Heinrich Schlier

Schlier ( born March 31, 1900 in Neuburg an der Donau, † December 26, 1978 in Bonn ) was a German, first Evangelical Lutheran, then Catholic theologian.

Vita

Schlier was born the son of a military doctor in Neuburg, attended high schools in Landau and Ingolstadt, took part in the First World War and after 1919 studied Protestant theology at the universities of Marburg, Leipzig and Jena. From 1927 worked schlier as pastor and teacher of New Testament at Marburg, Halle an der Saale and Wuppertal. Since 1935 schlier belonged to the Confessing Church and was following the closure of the Seminary in Wuppertal pastor of the Confessing Church.

After the end of World War II schlier received the call to the prestigious chair of New Testament and Early Church History at the Faculty of the University of Bonn Evangelical Theology.

However, over the years, he fell into increasing distance to Protestantism, because he became convinced that the ecclesiological paradigms of the New Testament were most clearly anchored in the Catholic Church, as he stated in his Short accountable. Consequentially schlier let emeritus in 1952 and a year later converted to Catholicism. In this connection also converted his student Uta Ranke- Heinemann, 1954 in Munich, then the doctorate in Catholic theology.

A regular chair at a Catholic theological faculty could not compete schlier, as these were at that time still only ordained priests reserved. So Schlier was Honorary Professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn and worked as a theological writer. Pope Paul VI. appointed him to the Pontifical Biblical Commission. In addition schlier was involved in the creation of the unit translation of the Bible and gave together with Karl Rahner, the series Quaestiones disputatae out. Schlier one of the great New Testament scholars of the 20th century.

Literature (selection )

  • Reinhard von Bendemann: schlier, Heinrich Otto Ludwig Albin. In: New German Biography ( NDB ). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3, pp. 88 f ( digitized ).
  • Werner solver, Claudia Sticher (ed.): God's Word is light and truth. In memory of Henry schlier. Real Verlag, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-429-02514-1 - essays on life, work and significance Schlier
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