{"id":5590,"date":"2019-09-19T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=5590"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:28:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:28:46","slug":"oswald-bayers-birthday-festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=5590","title":{"rendered":"Oswald Bayer&#8217;s 80th birthday Festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"329\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lq-demo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bayer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5591 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bayer.jpg 329w, https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bayer-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>On October 4 last year, many colleagues and admirers gathered at the Protestant seminary (<em>Stift<\/em>) in T\u00fcbingen to celebrate Oswald Bayer\u2019s 80th birthday (September 30, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The festivities began with this \u201cAndacht\u201d or meditation in the chapel given by his friend and colleague Athina Lexutt, framed by music, hymns, scripture, prayer and blessing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lexutt\u2019s original and unpublished German text is here translated by Jeffrey Silcock, who has often translated Bayer\u2019s own essays for&nbsp;<em>Lutheran Quarterly,&nbsp;<\/em>and who also edited and translated Lexutt\u2019s Luther reader, namely,&nbsp;<em>A Year with Luther&nbsp;<\/em>(Adelaide: ATF Theology, 2016).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Our thanks to Bayer and Lexutt for their permission to share this personal memento of the occasion, and to Silcock for the translation and for the photograph he took the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The English Festschrift for Bayer, also presented to him on the same festive day, is now published:&nbsp;<em>Promising Faith for a Ruptured Age: An English-Speaking Appreciation of Oswald Bayer,&nbsp;<\/em>edited by John T. Pless, Joshua C. Miller, and Roland Ziegler (Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the Meditation<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/pdf\/meditation_2__lexutt_.pdf\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 4 last year, many colleagues and admirers gathered at the Protestant seminary (Stift) in T\u00fcbingen to celebrate Oswald Bayer\u2019s 80th birthday (September 30, 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bayer","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5590"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7607,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions\/7607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}