Eberhard Busch

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Professor emeritus for systematic theology at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
(chair for reformed theology)
Head of the Karl Barth research group at the faculty of theology

Getting personal

Address:

office: Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany - Tel: +49 (0)551 39 4966, FAX: 0551 39-7488.

private: Tel.: +49 (0)5504 1303

e-mail: ebusch%gwdg.de
(replace "%" by @ to get the real e-mail address!)

Research interests

Karl Barth's life and works
John Calvin and the history of the Reformed reformation
Reformed confessions in past and present
The "church struggle" (Kirchenkampf) in Germany 1933-1945
Church-Israel relationship
History of the pietism in the 18. century
church-state relationship
Reformed identity

New:

The Covenant of Grace Fulfilled in Christ as the Foundation of the Indissoluble Solidarity of the Church with Israel:
Barth´s Position on the Jews During the Hitler Era
PDF-File (64 KByte/27 pages)

Talk given at Princeton Theological Seminary on June 17, 1999, at a conference about "Karl Barth and the future of ecclesial theology". See also here

Interview with 'Presbyterian Outlook' about "Reformed Confessions and Confessing Church"

Teaching:

(in German)

Winter Semester 1999/2000

Lecture: The History of Theology of the 20th Century
Texts to read:
H. Berkhof, 200 Jahre Theologie. Eine Reisebericht, 1985.
E. Hübner, Evangelische Theologie in unserer Zeit, 1966
W. Pannenberg, Problemgeschichte der neueren evangelischen Theologie in Deutschland, 1997.

Seminar: Introduction to the Apostolic Confession of Faith
Texts to read:
K. Barth, Dogmatik im Grundriß, 1947.19774
W. Trillhaas, Das apostolische Glaubensbekenntnis, 1953
W. Pannenberg, Das Glaubensbekenntnis ausgelegt und verantwortet vor den Fragen der Gegenwart, 1972.
J. Ratzinger, Einführung in das Christentum, 1968
J.M. Lochmann, Das Glaubensbekenntnis. Grundriß der Dogmatik im Anschluß an das Credo, 1982.

Seminar: J. Calvin, Shape and Order of the Church
Texts to read:
J. Calvin, Calvin-Studienausgabe, Bd. 2: Gestalt und Ordnung der Kirche, Neukirchen 1997.

Sommer Semester 1999

Lecture: Christology
Texts to read:
D. Bonhoeffer, Wer ist und wer war Jesus Christus?, Hamburg 1962.
A. Gilg, Weg und Bedeutung der altkirchlichen Christologie, MŸnchen 1955.

Seminar: The mission of the church according to Karl Barth, church dogmatics IV/3
Together with Prof. Darrell Guder, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA
Texts to read:
K. Barth, Kirchliche Dogmatik, Vol. 29;
D. Guder, Missional Church. A Vision for the Sending of the Church in N. America, Grand Rapids 1998.

Seminar: The doctrine of the holy scripture

Winter semester 1998/99

Lecture: The Creed of the church after the apostolikum

Seminar: The Heidelberg catechism
Texts to read:
- Heidelberger Katechismus. Revidierte Ausgabe 1997, Neukirchen 1997
- Luthers Kleiner und Großer Katechismus, in: Bekenntnisschriften der evangelisch- lutherischen Kirche
- E. Busch, Der Freiheit zugetan. Christlicher Glaube in unserer Zeit, Neukirchen 1998

Summer semester 1998

Seminar: Introduction to theology for freshers

Lecture: The theology of Karl Barth
Texts to read: E. Jüngel, Barth-Studien, 1982; Chr. Frey, Die Theologie Karl Barths, 1988.

Seminar: Christology and doctrine of trinity in the jewish-christian dialogue
together with Prof. Bernd Schaller

Winter semester 1997/98

Lecture: The sermon on a mountain as foundation of evangelical ethics
Text to read: Dr. Bonhoeffer, Nachfolge.

Seminar: the doctrine of creation according to K. Barth, church dogm. III/1
Text to read: K. Barth, Kirchliche Dogmatik III/1 (kartonierte Ausgabe), Zürich 1993.

Seminar: Zwingli's first great work as a reformer: "Auslegung und Begründung der Thesen" (from Jan. 1523)
Text to read: H. Zwingli, Schriften Bd. 2, Zürich 1995.

Bibliography of Eberhard Busch

(publications in English only; in chronological order)

Recent publications:
"Reformationstag 1933" - Dokumente der Begegnung Karl Barths mit dem Pfarrernotbund in Berlin
"Die große Leidenschaft" - Einführung in die Theologie Karl Barths
"Der Freiheit zugetan" - Christlicher Glaube heute - im Gespräch mit dem Heidelberger Katechismus
"Eberhard Busch - 8 Predigten Uerkheim 1983 - 1985". Predigtaufnahmen auf 4 CDs

Available in English:

Karl Barth. His life from letters and autobiographical texts.
Translated by John Bowden.
First English Ed. by SCM Press, London 1976
Paperback Ed. by Wm. B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1993. 569 pages.

"Based on Barth's own correspondence and notes, this volume provides a running commentary on the events and people in Barth's life from 1886 to 1968. More than one hundred pictures accompany the text, and a long new foreword by Busch - who was Barth's last assistant - offers his current perspective on what he wrote "fairly quickly" almost twenty years ago."

Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Eberhard Busch:
Herausgeforderte Kirche. Anstöße - Wege - Perspektiven. . Edited by Christoph Dahling-Sander, Margit Ernst and Georg Plasger. 493 pages, 48 DM. Published by Foedus-Verlag Wuppertal.

The authors of the 39 contributions are:
Sebastian Barth, Christoph Bizer, Rudolf Bohren, Peter Bukowski, Christoph Dahling-Sander, Hannelore und Ingo Erhart, Margit Ernst, Fachschaft Ev. Theologie der Universität Göttingen, Heino Falcke, Jürgen Fangmeier, Jakob Frey, Zsolt Geréb, Albrecht Goes, Walter Herrenbrück, Hans Hübner, Tamás Jenei, Manfred Josuttis, Bertold Klappert, Diether Koch, Hanna und Hebe Kohlbrügge, Hans-Joachim Kraus, Wolf Krötke, Christian Link, Jan Milic Lochman, Kurt Marti, Henry Mottu, Keiji Ogawa, Milan Opocenský, Marcel Pasche, Georg Plasger, Hans Prolingheuer, William H. Rader, Johannes Rau, H. Martin Rumscheidt, Berndt Schaller, Hinrich Stoevesandt, István Tökés, Michael Weinrich, Peter Welten, Rudolf Weth.
The book also contains a selected bibliography of Eberhard Busch.

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