Heinrich Bedford-Strohm

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Heinrich Bedford-Strohm (2011)

Heinrich Bedford-Strohm (born 30 March 1960 in Memmingen) is a German Lutheran bishop.

Life[]

His father was a Lutheran priest in Memmingen. Bedford-Strohm studied lutheran theology at Erlangen, Heidelberg and Berkeley. In 1997, he became a priest. From 2004 until 2011, he worked at the University of Bamberg.^[1] In 2011, he became bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. Since 2014, he is the chairman of the council of Evangelical Church in Germany, succeeding Nikolaus Schneider.

In 1985, he married Deborah Bedford and they had three sons.^[2]

Works[]

• Vorrang für die Armen. Auf dem Weg zu einer theologischen Theorie der Gerechtigkeit. Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, Gütersloh 1993, ISBN 3-579-02010-2. (Heidelberg, Universität, Dissertation, 1992).
• Gemeinschaft aus kommunikativer Freiheit. Sozialer Zusammenhalt in der modernen Gesellschaft. Ein theologischer Beitrag. Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, Gütersloh 1999, ISBN 3-579-02626-7. (Zugleich: Heidelberg, Universität, Habilitations-Schrift, 1998).
• Schöpfung (Ökumenische Studienhefte 12). Göttingen 2001.
• Position beziehen. Perspektiven einer öffentlichen Theologie, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-532-62440-1
• Leben dürfen – Leben müssen. Argumente gegen die Sterbehilfe, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-466-37114-3.
• Funkenflug. Glaube neu entfacht. adeo, Aßlar 2015, ISBN 978-3-86334-072-8.
• mit-ge-fühl. Ein Plädoyer, Munich 2016
• Alles ändert sich. Die Welt im Licht von Weihnachten. Patmos, Ostfildern, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8436-0852-7.

Awards[]

• 2015: Hans-Ehrenberg-Award
• 2016: Herbert-Haag-Award
• 2017: Bayerischer Verdienstorden
• 2019: Oswald-von-Nell-Breuning-Award

References[]

External links[]

• EKD.de: Heinrich Bedford-Strohm (German)
• Literature by and about Heinrich Bedford-Strohm in the German National Library catalogue
• Inhaber 2004-2011 Lehrstuhl für Evangelische Theologie (Systematische Theologie und theologische Gegenwartsfragen) University Bamberg
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria: Heinrich Bedford-Strohm
• Website by Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria: Heinrich Bedford-Strohm
• Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Forschungsstelle für Öffentliche Theologie

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