Christian Schaller

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Christian Schaller (born November 2, 1967 in Munich ) is a German Catholic theologian and deputy director of the Pope Benedict XVI Institute. in Regensburg .

Scientific career

Christian Schaller studied Catholic theology at the LMU Munich . From 1997 to 2000 he was there as a research assistant at the chair for systematic theology for future high school teachers and on the research project "Religious history of a fundamental modern concept, from ancient Christianity to the 20th century". During his time as a research assistant at the chair for dogmatics with Gerhard Ludwig Müller (2000–2003) he received his doctorate as Dr. theol. with a work on the ecclesiology represented by Franz Seraph Hettinger in the 19th century.

After Gerhard Ludwig Müller's appointment as Bishop of Regensburg in 2003, Schaller followed him as his theological advisor. He filled this position until 2012 and was also responsible for the development of the newly founded Pope Benedict XVI Institute as deputy director with Rudolf Voderholzer from 2008 . Since 2012 he has headed the operational work of the institute and the publication of the collected writings of Joseph Ratzinger / Benedikt XVI. (JRGS) . In 2013 he received the Ratzinger Prize from Pope Francis from the Vatican Foundation Joseph Ratzinger.

Schaller's main themes are Christology and Ecclesiology.

Honors

Fonts

  • Organum salutis: the sacramentality of the church in the ecclesiological draft of the Würzburg apologist Franz Seraph Hettinger; a contribution to the ecclesiology of the 19th century , St. Ottilien 2003, ISBN 978-3-8306-7164-0 .
  • Pope Pius IX encounter , Augsburg 2003, ISBN 3-929246-96-1 .
  • / Gerhard Ludwig Müller (ed.), Mediator and Liberator: the Christological Dimension of Theology , Freiburg i. Breisgau 2008, ISBN 978-3-451-29804-2 .
  • (Ed.), Church - Sacrament and Community: on ecclesiology and ecumenism in Joseph Ratzinger (RaSt 11), Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7917-2394-5 .
  • (Ed.), Break me the bread of the word: Feast for Pope em. Benedict XVI. for his 90th birthday , Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7954-3248-5 .
  • / Florian Schuller / Josef Zöhrer (ed.), Europe christian ?! : on the discussion of faith and the secular world (RaSt 14), Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7917-2388-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Nobel Prize in Theology" goes to Regensburg. In: TVA Fernsehen für Ostbayern , October 28, 2013, accessed on April 18, 2019.
  2. ^ The third Joseph Ratzinger Prize. Profiles of the award winners. Homepage of the Fondazione Ratzinger , accessed in April 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Schaller, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, Ratzinger Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH November 2nd, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich