY 1984, Heidelberg ) was a German Protestant theologian. From 1946 to 1971 he was Professor of Systematic Theology at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg.

Life

Schlink, who grew up in a scientifically influenced parents' house, began in 1922 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen studying mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and various scientific subjects with a focus on physics, which he immediately the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich, then to Christian -Albrechts -University of Kiel and the University of Vienna was continuing. In 1927 he received his doctorate in Marburg with the psychological signature personality change in conversions and depression Dr. phil. By 1926, Schlink was changed to theology, he completed his theological studies in 1931 with a doctorate on the natural knowledge of God at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster from. After the Vicariate, he was assistant pastor in Buchschlag and Sprendlingen and in the fall of 1932, university chaplain at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

In 1934 he habilitated at the Ludoviciana in Giessen. As a leading member of the Confessing Church, he was not allowed to teach at a public university during the Nazi era, however, taught 1935-1939 at the Theological School Bethel near Bielefeld. He then worked as a pastor at Dortmund Mary's Church, then to St. Reinoldi and finally at the New Town Marienkirche in Bielefeld as well as in the travel services of the Confessing Church. In 1945 he was appointed director of the Seminary of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia in Soest, however, took in 1946 a reputation as a professor of Systematic Theology at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg, where he soon built the first Ecumenical Institute at a German university. In the years 1953-1954 he was rector of the University.

Schlink was a delegate of the General Assemblies of the World Council of Churches in Amsterdam in 1948, Evanston 1954, New Delhi 1961, Uppsala 1968. From 1962 to 1965 Edmund Schlink was an official rapporteur of the Evangelical Church in Germany at the Second Vatican Council, a competent partner of the Council Fathers.

Schlink became Professor Emeritus in 1971.

Edmund Schlink was 1952-1984 co-editor of Ecumenical Rundschau, mitbeteiligter in the years 1955 to 1984 editor of the trade magazine Kerygma and Dogma.

Etc. The estate Schlink with letters, newsletters, lecture dispositions, filing for the second Vatican Council, CV, certificates can be found - usually still without signatures - in the archives of the Evangelical Alliance in Bensheim.

Family

Edmund Schlink was married in first marriage in 1932 with Elizabeth Winkelmann, who died in May 1936. The marriage produced two daughters Johanna and Dorothea emerged. In 1938 he married the Basel theologian Irmgard Ostwald ( 1914-2006 ). From this connection, the art historian Wilhelm Schlink originate ( b. 1939 ) and the lawyer and writer Bernhard Schlink (1944 ). His father, Wilhelm Schlink (1875-1968) was professor of mechanics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, his sister Klara (1904-2001) founded in 1947 together with Erika Madauss the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary in Darmstadt. His daughter Dorothea, the wife of former national Bishop of Bath and President of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany Klaus Engelhardt.

Student

  • Wolfhart Pannenberg ( b. 1928 )
  • Michael Plathow (* 1943)
  • Henning Schroer (1931-2002)
  • Reinhard Slenczka (* 1931)
  • Wilfried Joest

Honors

Edmund Schlink was awarded three honorary doctorates:

Works

  • Law and Gospel. A contribution to the Lutheran understanding of the second Barmen thesis. ( = Theological existence today. Issue 53 ) Chr Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1937.
  • Theology of the Lutheran Confessions. Munich 1940.
  • Confessing Church and the world. Lectures and sermons from the years 1934 to 1945. Tübingen 1947.
  • The doctrine of baptism. Kassel 1969.
  • The vision of the Pope. Narrative. Göttingen / Graz, 1975, ISBN 3-87297-130-1.
  • Ecumenical Dogmatics. Broad. 2nd edition. 1985, ISBN 3-525-56165-2.

To mark the 100th birthday of Edmund Schlink has been published since 2004, the factory output ' writings on ecumenism and commitment ' with the following titles to date and detailed accompanying words Schlink renowned experts:

  • Vol 1 The coming Christ and the church traditions. After the Council. Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-56701-4. With a biographical introduction by Jochen Eber
  • Vol 2 Ecumenical Dogmatics. Broad. Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-56186-5. Accompanying word of Michael Plathow
  • Vol 3 The doctrine of baptism. Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-56935-1. Accompanying word of Peter Zimmer Ling
  • Vol 4 Theology of the Lutheran Confessions. Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-56716-6. Accompanying word by Günther Gassmann
  • Vol 5 Selected contributions. Church struggle - Theological Questions - ecumenism. Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-56718-0. Accompanying word of Ursula Quick
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