Theological German is a website for reading theological German. There is more to come, but we are underway. Try your translation of a reading selection and post it in the “Reply.”
To learn a little more about me, go to the “Mark” page of my other blog “Alternation.”
If you have any interest in ancient Egypt, try my “Bad Bird.”
There is evidently quite a bit of interest in theological German out there. I’ve been surprised by the number of visits this first week. I have finally added the first photo to the Photos page. The travel page is still blank; I’m waiting for readers to write and give tips or describe experiences. I’m also still waiting for readers to contribute to one of the Conversation pages. I have added a few items on the Reference and Reviews pages. I will also be adding some more grammar notes and a section on Tips or Hints.
I am experimenting with the overall design. This may go on for a few days; I will eventually settle into something. Let me know if you like the changes, or if you have any other suggestions.
This site looks really interesting! I’m a long-distance doctoral student based in Bonn. My theological German definately needs a bit of practise.
I’ve added you to my google reader and look forward to hearing more.
Welcome Phil. You have a big advantage, being surrounded by spoken German. I took a look at your blog, and I like it. I am an OT guy, myself, and am interested in biblical theology. No doubt you will recognize the Bonhoeffer posts 2a-f; since you posted a selection on your site.
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Hello,
Crossmap.com, the world’s largest Christian portal site, recently launched a site called DeepWater – a social bookmarking site for theology:
http://deepwater.crossmap.com
We are trying to build a community to make theology accessable to many people so that they can understand the Word of God more deeply and apply in the world.
Could you please look around and consider placing a link on your website? That would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
You can delete this comment : )
I added your blog to my blogroll. Once again, many thanks for doing this. I think it is very useful.
Dear Mark, I would like to get in touch with you by email. Can you let me know your address by writing to vaisamar at yahoo.com?
Thank you very much.
It was a pleasure for me to read your page. I spent more time than expected, and I’ll come back to visit you again.
Rosemarie
Herzliches Willkommen, Rosemarie, zu unsere Seite und auch zur Blogosphaere!
Thanks for visiting. If you notice today’s comment by Bob (see “Home”), he is asking for someone to translate. Maybe you would like to try? The post “More Religious than God?” was part II of a two-part selection.
I will visit your site too. I took a quick look today, I will spend more time there tomorrow.
Thank for your site. Has anyone made a recording that goes along with a theological German textbook? Thanks.
Charles
Dr. Charles H. Gaulden,
That’s a good question. I don’t know of any. Judy Redman mentioned this link a while back:
“I found this useful site
http://german.about.com/od/dictionaries/Dictionaries_Phrasebooks.htm which provides information about all sorts of vocab helps.” There are all kinds of helpful things.
The readings from Moltmann (see list on the right) are from a radio interview, the link is provided with the readings; so you can follow along after learning the vocabulary.
Maybe someday I will get some friends to record the Bonhoeffer selections from this site.
Audio recordings of the German Bible are available. I think throughout the comments here there are other similar references. It may be a couple weeks until I have time, but I will try to bring them all together. Look on the “Reference” page and the “Reviews and Recommendations” page (see tabs above), but check back there in a couple weeks.
Hallo,
ich habe erst jetzt diese Seite gefunden. Sehr nützlich. Gerade setze ich mich mit Bonheoffers Werk auseinander. Seinen Beitrag zur evangelischen Theologie finde ich sehr wichtig.
Vielen Dank, dass Sie so was erstellt haben.
Lia
I know this is a weird post, and perhaps (personally) commercial, but it fits, I think.
I have a german theological book, entitled something like “Ruhrende Begebenheiten und Merkwurdige Gebetserhorungen” as far as I can tell.
It was published by the Mennonite Publishing Company of Elkhart, Indiana in 1896.
It’s yellowed, but solid and intact.
I need a new water heater, so it’s for sale.
The condition is good for a book of its age and manufacture.
If interested, I can send photos.
email oldgermanbook@mailinator.com
Thanks. And you have an interesting blog here.
-David
Herzliches Willkommen, Lia und David!
Mark,
Thank you very much for this website. I am about to take time out from full-time ministry (I am a vicar in the Church of England), to do a PhD on John’s Gospel and Letters at the Univeristy of Manchester. I am learning theological German with the help of the books by Manton and Ziefle, but I am using your website to give me some extra practice. I have free internet access in my local library, so it is very handy.
Best wishes,
David
Welcome David! Best wishes on your PhD studies.
Mark,
Thank you for your site. I’ve just moved back to the U.S. from a few months in Germany. I’m not much beyond “beginner” status and I’m in need of a good resource for regular reading. I think your site may be just the right thing. Is there a way to be notified automatically each time you post a new reading or should I just check back a couple times a week?
Thanks,
Kyle
Kyle,
If you click on “Feed on Posts” near the top right, it will allow you to “Subscribe” through Yahoo or other sites. Once you sign up, you will be sent an email announcement every time there is a new post.
Welcome aboard!
dear Mark,
I was just checking a comment in my blog peterkrey.wordpress.com and yours came up. You may be interested in checking mine out. Lately I’ve been challenging myself to translate Medieval and Low German poems. One of them “ich bin dein, du bist mein” has over 1,500 hits! I put the English and the German in. Today I finished one about “Meine Mutter Sprache”.
I just finished reading Moltmann’s “Sein Name ist Gerechtigkeit” (Guetersloher Verlagshaus, 2008). I wish I could translate it into English. It was such a helpful read, especially for Easter.
I have many German sermons in my site as well, because I was preaching in German for Old Zion in Philadelphia, but now I’m back in Oakland, CA.
Thanks for your site. Are you teaching this German or are you a student of it?
lovejoypeace,
peter krey
Peter,
Thanks for introducing yourself. I will put a link to your site on my blogroll (probably next week; I’m busy grading final exams right now).
I am a student of German. I started this site to improve my own reading ability. I teach Bible and Theology in an undergraduate college. I usually have two or three students with whom I meet once a week to read German texts.
Moltmann’s publisher probably has their own translator and plans to translate “Gerechtigkeit”, but you could contact them–you never know.
Or, you could go to Chicago in September to meet Herr Professor himself. (See the announcement, “Moltmann Kommt nach Chicago” on the Home page–just scroll down a bit.)
I don’t have any near-term plans to be in Oakland, but if I do, I’ll look your church up.
Grace and Peace,
Mark
Wow, with thanks a bunch m8
I am an MDiv student at Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. I was raised in Austria and have an undergraduate degree in German Literature.
I am currently translating sermons by Theodosius Harnack and being challenged by 19th century theological German. (It’s tougher than Goethe and Schiller.)
I can share the German text with anyone who is interested and am still in the first rough draft on the translation of the foreword by Theodosius Harnack from “Predigten fuer alle Sonn und Festtage des Kirchenjahres” von Valentin v. Holst, Dorpat, 1862. (Scans of original Frakturschrift)
Love the site! Thanks SO much.
Hello,
the christian doctrine in Germany is under attack. On the one hand the EKD ordains homosexuals to pastors and on the other hand there are a lot of re-baptizing sects (Bonhoeffer and Luther teached that re-baptism is strictly prohibited). Homosexuality is damned by St. Paul in his Epistle to the Romans, Chapter 1.
The publics gaze in Germany is fixed or focused on the “agent” Bonhoeffer. However Bonhoeffers main aim was not the resistance against Hitler, but the renewal of the German Evangelical Church (former DEK, today EKD).
Everybody must admit that the Third Reich is over but the EKD still exist with her big problems thus it would be adviceable to turn gaze on the theologian Bonhoeffer who has a lot of solutions for ecclesiastical problems.
There are evil powers in Germany trying to keep the publics gaze on the “agent” Bonhoeffer and trying to prevent that Bonhoeffers theology gets well know because this would mean their sure downfall and would bring disaster upon them. They don’t want the problems of the EKD to be solved.
I have started a website concerning this issue:
http://www.confessingchurch.wordpress.com
Bonhoeffers best book: “The Cost of Discipleship”.
A good book of Luther: “The Catechism”
Kind regards,
Rainer Braendlein (Munich, Germany)