Seit dem 2. April 2001 gibt es die Bibelwelt – mit Gottesdiensten aus den 40 Jahren meiner Dienstzeit als Pfarrer und vielen weiteren Texten auch zu umstrittenen Themen wie dem sexuellen Missbrauch und dem interreligiösen Frieden.
Pfarrer Helmut Schütz
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besinnliche Texte für Zeitungen und Gemeindebriefe
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Aufsätze, Vorträge, Buchbesprechungen und Bücher
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Gottesdienste, interreligiöse Feiern und Andachten
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an der Bibelwelt beteiligte Gastautorinnen und Gastautoren
Was mir besonders am Herzen liegt…
… damit habe ich mich seit meinem Theologiestudium immer wieder auch theoretisch ausführlich beschäftigt, in meiner Examensarbeit 1976, in zwei dreimonatigen Studienurlauben 1995 und 2011, und zuletzt in meinem Ruhestand, den ich als Studienurlaub mit offenem Ende betrachte. (mehr …)
Sexueller Missbrauch als Herausforderung an Seelsorge, Kirche und Bibelauslegung. Die Ergebnisse eines dreimonatigen Studienurlaubs von Pfarrer Helmut Schütz wurden 1995 …
spielen eine große Rolle unter meinen Texten auf der Bibelwelt. Vier Beispiele sind hier aufgeführt – weitere sind über den Themenbereich Buchbesprechung in der Kategorienliste zu finden: (mehr …)
Die befreiungstheologische Auslegung des Römerbriefs von Gerhard Jankowski im Gespräch mit dem Evangelisch-Katholischen Kommentar von Michael Wolter. Gerhard Jankowski rüttelt …
Zwei wissenschaftliche Kommentare zum Johannesevangelium will ich prüfen: Sind sie offen für eine befreiungstheologische Lektüre, wie Ton Veerkamp sie vorgelegt …
Eine Auseinandersetzung mit zwei faszinierenden Büchern zur Bibel: Ton Veerkamp liest die Bibel als „Politische Geschichte der Großen Erzählung Israels“. …
Posts in English Language
… on the Bible World website you will find here – most of them dealing with the highly different interpretation of the Gospel of John by Adele Reinhartz and Ton Veerkamp and some with texts written or inspired by John M. Hull: (mehr …)
I have been working intensively on the Gospel of John since 2020. In this post, you will find a list of my posts on the question of whether the Fourth Gospel is profoundly anti-Jewish despite its Jewish character. I don’t think so: As a Jew, the evangelist John argues with Jews who think differently about whether Jesus is the Messiah who will bring about freedom, justice, and peace. (mehr …)
How to Read the Gospel of John from a Liberation Theology Perspective
A Political Interpretation of the Gospel of John, Critically Recounted.
According to Lance Byron Richey, Jesus as the Son of God in John’s Gospel is set against all political-theological claims of Roman Imperial Ideology. Unfortunately, Richey does not conceive of Jesus’ Messianic kingship from the Jewish Torah as the process of liberating Israel and overcoming the Roman world order.
Caiaphas plays an important role in the Christian passion story as the high priest who hands Jesus over to the Roman governor Pilate for crucifixion. Adele Reinhartz analyzes how his character has been portrayed through the centuries, mostly as the abhorrent distorted image of a Jew. I ask whether Ton Veerkamp’s interpretation of the Gospel of John does him justice.
In her book “Cast Out of the Covenant” Adele Reinhartz understands the Gospel of John as a missionary writing for Gentiles, whom Jesus calls as children of God into the covenant with God, from which the Jews are cast out. With reference to Ton Veerkamp, I disagree: Originally, John struggled for Israel’s liberation from the enslaving Roman world order!
The subjugation of Judea by Rome in 70 CE must be taken seriously as the background to John’s Gospel: Ceramic Tile in Tel Aviv-Yaffo replicating “Judaea Capta” Roman coins (Image: Talmoryair, Beit Bialik00391, CC BY 3.0)
Has the Fourth Gospel a profoundly anti-Jewish character? Or can its implicit author—by putting myself in his place—convince the Canadian professor Reinhartz to take him seriously as a Jewish Messianic fighter for Israel’s liberation from the Roman world order?
John 13:23, “One of his disciples was reclining, borne by Jesus in his bosom, the one Jesus was attached to in solidarity.” (Image: falco – Pixabay)
Review of the book “The Word in the World. The Cosmological Tale in the Fourth Gospel” by Adele Reinhartz.
Reinhartz’ reading of John’s Gospel corresponds to its Gentile Christian, otherworldly understanding, common since the 2nd century. But was not John firmly rooted in the Scriptures of the Jews and proclaiming a Messiah who overcomes the Roman world order through solidarity?
Trust in Jesus: ticket to heaven or encouragement to fight against the unjust world order? (Image: santiagotorrescl95 – Pixabay)
Title page of Ton Veerkamp’s book “Die Welt anders” = “The World Different” (Image: Helmut Schütz)
Actually, instead of “Die Welt anders” Ton Veerkamp had wanted to call his book “Voice only.” Because according to the Bible, “God” is not a supreme being, but the voice that in the Torah of Israel authoritatively brings forward a basic order of freedom and equality. I strongly recommend his challenging book for reading. (mehr …)
Ton Veerkamp: „The World Different“
A Political Reading of the Gospel of John about Jesus Messiah of all Israel.
The English translation of Ton Veerkamp’s interpretation is here combined with a colometrical English translation of the Gospel of John also based on publications by Ton Veerkamp and on the “Complete Jewish Bible” (Copyright Dr. David H. Stern. Used with Permission from Messianic Jewish Publishers, www.messianicjewish.net). (mehr …)
Solidarity against the World Order
John Hull argues with Jesus: „I always live in the dark. But for you, people who live in the dark are the evil incarnate. Me too, I want to feel as a child of light, if this light means God’s love! You need not heal me, but would you accept me as your disciple even if I remain being blind?“
How can someone who always lives in darkness be a child of light? (Image: (El Caminante) – Pixabay)
Similar to Eliseus seeing his teacher Elias when being taken up to heaven, Mary Magdalen sees her teacher Jesus on his way to the Father in heaven. Does Jesus originally give a double portion of his spirit to her, like Elias did to Eliseus? Does Jesus intend to appoint her to be his successor leading and teaching the congregation?
Response from Experience at the workshop with Jane Schaberg about „The Illegitimacy of Jesus“ as part of the seminar „Gegenwärtige feministische Entwürfe als Herausforderung an Exegese, Predigt und Seelsorge“, on Octobre 23, 2009, 2:30 p. m. (Wissenschaftlich-Theologisches Seminar Universität Heidelberg).
A pastor‘s plea for the virginal innocence of a sexually abused girl (*)
This essay takes as a starting point the hypothesis: Mary, the mother of Jesus, may have been abused. Nevertheless – that is the thesis which is crucial for Helmut Schütz – in God’s eyes she is his „pure maid“, and Jesus is the Son of God.
The photo on the book cover of John M. Hull, Mishmash. Religious Education in Multi-Cultural Britain. A Study in Metaphor (Birmingham Papers in Religious Education No. 3)
The expression ‘mishmash’ has been used rather effectively to suggest that something disgusting and even dangerous is taking place in British classrooms. But those who use these metaphors of disgusting food seldom offer calm and detailed explanations of exactly what it is they are warning the public about. (mehr …)
Mishmash
Die neuesten Beiträge auf der Bibelwelt finden Sie hier:
How to Read the Gospel of John from a Liberation Theology Perspective
Doing Justice to Caiaphas the High Priest
Jesus the Messiah: Liberation for All Israel
Otherworldly Word or Overcoming the World Order?
Ton Veerkamp: „The World Different“
Blind Disciple of Jesus
Mary Magdalen and Jesus, ascending
The Making Of “Mary, Purest Maid”
Mishmash
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