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=                          Heinrich Schlier                          =
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Heinrich Schlier (Neuburg an der Donau on the Danube, 31 March 1900 -
Bonn, 26 December 1978) was a theologian, initially with the
protestant Church and later with the Catholic Church.


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Schlier was the son of a military doctor and attended the High
School-Gymnasium in Landau and Ingolstadt, participated in World War
I, and in 1919 studied Evangelical Theology at the university of
Marburg, Leipzig and Jena. From 1927, he  served as pastor and teacher
of the New Testament in  Halle, Saxony-Anhalt  and Wuppertal. From
1935, Schlier was part of the Confessing Church (German: 'Bekennende
Kirche', BK), an opposition movement which arose in the Evangelical
German Church against the attempt of the German Nazi regime to align
the teaching and organisation of the Evangelical Church to Nazism.
After the closing of the seminary in Wuppertal, he became pastor of
the local community of the Confessing Church.

After the end of World War II, Schlier was again called to the Chair
of New Testament and the Early History of Christianity at the
Theological Faculty of Bonn University. Over the years, however, he
increasingly moved away from Protestantism, since he concluded that
the Ecclesiological paradigms of the New Testament are anchored in the
clearest way to Roman Catholicism. Consequently, Schlier in 1952 took
a sabbatical, and, a year later, he converted to Catholicism.
Concurrently he converted his pupil Uta Ranke-Heinemann, and in 1954
obtained a degree in Catholic theology at Munich.

Schlier was unable to obtain a professorship at the Faculty of
Catholic Theology, since this was then reserved only for consecrated
priests. Instead he became an Honorary Professor at the Faculty of
Philosophy of the University of Bonn and was an active theological
writer. Pope Paul VI called him to be in the Pontifical Biblical
Commission. Pope Benedict XVI knew him and admired the subject's
blending of scholarship and spirituality.

In addition, Schlier participated in the preparation of an official
translation of the Bible and published it together with the Jesuit
theologian Karl Rahner as 'series Quaestiones sentences'. Schlier is
counted among the leading scholars of the New Testament of the 20th
century.


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http://www.30giorni.it/articoli_id_19828_l3.htm...


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