birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation
nagold , germany september 30 , 1939 oswald bayer
 oswald bayer theologian , luther scholar
oswald bayer

oswald bayer -lrb- ; born september 30 , 1939 -rrb- is a german lutheran theologian , and is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the evangelical theological faculty of the eberhard karls university of tübingen , germany .
the author of several books in german , he is also an ordained pastor of the evangelical-lutheran church in württemberg and president of the senate of the luther academy in ratzeburg .
although bayer is a major contemporary lutheran theologian , so far little of his work has been translated from german into english .
