Peter Lampe

Peter Lampe ( born January 28, 1954 in Detmold ) is a German Protestant theologian and professor of New Testament Studies at the Theological Faculty of the University of Heidelberg.

Life

Peter Lampe studied after graduating from high school in 1971 with grants from the Study Foundation of the German people Evangelical theology, philosophy and archeology in Bielefeld, Göttingen, and Rome. He received his doctorate at the University of Bern with Ulrich Luz with work on the city of Rome Christians in the first two centuries and beyond the concept of church unity in Paul's letters and habilitation. As a research assistant, he was from 1981 in Bern. In 1987, he took a New Testament Chair at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, USA, at. In 1992 he moved to the chair of history and archeology of early Christianity and its environment at the University of Kiel, where he was ordained as pastor of the North Elbe Evangelical Lutheran Church. In 1997 he founded the Societas Theologicum ordinem Adiuvantium in Kiel. In 1999 he moved to the University of Heidelberg.

The main focus he is concerned with the social history of early Christianity ( eg groundbreaking for ancient Christianity in Rome of the 1st / 2nd century; lamp has, inter alia, significant part of the paradigm shift towards a more situational reading of Romans ); with the Hellenistic background of early Christianity; with Pauline studies ( inter alia Pauline rhetoric ); with early Christian archeology and epigraphy; as well as methodological and hermeneutical issues, including his work include constructivism, the pioneer way of constructivist Categories of New Testament exegesis and hermeneutics made ​​fruitful since the mid 1990erJahre. He is also among the few who discovered early on the possibilities of psychological interpretation for their subject. In addition, he has published sermon volumes.

In 2003 he received the ecumenical sermon price by the publisher for the German economy. In 2008 he an honorary professorship at the Universiteit van was the Vrystaat in Bloemfontein, South Africa awarded. He is co-director of 2005 he co-founded the Research Center for International and Interdisciplinary Theology ( FIIT ) in Heidelberg; also curator of the literary magazine Fiction and co-editor of book series and journals.

Since 2001, he leads annual settlement archaeological campaigns in Phrygia in present-day Turkey. As part of this interdisciplinary archaeological surveys of many unknown ancient settlements were discovered and archaeologically documented. Two of them give due to a variety of evidence, the most promising so far in the history of research candidates from an identification with the main places of rich widespread ancient Christian Montanism, Pepouza and Tymion, according to which the research had been looking for since the 19th century.

Writings (selection )

  • Eschatology and peace action. Exegetical contributions to the question of Christian responsibility for peace ( with U. Luz and others) Catholic Biblical Association (SBS 101 ), Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-460-04011-4
  • The beginnings of Christianity. Old world and new hope ( with J. Becker and others) Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-17-001902-3
  • The urban Roman Christians in the first two centuries. Studies on the social history. Mohr ( WUNT 2/18), Tübingen, 1987; 2 erg A. ibid., 1989, ISBN 3-16-145422-7; again erg in the Engl. translation:
  • From Paul to Valentinus. Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries. Fortress, Minneapolis and Continuum, London 2003, ISBN 0-8006-2702-4, ISBN 978-0-8006-2702-7, ISBN 0-8264-8102-7, ISBN 978-0-8264-8102-3
  • Pocahontas. The Indian Princess at the English court. Diederichs, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-424-01325-0
  • The letters to the Philippians, Thessalonians and to Philemon ( with N. Walter, E. Reinmuth ). Cambridge University Press (NTD 8/2), Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3- 525-51381 -X
  • Rocks in the river. Writing words in provocative interpretation on issues of the time. Neukirchener, Neukirchen 2004, ISBN 3-7975-0071-8
  • The Montanist Tymion and Pepouza in the light of new Tymioninschrift. In: Journal of Ancient Christianity. 8, 2005, pp. 498-512, doi: 10.1515/zach.2005.8.3.498.
  • Word glass. Lyrical and Epic. Athena, Oberhausen 2005, ISBN 3-89896-225-3
  • The reality as a picture. The New Testament as a fundamental document of Western culture in the light of constructivist epistemology and sociology of knowledge. Neukirchener, Neukirchen 2006, ISBN 3-7887-1624- X
  • Jesus kissed Mary Magdalene on the mouth in the middle? Provocations, objections, clarifications. Neukirchener, Neukirchen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7975-0142-4
  • Pepouza and Tymion. The Discovery and Archaeological Exploration of a Lost Ancient City and at Imperial Estate ( with W. Tabbernee ). DeGruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019455-5
  • New Testament exegesis in the dialog. Hermeneutics - Effect History - Gospel of Matthew (ed. with M. Mayordomo, M. Sato ). Neukirchener, Neukirchen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7887-2283-8
  • New Testament Border Crossings: Symposium on the critical reception of the work Gerd Theissen " (ed. with H. Schwier ), Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-53393-2
  • Paul and Rhetoric " (ed., with JP Sampley ). New York / London 2010, ISBN 978-0-567-02704-7
  • " New Testament Theology in a Secular World: A Constructivist Work in Philosophical Epistemology and Christian Apologetics " ( translated by Robert L. Brawley from the 2006 German edition, with substantial subsequent offer revisions and augmentations by the author, London / New York: T & T Clark International, 2012) ISBN 978-0-567-32417-7 ( hardcover ) and ISBN 978-0-567-38888-9 ( paperback )
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