Assaad Elias Kattan

Assaad Elias Kattan (* 1967 in Beirut , Lebanon ) is an Orthodox theologian .

Life

Assaad Elias Kattan studied Christian Orthodox theology from 1985 to 1990 at Balamand University in Lebanon . He then did postgraduate studies in Thessaloniki ( Greece ), Erlangen and Marburg . In 2000 he received his doctorate from the University of Marburg with a thesis on the subject of "Embodiment and Synergy".

Since 1999 he has been a freelancer for the Lebanese daily newspaper “An-nahar”. Since 2006 he has also been a theological employee of the Working Group of Christian Churches in Germany (ACK).

Scientific career

From 2002 to 2004 Kattan worked as an assistant professor at the "Institute for History, Archeology and Heritage of the Middle East" at the University of Balamand, then until 2005 as a fellow at the Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg, where he discussed the reception of modern hermeneutics in Islamic circles in Lebanon after the civil war (1975 –1990) examined.

In 2005 he became professor of Christian Orthodox theology at the Center for Religious Studies (CRS) of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . Anastasios Kallis held this chair before him .

Memberships

• Informal Ecumenical Working Group of Lebanon (2002).
• Christianity-Islam Theological Forum (2004)
• Society for the Study of the Christian East (GSCO) (2006)
• International Ecumenical Working Group Saint Ireneau, (2006)
• International Association of Orthodox Professors of Dogmatics (2007)
• Scientific advisory board of the interdisciplinary research center Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses (KCID) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Publications (selection)

• Incarnation and Synergy. Basics of biblical hermeneutics in Maximus Confessor , Leiden / Boston / Cologne 2003, Brill-Verlag, ISBN 90-04-12669-4

Contributions

• Al-urthudhuks wa-sh-sha'n al-'am. Qira'ah tarikhiyyah wa turuhat mustaqbaliyyah (The Orthodox and Public Issues. Historical Reading and Future Proposals) , in: Dhakirat al-kanisah wa-turuhatiha-l-mustaqbaliyyah hawla-l-fann wa-th-thaqafah wash-sha'nil- 'am (Church Memory and Her Future Proposals Concerning Art, Culture and Public Matters), Lwaizé-Lebanon 2000, 127–130.
• Hurriyyat al-fikr ad-dini. Mughamarat Hiwar? (Freedom of Religious Thought. A Dialogue Adventure?) , In: Al-hurriyyah fi ab-'adiha al-hadariyyah (Freedom in its Cultural Dimensions), Beirut 2005, 11-29.
• Separating difference vs. reconciling synthesis. Reflections on a few defining identifications , in: Identity through difference? Reciprocal delimitations in Christianity and Islam, edited by Hansjörg Schmid, Regensburg 2007, 245–253.

Web links

• Literature by and about Assaad Elias Kattan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Westphalian Wilhelms University