Edmund Schlink

Edmund Schlink (3 March 1903 – 20 May 1984) was a leading German Lutheran theologian in the modern ecumenical movement, especially in the World Council of Churches.[1] An influential teacher, pastor (since 1931), and professor (1946-1971), he was also a leading participant in several official ecumenical dialogues for more than forty years. The author of a weighty dogmatics text, five additional important books, and numerous essays, sermons, and addresses, this second-generation "ecumenical pioneer of the 20th Century" (Gassmann) was the central systematic-historical theologian at Heidelberg University between 1946 and his death in 1984.[2]

Books in English

References

  1. Matthew L. Becker, “Edmund Schlink (1903-1984),” in Twentieth-Century Lutheran Theologians, ed. Mark Mattes, 195-222 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck &Ruprecht, 2013)
  2. Matthew L. Becker, "Edmund Schlink (1903-1984): An Ecumenical Life," in Edmund Schlink Works: Ecumenical and Confessional Writings, vol. 1 (The Coming Christ and Church Traditions and After the Council), ed. Matthew L. Becker, trans. Matthew L. Becker and Hans G. Spalteholz (Goettingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2016), 15-41
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