Benedict Thomas Viviano

Benedict Thomas Viviano

Benedict Thomas Viviano OP (born January 22, 1940 in St. Louis , Missouri , USA ) is an American theologian.

Life

Benedict T. Viviano joined in 1959 the Congregation of the Dominicans in 1966 and received the priesthood . He studied at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC , Harvard University in Boston , Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and the Pontifical Biblical Institutes (PIB) in Rome and Jerusalem . Benedict Thomas received his PhD in Biblical Studies from Duke University in 1976 . He completed postgraduate studies at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati , the oldest US rabbinical seminary , as well as at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the University of Vienna .

Viviano taught from 1972 to 1984 at the Aquinas Institute of Theology of the Dominicans in St. Louis , then at the École biblique in Jerusalem. From 1995 until his retirement in 2008, Viviano held the chair for New Testament at the theological faculty of the Swiss University of Friborg . Since 1998 he has also been a subprior in the Freiburg Albertinum.

Benedict Thomas Viviano is a recognized expert on the New Testament . He has published numerous publications on topics such as Christology , Pneumatology and the doctrine of the Trinity . Among other things, he is involved in the Jewish / Roman Catholic Discussion Commission (JRGK) of the University of Lucerne. In 2009 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Aquinas Institute of Theology.

Fonts

• Trinity - Kingdom - Church. Essays in Biblical Theology. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002, ISBN 978-3-525-53949-1 .
• The kingdom of God in history. Between the message of liberation and legitimation of power. Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2589-5 . 


Web links

• Literature by and about Benedict Thomas Viviano in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Benedict Thomas Viviano ( Memento from December 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (University of Freiburg)