Andreas Resch (theologian)

Father Andreas Resch CSsR in summer 2012

Andreas Resch C.Ss.R (* 29. October 1934 in Collepietra , South Tyrol ) is a South Tyrolean theologian , psychologist and Para scientist - he himself speaks of Paranormologie .

Live and act

Resch entered the Redemptorist Order in 1955 . From 1956 to 1962 he studied Catholic theology . In 1961 he was ordained a priest . In 1963 he was at the University of Graz Dr. theol. PhD . He completed further studies in psychology at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Innsbruck in 1967 with a doctorate in medicine. phil. from.

After training in psychoanalytical and behavioral therapy in Innsbruck, Munich and London, years of psychotherapeutic practice followed. From 1969 to 2000 he was a professor at the Accademia Alfonsiana of the Pontifical Lateran University / Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome with lectures on clinical psychology and paranormology (term introduced by Resch to denote the entire field of the extraordinary). He has given numerous guest lectures in the USA, Japan and Australia.

In 1974 he founded the Resch publishing house and since 1980 has been director of the "Institute for Frontier Areas of Science" (IGW), which he founded. He is also the initiator of the Imago Mundi congresses and publisher of several magazines and book series such as the interdisciplinary quarterly Ethica . Resch received the Tyrolean Eagle Order in gold and honorary citizenship from Karneid in South Tyrol.

He led in 1998 and 2005 investigations of the alleged Marian apparitions of Medjugorje by and published the results under the Medjugorje visionaries. Psychophysiological investigation 1998 (co-author Giorgio Gagliardi) and The seers of Medjugorje under the control of science . He came to the opinion that science could neither confirm nor deny that the visionaries had appeared to the Mother of God . But she could say that the seers are physically and mentally healthy even after 17 years, that they had a profound experience that continues to have an impact today and cannot be explained solely from their life story. The contents of their statements did not contain any significant contradictions and were also not objectionable theologically. For the seers themselves, the experiences they have made are a sacred good, to which they still stand inviolably.

Andreas Resch has been a member of the Catholic student union K.Ö.HV Leopoldina Innsbruck since 1965 .

Fonts

• The dream in God's plan of salvation. 1963.
• Depression: causes, forms, therapy. 1976, ISBN 3-85382-001-8 .
• Gerda Walther : Your life and work. 1983, ISBN 3-85382-024-7 .
• Impulses from science and research. Yearbook 1986–1993, ISBN 3-85382-039-5 .
• with G. Gagliardi: I Veggenti di Medjugorje. Ricerca psicofisiologica 1998. 2000, ISBN 3-85382-069-7 .
• Survival. 2004, ISBN 3-85382-074-3 .
• The face of Christ. 2005, ISBN 3-85382-077-8 .
• The seers of Medjugorie. 2005, ISBN 3-85382-078-6 .
• The Blessed John Paul II. 1991-1995. 2008.
• The soul. Innsbruck, Grenzgebiet der Wissenschaft 62 (2013) 2, 99–128 ( PDF 474 kB; 24 pages on imagomundi.biz)

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Resch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography and Bibliography
• Institute for Frontier Areas of Science

Individual evidence

1. ^ Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris