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Prof. Jan Gertz has been a fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced
Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem several times and
has contributed significantly to research and groundbreaking publications on the formation of the Pentateuch (the five books of Moses) in conjunction with scholars from Europe, Israel, and North
America.
Prof. Philipp Stoellger is the successor to Eberhard SchmidtAßmann and Klaus Tanner as director of the Research Institute
of the Protestant Study Community (FEST Heidelberg), which
was founded in 1958 and works in four areas: Religion, Law, and
Culture; Sustainable Development;
Theology and Natural Sciences; and
Peace.
Heidelberg theology can look back on a long history of worldwide influence. The highlights are clearly Luther’s famous Heidelberg Disputation of April 26, 1518, in which he radically abandoned the sterile
metaphysical theology of scholasticism, to the horror of established
older friends, but also to the enthusiasm of many young theologians,
including several later famous reformers. The Heidelberg Catechism,
published in 1563 on the initiative of Elector Frederick III, translated
into forty languages and distributed worldwide in at least twenty million copies, is also a highlight of Heidelberg theology. Several of its initiators are commemorated on the mural painting of the Old Assembly
Hall: Philipp Melanchthon, the great Calvinist jurist Hugo Donellus,
and the authoritative author of the Heidelberg Catechism, Zacharias
Ursinus.
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