Oswald Bayer
Oswald Bayer (born 30 September 1939 Nagold ) is a Lutheran theologian and taught most recently as Professor of Systematic Theology at the Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen Evangelical theological.
Life
Oswald Bayer studied Protestant theology and philosophy in Tübingen, Bonn and Rome, received his doctorate in 1968 and his habilitation in 1970 on the concept of promissio ( promise ) in the theology of the young Luther. PhD and Habilitation were entitled Promissio. History of the Reformation turn in Luther's theology published and are now position across as a milestone in Luther research in the 20th century.
Oswald Bayer taught from 1974 to 1979 as professor of Systematic Theology at the Ruhr- University Bochum. In 1979 he was appointed director of the Institute for Christian social teaching at the University of Tübingen. In 1995 he moved to the chair of systematic theology. Since 2005, Oswald Bayer Emeritus.
Work
Theology Oswald Bayer is based on Luther's word and promise theology and wants this profile in critical engagement with modernity. To this end, Bayer builds on the education and critique of Kant, Johann Georg Hamann, but also refers to the philosophy of language developments of the 20th century (for example, Paul Ricoeur, Ludwig Wittgenstein). He has published numerous interpretations of Luther and Hamann.
In the center of theology is God's promise to the people, to which the man responds in faith. Faith is therefore at Oswald Bayer always linguistic event, alternating speech between God and man. The exemplary center of this speech is the Christian worship, the source and target point of all theology. Christian theology is thus regarded as interpretation of this speech event between the justifying God and the justified sinner. This is for Bayer - related to Martin Luther - the subjects of theology ( the subiectum theologiae ). Theology, which interprets this word-event, is itself always hearer of God's word. This systematic basic approach unfolds Oswald Bayer, both in the areas of hermeneutics, philosophy of science, social studies and ethics, as well as in his sermons. The latter made Bayer accessible even after his retirement as the author of Göttingen sermons on the Internet to a broad public.
His word theological approach he turns pointedly against modern subjectivity theology in the tradition of Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, as it stands, for example, in modified form Bayers Tübingen colleague Eilert Herms represents. In addition, Bayer also with other contemporary theological and philosophical currents (eg Marxism ) thoroughly examined.
Selected Bibliography
- Promissio. History of the Reformation turn in Luther's theology (2nd edition 1989)
- Creation as a form of address. To a hermeneutics of creation (2nd edition 1990)
- Authority and criticism. To Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Science (1991 )
- Corporeal word. Reformation and modern times in conflict (1992 )
- Freedom as an answer. For theological ethics (1995 )
- Contemporary inconsistent. Johann Georg Hamann as a radical reconnaissance (1988 )
- Theology. Manual Systematic Theology 1 (1994 )
- God as the author. To a poietologischen Theology ( 1999)
- Reason is language. Hamann meta-critique of Kant (2002)
- Martin Luther's theology. A realization ( 3rd edition 2007)
- Bayer, Oswald and Gleede, Benjamin ( Hrsgg. ): Creator est creatura. Luther's Christology as the doctrine of the communication of attributes, Berlin 2007