Holger Strutwolf is a German Protestant theologian specializing in patristics and New Testament textual criticism.
Setting: German Protestant church and university scholarship.
Holger Strutwolf is a German Protestant theologian specializing in patristics and New Testament textual criticism. After pastoral service he returned to Münster in 2004 as professor and director of the Institute for New Testament Textual Research and the Bible Museum. He has served as editor of the ECM, Nestle-Aland, and UBS Greek New Testaments.
His career joins doctrinal history, church ministry, digital method, and institutional responsibility for critical editions. Each dimension should be documented without making the methodological category a personal caricature.
Bibliological positions
The initial text is established in a comprehensive, revisable critical edition using manuscript evidence, editorial judgments, and CBGM analysis.
Qualifications and disputes
Strutwolf is a Protestant theologian and ordained churchman with substantive patristic scholarship. These facts are distinct from the authority structure of critical editing.
Debate concerns the theological status of the initial text, revision between edition numbers, and the interpretability of CBGM-assisted decisions.
Sources
- INTF — Holger Strutwolf — Official biography
- INTF — current team — Current institutional roles
Principal works
- Editio Critica Maior: The Gospel of Mark (2021); legacy
WRK-0215; EDT; Blocked pending parent WRK and exact edition review
Historical person network
People, doctrines, texts, and reported interactions
Relationship labels distinguish contact, refutation, later reporting, accusation, textual agreement, compatibility, and causation. A connection does not silently inherit the force of another connection.
Interaction chart
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- Record
- PER-3076
- Status
- Preliminary
- Version
- 1.1-profile
- Review
- Level B — Editorial synthesis
- Editor
- Chris Thomas
- Reviewer
- Independent reviewer pending assignment
- First date
- 2026-07-22 · Exact Day
- Last revised
- 2026-07-22
Evidence and editorial controls
- Verification
- Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific.
- Rights and access
- Original editorial synthesis; cited sources retain their stated rights.
- Known limitations
- Sourced orientation record. Education, dated offices, languages, confessional subscription, verified quotations, and independent review may remain incomplete.
Links from this record
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Records that cite or connect here
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Corrections and evidence submissions
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Chris Thomas, “Holger Strutwolf,” PER-3076, Confessional Bibliology Research Center, version 1.0-staging.
Revision history
- — Chris Thomas
- — Chris Thomas