Carl Heinz Ratschow (1911-1999)
Leben, Denken und Wirken eines theologischen Enzyklopaden
by Karl-Heinz Lerch, Martin Weyer-Menkhoff and Martin Repp
Interessen am alten Orient, Alten Testament, Religionen und Philosophie fuhrten den Systematiker Ratschow zur enzyklopadischen Frage, wie Teile und Ganzes von Wirklichkeit zusammenhangen. Seit Magie und Religion (1947) befasste er sich mit Herausforderungen religioser Pluralitat bevor sie in Europa akut wurde. Der angefochtene Glaube (1957) und der Aufsatz Heilshandeln und Welthandeln Gottes richteten sich gegen soteriologische Verengungen der Barthianer und eroffneten Ansatze einer Oko-Theologie. Gegenuber Spezialisierungen in der Theologie und deren Kluft zur kirchlichen Praxis integrierte er ihre Disziplinen durch die enzyklopadische Methode (Christliche Taufe, Jesus Christus, Vorlesungen Vom Text zur Predigt). Dazu hatte er auch die Neue Zeitschrift fur Systematische Theologie, die Tillich-Forschung und die Theologische Realenzyklopadie begrundet. Studierende lehrte er selbststandig denken jenseits von Schulbildung. [Carl Heinz Ratschow (1911-1999). Life and Thought of a Theological Encyclopedist] Ratschow, a German systematic theologian and scholar of old-oriental, Old Testament and religious studies, taught in Munster and Marburg. In his Magie und Religion, Der angefochtene Glaube, Die Religionen, etc. he broke up the narrow soteriological approach of Barthianism by unfolding the implications also of creation theology for ethics, ecology, and theology of religions already before becoming public concerns. He fostered Tillich-research and founded the Neue Zeitschrift fur Systematische Theologie and Theologische Realenzyklopadie. Vis a vis the increasing specialization of theology and its growing gap to church practice, he developed an encyclopedic method by analyzing the present challenge, discussing it in the light of Biblical exegesis as well as in the context of other religions, and via church history (the tradition connecting Bible and today) he returned with the findings to the present.
- By (author) Karl-Heinz Lerch
- By (author) Martin Repp
- By (author) Martin Weyer-Menkhoff
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