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Edmund Schlink was born on 3 March, 1903, is a German theologian (1903–1984). Discover Edmund Schlink's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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1903

Edmund Schlink (3 March 1903 – 20 May 1984) was a German-Lutheran pastor and theologian.

1904

His only sibling, his sister Klara (1904-2001), who later called herself Mutter Basilea Schlink, became a popular religious writer and leader.

Edmund Schlink attended public schools in Darmstadt.

1914

He married his second wife, Irmgard Oswald (1914-2006), in 1938.

1922

In 1922 he matriculated at Tübingen University, where he studied mathematics, philosophy, psychology, physics, and other natural sciences.

He also attended the universities of Munich, Kiel, Vienna, and Marburg.

1926

During the prior year (1926), he himself had undergone a religious conversion after suffering a crisis of faith.

As a result of this experience, he changed his academic focus to theology, which he studied at the University of Münster.

There he wrote his second dissertation (on a problem in natural theology), under the direction of Karl Barth.

1927

He completed his first Ph.D. dissertation (in religious psychology) at Marburg in 1927.

This dissertation explores personality changes in people who undergo a religious conversion and in those who are suffering from clinical depression.

1932

He then served as an assistant pastor to congregations in Buchschlag and Sprendlingen, and in the fall of 1932 he became a campus pastor at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

1934

In 1934 he completed his third dissertation, his post-doctoral theological thesis (Habilitationsschrift), which was accepted at the University of Giessen.

This post-doctoral thesis in theological anthropology examines how human beings have been understood in the preaching of the church.

As a member of the Confessing Church, Schlink supported the Barmen Declaration.

He later interpreted this confession favorably in light of several key teachings in the Book of Concord, especially the distinction between law and gospel.

Because of pressure from the Gestapo, which he and his superiors received as a result of his public criticism of the German Christians (Deutsche Christen), Schlink was removed from his teaching position at Giessen.

1935

Between 1935 and 1939 he taught at the seminary in Bethel, near Bielefeld (see also Bethel Foundation).

1936

His first wife, Elisabeth Winkelmann, with whom he had two daughters, died in 1936.

1939

After the Gestapo closed that seminary in 1939 and restricted Schlink's speaking and public movement, Schlink began serving as a pastor to several "confessing" congregations in Hesse and Westphalia.

These included the Marienkirche and St. Reinoldikirche in Dortmund and eventually the Neustädter Marienkirche in Bielefeld.

1943

During 1943 and 1944, he also traveled monthly to Strasbourg for two-week periods in which he taught practical theology to seminarians there.

1945

In 1945 he became the director of the preachers' seminary in Soest for the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.

After only a year there, he was called to become a professor of dogmatic and ecumenical theology at Heidelberg University.

1946

Between 1946 and his retirement in 1971 he was a professor of dogmatic and ecumenical theology at Heidelberg University.

Schlink was born in Darmstadt, near where his father, Wilhelm Schlink, was a professor of mechanics and aeronautics.

The family of his mother, Ella, had been influenced by Herrnhut pietism.

Shortly after his arrival at Heidelberg in 1946, Schlink founded an ecumenical institute there, the first of its kind at a German university.

That same year he helped to begin the first bi-lateral dialogue between Lutheran and Roman-Catholic theologians in Germany.

This Ecumenical Working Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians is the longest lasting such dialogue in history.

This Working Group helped to improve ecumenical relations between the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church.

In addition to encouraging dialogue among Christians, Schlink also supported inter-disciplinary discussions between theologians and scientists.

1953

Elected rector of Heidelberg University for the 1953-54 academic year, Schlink's rector's speech was the initial essay in the inaugural issue of the journal, Kerygma und Dogma.

For many years he served as an editor of this journal.

1955

Between 1955 and his death, he also helped to edit another important theological journal, Ökumenische Rundschau.

Schlink was very involved in the World Council of Churches (WCC).

1971

He would remain a member of this faculty until his retirement in 1971.

Schlink was married twice.

2018

They had two sons, Wilhelm Schlink (d. 2018) who was an art historian, and Bernhard Schlink, who is a lawyer and novelist.

2019

Schlink's daughter, Dorothea (d. 2019), was the wife of the former bishop of the Protestant Church in Baden, Klaus Engelhardt, who was also a former chairman of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany.