Eta Linnemann

Eta Linnemann (* October 19, 1926 in Osnabrück; † 9 May 2009 Leer, Ostfriesland) was a German Protestant theologian. In her last years she broke completely with the theology of her teacher Rudolf Bultmann.

Life

Eta Linnemann studied from October 1948 to July 1953 Protestant theology in Marburg, Tübingen and Göttingen. In August 1953, she presented at the Georg -August- University Göttingen, the first state exam in August 1957, the Second State Examination. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover commissioned Linnemann to write interpretations of biblical texts for religious instruction. Introduction and interpretation with which it in July 1961 at the Church College in Berlin -Zehlendorf summa cum laude to Dr. theol -. From this work out their dissertation parables of Jesus was received his doctorate. Between 1961 and 1966 taught Linnemann at the Seminar for church ministry in Berlin- Zehlendorf, 1967, she was a visiting professor at the Pedagogical University Braunschweig. In February 1970 habilitated Eta Linnemann in Marburg Rudolf Bultmann and Ernst Fuchs with studies on the Passion story. On August 10, 1971, she was awarded an honorary professor of New Testament at the Theological Faculty of the Philipps- University of Marburg. The following year, the College of Education Braunschweig Eta Linnemann appointed to the chair of Protestant theology and methodology of religious instruction. Linnemann was a member of the international Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.

Caused a stir Linnemann 1978, when they, by its own account as a result of a conversion experience in November 1977, of the historical-critical method broke away and begged to destroy their previous releases. Since 1983 she was a teacher at the Theological College of the Indonesian Mission Community in Batu. In her book " What is credible - the Bible or the Bible criticism" claimed Linnemann 2007, citing an unnamed ear witnesses, that Rudolf Bultmann had revoked on his deathbed his teachings. A resilient proof of this assertion is, however, so far (as of 2009) as well as from an echo in the Bultmann research.

Eta Linnemann last lived in Leer district Loga.

Selected publications

  • Jesus' parables. Introduction and interpretation. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1964, 3rd enlarged edition.
  • The function of the church history in religious education - teaching considerations and methodological consequences. In: Klaus Wegenast, Heinz Grosch ( ed.): Religion lessons go. Hamburg 1970, pp. 65ff.
  • Studies on the Passion story. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1970 ( Habilitation thesis, University of Marburg ).
  • Biblical criticism to the test. ET for theology and religion Swiss. , Nuremberg 1998, 1st Edition, ISBN 3-933372-19-4.
  • Is there a synoptic problem?. ET for theology and religion Swiss. , Nuremberg 1999, 4th revised edition, ISBN 3-933372-15-1.
  • Science or opinion? . ET for theology and religion Swiss. , Nuremberg 1999, 2nd enlarged edition, ISBN 3-933372-22-4.
  • Bible or Bible criticism?. ET for theology and religion Swiss. , Nuremberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937965-86-4.

Lecturing

Until well into old age, the theologian developed lectures to present results of their work in the field of Biblical exegesis. So the theologian offered seminars for both clergy and laity as well.

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