Andreas Hoffmann (theologian)

Andreas Hoffmann (* 1959 in Lippetal ) is a German Roman Catholic church historian .

Life

After graduating from high school in Soest , he studied Latin and Catholic theology for teaching at the University of Münster . After obtaining his doctorate in Münster in 1991 , he completed his legal clerkship and taught as a teacher at the grammar school. After his habilitation in 1998 at the Ruhr University in Bochum , he teaches as a professor for Catholic theology / historical theology at the University of Siegen .

His main research interests are Augustine of Hippo, Christian existence in late antiquity between church norms and pagan practice (in the research field "Antiquity and Christianity") - Reception and transformation of divination, development and justification of church structures - Cyprian of Carthage and "Novum Testamentum Patristicum" ( NTP) - Reception history of the St. John Passion.

Fonts (selection)

• as editor: Augustine : De utilitate credendi. Latin. German. About the benefits of faith (= Fontes Christiani . Volume 9). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna / Barcelona / Rome / New York 1992, ISBN 3-451-22217-5 .
• Augustine's work “De utilitate credendi”. An analysis (= Münster contributions to theology . Volume 58). Aschendorff, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-402-03963-X (also dissertation, Münster 1991).
• Church structures and Roman law with Cyprian von Karthago (= legal and political science publications of the Görres Society. New series . Volume 92). Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-506-73393-1 (also habilitation thesis, Bochum 1998).
• as editor with Konstantin Lindner and Ulrich Riegel : Everyday history in religious education. Church history studies and religious didactic perspectives . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 3-17-022238-4 .

Web links

• University of Siegen