Albert Gerhards

Albert Gerhards (born October 2, 1951 in Viersen-Dülken ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian , priest and liturgical scholar .

education

After graduating from the municipal humanistic grammar school in Viersen, Gerhards studied philosophy and theology at the University of Innsbruck and the Gregoriana in Rome from 1970 to 1977 . After being ordained a priest in Rome in 1976, he completed his licentiate in dogmatic theology and received his doctorate from 1977 to 1982 at the Catholic theological faculty in Trier with Balthasar Fischer with a dissertation on the subject of the Greek Gregorian anaphora: a contribution to the history of the Eucharistic Prayer .

Act

After working as a research assistant at Fischer from 1979 to 1981 and working as a chaplain at St. Helena (Mönchengladbach-Rheindahlen), Gerhards was appointed professor of liturgical science at the Catholic-theological faculty of the University of Bochum in 1984 . From 1985 to 1996 Gerhards headed the working group for church architecture and sacred art of the liturgy commission of the German Bishops' Conference and has been a member of the Ecumenical Working Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians since 1989. Since 1989, Gerhards has been professor of liturgical science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , where he also held the office of dean from 1996 to 1998 . From 1998 to 2002 he was the spokesman for the Working Group of Catholic Liturgy Lecturers in the German-speaking area and from 1991 to 2001 advisor to the liturgy commission of the German Bishops' Conference . Gerhards is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Convegni Liturgici Internazionali des Monastero di Bose (Italy), deputy spokesman for the Bonn Center for Religion and Society (ZERG), advisor to the DBK sub-commission for religious relations with Judaism (since 2006), member of the Advisory board member of "Kunst und Kirche" (since 2007) and member of the scientific advisory board of the magazine "Arts sacrés" (since 2009). His main research interests are in the areas of history, theology and practice of liturgy (including Eucharistic prayer ), ecumenism , church music, art and the church as well as interreligious dialogue, v. a. between Judaism and Christianity. In the last few years, Gerhard's research has also been specifically devoted to the topics of sacred space education and liturgical aesthetics.

Publications

• Contributions
  • Now tell me, how are you with communion? in Anzeiger für die Seelsorge 6/2017, pp. 20ff, ISSN 0721-1937

• Row Associate Editor:
  • Practical Theology Today (Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart);
  • Picture space celebration. Studies on Church and Art (Schnell & Steiner Verlag, Regensburg);
  • Aesthetics - Theology - Liturgy (LIT Verlag, Berlin and others);
  • Studies by the Bonn Center for Religion and Society (Ergon Verlag, Würzburg);
  • Monumenta Liturgica Ecclesiarum Particularium (Verlag Nova & Vetera, Bonn);
  • Recommendations for sermons (LIT Verlag, Berlin and others)

• Monographs:
  • La liturgia della nostra fede, Qiqajon 2010; ISBN 978-8882273002
  • Light. A path through spaces and times of the liturgy, Schnell + Steiner Regensburg 2011; ISBN 978-3-7954-2435-0
  • Where God and the world meet. Understanding church interiors, Butzon & Bercker Kevelaer 2011; ISBN 978-3-7666-1545-9
  • Renewal of church life from worship. Contributions to the reform of the liturgy (practical theology today 120), Kohlhammer Stuttgart 2012; ISBN 978-3-17-022071-3
  • Albert Gerhards, Benedikt Kranemann: Introduction to liturgical science (together with Benedikt Kranemann), 3rd completely revised edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt 2013; ISBN 978-3-534-25686-0
  • Sound - A Path through Spaces and Times of the Liturgy, Schnell & Steiner Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7954-3141-9

Web links

• Biography (University of Bonn)