Dorothee Sölle

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Dorothee Sölle
Sölle in 1998
Born
Dorothee Nipperdey

(1929-09-30)30 September 1929
Cologne, Prussia, Germany
Died27 April 2003(2003-04-27) (aged 73)
Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Other namesDorothee Steffensky-Sölle
Spouses
  • Dietrich Sölle
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1954; div. 1964)​
  • ​
    ​
    (m. 1969)​
Academic background
Christofascism
Influenced

Dorothee Steffensky-Sölle (

Christofascism".[16][17] She was born in Cologne and died at a conference in Göppingen
from cardiac arrest.

Life and career

Sölle was born Dorothee Nipperdey on 30 September 1929 in

developing world. Notably, from 1968 to 1972 she organized the Politisches Nachtgebet [de] (political night-prayers) in the Antoniterkirche (Cologne)
.

Union Theological Seminary, New York

Between 1975 and 1987, she spent six months a year at

Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she was a professor of systematic theology.[19] Although she never held a professorship in Germany,[citation needed] she received an honorary professorship from the University of Hamburg in 1994.[20]

She wrote a large number of books, including Theology for Skeptics: Reflections on God (1968), The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance (1997), and her autobiography Against the Wind: Memoir of a Radical Christian (1999).

Christofascist to describe fundamentalists. Perhaps her best-known work in English was[citation needed] Suffering, which offers a critique of "Christian masochism" and "Christian sadism".[21] Sölle's critique is against the assumption that God is all-powerful and the cause of suffering; humans thus suffer for some greater purpose. Instead, God suffers and is powerless alongside us. Humans are to struggle together against oppression, sexism, antisemitism, and other forms of authoritarianism.[22][page needed
]

Sölle was married twice and had four children.

Benedictine priest Fulbert Steffensky [de], with whom she had her fourth child[2] and with whom she organized the Politisches Nachtgebet.[24] The historian Thomas Nipperdey was her brother.[25]

Sölle died of a heart attack at a conference in Göppingen on 27 April 2003.[26] She was buried on the Friedhof Nienstedten in Hamburg.

Sölle's theological thinking

"I believe in God/ who created the world not ready made/ like a thing that must forever stay what it is/ who does not govern according to eternal laws/ that have perpetual validity/ nor according to natural orders/ of poor and rich,/ experts and ignoramuses,/ people who dominate and people subjected./ I believe in God/ who desires the counter-argument of the living/ and the alteration of every condition/ through our work/ through our politics." (ET, from Meditationen & Gebrauchstexte. Gedichte. Berlin 1969,

ISBN 978-3-87352-016-5
)

The idea of a God who was "in heaven in all its glory"[

Auschwitz was organized was "unbearable"[This quote needs a citation] for Sölle. God has to be protected against such simplifications. For some people[who?] Sölle was a kind of prophet of Christianity, who abolished the separation of theological science and practice of life, while for others[who?] she was a heretic,[citation needed] whose theories couldn't be united with the traditional understanding of God, and her ideas were therefore rejected as a theological cynicism.[citation needed
]

Some of Sölle's provocative statements:

Publications

For publications in German language see de:Dorothee Sölle#Literatur

Texts in music

  • The musician Sergio Pinto converted Sölle's poems Credo für die Erde and Ich dein Baum, into musical compositions which were published by Verlag in 2008 under the title entwurf. The CD recording was performed by the band Grupo Sal.[27]
  • The composer Ludger Stühlmeyer converted Sölle's poems Kreuzigen and Atem Gottes hauch mich an into musical compositions as well. The vocal and organ arrangements were commissioned by a circle of friends of the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing; the work was first performed in April 2013 and included a reading by Ursula Baltz-Otto during a commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the death of Dorothee Sölle.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Original title: Untersuchungen zur Struktur der Nachtwachen von Bonaventura.[1]

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ Sölle 1999b, p. 35.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Coleman 2013, p. 518.
  3. ^ Rumscheidt 2016, p. 172.
  4. ^ Pinnock 2003b, p. 129.
  5. ^ a b Pinnock 2003a, p. 2.
  6. ^ a b Coleman 2013, p. 519.
  7. ^ Bieler 2003, p. 59; Neumann 2014, p. 118.
  8. ^ a b Faramelli, Norman (1 April 2016). ""Flashback Friday" on Dorothee Sölle: Political Theologian par Excellence". Religious Socialism. DSA Religion and Socialism Commission. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  9. ^ Pinnock 2018, p. 371; Sölle 1999a, p. 49.
  10. ^ a b Loewen 2016, p. ii.
  11. ^ Matteson 2018, p. 20.
  12. ^ Grey 2005, p. 343.
  13. ^ Harrison 2004, p. 147.
  14. ^ Grey 2005, p. 350.
  15. ^ Kotsko, Adam (26 April 2009). "Narrative CV: Adam Kotsko". An und für sich. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
  16. ^ Hall 2000, p. 412; Sölle 1970.
  17. ^ Pinnock 2003c: "... of establishing a dubious moral superiority to justify organized violence on a massive scale, a perversion of Christianity she called Christofascism."
  18. ISBN 978-3-7743-0670-7
    .
  19. ^ Coleman 2013, p. 519; Mynatt 2004, p. 368.
  20. ^ Hollstein 2007, p. 105.
  21. ^ Heyward 2003, p. 233.
  22. ^ Pinnock 2003c.
  23. ISBN 978-3-7743-0670-7
    .
  24. ISBN 978-3-7743-0670-7
    .
  25. ^ "Dorothee Sölle". Die Zeit (in German). Hamburg. 30 April 2003. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  26. ^ Mynatt 2004, p. 368; Ring 2005, p. 8511.
  27. ^ Dorothee Sölle auf der Website von Grupo Sal (in German) Archived 2 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine

Bibliography

Further reading

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