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Ernst Käsemann, (Bochum, 12 July 1906 – 17 February 1998 in Tübingen), was a Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament in Mainz (1946-1951), Göttingen (1951-1959) and Tübingen (1959-1971). Bochum (ˈboːχʊm is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Events 1191 - Saladin 's garrison surrenders ending the two-year Siege of Acre. Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 1500 - Battle of Hemmingstedt. 1600 - Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Tübingen, a traditional University town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is situated 30 km (19 miles southwest of Stuttgart, on a ridge between Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther Theology is the study of a god or the gods from a religious perspective The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz is a University in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named The University of Göttingen ( German: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) is a University in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen ( German: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, sometimes called the "Eberhardina Carolina" is a public university

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Käsemann obtained his PhD in New Testament at the University of Marburg in 1931, having written a dissertation on Pauline ecclesiology, with Rudolf Bultmann as his doctoral supervisor. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. The University of Marburg (Philipps-Universität Marburg 'Philip's University Marburg' was founded in 1527 by Landgrave Philip I of Hesse (usually Paul the apostle (שאול התרסי Šaʾul HaTarsi, meaning " Saul of Tarsus " Σαούλ Saul and Σαῦλος Saulos and Ecclesiology (from Greek grc ἐκκλησίᾱ ekklēsiā, "congregation church" and grc -λογία -logia) is the study of the Rudolf Karl Bultmann ( August 20, 1884 – July 30, 1976) was a German theologian of Lutheran background who Käsemann was one of Bultmann's more well-known politically left-of-centre 'pupils'.

Käsemann joined the Confessing Church movement in 1933; in the same year, he was appointed pastor in Gelsenkirchen, in a district mainly populated by miners. The Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche was a Christian Resistance movement in Nazi Germany. Gelsenkirchen (ˌgɛlzənˈkɪʁçən is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the autumn of 1937 he spent a few weeks in Gestapo detention for openly supporting communist miners. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The ( contraction of ge heime Sta ats' po' lizei: "Secret State Police" was the official Secret police of Nazi Germany Detention generally refers to a State or Government holding a person in a particular area (generally called a Detention centre) either for Interrogation Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based

In 1939, he completed his habilitation, which qualified him to teach at German universities; his dissertation was on the New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews. Habilitation is the highest academic qualification a person can achieve by their own pursuit in certain European and Asian countries The Epistle to the Hebrews (abbr Heb for Citations is one of the books in the New Testament.

Käsemann was later drafted into the army. He returned to his theological work in 1946 after several years in the army and as a prisoner of war.

Käsemann was involved with what is known as the 'second quest for the historical Jesus', a new phase of scholarly interest in working out what could possibly be ascertained historically about Jesus. This article is about the history of academic Jesus research For the book "The Quest of the Historical Jesus A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede" The historical Jesus is Jesus of Nazareth as reconstructed by historians using Historical methods These historical methods use critical Jesus of Nazareth (7–2 BC / BCE —26–36 AD / CE) Käsemann effectively started this phase when he published his famous article "The Problem of the Historical Jesus" in 1954, originally his inaugural lecture as Professor in Göttingen. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar)

Käsemann developed what became known as the double criterion of difference in evaluating the historical reliability of the synoptic gospels. The synoptic gospels are the first three Gospels of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. Put simply, what is historically reliable about Jesus can be deduced from material about Jesus which is neither plausible in a first-century Jewish nor an early Christian context. In addition to this, he proposed additional criteria, such as multiple attestation (does a particular story or saying of Jesus appear in independent traditions?) and coherence with other material already found to be reliable historical traditions about Jesus. Only the recent 'third quest' for the historical Jesus, which began in the later 1980's, began to question the absolute validity of these criteria.

Käsemann also began to take Jewish apocalypticism more seriously than most of his contemporary colleagues and thought it to be of vital significance for a reading of Paul. Indeed, he famously described apocalypticism as "the mother of Christian theology". Käsemann's commentary on Paul's Epistle to the Romans, first published in 1973, became a standard work for that generation. The Epistle of St Paul the Apostle to the Romans is one of the letters of the New Testament canon of the Christian Bible.

His daughter, Elisabeth Käsemann, was abducted by security forces in Argentina during the military dicatorship and subsequently 'disappeared'. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. A forced disappearance occurs when an organization forces a person to vanish from Public view either by Murder or by simple Sequestration. It is thought that she was murdered around March 24, 1977. Ernst Käsemann's subsequent theological writings acquired a more radical, often bitter edge after his daughter's murder.

Ernst Käsemann received honorary doctorates from the universities of Marburg, Durham, Edinburgh, Oslo and Yale. The University of Marburg (Philipps-Universität Marburg 'Philip's University Marburg' was founded in 1527 by Landgrave Philip I of Hesse (usually Durham University is a University in Durham, England. It was founded as the University of Durham (which remains its official and legal name The University of Edinburgh (Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann founded in 1582 is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo Universitas Osloensis is the oldest and largest University in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital

Books by Ernst Käsemann (in English)

Literature about Ernst Käsemann

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Rudolf Karl Bultmann ( August 20, 1884 – July 30, 1976) was a German theologian of Lutheran background who Günther Bornkamm (1905-1990 was a German New Testament scholar and Professor of New Testament at the University of Heidelberg. Michael Stephan Lattke (born May 12, 1942) is a scholar of the New Testament and Early Christianity. The Kairos Document (KD is a theological statement issued in 1985 by a group of black South African theologians based predominantly in the black Townships of
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