11 Facts About Wolfhart Pannenberg

Wolfhart Pannenberg was a German Lutheran theologian.

Wolfhart Pannenberg made a number of significant contributions to modern theology, including his concept of history as a form of revelation centered on the resurrection of Christ, which has been widely debated in both Protestant and Catholic theology, as well as by non-Christian thinkers.

Wolfhart Pannenberg was baptized as an infant into the Evangelical Church, but otherwise had virtually no contact with the church in his early years.

Wolfhart Pannenberg had several visiting professorships at the University of Chicago, Harvard, and at the Claremont School of Theology, and since 1968 had been Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Munich.

Wolfhart Pannenberg retired in 1993, and died at age 85 in 2014.

Wolfhart Pannenberg's epistemology, explained clearly in his shorter essays, is crucial to his theological project.

Wolfhart Pannenberg is perhaps best known for Jesus: God and Man in which he constructs a Christology "from below", deriving his dogmatic claims from a critical examination of the life and particularly the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.

Wolfhart Pannenberg rejects traditional Chalcedonian "two-natures" Christology, preferring to view the person of Christ dynamically in light of the resurrection.

Wolfhart Pannenberg preferred an eternal present to limited concepts of past, present and future and an end of time in a focused unity in the New Creation.

Wolfhart Pannenberg was an outspoken critic of the approval of homosexual relations by the Evangelical Church in Germany, going so far as to say that a church which approves of homosexual practice is no longer a true church.

Wolfhart Pannenberg returned his Federal Order of Merit after the decoration was awarded to a lesbian activist.