Oscar Cullmann

Oscar Cullmann ( born February 25, 1902 in Strasbourg, † January 16, 1999 in Chamonix ) was a Protestant theologian and exegete.

Life and work

He studied classical philology and Protestant Theology at the University of Strasbourg, where he also later taught. From 1938 to 1972 he taught Ancient Church History and New Testament at the University of Basel, which he presided as rector from 1968 to 1972. He had in 1948 in Paris protest ante at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, at the Faculté des Lettres of the Sorbonne and at the Faculté Libre de Théologie in Paris held additional professorships. In 1972, he retired, after a research stay at the Ecumenical Institute followed in Tantur in Jerusalem. In 1979 he was admitted as a Commander in the French Legion of Honour.

Cullmann's specialty was the exegesis of the New Testament, the early church and salvation. Deeply committed he was in the sense of ecumenism, by emphasizing the fundamental similarities between the Christian churches and the late 1950s, launched the idea of an ecumenical collection. As Lutherans, he could also teach about Catholic theology without having to conceal its religious origin. He was received at a time when the inter-confessional dialogue was not so far advanced that high-level official contacts were usually of three popes ( Pius XII. , John XXIII. , And Paul VI. ). To Pope Paul VI. entertained Cullmann also a personal friendship. Because of these contacts Karl Barth once said: "On the grave stone of Mr. Cullmann will be ' friend of three popes .'"

Cullmann was active in the World Council of Churches and took personal invitation of the Pontifical Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Augustin Bea and its President as an observer at the Second Vatican Council in part.

Among his students, among others, Rudolf drilling, Lukas Vischer, Felix Christian and Antonio Ambrosianio.

Writings

  • Lordship of Jesus Christ and the Church in the New Testament, 1941
  • Les Premieres Confessions de foi Chrétiennes, 1943
  • Early Christianity and worship, 1944
  • Christ and time: the primitive Christian conception of time and history, 1946
  • Christmas in the old church, 1947
  • The doctrine of baptism in the New Testament. Adult and infant baptism, 1948
  • Peter. Disciples - apostles - martyrs: the historical and the theological problem Peter, 1952
  • La Tradition: Problème exégétique, historique et théologique, 1953
  • The State in the New Testament, 1956
  • Dieu et César Le procès de Jésus, Saint Paul et l' Autorité, l' Apocalypse et l'Etat totalitaire, 1956
  • The Christology of the New Testament, 1957
  • Catholics and Protestants: A proposal for the realization of Christian Solidarity, 1958
  • Salvation as history: salvation -historical existence in the New Testament, 1965
  • Le Nouveau Testament, 1966
  • Jesus and the revolutionaries of his time: Worship, Society, Politics, 1970
  • The Johannine Circle: Its Place in late Judaism, in the discipleship of Jesus and early Christianity. On the origin of John's Gospel, 1975
  • Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead? , 1986.
  • Unity through diversity. Foundation and contribute to the discussion about the possibilities of their realization, 1986
  • Prayer in the New Testament: At the same time attempt at the New Testament to be issued in response to today's questions, 1994
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