Bernhard Haring

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Bernhard Häring (1912–1998)
Bernhard Häring: Signature 1963

Bernhard Häring CSsR (born November 10, 1912 in Böttingen near Spaichingen , † July 3, 1998 in Haag in Upper Bavaria ) was a Roman Catholic moral theologian and clergyman of the Redemptorist Order .

Life

Bernhard Häring did his doctorate with Theodor Steinbüchel . He was from 1947 to 1951 at the Philosophical-Theological College of the Redemptorists in Gars am Inn and from 1951 to 1987 Professor of Moral Theology at the Theological College of the Redemptorists Accademia Alfonsiana in Rome . He taught as a visiting professor at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York . At the Second Vatican Council he was theological advisor and worked on the pastoral constitution Gaudium et spes . Häring founded a biblically oriented, personal moral theology and significantly influenced the further development of this discipline. Ecumenical conversation and dialogue with modern, pluralistic culture increasingly shaped his work.

Häring wrote numerous works on moral theology and issues of the time. He became known worldwide primarily through his two standard works on moral theology, The Law of Christ (1954) and Free in Christ (1979–1981). The Redemptorist library in Gars am Inn, where Häring moved with the majority of his writings in 1988, has a total of around 430 different editions of his works in 17 languages. In the last years of his life he struggled with teaching objection proceedings by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome. Häring died on July 3, 1998 a few days after a stroke in the Haag hospital (Mühldorf am Inn district). His simple grave is in the Gars monastery cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • The holy and the good. Religion and morality in their mutual relation . Erich Wewel Verlag , (Diss.) Krailling in front of Munich 1950. Translations into: French, Italian, Polish.
  • The law of Christ. Moral theology. Shown for priests and laypeople . Erich Wewel Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1st edition in one volume: 1954. 8th, revised edition in 3 volumes 1967. Translations into: Chinese, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Croatian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Hungarian.
  • Family sociology. The family and their environment. Otto Müller Verlag , Salzburg 1954. Translation into: English, Dutch.
  • Power and impotence of religion. Sociology of religion as a call. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1956. Translation into: French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish.
  • Christian in a new world. Shaping life from faith . Erich Wewel Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1960. Translations into: English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish.
  • Marriage at this time . Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1960. Translations into: English, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish
  • The present hour of salvation. Collected Essays. Erich Wewel Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1964. Translations into: English, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
  • Love is more than a commandment. Renewal of life from the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount . Erich Wewel Verlag, Munich and Freiburg i. Br. 1968. Translations into: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech
  • Personalism in Philosophy and Theology . Erich Wewel Verlag, Munich and Freiburg i. Br. 1968. Translations into: English, Italian, Spanish
  • Healing ministry. Ethical problems of modern medicine . Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1972. ISBN 3-7867-0366-3 . Translations into: English, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish
  • Free in Christ. Moral theology for the practice of Christian life . 3 volumes. Herder Verlag , Freiburg i.Br, Basel, Vienna 1979–1981, special edition 1989. Translations into: English, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish. ISBN 3-451-21604-3
  • When it came to survival. War memories of a priest . Styria Verlag, Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1982. ISBN 3-222-11026-3 . Translations into: English, French, Italian, Spanish
  • The healing power of nonviolence . Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 1986. ISBN 3-491-77650-3 .
  • My experience with the church . Translated by B. Häring from his Italian edition Fede storia morale (Rome 1989). Herder publishing house, Freiburg i. Br., Basel, Vienna 1989, 8th edition 1992. ISBN 3-451-21620-5 . Further translations in: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech
  • Hopeless? For divorce and remarriage pastoral care. A plea . Herder publishing house, Freiburg i. Br., Basel, Vienna 1989. ISBN 3-451-21605-1 . Translations into: English, French, Italian, Dutch Portuguese, Spanish
  • Safe and free. Mein Leben Verlag Herder, Freiburg i. Br., Basel, Vienna 1997. ISBN 3-451-26385-8 . Translations into: English and Slovenian 1997 ISBN 3-451-26385-8
  • My hope for the church. Critical encouragement . Herder publishing house, Freiburg i. Br., Basel, Vienna 1. u. 2nd edition 1997. ISBN 3-451-26159-6 . Italian: Brescia 1994, 2nd edition 1995; 1997. Portuguese and Spanish 1995.
  • I saw your tears Comfort book for the sick and their companions . Herder 1998. ISBN 3-451-26684-9
  • Moral theology for the third millennium (Original: Teologia morale verso il terzo millennio ). Styria Verlag, Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1999 ISBN 3-222-12680-1
  • The ethics of the Sermon on the Mount. The eight Beatitudes (original: Beatitudini ). Styria Verlag, Graz, Vienna, Cologne 2000. ISBN 3-222-12785-9

Awards

literature

in order of appearance

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Wenhardt: Booklist Bernhard Haering. Gars am Inn 1997.
  2. ↑ Meinrad Scholl: Local history market town Gars am Inn. Published by the market town of Gars am Inn, 2010 and a listing of the Redemptorist library in Gars am Inn that was drawn up in consultation with Häring during his lifetime

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personal data
SURNAME Haring, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic moral theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Böttingen near Spaichingen
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1998
Place of death Gars on the Inn