Bernhard Fresacher

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Bernhard Fresacher (2011)

Bernhard Gottfried Maria Fresacher (born December 14, 1964 in Salzburg ) is a religious scholar and Catholic theologian , titular professor for fundamental theology at the University of Lucerne .

Life

After graduating from the College Borromäum Salzburg , Bernhard Fresacher studied philosophy , education , psychology , religious studies and theology at the universities of Salzburg, Würzburg, Trier and Mainz. He completed his studies with a diploma in Catholic theology and religious education . From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a research assistant for dogmatics and ecumenical theology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . In particular, he researched the cults and traditions of Christian anti-Judaism in Europe. Among other things, he documented the suspension of the Anderl von Rinn worship in Judenstein (Tyrol). In 1995 he received his doctorate in theology from the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg with a thesis on memory and tradition (including on Aby Warburg and Maurice Halbwachs ) .

Fresacher works in the Catholic Office in Mainz (Commissariat of the Bishops of Rhineland-Palatinate), with a focus on education and culture. His research deals in particular with religious language, belief and communication as well as rationality and religiosity . What does it mean for religion and theology when communication “is switched from representation (one person says what applies to all) to resonance (the form decides how something is received)”? In contrast to the mathematical ( Claude E. Shannon , Warren Weaver ), philosophical ( Jürgen Habermas ) and sociological ( Niklas Luhmann ), Fresacher advocates a theological communication theory . He received his habilitation in 2005 with a thesis on communication theory and theology at the University of Lucerne . Since then he has worked there as a private lecturer and adjunct professor for fundamental theology . In 2012 he received a teaching position for pastoral theology at the Catholic University of Mainz , in 2014 and 2017 for dogmatics and in 2018 for fundamental theology at the theological faculty of the University of Lucerne.

A research focus today is on the image and teaching of Christ ( Christology ) in antiquity , the Middle Ages and the present as a form of a modern Christianity capable of pluralism . Fresacher is again concerned with “drawing theology's attention to communication not primarily as a (controllable and controllable) instrument of mediation, but rather as a (non-controllable and uncontrollable) prerequisite for its own knowledge and work”. This leads to paradoxes that one encounters similarly in Christology, for example in the ancient figure of the communicatio idiomatum . Further topics are religious divine speech, religious semantics , religious aesthetics and religious identity in modern world society, as well as questions of theological theory of theology.

Publications

  • Changing memory. On the processing of tradition breaks in the church , Tyrolia-Verlag Innsbruck-Wien 1996. ( ISBN 3-7022-2027-5 )
  • Anderl von Rinn . Ritual murder cult and reorientation in Judenstein 1945-1995 , Tyrolia-Verlag Innsbruck-Vienna 1998. ( ISBN 3-7022-2125-5 )
  • Communication. Promises and limits of a theological guiding concept , Herder-Verlag Freiburg-Basel-Wien 2006. ( ISBN 3-451-29143-6 )
  • (Ed.), New Languages ​​for God. New beginnings in media, literature and science , Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag Ostfildern 2010. ( ISBN 978-3-7867-2810-8 )
  • (with Nicole Hennecke and Burkhard Neumann) (Eds.), And bring together what is separate - ecumenism in church and society . International Ecumenical Forum Trier 2012, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig 2013. ( ISBN 978-3-374-03373-7 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fresacher, Bernhard, New Languages ​​for God? An introduction, in: ders. (Ed.), New Languages ​​for God. Breakthroughs in media, literature and science, Ostfildern 2010, 8-12, here 10.
  2. ↑ Fresacher, Bernhard, Unity and Difference. Christological reminiscences of the communicative rationality of the Christian faith, in: Theologie und Glaube 103 (2013), 318-341, here 339.
personal data
SURNAME Fresacher, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fresacher, Bernhard Gottfried Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian religious scholar and Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg