Profile
Abstract
Professor of practical theology with a focus on pastoral care and spirituality.
Cooperation in Committees and institutes of universities, church and charities:
- Canon of Meißen
- 2nd Chairman of the support association of the evangelical study house, Leipzig
- Advisory Board psychology and pastoral care, magazine for psychotherapy and pastoral care, Witten.
- Board of Trustees University Church St. Pauli Foundation, Chairman
- Ethics commitee of the faculty of medicine, University of Leipzig
- Scientific society for theology, Berlin
- Chairman of the society of friends of Christian mysticism, Karlsruhe.
- Various subject areas in pastoral care, homiletics and church building;
- life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Research on Pietism, esp. Nikolaus Ludwig Count of Zinzendorf with regard to his impact on the present day church
- theological women's studies
- Spiritualities and evangelical mysticism
- Luther as practical theologian
- Ecumenical spirituality
Project:
A God who judges?
In the research project, the topic of wrath, God's visitation and judgment will be dealt with in its entirety: in the OT and NT, in church history (Luther), in systematic theology, in liturgy and preaching, in religious education, the humanities, interreligious comparison and art. A God who acts through judgment and grace - indeed, whose grace works through his judgment (“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand”) is now widely unknown. To paraphrase Bonhoeffer, theology and the church today talk and think far too comfortably about God. But the biblical God is anything but harmless. Woe betide anyone who falls into the hands of the living God, according to both the OT and the NT! Theologians of the last century such as Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, but also Rudolf Otto, knew something about this.
- show detailspresent day mysticism. Protestant mysticismZimmerling, PeterDuration: 12/2019Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Universitätsprediger
- show detailsEcumenical SpiritualityZimmerling, PeterDuration: 01/2019 – ongoingInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Universitätsprediger; Theologische Fakultät
- show detailsZimmerling, P. (Ed.)Ökumenische Spiritualität. Theologie – Lehren und Lernen – Digitalität, Arbeiten zur Pastoraltheologie, Liturgik und HymnologieGöttingen: 2024.
- show detailsZimmerling, P....und ganz gewiss an jedem neuen Tag. Dietrich Bonhoeffers Lied „Von guten Mächten wunderbar geborgen“Leipzig: 2024.
- show detailsZimmerling, P.Morgen Kirche sein. Gemeinde glauben, denken und gestaltenGöttingen : 2023.
- show detailsRatzmann, W.; Zimmerling, P.Predigen mit Liedern. Beispiele und ReflexionenGöttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2021.ISBN: 978-3-525-62455-5
- show detailsZimmerling, P.Zur Praxis der Evangelischen Spiritualität. Eine Einführung in Band 3 des Handbuchs Evangelische SpiritualitätHandbuch Evangelische Spiritualität, Band 3: Praxis. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2020. pp. 22–42.
- Named lectures: „Charismatisches Christentum – Was sagen die Konfessionen?“show detailsZimmerling, Peter (Universitätsprediger)awarded in 2019 by Zentrum für ökumenische Forschung, Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität München.
- Keynote lectures: „Erfahrung und Wirksamkeit und Ohnmacht der Seelsorge“show detailsZimmerling, Peter (Universitätsprediger)awarded in 2019 by Schulseelsorgekonvent, Religionspädagogisches Zentrum Heilsbronn.
- Invited lectures: „Neue Chancen der Seelsorge im Internet“show detailsZimmerling, Peter (Universitätsprediger)awarded in 2019 by 10. Internationalen Kongress für Psychotherapie und Seelsorge,.
- Invited lectures: Werkstattgespräch „Evangelische Mystik und Stille. Annäherungen am Beispiel von Gerhard Tersteegen und Dag Hammarskjöld“ beim 23. Liturgiewissenschaftlichen Fachgespräch „Stille. Liturgie als Unterbrechung“show detailsZimmerling, Peter (Universitätsprediger)awarded in 2019 by Liturgiewissenschaftliches Institut der Universität Leipzig.