Stein wrote:There are plenty of requirements, just as there are for researchers in any discipline that requires special training.
Yes, take Markus Vinzent, -
RealityRules wrote:'Christianity': a Response to Roman-Jewish Conflictby Markus Vinzent
"The material Marcion had organized biographically and geographically (as befitted a man engaged in the ship trade), was rapidly picked up by others, copied, altered and presented to the public as the Gospels according to Matthew, John, Mark and Luke (and others). Marcion himself, as Tertullian explains, reacted negatively to the plagiarism of his Gospel, especially as it was circulated under the names of apostles (Matthew, John) and apostolic men (Mark, Luke). In response, Marcion decided to present his collection as an anonymous Gospel, prefaced by his Antitheses, and supplemented by ten Pauline letters which he had gathered, edited, and biographically and geographically arranged. He entitled the entire collection the "New Testament". It was in the preface to this work that he portrayed "Christianity" as the "antithesis" to "Judaism" to which he had once belonged and from which he had suffered during the last anti-Roman revolt."
From 1978 to 1983 Vinzent studied philosophy , theology , Jewish studies , antiquity and archeology at the universities of Eichstätt and at the Sorbonne in Paris, which he graduated with a diploma in philosophy and theology.
Vincent was a pastor from 1984 to 1991
[and since the 1990s has been an entrepreneur in serial data technology (IT, Internet, personnel, energy, waste, utilities and infrastructure)].He also undertook doctorate studies from 1987 to 1991 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, and subsequent postdoctoral studies & habilitation from 1991 to '95 at the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg.
From 1991 to 1993 he worked as a research assistant at King's College in Cambridge, working with Catherine Hezser, Keith Hopkins, Seth Schwartz and Wolfram Kinzig on a project on the origin and development of early Christianity.
From 1993 to 1995 he was a senior research fellow at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
From 1996 to 1997 Vinzent was a C4 professor for the history of theology in the time of the Reformation and Modernity at the University of Mainz.
1997 to 1999, also C4 professor for the history of theology (term of office) at the University of Cologne.
For the decade 1999-2010, he was HG Wood Professor of Theology
at the University of Birmingham (Head of Dept,
1999-2001)
Since 2003 he has been one of the directors of the International Conference on Patristic Studies, editor-in-chief of
Studia Patristica, the official publication of the conference; and editor of the Eckhart: Texts and Studies series.
Together with others, he initiated and wrote the Birmingham study with guidelines on the “Trialogue of Cultures” in 2003 as the result of an 8-country study funded by the Altana/BMW-Foundation on teaching and learning about Islam, Judaism and Christianity in schools ( BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt) with a large research grant (2000–2002). This resulted in a ten-year foundation initiative, in which around 200 German schools took part in a so-called 'trilogue competition' between 2005 and 2015. The aim was to develop creative projects in schools for a better co-cultural life based on the guidelines. The results resulted in a long list of publications, a course for children's programs by Hessischer Rundfunk and various other media.
From September 2010 he has been a professor in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at King's College in London.
Together with Professor Allen Brent, religious scholar for early Christian history and literature, he led the large-scale research project "Early Christian Iconography and Epigraphy" , a project that was generously funded by the British Academy in the period from 2011 to 2012.
From 2010 to 2015 he was an associate professor at Korea University in Seoul.
He has been a Fellow of the Max Weber Center for Social and Cultural Studies at the University of Erfurt since 2012.
His academic publications, including several books and book chapters, are numerous.
by You do realise that anyone can call themselves a scholar? That unlike historian, dietician etc. there are no requirements whatsoever?
