Arno Schilson

Arno Schilson (born January 29, 1945 in Lorch ; † March 29, 2005 ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

Arno Schilson studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Philosophical-Theological University of St. Georgen in Frankfurt am Main from 1964 to 1969 and was then ordained a priest . After a time as a pastor , he began studying for a doctorate at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen in 1971 . After graduating as Dr. theol. In 1973 in Tübingen with a thesis on the historical theological approaches of the poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , he became a scientific assistant to Walter Kasper at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Tübingen in 1974 . In his habilitation thesis in 1981 he dealt with the Maria Laacher Benedictine Odo Casel and then taught as a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz until 1984 . After he left the priesthood, he taught at the University of Mainz as a professor for Western religious history in the Department of History.

Since 1996 he has been a member of the Sectio theologica of the Bavarian Benedictine Academy . From 1993 to 1997 he was President of the International Lessing Society based in Cincinnati, USA, then until 2001 Senior Editor of the Lessing Yearbook.

Arno Schilson was married and had one daughter.

Fonts (selection)

• History on the providential horizon. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's contribution to a theology of history . Mainz 1974, ISBN 3-7867-0444-9 (dissertation).
• Christology in the present tense. Critical review of new designs. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1974 (with Walter Kasper)
• Theology as sacramental theology. Odo Casel's mystery theology . Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-7867-0928-9 (habilitation).
• Perspectives of theological renewal. Studies on the work of Romano Guardini . Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-491-77668-6 .
• The real joy of Christmas . Freiburg im Breisgau 1989, ISBN 3-451-21606-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ burg-rothenfels.de: Obituary † Arno Schilson (1945–2005) , accessed on March 30, 2020.