Anne Jensen (theologian)

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Anne Jensen (born July 4, 1941 in Hamburg ; † August 13, 2008 ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and university professor.

Life

Anne Jensen was the daughter and the only child of the physicist Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen and his wife, the doctor Elisabeth, geb. Behm (* 1910). As a youth she was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church. She studied German and theater studies at the University of Heidelberg . In 1964 she came first in the Benedictine - Abbey of St. Hildegard (Rudesheim am Rhein) a. Two years later she switched to a French order and in 1971 began studying theology at the Dominican College in Toulouse . In 1977 she left the order.

In the same year she came to the University of Tübingen . She became a research assistant at Hans Küng and was a research assistant at his institute from 1980 to 1997. In 1987 she became Dr. Theol. PhD. After a conflict between Hans Küng and Bernadette Brooten , in 1985 she took over Brooten's sub-project of the research project Woman and Christianity funded by the Volkswagen Foundation ; she completed her habilitation in 1992. The then Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart , Walter Kasper , granted her the Nihil obstat , and she received the license to teach ecumenical theology and theological women's studies .

In 1997, after a long struggle for the Vatican nihil obstat, she was appointed to the Chair of Ecumenical Theology, Eastern Church Orthodoxy and Patrology at the University of Graz .

She was a founding member of the European Society of Women in Theological Research .

Anne Jensen remained unmarried and since her time in Tübingen had a foster daughter from Vietnam .

Fonts

  • The future of orthodoxy. Council plans and church structures. Benziger, Zurich / Einsiedeln / Cologne 1986 At the same time Univ. Diss., Tübingen 1987, ISBN 3-545-24218-8 .
  • God's confident daughters. Women's emancipation in early Christianity? Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-451-22597-2 (Frauenforum series).
God`s Self-Confident Daughters. Early Christianity and the liberation of women. Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Ky. 1996, ISBN 0-664-25672-4 (English).
New edition with an updating addendum (= Theological Women's Research in Europe 9). Lit-Verlag, Münster / Hamburg / London 2003, ISBN 9783825859602 .
  • Thekla: the apostoline. An apocryphal text rediscovered. Translated and commented by Anne Jensen. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-451-23674-5 .
New edition (= Kaiser pocket books 172): Kaiser, Gütersloh 1999, ISBN 3-579-05172-5 .
Tekla, de vrouwelijke apostel naast Paulus. An apocriefe tekst opnieuw ontdekt. Ten Have, Baarn 2001, ISBN 90-259-5236-4 (Dutch).
  • Inaugural lecture by Ms. O. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anne Jensen (= Graz University Speeches 63). Kienreich, Graz 1998.
  • Women in early Christianity. Lang, Bern a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-906767-53-1 .
Femmes des premiers siècles chrétiens. Lang, Bern a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-906767-67-1 (French)
  • with Michaela Sohn-Kronthaler (Ed.): Forms of female authority. Income from historical-theological research on women (= Theological Research on Women in Europe 17). Lit-Verlag, [Münster], Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7650-0 .
  • with G. Larentzakis (ed.): Diakonat and Diakonie in early Christian and Eastern Church tradition (= Grazer theological studies 23). Institute for Ecumenical Theology, Eastern Church Orthodoxy and Patrology, Graz 2008, ISBN 978-3-900797-23-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller:  Jensen, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 410 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ See her review as “grandmother”: Anne Jensen: On the way to Femist Theology. (PDF) University of Graz, p. 85 , archived from the original on June 10, 2012 ; Retrieved July 6, 2017 . ; first in: Irmtraud Fischer, Michaela Sohn-Kronthaler, Stefanie Knauss (eds.): 10 years faculty focus on women and gender studies at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz - documentation 1994-2004 (= crossing. Publication of the association to promote theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the KFU Graz 4/1). Graz 2005
personal data
SURNAME Jensen, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 2008