Alex Stock

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Alex Stock (born March 17, 1937 in Wellingholzhausen ; † July 17, 2016 in Frechen ) was a German Catholic theologian .

Life

Alex Stock studied philosophy and theology in Frankfurt / M., Innsbruck, Munich and Würzburg from 1957 to 1967. In 1967 he received his doctorate with Karl Rahner SJ in Innsbruck with the work Unity of the New Testament in the subject of fundamental theology. In 1967 Stock was ordained a priest. After he had received the notification that, after a general layoff under Pope Paul VI. , would no longer be laicized , he married in 1973; from this marriage a daughter was born. When he was urged to switch to religious studies at the end of the 1970s, Alex Stock wanted to stay in theology and thus prevailed.

From 1969 to 1971 Stock was initially a lecturer at the Weingarten University of Education , from 1971 professor of theology and its didactics at the Rhineland University of Education and since 1980 professor of theology and its didactics at the University of Cologne . In 1998 he set up the visual theological office at the seminar for theology and its didactics and at the seminar for evangelical theology at the University of Cologne, which he continued after his retirement in 2002.

Alex Stock died on July 17, 2016 in Königsdorf near Cologne.

Act

Image theology and image didactics

Since the beginning of the 1970s, Alex Stock’s research and teaching have focused on scientific research and communication of the visual arts as a focal point and medium of theological debate. He was primarily concerned with the independent knowledge of art for theology. Stock demonstrated this not only in Christian iconographic works of art, but also in studies of modern and contemporary artistic phenomena. With the slide library of the Bildtheologische Arbeitsstelle, which contains over 7000 slides and an extensive collection of articles, he had a corresponding iconographic fund. Together with Reinhard Hoeps from the University of Münster , Alex Stock founded the scientific series “IKON. Bild + Theologie “(Schoening-Verlag). Andreas R. Batlogg SJ writes in the voices of the time :

“What is hidden behind the term“ image theology ”was the rehabilitation and repristination of the image after a second iconoclasm - the sixties, as a result of the Second Vatican Council. The love for Latin - Alex Stock has presented several small publications on orations - should not lead one to think that one has dealt with a conservative. Alex Stock was at home in the tradition of the Church. He saved and took up again - to save. To show that the tradition of the Church - liturgical, dogmatic, art-historical - is richer than that presented by traditionalists. "

Poetic dogmatics

After Georg Langenhorst , Alex Stock is one of the great theological bridges between theology and art. His poetic doctrine is a "unique attempt to design a dogmatic considering the arts, genius, aphoristic, creative." The contradictory-sounding name of his opus magnum, the comprehensive over 4000 pages elfbändigen poetic doctrine , he calls himself a "irritating Oxymoron " . This work, which he completed at the beginning of 2016, ranges from Christology to the doctrine of God and the doctrine of creation to ecclesiology . In Poetic Dogmatics he opened up the literary, liturgical and iconic treasuries of Jewish and Christian tradition; he considered them systematically and theologically, developed them in terms of the history of piety and made them vivid and fruitful in terms of visual theology. In the preface to his work, Alex Stock writes:

“The ambiguous title 'poetic dogmatics' is therefore not intended to announce a playful approach to the sacred tradition of dogmas, although a certain lightness is definitely worth striving for. Rather, he takes out his right that a moment of the poetic determines the course of the work as a whole, “in the selection of sources, in the methodological procedure and in the disposition of the whole. … The creative richness of tradition “develops precisely where the drive of religion goes beyond what is confessionally indispensable. Anyone who appreciates this spacious house of Christian tradition, which is angled in chambers, and wanders around in it, comes across pieces that touch him, often cannot say exactly why, can pick them up, hold them to light, suggest validity without compelling evidence. "

Liturgy and hymnology

Additional publications on liturgy and hymnology have resulted from the work on poetic dogmatics with its close connection between the Christian world of images and liturgy, piety and hymn. Alex Stock focused on Mass liturgy and the Liturgy of the Hours, the German hymn and the work of the Dutch theologian and poet Huub Oosterhuis . The fact that Stock has succeeded in arousing interest beyond the ecclesiastical area with his books on liturgy and hymns is evident, for example, when Thomas Kapielski published his book Latin Hymns as "Usual Poetry That Strives for the Highest" in the features section of the FAZ , which “infatuated its reviewer for days because of its poetic levitation”.

In the opinion of Dominik Terstriep SJ, Stock's project is related to the following:

"The current insecurity of identity among Western European Christians is evident, as is the new interest in rites, liturgy, signs and images. The aesthetic dimension opens up a new approach to Christianity for some contemporaries. Stock's poetic dogmatics can be helpful for regaining Christian identity, but not in the sense of an apologetic safeguard and an unbroken connection to the supposedly glorious times of the church. Rather, it makes the vanished Christianity attractive, reveals its amiability and beauty (also stimulated by Ludwig Feuerbach) without wanting to demonstrate its truth to anyone. "

Awards

On November 8, 2012, the Theological Faculty of the University of Lucerne awarded Alex Stock an honorary doctorate in theology (Dr. theol. Hc), honoring him as an “innovative, transdisciplinary and eloquent theologian”.

Works (selection)

  • Image theology and image didactics, Düsseldorf 1981
  • Face, known and strange (Christ images), Munich 1990
  • Why images in Christianity? Contributions to theological image theory (ed.), St. Ottilien 1990
  • Between temple and museum (theological art criticism in modern times), Paderborn 1991
  • No art. Aspects of Image Theology, Paderborn 1996
  • Image questions. Theological viewpoints (IKON. Image and Theology), Paderborn 2003
  • Perspectives. Image theological perspectives (IKON. Image and Theology), Paderborn 2011
  • Poetic dogmatics. Christology. 1st name, Paderborn 1995
  • Poetic dogmatics. Christology. 2. Font and face, Paderborn 1996
  • Poetic dogmatics. Christology. 3. Leib und Leben, Paderborn 1998
  • Poetic dogmatics. Christology. 4. Figures, Paderborn 2001
  • Poetic dogmatics. Doctrine of God. 1. Places, Paderborn 2004
  • Poetic dogmatics. Doctrine of God. 2nd name, Paderborn 2005
  • Poetic dogmatics. Doctrine of God. 3. Pictures, Paderborn 2007
  • Poetic dogmatics. Creation doctrine. 1. Heaven and Earth, Paderborn 2010
  • Poetic dogmatics. Creation doctrine. 2. People, Paderborn 2013
  • Poetic dogmatics. Ecclesiology. 1st room, Paderborn 2014
  • Poetic dogmatics. Ecclesiology. 2nd time, Paderborn 2016
  • Wait a little (Johannes Bobrowski), Würzburg 1991
  • Here, breath: On the poetic theology by Huub Oosterhuis , Amsterdam 1994
  • Spiritual miracle horn. Great German Hymns, Munich 2001 (ed., With HJ Becker and others)
  • Liturgy and poetry. On the language of worship, Kevelaer 2010
  • Orations. The daily prayers in the annual cycle newly translated and explained, Regensburg 2011
  • Orations. The daily prayers of the festival times translated and explained, Regensburg 2014
  • Devotion. On the poetic theology of Huub Oosterhuis, St. Ottilien 2011
  • Latin hymns. Edited, commented on and translated by Alex Stock, Berlin 2012
  • Tomorrow. Theology of a time of day, St. Ottilien 2016

literature

  • Erich Garhammer : Beyond formalism and formlessness: the liturgy in discussion. In: Lebendige Seelsorge 55th vol. 4/2004
  • Thomas Kapielski : Alex Stock: Latin hymns. Not only the romantics were infatuated. This chant begins in the morning: The Cologne theologian Alex Stock has presented a selection of Latin hymnans - useful poetry that strives for the highest. In: FAZ October 10, 2012
  • Stefan Orth : Image treasure of tradition. Alex Stock's Poetic Dogmatics. In: Herder Korrespondenz, March 2002
  • Georg Maria Roers : Art in Poetic Dogmatics. In: Spirit and Life (2000)
  • Elmar Salmann : Poetic Dogmatics. A promise from a thousand memories, in: Jesuiten 2019/4, p. 6f.
  • Christian Schuler: Finding the blind, believing the deaf. With Alex Stock, dogmatics becomes poetic. In: FAZ 66, March 19, 1999
  • Hermann Pius Siller : Insight into the workshop of the Spiritus Creator. The poetic Christology of Alex Stock. In: Orientation 5/2000, pp. 50–53
  • Jan-Heiner Tück : The poetic energy of faith. Alex Stock's richly pictorial Christology. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung 12./13. January 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from October 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ alex-stock.de
  3. ↑ https://www.schoeningh.de/katalog/reihe/ikon_bild_theologie.html?tx_mbooks%5Bpage%5D=0&cHash=fdf726534c7c8aaa0ae7330c9965df12
  4. ↑ Andreas R. Batlogg SJ: Alex Stock (1937 - 2016): "Theology full of poetry". In: Archived copy ( Memento from October 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ http://www.theologie-und-literatur.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Theologie_und_Literatur/Rezension_Stock.pdf
  6. ↑ https://www.unilu.ch/news/news/detail/die-theologische-fakultaet-trauert-um-ihren-ehrendoktor-prof-dr-dr-hc-alex-stock/
  7. ↑ Alex Stock: Poetic Dogmatics. Christology. 1.Name, Paderborn 1995, p. 11
  8. ↑ http://www.alex-stock.de/
  9. ↑ , http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezensions/sachbuch/alex-stock-lateinische-hymnen-nicht-nur-die-romantiker-waren-betoert-11920778.html
  10. ↑ Dominik Terstriep SJ: "Catholic" Poietheologie. Alex Stock's poetic dogmatics in the rearview mirror. In: Voices of the Time , 2/2007, pp. 134-138, 137
  11. ↑ Laudation: https://www.unilu.ch/fileadmin/universitaet/unileitung/dokumente/dies_academicus/2012/Dies_2012_Jacobs-Stock_Laudatio.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Floor, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Wellingholzhausen
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 2016
Place of death Cheeky