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Rudolf Pfister (23 July 1909 - 11 May 2000) was a Swiss Protestant pastor and academic.
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Rudolf Pfister (23 July 1909 - 11 May 2000) was a Swiss Protestant pastor and academic.
He was a son of the engineer Heinrich Friedrich Jakob Pfister and his wife Margareta Emilie (nee. Rinderknecht) and grew up in Horgen on Lake Zurich. His grandfather was dean of Wädenswil, Johann Jakob Pfister (1849–1935). His uncle, the pastor and psychologist Oskar Pfister, conducted a lively correspondence with Sigmund Freud. [1]
He matriculated at the University of Zurich and began studying theology, studying church history and the history of dogma under Fritz Blanke among others. He then continued his studies at the University of Heidelberg. In 1933 he passed his concordat examination and was ordained into the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zürich. In 1934 he became a pastor in Hausen am Albis, gained his doctorate in Zürich supervised by Emil Brunner with a dissertation on The Problem of Original Sin in Zwingli , and married Béatrice, daughter of hotelier Friedrich Fahrni
From 1940 onwards he was pastor in Winterthur-Wülflingen and from 1950 to retirement 1976 in the Altstetten quarter of Zürich. After habilitating with a treatise entitled The Blessedness of the Chosen Gentiles in Zwingli, he began lecturing as a privatdozent in the theology faculty at the University of Zürich in 1950, where he was also senior lecturer in church history and the history of dogma from 1958 to 1976. He also served as a military chaplain and (during his retirement) as a pastor.
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