Background
Bahmann, Manfred Kurt was born on January 19, 1930 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Son of Kurt Richard and Norma (Führer) Bahmann.
(A Preference for the Poor tells the story of Latin Americ...)
A Preference for the Poor tells the story of Latin American Liberation Theology in a succinct and scholarly, yet readable way. Author Manfred Bahmann highlights the emphases of major Latin American liberation theologians; the rise of military dictatorships; the pope's course correction in his 1975 encyclica "Evangelii Nuntiandi," fleshed out at the 1979 Latin American Episcopal Council (C.E.L.A.M.) conference in Puebla; and the movement's decline with the collapse of world Marxism. Following a description of the phenomenal growth of Pentecostalism on the traditionally Roman Catholic continent, Dr. Bahmann posits a Protestant view of a new Liberation Theology built on a spiritual foundation for Christian believers within a world of global capitalism.
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Bahmann, Manfred Kurt was born on January 19, 1930 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Son of Kurt Richard and Norma (Führer) Bahmann.
Bachelor's Degree, United Theological Seminary, 1954. First Theological Exam, Gottingen, Heidelberg & Bonn, West Germany, 1955. Second Theological Exam, Gottingen, Heidelberg & Bonn, 1958.
Doctor of Philosophy, Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1965.
Chaplain North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Kaiserslautern, Ramstein, Federal Republic Germany, 1955-1959. Pastor St. Pauls Lutheran Church, Grafton, West Virginia, 1959-1962. Professor church history Facultad Luterana de Teologia, Jose C. Paz, Argentina, 1965-1970.
Pastor First Lutheran Church, Parkersburg, West Virginia, 1971-1973. Campus pastor Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1973-1982. Pastor University Lutheran Church, 1973-1982, St. Thomas Church, West Berlin, Germany, 1982-1986, Zion-St. Mark's Church, New York City, 1986-1997.
Protestant campus pastor New York University, 1989—1999. Pastor St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, since 1999. Member ordination examining committee Landeskirche Berlin, 1983-1986.
Lecturer Goethe Institute, Mexico City, 1983.
(A Preference for the Poor tells the story of Latin Americ...)
Member ordination examining committee Landeskirche Berlin, 1983-1986.
Married Marianne Eloise Schneider, August 28, 1958. Children: Andrea, Christoph.