Henning Bühmann
Henning Bühmann is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow of Church History at Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen.
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E-mail: Henning.Buehmann@theologie.uni-goettingen.de
Top publications:
Title: Die Stunde Der Volksmission: Rechristianisierungsbestrebungen Im Deutschen Protestantismus in Der Zwischenkriegszeit
Publisher and date: Vandenhoech & Ruprecht, 2019
My doctoral thesis studies the wave of missionary activity launched by the Innere Mission of the German Lutheran Church immediately after World War One. Spurred into action by the separation of Church and State in the aftermath of the German Revolution of 1919, the course and reasons for the ultimate failure of this movement constitutes the focus of the analysis.
Title: Conceptions of state, politics and secular law in German Protestant theology in the 1920s
In: Anna-Sara Lind, Aud Valborg Tønnessen and Victoria Enkvist (eds.): Constitutionalisation and Hegemonisation
Publisher and date: Forthcoming
This article shows how three leading Protestant Theologians – Karl Barth, Paul Althaus and Paul Tillich – responded to the advent of Democracy and the separation of Church and State by revising established Protestant doctrine on politics, law and constitutional theory. Despite reaching very different conclusions, the article identifies significant parallels in their thinking.
Title: The use of legal concepts and the definitions of law used in the disputation theses discussed at the Wittenberg Theological Faculty 1511–1522
In: Tarald Rasmussen and Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (eds.): Protestant Legacies of Nordic Law: The Early Modern Period (book title not yet decided)
Publisher and date: Brill, 2019
This article analyses sets of theses constituting the basis for academic disputations held at Wittenberg Theological faculty between 1511 and 1522. It reconstructs the way in which the Wittenberg circle addressed issues of jurisprudence and law as part of their approach to the reform of the theology and governance of the Church. The article concludes by demonstrating the longer-term influence of their findings.
Title: Wittenberg’s Disputation Culture and the Leipzig Debate between Luther and Eck
In: Mickey Mattox, Richard J. Serina Jr. and Jonathan Mumme (eds.): Luther at Leipzig
Publisher and date: Brill, 2019
Based on recent advances in the academic understanding of the Wittenberg practice of disputation, this article traces the theological discussions between Martin Luther and Johannes Eck held over the course of 1518 and culminating in the famous debate of 1519. Following Anselm Schubert’s recent analysis, the article underscores how Luther initially worked within traditional academic conventions before breaking free from the traditional culture of disputation to pioneer a new mode of theological argument.