Bernhard Emunds

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Bernhard Emunds (born September 11, 1962 in Aachen ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian and economist .

Life

After completing school in Aachen, Emunds studied Catholic theology and history in Bonn , Paris from 1982 to 1988 and most recently at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main. From 1989 to 1993 Emunds studied economics at the University of Frankfurt am Main . His dissertation was carried out in 2000 with Bertram Schefold at the Faculty of Economics at the Goethe University with the text "Financial System and Economy - A Post-Keynesian Approach". His habilitation took place in 2005 at the Department of Catholic Theology at the University of Münster (first reviewer: Karl Gabriel ) with the thesis "Political Business Ethics Basics of an Ethics in International Financial Markets".

Emunds is married and has two children.

Bernhard Emunds has been Professor of Christian Social Ethics and Social Philosophy at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen and Head of the Oswald von Nell-Breuning Institute since 2006 . He is a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics . In 2011, Emunds signed the memorandum Church 2011: A Necessary Awakening .

In 2018 he was a founding member of the citizens' movement Finanzwende .

research

Bernhard Emunds' research focuses on the theory and ethics of finance as well as ethics of gainful employment and the welfare state. In July 2015, Emunds presented the study "Who cares about care work?" At a symposium in Berlin. Just Jobs in Private Households ”, which he developed together with the World Economy and Social Ethics Expert Group on behalf of the World Church Commission of the German Bishops' Conference . He is currently leading several research projects, among others on the topics of “Ethical aspects of church investments in commercial real estate”, “What should banks do? On the importance of rationality and legitimacy in the banking system ”and“ care work in private households ”.

Works (selection)

  • Together with Matthias Möhring-Hesse: The eco-social encyclical. Socio-ethical commentary on the circular "Laudato Si. Concerning the common house" from Pope Francis . In: Pope Francis , Laudato Si. The Pope's environmental encyclical, pp. 219–346, Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 2015.
  • Together with Hans-Günter Hockerts (ed.): Taming Capitalism. Oswald von Nell-Breuning's impulses for social policy , Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015.
  • Political business ethics of global financial markets , Heidelberg: Springer Gabler, 2014.
  • Together with Judith Hahn and Matthias Möhring-Hesse (eds.): Friedhelm Hengsbach, detoxified capitalism - fair democracy, texts on the reform of church, economy and society , Ostfildern: Grünewald, 2013.
  • Together with Wolf-Gero Reichert (ed.): Lift the veil of money! Perspectives on the monetary order in times of crisis (yearbook "Die Wirtschaft der Gesellschaft" 1), Marburg: Metropolis, 2013.
  • So that grandma is well , Westend-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2016.
  • (Ed.), Christian Social Ethics - Orientation Which Practice? (FS Friedhelm Hengsbach ), Nomos, Baden-Baden 2018.
  • Beyond Catholic Social Teaching (ed., Together with Friedhelm Hengsbach and Matthias Möhring-Hesse), Patmos, Düsseldorf 1993.
  • End the exploitation in the so-called 24-hour care! Ethical remarks on working conditions in German care households (Church and Society Green Series No. 454, published by the Catholic Social Science Center Mönchengladbach). JP Bachem Medien, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7616-3282-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ zdk.de: Members / Individuals , accessed on February 24, 2017.
  2. ^ Founding members. Citizens' Movement Finanzwende, archived from the original on July 6, 2020 ; accessed on July 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Emunds, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen