Achim Buckenmaier

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Achim Buckenmaier (* 1959 in Hechingen , Baden-Württemberg ) is a Roman Catholic priest and dogmatist .

Life

Achim Buckenmaier studied Catholic theology in Freiburg im Breisgau and Paris and was ordained a priest in 1985 . After serving as a chaplain and working as a religion teacher in the Archdiocese of Freiburg, he joined the “ Community of Priests in Service to Catholic Integrated Congregations ” (KIG) in 1990 , for which he worked in Tanzania for several years . In 1994 Buckenmaier became a student of Gerhard Ludwig Müller at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with the dogmatic work The Relationship between Scripture and Tradition after the Second Vatican Council. History and reception of the Dr. theol. PhD . From 2000 to 2002 he was managing director of the St. Anna School Association, a private school organization with a Catholic orientation. In 2009 he completed his habilitation with the text Universale Kirche vor Ort - Aspects of determining the relationship between the universal church and the local church based on the debate between Joseph Ratzinger and Walter Kasper at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1997 he passed the first state examination for teaching at secondary schools (Catholic religious studies, German, geography, art) at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and in 2003 for teaching at grammar schools (German).

Achim Buckenmaier is Professor of Dogmatics and, since 2009, director of the Endowed Chair for the Theology of the People of God at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, established by the Catholic Integrated Congregation . The “differentiation of the Jewish-Christian compared to the religions”, the “ people-of-God theology ”, “ ecclesiology ” and “ sacraments doctrine and practice” are the main focuses of this chair, which mediates a “unity between the Old and New Testaments” would like to. In terms of a new evangelization, the chair consciously uses understandable language and is open to all interested parties. From autumn 2016 the chair will be offering a post-graduate two-year distance learning course “Theology of the People of God - The Profile of the Jewish-Christian”. The chair is part of the Pontifical Pastoral Institute Redemptor Hominis of the Lateran University.

From 2009 to 2019 Buckenmaier held a teaching position for German students in the semester of leave at the Theological Faculty of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome .

Achim Buckenmaier has been a member of the New Student Group Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI, founded in 2008 . , an international group of theologians who want to spread the theological work of Joseph Ratzinger . Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Consultor of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization in 2011 and Consultor of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on December 15, 2012 .

Achim Buckenmaier has been a member of the European Academy of Sciences since 2011 , from 2015 to 2019 he was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Munich-based St. Anna School Association, and has also been a member and, since 2020, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI Foundation and since 2018 member of the board of directors of the Italian sister foundation Fondazione Vaticana Joseph Ratzinger / Benedetto XVI . Buckenmaier also stands out through lecturing and speaking activities in Germany and Austria.

Publications (selection)

  • “Scripture and Tradition.” Since Vatican II: Prehistory and Reception. Paderborn 1995, ISBN 3-87088-907-1 .
  • The saved beginning. Scripture and Tradition in Israel and the Church. Bad Tölz 2002, ISBN 3-93285-724-0 .
  • Abraham. Father of believers. A biography of faith. Augsburg 2003, ISBN 3-93648-410-4 .
  • what is the human? Starting points of a Christian education. Bad Tölz 2004, ISBN 3-93285-742-9 .
  • Safe in His hand. Pray with children. Bad Tölz 2004, ISBN 978-3-93285-735-5 .
  • Moses. Story of a rescue. Augsburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-93648-455-7 .
  • Universal church on site. On the relationship between the universal church and the local church. Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-79172-193-4 .
  • Is that still our church? Regensburg 2012, ISBN 3-7917-2423-1 .
  • The seven signs of the Messiah. The one people of God as a sacrament for the world together with Arnold Stötzel and Ludwig Weimer, Regensburg, Pustet, 2012, ISBN 978-3-79172-426-3 .
  • Pope and Curia in reform. Notes on a current task. in: Joy in God. Festschrift for Cardinal Kurt Koch on the occasion of his 65th birthday , pp. 343-360, Herder, Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-45131-331-8
  • Magisterium of the Episcopal Conferences? Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-79172-833-9 .
  • Incognito of God and the Church. A contribution to the origin and meaning of the idea of ​​God's hiddenness. in: The Triune God. For Gerhard Kardinal Müller pp. 386 - 402, Herder, Freiburg 2017 ISBN 978-3-45137-875-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b short biography.
  2. ↑ Universal church on site - on the relationship between the universal church and the local church. Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI Foundation, accessed December 17, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Chair of the Theology of God's People. KIG Online, archived from the original on August 16, 2010 ; Retrieved December 17, 2012 .
  4. ↑ a b Chair of the Theology of God's People.Retrieved December 30, 2012.
  5. ↑ Postgraduate distance learning. Prof. Dr. Achim Buckenmaier, May 15, 2016, accessed on May 21, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Prof. P. Dr. Stephan Otto Horn, Chairman of the Board: Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI Foundation. Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI Foundation based in Munich (public foundation under civil law), September 20, 2016, accessed on November 26, 2016 .
  7. ^ Pope calls Buckenmaier to Rome. Südwestpresse, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved December 17, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Nomina di Consultori della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede , in: Holy See Press Office: Daily Bulletin of December 15, 2012.
  9. ↑ St. Anna School Association. Retrieved August 28, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Discussion with Professor Achim Buckenmaier. Message from the Episcopal Pastoral Office of the Catholic Church of Carinthia , November 20, 2018, accessed in January 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Buckenmaier, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Hechingen , Baden-Wuerttemberg