Edmund Schlink

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Name Edmund Schlink Role Theologian		Siblings Basilea Schlink Grandchildren Jan Schlink


Died May 20, 1984, Heidelberg, Germany Books Ökumenische Dogmatik, The doctrine of baptism Children Bernhard Schlink, Dorothea Schlink Similar People Bernhard Schlink, Basilea Schlink, Karl Lehmann

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. 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.

Books in English

The Victor Speaks, English 1958, a collection of wartime Lenten sermons;

Theology of the Lutheran Confessions, English 1961, reprinted six times;

The Doctrine of Baptism, English 1972, based on a historical-critical reading of the New Testament texts, it examines the doctrine as held by all churches.

The Vision of the Pope, English 2001

Edmund Schlink Works: Ecumenical and Confessional Writings, ed. Matthew L. Becker, vol. 1 (The Coming Christ and Church Traditions and After the Council) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016)

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