Gerd Theissen

Gerd Theissen ( born April 24, 1943 in Reydt, today part of Mönchengladbach ) is Emeritus Professor of New Testament at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Heidelberg.

Life

Theißen studied Protestant theology and German. He was charged with investigations of the Hebrews 1968 Philipp Vielhauer to Dr. theol. PhD in New Testament. He then took the place of the study inspector at the Evangelical Theological Stift at the University of Bonn. His habilitation was made in 1972 in the same compartment with a form-critical work on early Christian miracle stories. In Bonn, he was a teacher at the high school for the subjects German and religion as well as a lecturer. In 1978 he was appointed professor at the University of Copenhagen, where he among other things, to dealt with the Scandinavian Psychology of Religion of the Uppsala School. From 1980 to 2008 he was a professor at the University of Heidelberg. He received international attention; most of his books have been translated into English. In 2002 he was awarded by the British Academy, the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies.

His focus is on the areas of the social history of early Christianity, the historical Jesus, and in a methodically disciplined psychological exegesis. He was one of the first who studied the New Testament with sociological methods. In addition, he has published several volumes of sermons, a Homiletics and Bible teaching. He is Associate Editor of Protestant theology.

From 2007 to September 2009 were Theissen was secretary of the Philosophical class of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

Theissen is married to psychotherapist Dr. Christa Theissen.

Works (selection)

  • Beliefs: a critical catechism. Gütersloher publishing house, Gütersloh 2012, ISBN 978-3-579-08148-9.
  • The emergence of the New Testament as a literary historical problem, University Press Winter 2007, ISBN 3-825-35323-0.
  • Experience and behavior of the first Christians. A Psychology of Early Christianity, Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 2007, ISBN 978-3-579-08014-7.
  • Jesus as a historical figure. Posts on Jesus. ( FRLANT 202), Cambridge University Press, 2003 ISBN 3-525-53886-3 Göttingen.
  • The Shadow of the Galilean. Historical Jesus research in narrative form ( 1986, 15th edition 2001). Special edition Gütersloher publishing house, Gütersloh 2004 ISBN 978-3-579-06404-8.
  • Studies on the sociology of early Christianity. ( WUNT 19), 3rd ed Mohr, Tübingen, 1989, ISBN 3-16-145448-0.
  • Sign of life. Sermons and meditations, Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 1998, ISBN 3-579-03079-5.
  • Sign language of faith. Opportunities of preaching today, Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 1994, ISBN 3-579-02068-4.
  • Local color and contemporary history in the Gospels. A Contribution to the History of the Synoptic Tradition. 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1992, ISBN 3-525-53522-8.
  • Psychological Aspects of Pauline Theology, 2nd ed Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-53566- X.
  • Sociology of the Jesus movement. A contribution to the history of early Christianity. 7th edition AD Kaiser, Gütersloh 1997, ISBN 3-579-05035-4.
  • Original Christian miracle stories. A contribution to the form-critical study of the Synoptic Gospels. 7th edition Gütersloher publishing house, Gütersloh 1998, ISBN 3-579-04478-8.
  • The New Testament. Beck series 2192nd C. H. Beck knowledge. Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-47992-8.
  • (together with Annette Merz ): The Historical Jesus. 3rd edition, Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-52198-7.
  • The religion of the early Christians. A theory of primitive Christianity. (2000) 3rd Ed Kaiser, Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 2003, ISBN 3-579-02623-2.
  • To motivate the Bible. Tasks, content and methods of an open Bible teaching. Kaiser, Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 2003, ISBN 3-579-05393-0.
  • The Jesus Movement: Social History of a revolution of values ​​. Gütersloher publishing house, Gütersloh 2004, ISBN 3-579-06503-3.
  • Biblical faith in evolutionary terms, Munich 1984.
  • Evolution, pp. 147-158. In: In the beginning was (not) a God, ed. by T. D. Wabbel, Patmos, Dusseldorf 2004.
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