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A Mennonite and Evangelical visionary thinker and Department of Theological Concerns of the World bridge builder – Obituary by Thomas Schirrmacher Evangelical Alliance (Bonn, 17.09.2020) One day before my 60th birthday, my first doctoral student—my www.worldevangelicals.org/ pdf/TN-47-1-Jan-2018.pdf friend, companion and spiritual role model Prof. Dr. Alfred Neufeld from Paraguay— Giving Hands – International died on June 24, 2020 in a hospital in Münster, Germany, surrounded by his family. He Charity had previously been diagnosed www.gebende-haende.de with cancer in 2012, but was International Institute for Islamic considered cancer-free and went Studies (IIIS) of the World Evangelical Alliance on to achieve significant www.islaminstitute.net milestones in his global work International Institute for Religious before the disease caught up with Freedom (IIRF) of the World Evangelical Alliance (International him again in November 2019. Headquarter, EU-Office Brüssel) www.iirf.eu

International Information Centre Gran Chaco for Religious Freedom Germany e.V. (IIRF-D) (Tübingen) Alfred was born on July 23, 1955 www.iirf-d.de in the Gran Chaco region of Martin Bucer Seminary (Bonn, Paraguay. In 1926 and 1930– Linz, Zürich, Prague, Tirana, São Paulo, Helsinki, Istanbul, Delhi) 1932, Mennonites of German www.bucer.org origin who spoke Low German missiotop – Evangelical Forum for had emigrated to this huge, Missions, Cultures and Religions (German Evangelical Alliance) bushy savanna landscape in the www.missiotop.org heart of South America. The first Office of Intrafaith and Interfaith wave of Mennonites came from Relations of the World Evangelical Canada; the second wave had Alliance This is how we remember him © private fled the Soviet Union, coming first Theological Commission of the European Evangelical Alliance to Germany for a brief stopover www.europeanea.org and then moving on. They had begun agriculture in two “colonies,” called Menno and Theological Commission of the Fernheim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernheim_Colony), in the undeveloped Chaco World Evangelical Alliance and in a neighborhood near some of the natives. Alfred was born in village No. 5 of www.worldevangelicals.org/tc/ Fernheim, as the ninth of ten children. In Filadelfia, the heart of Fernheim (and now the UN Bonn liaison for inter-religious capital of the Boquerón department), he completed a two-year teacher training course concerns of WEA and then worked for two years as a primary school teacher among the indigenous WEA Sustainability Center www.wea-sc.org

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Paraguayans in Yalve Sanga. (For more information about the indigenous tribes, see A joint platform for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boquerón_department#Demographics.) following Bonn organizations on the basis of the It would be impossible to understand Alfred’s later global life and work without this early Evangelical Alliance: history of a double connection with minorities—that is, both Mennonites and indigenous Business Coalition of the World Evangelical Alliance (Bonn, peoples—and this experience was especially significant for my history with Alfred, since Hamburg) I suggested to him to make it the subject of his dissertation. Alfred completed his Commission for Religious doctorate from 1992 to 1994 at my own alma mater, the Freie Evangelische Freedom of the German and the Theologische Akademie Basel, now STH Basel. During those years I was teaching Austrian Evangelical Alliance www.ead.de/akref mission and religious studies and later ethics at the school. One reason why Alfred Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft came to Basel was the better medical services for his son Christoph, who had been (VKW) (Cultureand Science Publ.) born deaf. In connection with the topic of his dissertation, he then also studied www.vkwonline.com ethnology, economic policy and Latin American literature at the University of Basel at Department of Theological the same time. To me, missiology was unthinkable without ethnology or related Concerns of the World Evangelical Alliance knowledge, and Alfred www.worldevangelicals.org/ followed in this path. pdf/TN-47-1-Jan-2018.pdf Giving Hands – International One of the first books we Charity published through our www.gebende-haende.de Verlag für Kultur und International Institute for Islamic Studies (IIIS) of the World Wissenschaft publishing Evangelical Alliance house (“Culture and www.islaminstitute.net Science Publishing”) in International Institute for Religious 1993, Die alttestament- Freedom (IIRF) of the World Evangelical Alliance (International lichen Grundlagen der Headquarter, EU-Office Brüssel) Missionstheologie (The www.iirf.eu Old Testament Foun- International Information Centre for Religious Freedom Germany dations of Mission e.V. (IIRF-D) (Tübingen) Theology; 1994, 2nd www.iirf-d.de edition 2009), arose from a Martin Bucer Seminary (Bonn, seminar paper Alfred with Linz, Zürich, Prague, Tirana, São Alfred Neufeld (center) receiving his doctorate in Geneva on December 1, Paulo, Helsinki, Istanbul, Delhi) me in July 1993. 1994. Doctoral supervisor Thomas Schirrmacher is above him; at right is www.bucer.org I presenting a summary of principal Samuel Külling, above right, Hans-Georg Wünch, supporter of the missiotop – Evangelical Forum for this work in the appendix doctoral candidate. All others in the photo belonged to the STH teaching staff Missions, Cultures and Religions (German Evangelical Alliance) below, by reproducing my © Thomas Schirrmacher www.missiotop.org original foreword. Office of Intrafaith and Interfaith Relations of the World Evangelical I was deeply impressed by the fact that Alfred could find the physical strength to Alliance complete his enormous achievements and retain a high commitment to others as well. Theological Commission of the Due to his very strong myopia, he had to have the pages of each book and article European Evangelical Alliance enlarged so that he could read them. Later, the onset of the computer age aided him in www.europeanea.org this process. His tireless wife became an indispensable support, as he had to dictate Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance most of the texts. www.worldevangelicals.org/tc/ Alfred received his doctorate on December 1, 1994, in Geneva at the Seminarium UN Bonn liaison for inter-religious concerns of WEA Theologiae Liberum Genevae, the then doctoral department of the STH, today located WEA Sustainability Center directly in Basel as an integral part of STH. It was not only my first doctorate supervision, www.wea-sc.org

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but also the first doctoral candidate at STH Basel. In an unforgettable discussion, Alfred A joint platform for the brilliantly defended his work to professors who, without exception, had no idea of how following Bonn organizations on the basis of the to teach biblical theology in a non-Western culture, and who partly suspected Alfred of Evangelical Alliance: wanting to soften the standards of the great councils of Christianity through his criticism Business Coalition of the World of the Mennonite mission in Paraguay. Alfred, however, rightly insisted that the native Evangelical Alliance (Bonn, peoples of Paraguay and all peoples of the world should develop their theology directly Hamburg) from the Bible, not by way of learning two thousand years of church history in a foreign Commission for Religious language, which presupposes knowledge of Greek and Latin, along with either German Freedom of the German and the Austrian Evangelical Alliance or English. How can one expect other peoples to develop their faith in God in that way? www.ead.de/akref Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft Alfred’s dissertation was published in 1994 under the title Fatalism as a Problem of (VKW) (Cultureand Science Publ.) Mission Theology The Contextualization of the Gospel in a Culture of Fatalistic Thinking: www.vkwonline.com The Example of Paraguay (Bonn: Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, 1994. 557 pp.). I Department of Theological introduce this work in the appendix. Concerns of the World Evangelical Alliance www.worldevangelicals.org/ pdf/TN-47-1-Jan-2018.pdf Switzerland Giving Hands – International Charity Let’s stay in Switzerland for a moment. Alfred had completed his Bachelor studies at www.gebende-haende.de the Free Evangelical Theological Academy of Basel, now STH Basel, from 1977 to International Institute for Islamic 1980. At the same time, he was youth pastor in the local Spanish church. In 1982, he Studies (IIIS) of the World Evangelical Alliance received his Master of Divinity from the Fresno Mennonite Biblical Seminary, California. www.islaminstitute.net During the years 1992–1994 he returned to Basel for his doctoral studies and was also International Institute for Religious pastor of the Mennonite church Basel-Holee during this time. Alfred taught as a guest Freedom (IIRF) of the World lecturer at the Theological Seminary of Bienenberg (Liestal, Switzerland) in 1993, 1994, Evangelical Alliance (International Headquarter, EU-Office Brüssel) 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. Every time he visited Switzerland, he also www.iirf.eu toured Germany, especially visiting various Mennonite congregations and learning from International Information Centre their work. for Religious Freedom Germany e.V. (IIRF-D) (Tübingen) www.iirf-d.de Martin Bucer Seminary (Bonn, Evangelicals Together: Protestant University and Linz, Zürich, Prague, Tirana, São Paulo, Helsinki, Istanbul, Delhi) Evangelical Alliance www.bucer.org

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(me). This led to many long and fruitful conversations, so I am qualified to appreciate Office of Intrafaith and Interfaith his broad-minded tendencies. But in addition, he brought together at one table the Relations of the World Evangelical different wings of Mennonites in Paraguay (and later in Latin America and worldwide), Alliance but also a broad spectrum of evangelical Christians. Theological Commission of the European Evangelical Alliance www.europeanea.org The Evangelical Alliance of Paraguay and the Evangelical Alliance of Latin America would probably not exist without him. The national Alliance wrote in its obituary, “We honor the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance person who in life was the founder and promoter of the Association of Evangelical Churches of www.worldevangelicals.org/tc/ Paraguay (ASIEP), also a founding member of the Latin Evangelical Alliance and a member of UN Bonn liaison for inter-religious the International Council of the World Evangelical Alliance, Prof. Dr. Alfred Neufeld. … He was concerns of WEA a tireless fighter for unity not only in his country but also in the whole Latin world.” WEA Sustainability Center www.wea-sc.org

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The World Evangelical Alliance wrote, “During his ministry he made a very significant A joint platform for the contribution to evangelical unity both in his country, as the founder and promoter of the following Bonn organizations on the basis of the Association of Evangelical Churches of Paraguay, and in his continent as a founding Evangelical Alliance: member of the Latin Evangelical Alliance and then globally as a member of the Business Coalition of the World International Council of the World Evangelical Alliance from 2008 to 2016.” Evangelical Alliance (Bonn, Hamburg) In this last role, Alfred worked closely with me at the WEA. I am particularly grateful that, Commission for Religious as one who spoke German, English and Spanish, he made sure that the world of Freedom of the German and the Romanic languages in the Global South became an integral part of the WEA. Austrian Evangelical Alliance www.ead.de/akref Most significant for Christian unity in Paraguay, beyond the theological education in Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft (VKW) (Cultureand Science Publ.) which he was active throughout his life, was his role in helping to found the Universidad www.vkwonline.com Evangélica del Paraguay in Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, in 2005. Since that date Department of Theological he was president of the school’s board of directors and also served in various Concerns of the World administrative positions: Dean of the Faculty of Theology from 2005 to 2008 (after Evangelical Alliance www.worldevangelicals.org/ having been Rector of its predecessor school from 1998 to 2004) and then Dean of the pdf/TN-47-1-Jan-2018.pdf

Faculty of Education from 2009. In 2012, he became Rector of the entire university and Giving Hands – International remained so until his death, although he went on leave in January 2020. He led the Charity university in making an increasing commitment to all of Paraguayan society, which I www.gebende-haende.de hope that many other countries, especially in Latin America, will view as a model. International Institute for Islamic Studies (IIIS) of the World Evangelical Alliance www.islaminstitute.net

A Global Mennonite International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF) of the World Commissioned by the Mennonite World Conference (MWC), Alfred Neufeld wrote a Evangelical Alliance (International book on Anabaptists’ and Mennonites’ Shared Convictions, which was published in Headquarter, EU-Office Brüssel) English in 2007 and in German in 2008. This work shows that he had become the www.iirf.eu leading theologian for Mennonites worldwide, who do not lack top theologians. He also International Information Centre for Religious Freedom Germany wrote the history of the MWC, titled Becoming a Global Communion, and seven other e.V. (IIRF-D) (Tübingen) books in addition to his dissertation. www.iirf-d.de Martin Bucer Seminary (Bonn, Alfred played an important role within the MWC, initially as a member of its General Linz, Zürich, Prague, Tirana, São Paulo, Helsinki, Istanbul, Delhi) Council. He was one of the visionaries who inspired the creation of a new structure www.bucer.org within the MWC with four central commissions, namely Peace, Diakonia, Mission, and missiotop – Evangelical Forum for Faith and Life, with the last of these being in a sense the Mennonites’ theological Missions, Cultures and Religions commission, marked by the typically Mennonite and Evangelical emphasis on (German Evangelical Alliance) www.missiotop.org translating one’s confession of faith into daily life. The MWC structure that Alfred had Office of Intrafaith and Interfaith initially proposed was implemented from 2008 onward, and Alfred served as the first Relations of the World Evangelical chair of the MWC Faith and Life Commission from 2008 to 2018, most recently as Alliance chairman of the commission for the MWC project “Renewal 2027.” Theological Commission of the European Evangelical Alliance In an ecumenical context, he served as co-chair of the Trilateral Dialogue commission www.europeanea.org on baptism with representatives from the MWC, the Lutheran World Federation, and the Theological Commission of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. World Evangelical Alliance www.worldevangelicals.org/tc/ John D. Roth, who was director of the MWC Faith and Life Commission during much of UN Bonn liaison for inter-religious Alfred’s time as chair, recalled, “Alfred was an extraordinary leader. With boundless concerns of WEA energy, he joined his deep love of Scripture, hymns, theology, and church history, with WEA Sustainability Center www.wea-sc.org

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an equally deep love for the church and the world. The global Anabaptist-Mennonite A joint platform for the church has lost a great statesman.” The worldwide community of Evangelicals can only following Bonn organizations on the basis of the agree. Evangelical Alliance: Business Coalition of the World Evangelical Alliance (Bonn, A Summary of Fatalism as a Mission-Theological Hamburg) Commission for Religious Problem (written in 1994) Freedom of the German and the Alfred Neufeld, Fatalism as a Mission-Theological Problem: The Contextualisation of Austrian Evangelical Alliance www.ead.de/akref the Gospel in a Culture of Fatalistic Thinking: The Example of Paraguay. 1994. 557 pp. Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft (VKW) (Cultureand Science Publ.) In chapters 1 and 2 of this book, Neufeld substantiates his view of “critical www.vkwonline.com contextualization”, i.e., of the biblical revelation becoming indigenous in a culture under Department of Theological constant scrutiny of inviolable divine revelation. In this way, Neufeld sets himself apart Concerns of the World from theologians who deny any Evangelical Alliance www.worldevangelicals.org/ possibility of contextualization, as pdf/TN-47-1-Jan-2018.pdf well as from dialectical and Giving Hands – International ecumenical trends that can easily Charity lead to syncretism. www.gebende-haende.de International Institute for Islamic In chapter 3, Neufeld asks how Studies (IIIS) of the World Evangelical Alliance leading Evangelicals represent www.islaminstitute.net and assess the Christianization of International Institute for Religious Latin America. At the end, he Freedom (IIRF) of the World summarizes in particular the points Evangelical Alliance (International Headquarter, EU-Office Brüssel) at which Latin American popular www.iirf.eu Catholicism differs from the biblical International Information Centre teaching on and the image of for Religious Freedom Germany Christ. e.V. (IIRF-D) (Tübingen) www.iirf-d.de In chapter 4, the history of the Martin Bucer Seminary (Bonn, Linz, Zürich, Prague, Tirana, São Christianization of Paraguay is Paulo, Helsinki, Istanbul, Delhi) specifically presented and the www.bucer.org syncretism that arose from it is missiotop – Evangelical Forum for examined. For Neufeld, however, syncretism is not the result of too much Missions, Cultures and Religions (German Evangelical Alliance) contextualization, but of a lack of critical contextualization. www.missiotop.org

Office of Intrafaith and Interfaith In chapter 5, Neufeld defines fatalism as the assumption of an unchangeable, Relations of the World Evangelical unswayable and impersonal fate. In chapter 6, he identifies such fatalism in the history Alliance and present forms of Paraguayan culture. To this end, he examines the most common Theological Commission of the sayings, novels, and scientific representations observed in Paraguayan culture. European Evangelical Alliance www.europeanea.org In chapter 7, Neufeld considers the roots of this fatalistic culture of Paraguay to be the Theological Commission of the natives’ prior religious views, the Spanish Catholicism of the conquerors (strongly World Evangelical Alliance www.worldevangelicals.org/tc/ influenced by Islam), the vicious circle of poverty, and the tragic and disappointing UN Bonn liaison for inter-religious history of the country. concerns of WEA WEA Sustainability Center www.wea-sc.org

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In chapter 8, Neufeld begins to work out the biblical message in the face of fatalism. To A joint platform for the this end, he first examines the history of theology since the Reformation, namely Calvin, following Bonn organizations on the basis of the Luther, the Anabaptists, Barth, Bonhoeffer and Guardini. In chapter 9, Neufeld then Evangelical Alliance: describes how Latin American liberation theology responds to fatalism. He considers Business Coalition of the World the answer to be counterproductive, because liberation theology—contrary to Evangelical Alliance (Bonn, Scripture—explains only the deficient status of the ruling structures. For the ordinary Hamburg) citizen, this approach only reinforces fatalistic thinking, since changing these structures Commission for Religious seems futile. Freedom of the German and the Austrian Evangelical Alliance www.ead.de/akref In chapter 10, Neufeld presents a biblical answer directly from the biblical texts Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft themselves. In the first part, he refutes the view that the Old Testament (e.g., the Book (VKW) (Cultureand Science Publ.) of Ecclesiastes) or the New Testament generally (e.g., in its conception of destiny) www.vkwonline.com teaches or at least accepts fatalism. He then unfolds seven basic elements of biblical Department of Theological thought all of which help to overcome fatalism. Biblical thinking, he says, is (1) Concerns of the World Evangelical Alliance characterized by God’s loving sovereignty, (2) Torah thinking, (3) covenant thinking, (4) www.worldevangelicals.org/ teleological thinking, (5) conversion thinking, (6) cooperation thinking, and (7) two-aeon pdf/TN-47-1-Jan-2018.pdf thinking. Giving Hands – International Charity www.gebende-haende.de

International Institute for Islamic Preface to The Old Testament Foundations of Mission Studies (IIIS) of the World Evangelical Alliance Theology (written in 1994) www.islaminstitute.net

Alfred Neufeld, The Old Testament Foundations of Mission Theology. Bonn: Culture International Institute for Religious and Science Publishing, 1994; 2nd edition, Bonn and Nürnberg: VKW & VTR, 2009. Freedom (IIRF) of the World Evangelical Alliance (International 100 pp. Headquarter, EU-Office Brüssel) www.iirf.eu The present paper was written in July 1993 at the Seminarium Theologiae Liberum International Information Centre Genevae in Geneva, the doctoral department of the State-Independent Theological for Religious Freedom Germany University of Basel (STH Basel; formerly FETA), as a “home study following the doctoral e.V. (IIRF-D) (Tübingen) www.iirf-d.de examination.” Whereas in Germany the doctoral thesis is submitted first and then the Martin Bucer Seminary (Bonn, doctoral examinations are taken, at the Geneva Seminary—as is also customary in the Linz, Zürich, Prague, Tirana, São Benelux countries—the oral doctoral examinations are taken first and only after that the Paulo, Helsinki, Istanbul, Delhi) work on the doctoral thesis commences. After passing the doctoral examination (which www.bucer.org Alfred completed with the highest possible grade), the doctoral candidate must, as in missiotop – Evangelical Forum for Missions, Cultures and Religions the Benelux countries, prove once again in a temporary thesis that he is capable of (German Evangelical Alliance) writing a comprehensive scientific paper. I believe this procedure is superior to the www.missiotop.org German system, since the candidate first proves in the doctoral examination that he has Office of Intrafaith and Interfaith Relations of the World Evangelical mastered a subject, then in a home thesis that he is capable of writing a scientific paper, Alliance and only then does he begin to specialize in his research topic for the actual doctoral Theological Commission of the thesis. European Evangelical Alliance www.europeanea.org

“Alfred Neufeld was born and raised as a Mennonite of German origin in Paraguay. He Theological Commission of the studied theology at the STH Basel and at the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary in World Evangelical Alliance Fresno, California. For a long time, he was the director of the seminary where the www.worldevangelicals.org/tc/ Mennonites of German origin in Paraguay train their pastors, a task to which he will UN Bonn liaison for inter-religious return after completing his doctorate. His dissertation, which is currently being written, concerns of WEA WEA Sustainability Center www.wea-sc.org

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deals with fatalism as a missiological problem, with a special emphasis on Paraguay A joint platform for the and Latin America (published in the same series).” following Bonn organizations on the basis of the “The Old Testament Foundations of Mission Theology seeks to clarify already by its title Evangelical Alliance: that every mission theology must be taken from the whole Bible and cannot be limited Business Coalition of the World Evangelical Alliance (Bonn, to cherished texts from the New Testament only. This perspective is not intended to Hamburg) devalue the New Testament. Rather, the aim is to bring the biblical-exegetical Commission for Religious justification of mission back into focus and to make it clear that the whole Bible is a Freedom of the German and the mission-oriented book. God is the Creator and Lord of all nations and has revealed His Austrian Evangelical Alliance www.ead.de/akref Word so that His salvation will be known to all peoples.” Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft (VKW) (Cultureand Science Publ.) www.vkwonline.com

Department of Theological Concerns of the World Downloads and Links: Evangelical Alliance www.worldevangelicals.org/ • Photo 1: This is how we remember him © private pdf/TN-47-1-Jan-2018.pdf • Photo 2 : Alfred Neufeld (center) receiving his doctorate in Geneva on Giving Hands – International Charity December 1, 1994. Doctoral supervisor Thomas Schirrmac her is above h im; www.gebende-haende.de

a t right is principal Samuel Külling, above rig ht, Hans- Georg Wünch, supporter International Institute for Islamic o f the doctoral candidate. All others in the photo belonged to the STH teaching Studies (IIIS) of the World Evangelical Alliance staff © Thomas Schirrmacher www.islaminstitute.net

• Photo 3: Alfred Neufeld © private International Institute for Religious • D ownload “Die alttestamentlichen Grundlagen der Missio nstheologie” (pdf) Freedom (IIRF) of the World Evangelical Alliance (International • More obituaries in German: Headquarter, EU-Office Brüssel) www.iirf.eu o https://www.menno.ch/de/alfred-neufeld-1955-2020/ International Information Centre o https://www.mennonews.de/archiv/2020/06/25/alfred-neufeld-verstorben/ for Religious Freedom Germany e.V. (IIRF-D) (Tübingen) • More obituaries in English: www.iirf-d.de o https://mwc-cmm.org/stories/alfred-neufeld Martin Bucer Seminary (Bonn, Linz, Zürich, Prague, Tirana, São o https://christianleadermag.com/alfred-neufeld-remembered-as-a-scholar- Paulo, Helsinki, Istanbul, Delhi) who-enjoyed-life/ www.bucer.org missiotop – Evangelical Forum for o https://worldea.org/en/news/wea-mourns-passing-of-dr-alfred-neufeld- Missions, Cultures and Religions former-member-of-wea-international-council/ (German Evangelical Alliance) www.missiotop.org • An obituary in Spanish: Office of Intrafaith and Interfaith o https://www.aelatina.org/adios-querido-dr-alfred-neufeld/ Relations of the World Evangelical Alliance

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