Alfons Auer

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Alfons Auer (born February 12, 1915 in Schönebürg ( Schwendi ), † November 19, 2005 in Tübingen ) was a German moral theologian .

Auer was ordained a priest in Rottenburg in 1939 . From 1951 to 1953 he was the founding director of the academy of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese . From 1955 to 1966 Auer held the chair for moral theology at the University of Würzburg and then taught as a professor at the University of Tübingen until his retirement in 1981 . There he was involved in the dispute about the removal of Hans Küng from the theological faculty, and in the end he opposed him.

Dietmar Mieth writes on the website of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen about Auer: “In his work he understood reality as a process and as history. In this he saw experiences and learning processes that enable the lasting truths to find a new language for their exploration. In the renewal of Catholic moral theology after the Council he became a widely visible and revered greatness ”.

His book Autonomous Moral and Christian Faith (1971) is considered the standard work of modern moral theology.

The pontifical request for Alfons Auer, led by Bishop Gebhard Fürst, took place on November 24, 2005 in St. Paulus in Tübingen. Auer was buried on November 26, 2005 in his hometown Schönebürg, where the village square has been called Alfons-Auer-Platz since 2010.

Alfons Auer Ethics Prize

In 2015, the Catholic Theological Faculty of Tübingen awarded the Alfons Auer Ethics Prize , endowed with 25,000 euros , to Charles Taylor for the first time . The 2017 award winner is Heiner Bielefeldt .

Works

  • The perfect piety of the Christian: after the Enchiridion militis Christiani by Erasmus of Rotterdam , 1954.
  • Cosmopolitan Christian , 1960.
  • Autonomous Moral and Christian Faith , 1971, 2nd edition 1984, new edition WBG, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 9783534268191 , with an introduction by Dietmar Mieth .
  • Environmental Ethics , 1984.
  • Aging Successfully , 1995.

literature

  • Karl-Wilhelm Merks : Autonomie , in: Jean-Pierre Wils , Dietmar Mieth (eds.), Basic Concepts of Christian Ethics , Munich-Vienna-Zurich 1992, 254–281.
  • Dietmar Mieth : Autonomous Morality in a Christian Context , in: Orientation 40 (1976), 31–34.
  • Dietmar Mieth, Helmut Weber (ed.): Claim of reality and Christian faith. Problems and ways of theological ethics today . Festschrift for Alfons Auer's 65th birthday. Düsseldorf 1980.
  • Konrad Hilpert : Ethics and Rationality: Investigations into the problem of autonomy and its significance for theological ethics , Düsseldorf 1980, passim.
  • Dietmar Mieth: Autonomous morality in the Christian faith, speeches for A. Auer's 90th birthday (= Tübingen University Speeches , NF. 42). Tübingen 2005.
  • Dietmar Mieth: Cosmopolitan Christianity. Alfons Auer's contribution to the renewal of moral theology . In: Herder Korrespondenz 60/1 (2006), 29–33.
  • Dietmar Mieth: Autonomous environmental ethics in the theological context. A design by A. Auer . In: Orientation 49 (1985), 17-19.
  • Wolfgang Nethöfel : Moral theology after the council: people, programs, positions , Göttingen 1987, 79–124 et passim.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Küng: Controversial Truth. Memories , Munich 2009, pp. 640–642
  2. ↑ Alfons Auer. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  3. ^ Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart : Alfons Auer died at the age of 90 ( memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) November 21, 2005
  4. ↑ Alfons Auer Ethics Prize. In: akademie-rs.de. Retrieved September 18, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Karl G. Rijkhoek: commitment to human rights: University of Tübingen distinguishes Heiner Bielefeldt. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, press release from September 18, 2017 at the Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on September 18, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Auer, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German moral theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönebürg near Biberach an der Riss
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2005
Place of death Tübingen