Eberhard Jüngel
Eberhard Jüngel | |
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| Born | 5 December 1934 |
| Died | 28 September 2021 (aged 86) Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
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| Doctoral advisor | Ernst Fuchs |
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| Discipline | Theology |
| Sub-discipline | Systematic theology |
| School or tradition | Lutheranism |
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Eberhard Jüngel (5 December 1934 – 28 September 2021) was a German
Lutheran theologian. He was Emeritus Professor of Systematic Theology and the Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Tübingen.[1]
Life and work
Jüngel was born in
communist milieu of his youth which led him to Christian theology: "That was the discovery of the church as the one place within a Stalinist society where one could speak the truth without being penalized."[5]
Jüngel studied undergraduate theology at the
University of Zürich, and with Karl Barth at the University of Basel.[2] In 1961, he completed his doctorate supervised by Fuchs on Paulus und Jesus. Eine Untersuchung zur Präzisierung der Frage nach dem Ursprung der Christologie[7] (Paulus and Jesus. An investigation to clarify the question of the origin of Christology).[3] He completed his habilitation in systematic theology in 1962 at the Kirchliche Hochschule Berlin-Ost.[2]
In 1962, as a direct result of the erection of the
Philosophy of Religion) at the University of Tübingen, where he also assumed the role of director of the Institute for Hermeneutics.[3][8] Despite a plethora of offers for positions at other universities, Jüngel remained at Tübingen until his retirement in 2003.[3] His successor was the systematic theologian Christoph Schwöbel.[9]
Jüngel held a number of additional positions throughout his academic career:
- Between 1987 and 2005, he was Ephorus (Director) of Evangelisches Stift Tübingen, a Protestant house of studies and teaching founded in 1536 in a former Augustinian monastery.[2] He was succeeded in 2005 by the Theologian and Church Historian Volker Henning Drecoll].
- From 2003 to 2006, he was the director of the Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft (Research Centre for Protestant Studies) in Heidelberg.[2]
- In 2007, he was appointed the Gadamer-Stiftungsprofessor (University of Heidelberg.[2]
He was a member of the
Protestant Church in Germany.[12] In 1994, he received the Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2000 the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg.[13] Jüngel received honorary doctorates from the University of Greifswald and from the University of Basel.[13]
Jüngel died in Tübingen on 28 September 2021.[14][15]
Theology
Main features of Jüngel's theology (Evolution and inner consistency):[16]
- Paul and Jesus – Jüngel's thesis deals with the issues arising from the interpretation of the New Testament
- God's being is in becoming – His first book in the area of dogmatic theology
- Christology: exegesis and dogmatics – Understanding of the relationship between the historical and the dogmatic in Christology
- God the mystery of the world: speaking about God, thinking about God, the human god
- Atheism and the theology of death – His response to atheism, and his theology of death
- Anthropology and justification – Relation between God and man
- Anthropology and analogy – The man who expresses God
- Towards a theology of the natural – Confrontation of the Christian faith with the contemporary experience of reality
Bibliography
German works
- Gott als Geheimnis der Welt: Zur Begründung der Theologie des Gekreuzigten im Streit zwischen Theismus und Atheismus, Mohr Siebeck, 1982.
Translation into English
- Christ, Justice and Peace: Toward a Theology of the State in Dialogue with the Barmen Declaration (ET 1992, translated by ISBN 978-0-567-65978-1
- Death: The Riddle and the Mystery (ET 1975). OCLC 718335245
- The Freedom of a Christian: Luther's Significance for Contemporary Theology (ET 1988). ISBN 978-0-8066-2393-1
- God as the Mystery of the World: On the Foundation of the Theology of the Crucified One in the Dispute between Theism and Atheism (ET 1983). ISBN 978-0-567-65983-5
- God's Being Is in Becoming: The Trinitarian Being of God in the Theology of ISBN 978-0-7073-0115-0
- "The Gospel and the Protestant Churches of Europe: Christian Responsibility for Europe from a Protestant Perspective," in Religion, State and Society 21:2 (1993), pp. 137–149. OCLC 4637184266
- Justification: The Heart of the Christian Faith (ET 2001). ISBN 978-0-567-08775-1
- OCLC 1239790389
- "On the Doctrine of Justification" in the International Journal of Systematic Theology 1:1 (1999), pp. 24–52. OCLC 5155533887
- "Sermon on Matthew 25:1–12" in OCLC 4960240225
- Theological Essays I (ET 1989). ISBN 978-0-567-69092-0
- Theological Essays II (ET 1994). ISBN 978-0-567-65987-3
- "Theses on the Relation of the Existence, Essence and Attributes of God" in OCLC 5133209842
- "To tell the world about God: The task for the mission of the church on the threshold of the third millennium" in International Review of Mission (30 April 2000). OCLC 5153912553
References
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Eberhard Jüngel DD". Archived from the original on 22 June 2009. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Prof. Dr. Eberhard Jüngel". Universität Tübingen (in German). 20 April 2021. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
- ^ a b c d "N 3 – Nachlass Eberhard Jüngel (1986–2007)". Kirchengeschichte Online (in German). Retrieved 29 September 2021.
- ^ Brauer, Markus (4 December 2009). "Theologe Jüngel wird 75: Der Denker, der aus der DDR kam". stuttgarter-nachrichten.de (in German). Retrieved 29 September 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Jüngel: Toward the Heart of the Matter". Archived from the original on 20 June 2010. Retrieved 23 March 2010.
- ^ Celsor, Scott A. (2010). Word and Faith in the Formation of Christian Existence: A Study in Gerhard Ebeling's Rejection of the Joint Declaration (PhD thesis). Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University. p. 192. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
- ISBN 978-3-16-148539-8.
- FAZ.NET(in German). Retrieved 29 September 2021.
- ^ "Prof. em. Dr. Christoph Schwöbel". Universität Tübingen (in German). 20 April 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "Gruppe 8: Religionsvitenskap og teologi" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 3 September 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
- ^ "Orden Pour le mérite wählt neue Kanzler". Archiv der Bundesregierung (in German). Retrieved 29 September 2021.
- ^ "Evangelischer Theologe Eberhard Jüngel gestorben". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). 23 July 2014. Archived from the original on 29 September 2021. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Eberhard Klaus Jüngel". Biografie WHO'S WHO (in German). Retrieved 29 September 2021.
- ^ Peter, Niklaus (29 September 2021). "Glauben heisst auch denken: Zum Tod des Theologen Eberhard Jüngel". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 29 September 2021.
- ^ "Theologe Eberhard Jüngel gestorben". evangelisch.de (in German). Retrieved 29 September 2021.
- OCLC 12107997.
- ^ "www.bundespraesident.de: Der Bundespräsident / Reden / Ehrenessen für Eberhard Jüngel zum 80. Geburtstag". www.bundespraesident.de (in German). 15 January 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
External links
- Eberhard Jüngel Reading Room (links to on-line primary and secondary sources) Tyndale Seminary
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