Christian Hornung

Christian Hornung (born June 9, 1981 in Cologne ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian and church historian .

Life

He attended the Collegium Josephinum Bonn from 1992 to 2001. From the 2002 summer semester to 2007 summer semester, he studied Catholic theology, classical philology ( Latin and Greek ) and German in Bonn and Vienna . In the 2002/2003 winter semester he was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation. In the summer semester of 2007 he passed the first state examination(Sec. II / I) in the subjects of Latin and Catholic theology. In the 2007/2008 winter semester, he passed the first state examination (secondary level II / I) in German (supplementary examination). From 2007 to 2009 he participated (certified) in the higher education didactic training program of the Catholic Theol. Faculty of the University of Bonn (equivalent to the basic module of the NRW certificate "Professional Teaching Competence for the University"). From the summer semester 2007 to the summer semester 2010 he was a research assistant (assistant) at the Institute for Church History at the University of Bonn. From the summer semester 2007 to the winter semester 2014/2015 he was a research assistant at the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute . In the winter semester 2010/2011, the doctorate to Dr. theol. awarded the Pax Bank Prize for theological research contributions. From 2013 to 2016 he was a member of the Junge Kolleg of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts . From the summer semester 2008 to the summer semester 2016 he had teaching assignments at the Universities of Cologne , Siegen and Erfurt . In the summer semester 2014 after the habilitation for the subject “Ancient Church History and Patrology” at the Catholic Theol. Faculty of the University of Bonn, he represented the professorship for Ancient Church History, Patrology and Christian Archeology at the University of Münster . From the 2015 summer semester to the 2016 summer semester, Heisenberg was a DFG scholarship holder at the Department of Catholic Theology at the University of Siegen . In the summer semester of 2016, he was a visiting scholar at the Catholic University of America . From winter semester 2016/2017 to summer semester 2017 he represented the professorship for ancient church history and patrology at the University of Bonn. Since the winter semester 2017/2018 he has been teaching as a professor for ancient church history and patrology at the University of Bonn .

His main areas of research and interests are the legal and social history of ancient Christianity, penance and penance pastoral care, the history of the Roman primacy and asceticism, and ascetic ideals in ancient Christianity.

Fonts (selection)

• Directa ad decessorem. A church-historical-philological commentary on the first decretals of Siricius of Rome (= yearbook for antiquity and Christianity. Small series . Supplementary volume 8). Aschendorff, Münster 2011, ISBN 3-402-10915-8 (also dissertation, Bonn 2010).
• Apostasy in ancient Christianity. Studies on apostasy in early church theology, discipline and pastoral care (4th – 7th centuries AD) (= Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae . Volume 138). Brill, Leiden 2016, ISBN 978-90-04-32375-9 (also habilitation thesis, Bonn 2014).
• as editor with Dominik Höink and Anne Sanders : Find new things - create new things. Studies and interviews on creativity in science and art . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 3-506-78188-X .
• Monachus et sacerdos. Ascetic conceptualizations of the clergy in ancient Christianity . Brill 2020, ISBN 978-90-04-41957-5 .

Web links

• University of Bonn
• North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts