Bernhard Laux

Bernhard Laux (* 1955 in Gutenzell ) is a German theologian and university professor.

After studying Catholic theology, sociology and pedagogy (each with a diploma) at the University of Bamberg , he received his doctorate in 1986 at the university with a social-ethical dissertation on the institutional order of mass communication. The habilitation took place at the University of Erfurt for Christian social science and social ethics. From 1982 to 1992 he worked as a research assistant at the chair for Christian social teaching and general sociology of religion at the University of Bamberg and from 1992 to 2002 as a consultant for family education and social issues of marriage and family in the secretariat of the German Bishops' Conference . Since 2002 he has been a professor for “Theological Social Ethics, Anthropology and Value Orientation” at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Regensburg. a. Functions as dean as well as a member of the Senate and the University Council.

His main research interests are fundamental questions of theological social ethics in a secular society, the justification of normative, political judgments under conditions of pluralism, religion and politics, religion and science, ethics of the university and ethics of intimate forms of life in their political relevance.

Fonts (in selection)

• with Konrad Hilpert (Ed.): Mission at the end? The dispute over marriage and family. Freiburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-34192-2 .
• as ed .: Holiness and human dignity. Hans Joas' "new genealogy of human rights" in theological discussion. Freiburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-34148-9 .
• with Erwin Dirscherl, Christoph Dohmen and Rudolf Englert: Living in relationship. Theological anthropology. Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-451-29944-5 .
• with Thorsten Kingreen (Ed.): Health and Medicine in an Interdisciplinary Discourse. Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-77195-1 .
• Eccentric social ethics. On the presence and effectiveness of the Christian faith in modern society. Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-9257-9 .
• The institutional order of mass communication from a socio-ethical point of view. Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-8204-0013-3 .

Web links

• Bernhard Laux on the website of the professorship at the University of Regensburg
• Writings by Bernhard Laux on the publication server of the University of Regensburg
• Can one evaluate (intimate) forms of life? A reflection following Jürgen Habermas and Rahel Jaeggi , in: Ethics and Society No. 1 (2017)
• Change of intergenerational relationships - socio-political challenges of intergenerational justice (PDF) Yearbook for Christian Social Sciences 53 (2012)
• Civil Society - Just a Magic Formula? On the theoretical and normative power of interpretation of the concept (PDF) , Amosinternational 5 (2011)
• In defense of love. Contours of a family model for the changed demographic and social situation (PDF) , Yearbook for Christian Social Sciences 49 (2008)