Beate Hofmann (born October 15, 1963 in

Bad Tölz Bad Tölz (; Bavarian language, Bavarian: ''Däiz'') is a Town#Germany, town in Bavaria, Germany and the administrative center of the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district. History Archaeology has shown continuous occupation of the site of Bad Tö ...

) is a German

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Life

Hofmann studied Lutheran

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at ''Kirchliche Hochschule Bethel'' in

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, and

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. On October 31, 1993 she was ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. Until 1996 she was a pastor at ''Reformations-Gedächtnis-Kirche'' in München-Großhadern. In 1999 she was awarded a Ph.D. in

practical theology Practical theology is an academic discipline that examines and reflects on religious practices in order to understand the theology enacted in those practices and in order to consider how theological theory and theological practices can be more full ...

by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 1998 to 2003 she was theological director of studies at ''Diakonie Neuendettelsau'', and from 2003 to 2013 a professor at Lutheran University in Nuremberg (now

Lutheran University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg The Lutheran University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, (in German: Evangelische Hochschule Nuremberg, Nürnberg (EVHN)) was founded in 1995 and is one of the smallest Fachhochschule, University of Applied Sciences in Bavaria with about 850 student ...

). In 2012 she completed her

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at Augustana Divinity School Neuendettelsau with an empirical study on religious education for adults, and in 2013 was appointed professor for diaconal science and diaconal management at the ''Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal/Bethel'', where in 2017 she became the director of the ''Institut für Diakoniewissenschaft und Diakoniemanagement'' (Institute for Diaconal Studies and Diaconal Management). In 2019 Hofmann was elected bishop of

Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck The Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck (german: Evangelische Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck; EKKW) is a United Protestant church body in former Hesse-Cassel and the Waldeck part of the former Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont. Constituti ...

.NN: ''Beate Hofmann als neue Bischöfin von Kurhessen-Waldeck ins Amt eingeführt''
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Works by Hofmann

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, Munich 2000. ugleich_Dissertation,_1999.html" ;"title="Dissertation.html" ;"title="ugleich Dissertation">ugleich Dissertation, 1999">Dissertation.html" ;"title="ugleich Dissertation">ugleich Dissertation, 1999 * . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2013. * , together with Cornelia Coenen-Marx, Otto Haussecker, Dörte Rasch and Beate Baberske Krohs, Kohlhammer Stuttgart 2008,Second edition 2010, (Reihe Diakonie: Bildung – Gestaltung – Organisation Bd. 2). . * Together with Martin Büscher: . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2017. . * Together with

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: . Kohlhammer Stuttgart 2017. . * Together with Barbara Montag: , Kohlhammer Stuttgart 2018. .

External links

Beate Hofmann
at Homepage by Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal/Bethel.

* ttps://www.ekkw.de/aktuell/meldung/aktuell_29401.htm Homepage by EKKW: Bischöfin Dr. Hofmann: «Christliche Gemeinschaft ist ein Sorgenetz in Zeiten der Verunsicherung!» October 13, 2019

References

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