Joachim Beckmann
German theologian
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- PhD Theology University of Tübingen
- Bachelors Theology University of Bonn
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joachim Beckmann was a German evangelical theologian. He served between 1958 and 1971 as "Präses" of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. Life Joachim Wilhelm Beckmann was born into a conservative traditionalist family in Eickel, a small town in the heart of the rapidly industrialising Ruhr conurbation, within which Eickel is positioned between Essen and Dortmund. His father, Julius August Wilhelm Beckmann, was a protestant pastor. Sources are largely silent about his childhood, but in 1920, when he passed his Abitur he was a pupil at the Gymnasium at nearby Wattenscheid. Early in 1920 he enrolled at the Philipps University of Marburg to study Protestant Theology and Philosophy. His teachers at Marburg included Rudolf Otto, Nicolai Hartmann and Adolf Jülicher. After only a few months, however, he switched to the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen. Here he was taught by Karl Heim and Adolf Schlatter. A year later, in Autumn/Fall 1921, he switched again, this time to University of Münster, emerging in 1923 or 1924 with a doctorate on a theological topic. At Münster his principal focus was on Kantianism and Neo-Kantianism. His theological approach, as disclosed by his doctoral dissertation, was very much formed by the ideas of Karl Barth. At each of the three universities he attended prior to receiving his doctorate, he joined the "Wingolf" Christian student fraternity, retaining his membership long after he had left university, till 1938. In 1924 he passed his level 1 Theology exam with the protestant consistory for the Westphalia province of the "Old Prussian Union of Evangelical Churches" at the province's Münster central office. Passing the exam meant that he was now authorised to conduct church services.
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