Klaus Koschorke

Klaus Koschorke ( born April 13, 1948 in Wuppertal ) is a German Protestant Church historian and since 1993 Professor for the elderly and Worldwide Church History at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich.

Life and academic career

Klaus Koschorke studied from 1967 to 1973 Protestant Theology and minor subjects in Berlin, Heidelberg, Edinburgh, Tübingen and Heidelberg, and his doctorate in 1976 in Heidelberg with a study of the newly discovered Coptic Gnostic writings of Nag Hammadi. He was a research assistant at the Bielefeld - Bethel Church University and the University of Heidelberg, and Assistant Professor at the University of Bern, where he qualified in 1991 with a thesis on the Greek ecclesiology of the 4th century ( Basil of Caesarea ). He also held visiting professorships and lectureships in Switzerland and in Asia (especially Sri Lanka 1982/83 ) is true.

He was appointed as successor to Georg Kretschmar at the University of Munich in 1993. Here he built the chair - in addition to the processing of patristic themes - a center for the study of the non-European and global history of Christianity to. The goal is an ecumenically oriented church history, which is not only the religious but also the geographical and cultural plurality of World Christianity needs. From 2003 to 2005, Koschorke Dean of the Protestant Theological Faculty Munich and since 2010 Visiting Research Fellow at Liverpool Hope University. Regular research in Asia, Africa and Latin America to serve the advancement of new historical sub-discipline ' Non-European Christianity History / History of World Christianity ' as well as the academic teaching of European and Asian institutions.

Editorial Boards (selection)

  • Studies of non-European Christianity History ( Asia, Africa, Latin America). ( " Studies in the History of Christianity in the Non - Western World (Asia, Africa, Latin America )"). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998ff; Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2002ff. (along with John Meier )
  • Studies on Intercultural History of Christianity. ( = Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity / Études d' histoire du Christianisme interculturelle ). P. Lang, Frankfurt / Bern / New York, among others 1999ff.
  • Yearbook of comparative history overseas. ( Research Foundation for Comparative European Overseas History ). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000ff.
  • The Journal of World Christianity. ( Member of the Editorial Board, Open Access Journal www.journalofworldchristianity.org, 2008ff ).
  • Religion in Past and Present. Brill, Leiden 2006ff.
  • Documents for non-European Christianity History ( Asia, Africa, Latin America). ( = Documents on the History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, Latin America ). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2010ff.

Writings (selection )

  • Stages of globalization in christianity historical perspective. ( Phases of Globalization in the History of Christianity ). ( Studies in the History of Christianity in the Non - Western World. Vol 19). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-447-06672-3.
  • The Dutch Reformed Church in Colonial Ceylon (18th Century ). Minutes of the Consistory of the Dutch Reformed Church in Colombo held at the Wolvendaal Church, Colombo ( 1735-1797 ). ( Documents on the History of Christianity in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Vol. II), Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-447-06546-7.
  • Non-European history of Christianity (Asia, Africa, Latin America), 1450 -. Ed. 1990 together with a couple F. Ludwig and Mariano Delgado ( churches and theological history in sources Vol VI), 4th edition. Neukirchen, 2012. Spanish Edition: Historia del cristianismo en sus fuentes. Asia, África y América Latina [ 1450 - 1990 ] Editorial Trotta, Madrid 2012, ISBN 978-84-9879-252-2.
  • English edition: A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450 - 1990 A Documentary Sourcebook. . Eerdmans, Grand Rapids 2007, ISBN 978-0-8028-2889-7.
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