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- A. James Reimer (born 1942) is a Canadian Mennonite theologian who, until his recent retirement, held a dual academic appointment: he was a professor at Conrad Grebel University College, a member college of the University of Waterloo, and a professor in the Toronto School of Theology, a consortium of divinity schools federated with the University of Toronto. At the University of Waterloo's fall 2008 convocation, he was named Distinguished Professor Emeritus, an honor seldom bestowed on retired faculty. Reimer was born and raised in small-town southern Manitoba. As a teen, he was baptized in the local Mennonite church. He holds undergraduate degrees from Canadian Mennonite Bible College and the University of Manitoba; he also spent a year studying at Union Theological Seminary in New York City before moving to the University of Toronto, where he earned an M.A. in History and a Ph.D. in Theology, the latter degree conferred by the University of St. Michael's College. His doctoral dissertation, directed by Gregory Baum, was a comparative and contrasting study of the political ramifications of theology in the respective thinking of Emanuel Hirsch and Paul Tillich. Reimer's own theology is not typically Mennonite, in that his point of departure is not the Sermon on the Mount but the classical imagination of trinitarian orthodoxy. Though he is deeply concerned with Christian social ethics, he insists that ethics must have a ground external to itself. The triune God, for Reimer, constitutes such ground. While writing his doctoral dissertation, Reimer became deeply troubled and conflicted about the theology of Emanuel Hirsch, a German Christian nationalist and Nazi sympathizer. Fearing that he was being swayed by Hirsch's arguments, Reimer sought to offset Hirsch's influence by aligning himself more concretely with left of center politics. He joined the New Democratic Party and was an active party member for several years before finally resigning his membership over certain of the party's socio-ethical positions, particularly a woman's right to choose. Today, Reimer's overall political vision remains left of center. Though he is a pacifist, he has argued that God's activity in the world cannot be reduced to any one ethical ideology; otherwise transcendence becomes domesticated. Reimer has been quite productive as an academic. He has published numerous articles in various journals; select articles have been compiled to form the content of two of his books: Mennonites and Classical Theology, and Paul Tillich: Theologian of Nature, Culture and Politics. His very first book was a revision of his doctoral dissertation, titled The Emanuel Hirsch and Paul Tillich Debate: A Study in the Political Ramifications of Theology. He has also coedited a compendium of essays on the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His areas of expertise include Anabaptist history, Christian ethics of war and peace, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the German church struggle during the Nazi regime. Over the years he has directed several theses and dissertations on these and other related topics. Reimer is married to Margaret Loewen Reimer, an academic with a Ph.D. in English, and a former editor of the Canadian Mennonite. They have three adult children and reside in Waterloo, Ontario.
- Allen James Reimer ist ein kanadischer mennonitischer Theologe, der bis zu seiner Emeritierung im Jahr 2008 als Professor am Conrad Grebel College der University of Waterloo und an der Toronto School of Theology der University of Toronto wirkte. Reimer wuchs in einer Kleinstadt im südwestlichen Manitoba auf. Er machte ein theologisches Vordiplom an der Canadian Mennonite University und an der University of Manitoba. Später studierte er Theologie und Geschichte an der University of Toronto. In seiner Dissertation verglich Reimer die beiden deutschen Theologen Emanuel Hirsch and Paul Tillich hinsichtlich der politischen Auswirkungen ihrer voneinander abweichenden theologischen Ansätze. In seiner Theologie vertritt Reimer eher klassisch trinitarische Positionen und weicht so von den Positionen anderen mennonitischer Theologen ab, die wie zum Beispiel John Howard Yoder stärker auf Aspekte der Bergpredigt fokussieren. Dennoch nimmt auch in Reimers Theologie die christliche Sozialethik einen breiten Raum ein. Wie Yoder ist Reimer Pazifist. Im Verlauf seiner Dissertation nahm er starken Abstand von den theologischen Ansichten Emanuel Hirschs, der als Vertreter der Deutschen Christen vor und während der NS-Diktatur Hitler offen unterstützte. Reimer war auch politisch aktiv und war für einige Jahre aktives Mitglied der sozialdemokratischen New Democratic Party. A. James Reimer kann als Vertreter der Christian Left angesehen werden. Reimer hat eine Vielzahl von Aufsätzen und Artikeln geschrieben, die unter anderem in den Büchern Mennonites and Classical Theology und Paul Tillich: Theologian of Nature, Culture and Politics zusammen gefasst wurden. Neben seiner Arbeit über Paul Tillich und Emanuel Hirsch setzte sich Reimer auch mit Dietrich Bonhoeffer und der Rolle der Kirchen in der NS-Zeit, der Kritischen Theorie, der Geschichte der Täuferbewegung und ethischen Themen auseinander. Reimer ist verheiratet mit der Anglistin Margaret Loewen Reimer. Das Paar hat drei erwachsene Kinder und lebt in Waterloo, Ontario.
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- A. James Reimer (born 1942) is a Canadian Mennonite theologian who, until his recent retirement, held a dual academic appointment: he was a professor at Conrad Grebel University College, a member college of the University of Waterloo, and a professor in the Toronto School of Theology, a consortium of divinity schools federated with the University of Toronto.
- Allen James Reimer ist ein kanadischer mennonitischer Theologe, der bis zu seiner Emeritierung im Jahr 2008 als Professor am Conrad Grebel College der University of Waterloo und an der Toronto School of Theology der University of Toronto wirkte. Reimer wuchs in einer Kleinstadt im südwestlichen Manitoba auf. Er machte ein theologisches Vordiplom an der Canadian Mennonite University und an der University of Manitoba. Später studierte er Theologie und Geschichte an der University of Toronto.
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