"Biblical Hermeneutics in German-Speaking Evangelicalism Since 1990"

福音主义已成为新教中最具影响力的运动之一。拥有130万成员的德国福音派联盟是德国最大的福音派伞形组织。至于学术研究，对这一现象或这一群体的具体圣经解释学都没有太大的兴趣。因此，通常的争论划界的习惯不符合教会现实的复杂性和福音派神学和解释学的多样化形式。这个由DFG资助的项目致力于当代讲德语的福音派对圣经的理解。自2019年10月以来，它为福音派教义中的不同方法制定了一个分类系统，以更好地理解教义、信徒和机构之间的关系。此外，这一框架有助于将这些群体的伦理或政治声明与背景联系起来。通过这个项目，该项目有助于分析当代福音派新教，认真对待其要求，并在其基础上对其进行检查。在当代研究中，人们对福音派圣经解释学没有太大的兴趣。即使是Gisa Bauers的《德国福音书》也没有直接涉及福音派圣经解释学的具体概念。鉴于至少有三部重要著作--Gerhard Maier的《Das Ende der Histoisch-kritischen Methode》和《Biblische Hermeneutik》以及Armin Sierszyn的《Die Bibel im Griff》--本项目旨在深入分析福音派圣经解释学的这些和其他有影响力的贡献，以探索这一未被探索的研究领域的多样性。释经从过去的教条框架中解放出来，以及历史批评方法的发展，都削弱了它在现代思想中的合理性。因此，现代历史思维在作者的过去和读者的现在之间产生了鸿沟。最初的工作时间表需要从两个方面进行扩展，以满足项目的主要目标，即更好地理解和认可研究领域：一方面，采访了更多的神学家，分析了更多的材料，也包括数字媒体。这符合这一领域的多元化，例如，越来越多的福音派公共许可大学。此外，德国福音派对现代性某些特征的排斥经过了批判性的审查，并从历史的角度进行了背景分析。本申请书要求将供资延长一年。

Evangelicalism has become one of the most influential movements of Protestantism. With 1.3 million members the German Evangelical Alliance is the biggest evangelical umbrella organisation in Germany. As for academic research there has not been much interest neither in the phenomenon nor in specific bible hermeneutics of this group. Hence the usual habit of polemic demarcation does not meet the complexity of ecclesiastical reality and the diversified forms of evangelical theologies and hermeneutics today.This DFG-funded project is devoted to the contemporary German-speaking discourse of evangelical understanding of the bible. Since October 2019 it works on a classification system for different approaches in evangelical doctrine to better understand the relations between doctrine, believers and institutions. Furthermore, this framework can help to contextualise ethical or political statements from these groups. By this, the project helps to analyse contemporary evangelical Protestantism, to take its demands seriously and to examine it on the basis of its foundations.Within contemporary research there has not been much interest in evangelical bible hermeneutics. Even Gisa Bauers “Evangelikale Bewegung und evangelische Kirche in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland” does not directly engage with concrete concepts of evangelical bible hermeneutics. Given the fact that there are at least three important works – “Das Ende der historisch-kritischen Methode“ and “Biblische Hermeneutik“ by Gerhard Maier as well as “Die Bibel im Griff“ by Armin Sierszyn – this project aims to profoundly analyse these and other influential contributions of evangelical bible hermeneutics to explore the variety of this unexplored field of research.The given controversy can also be seen as an argument about the “sola scriptura” principle. Both the emancipation of exegesis from its former dogmatic frame and the development of historical critical methods have undermined its plausibility in modern thought. As a result, modern historical thinking has produced a gap between the authors’ past and the readers’ present.The original work schedule needed to be expanded in two ways to meet the projects’ main goal of better understanding and recognising the examined field: On the one hand, more theologians have been interviewed and more material, also digital media, has been analysed. This meets the pluralisation of this area, e.g., the growing number of evangelical publicly licensed colleges. Furthermore, the repulsion of certain features of modernity by German evangelicals has been critically reviewed and historically contextualised. The present application seeks for the extension of the funding by one year.