Antonius MJM Herman van de Spijker

Antonius MJM Herman van de Spijker OFMCap (* 1936 in Best ; complete: Antonius Martinus Joseph Maria Herman van de Spijker , often: Herman van de Spijker or AMJM Herman van de Spijker ) is a Dutch theologian .

Act

Herman van de Spijker entered the Capuchin order after completing school and was ordained a priest on July 30, 1962 . He received his doctorate from the University of Friborg and completed his habilitation in 1992 at the University of Würzburg with the thesis Narcissistic Competence - Self-Love - Charity . He has now retired . He is also a part-time librarian at the Centrale Capucijnen-Bibliotheck Nederland .

Among other things, he has written several works on theology and homosexuality. In the German-speaking world, he was best known for his work, The Same-Sex Affection: Homotropy: Homosexuality , Homoeroticism, Homophilia and Catholic Moral Theology , published in 1968 , an encouraging, detailed discussion of the subject. In it he led to in 1946 proposed, but never have come into use adjective homotrop the still rarely used noun homotropy one that for him the "three-dimensional existence: sex, Eros , Philia " combined, because of a "real orientation to a partner same sex ”it includes“ on a sexual level: homosexuality ”,“ on an erotic level: homoeroticism ”and“ on a personal level: homophilia ”.

Publications

Works

• Same-sex affection. Homotropy: homosexuality, homoeroticism, homophilia, and Catholic moral theology (prefaces by Hans Giese and Alois Müller), Walter-Verlag, Olten and Freiburg im Breisgau 1968 (first version as licentiate thesis at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg by Alfons Auer 1966)
• La inclinacion homosexual. La homosexualidad a la luz de las nuevas aportaciones de la ciencia, de la antropologia y de la teologia moral , (Sexualidad, No. 21), Editorial Fontanella, SA Barcelona, ​​1971
• Interviewed community. Christian life in the Catholic parish of Rapperswil. An investigation in the service of pastoral preaching. , Catholic Parish Office, Rapperswil 1970; Dissertation at the University of Friborg, Switzerland, 1969, entitled: Christian life in the Catholic parish of Rapperswil
• Homotropy: humanity as a justification. Considerations on same-sex affection , Manz, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-7863-0139-5  ???
  • Homotropía. Inclinación hacia el mismo sexo. Ed. Sociedad de Educación Atenas. , 1976
  • Omotropia. Un discorso diverso sull'omosessualit? , "Fuori collana", Edizioni Gruppo Abele, Torino, 1983, ISBN 88-7670-002-1
• Pastorale competentie: mogelijkheden en moeilijkheden van het pastor-zijn: een poimenisch collegeboek , Heerlen, Poimen 1984, ISBN 90-71008-01-0
• God, you are an angel: the Tobit book and its poimenic concerns , 2nd edition, Heerlen, Poimen 1995, ISBN 3-7761-0026-5
• Narcissistic competence - self-love - charity. Sigmund Freud's challenge to theology and pastoral care. , 1st edition, Herder, 1993; 2nd edition, Herder, 1995, ISBN 3-451-23063-1 ; Habilitation thesis, University of Würzburg, 1992
• Omotropia nell'orizzonte della eteroropia. La realtà della sessualità umana. CLEUP, Padova, 2014. ISBN 978-88-6129-657-2

Contributions and essays

• Love knows many colors , in: ferment, 16 / 5,6 (1975), 40
• with MJJ Menken, PHJ Post: Goede herders, 7 opstellen over herderschap en pastoraat , Apreldoorn, Averbode 1983
• “In search of sexuality. ... so that women become women, men men and people become human beings " , in: I. Baumgartner (ed.): " Handbuch der Pastoralpsychologie " , 1990, p. 367ff.
• To love one's neighbor - as myself? , in: Central Committee of German Catholics (ed.): As in heaven so on earth. 90th German Catholic Day from 23 to 27 May 1990 in Berlin. Documentation Part I , Bonifatius, Paderborn 1990, ISBN 3-87088-620-X , p. 640
• Being mature is everything. Pastoral Theological Reflections on Puberty. In: Medical World 27 (1976) 162-165.
• Contribution to: Hartmut Heidenreich (ed.): "... it's about people" Aspects of a biographical practical theology. Festschrift for Stefan Knobloch , Winklerverlag, 1997. ISBN 978-3-924517-56-4
• in: PThI (Pastoral Theological Information)
  • "... And he saw this one". The "principium individuationis" as a pastoral theological contribution to reflecting on the "office in diversity" , 5th year (1985), issue 1, volume 17, p. 107
  • Androgynous / gynandric behavior patterns. Working paper on AK 8 , 5th year (1985), Issue 2, Volume 18, p. 319
  • with: Andreas Heller, Karl Heinz Ladenhauf: Non-marital communities in church practice - snapshots to promote a more open relationship culture , 7th year (1987), issue 1/2, volume 21/22, p. 41
  • Diakonie or "walking in wooden shoes" , 10th year (1990), volume 1, volume 25, p. 203
  • Everything is salvation in mystery , 14th year (1994), issue 1/2, pp. 25-29
  • In search of a science that is close to people , 20th year (2000), volume 2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jubilea en Jubilarissen in 2012. (No longer available online.) In: Website van de Kapucijnen in Nederland. Archived from the original on September 6, 2014 ; Retrieved September 8, 2014 . 
2. ↑ 2nd workshop of the Capuchin archives and libraries of the ADK in Innsbruck. (PDF) In: Zentralbibliothek.kapuziner.at. 2005, accessed January 9, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Espisthemes (pseudonym): The circle . November 1946, p. 18 . previously as homoitropic in: Espisthemes (pseudonym): The circle . September 1946, p.
    20 .
4. ↑ AMJM Herman van de Spijker: Same-sex affection: Homotropy: homosexuality, homoeroticism, homophilia and the Catholic moral theology . Walter-Verlag, Olten and Freiburg im Breisgau 1968, p. 25 . quoted in: Homosexuality as an anthropological challenge . Julius Klinkhardt, 2001, p.
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