Christian Spieß (theologian)

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Christian Spieß (born August 9, 1970 in Dieburg ) is a German Catholic theologian and professor of social ethics .

Life

Christian Spieß studied religious education at the Catholic University of Mainz and theology and philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . After receiving his doctorate in theology , he worked from 2004 to 2009 as a research assistant at the Institute for Christian Social Sciences at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . From 2006 to 2009 Spieß was editor of the Yearbook for Christian Social Sciences . From 2008 to 2016, together with Karl Gabriel and Katja Winkler , Spieß conducted research on the recognition of religious freedom by the Catholic Church at the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics at the University of Münster . From 2009 to 2015 he was professor for theological ethics as well as anthropology and ethics at the Catholic University of Social Sciences in Berlin . In 2015 Spieß received the Venia docendi and was appointed professor for Christian social sciences at the Catholic Private University Linz (KU). Spieß heads the Johannes Schasching SJ Institute for Christian Social Sciences in Linz , which he founded in 2017 .

Research priorities

Christian Spieß's main research areas are Christian social ethics and Catholic social doctrine as well as business ethics . Another research focus lies in the relationship between religion and politics as well as religion and modernity, in particular in the modernization of Catholicism, in the theories of secularization and in the attitude of religious communities to human rights and democracy . With regard to dealing with Islam in Europe , Spieß advocates a wide range of freedom for religious practice and, for example, against a ban on the burqa or the niqab in public. The example of the Catholic Church , which did not recognize the human right to religious freedom and the separation of religion and politics until 1965 , shows that religious communities tend to recognize the liberal constitutional state if it gives them wide scope for freedom for their own religious practice.

Fonts (selection)

  • Social Ethics of Property. Philosophical foundations - church social proclamation - systematic differentiation. LIT-Verlag, Münster u. a. 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7467-2 , also: Dissertation, University of Mainz, 2004.
  • with Hermann-Josef Große Kracht , Tobias Karcher (ed.): The system of solidarism. To deal with the work of Heinrich Pesch SJ , In: Studies on Christian Social Ethics Vol. 11, LIT 2006 Münster, ISBN 978-3-8258-0149-6
  • Ed. Together with Katja Winkler: Feminist ethics and Christian social ethics. LIT-Verlag, Münster u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1677-3 .
  • Ed. Together with Hermann-Josef Große Kracht: Christianity and Solidarity. Inventories of social ethics and the sociology of religion. Verlag F. Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76671-7 .
  • Religious freedom and pluralism. Lines of Development of a Catholic Learning Process. Verlag F. Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76933-6 .
  • Freedom - nature - religion. Studies on social ethics. Verlag F. Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76936-7 .
  • Ed. Together with Karl Gabriel and Katja Winkler: Religion - Violence - Terrorism. Religious sociological and ethical analyzes. Verlag F. Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76934-3 .
  • Models of Religious Pluralism. Verlag F. Schöningh, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77407-1 .
  • Together with Karl Gabriel and Katja Winkler: How did Catholicism find religious freedom? Factors of the renewal of the Catholic Church. Verlag F. Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-77405-7 .
  • Between violence and human rights. Religion in the field of tension of modernity. Verlag F. Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78534-3 .
  • Catholicism and Religious Freedom. Renewing the Church in the Second Vatican Council. Brill Publishers, Leiden / Boston 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78900-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Project renunciation of violence in religious traditions on the website of the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics Münster
  2. Research focus on Catholicism in the modern age on the website of the KU Linz ( Memento from July 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. Religion can be fearful and can relieve fear. In: Upper Austrian news. April 16, 2016. Retrieved November 17, 2016 .
  4. Karl Gabriel / Christian Spieß / Katja Winkler: How did Catholicism find religious freedom? Factors of the renewal of the Catholic Church . Verlag F. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-77405-7 .
  5. Christian Spieß: Between violence and human rights. Religion in the field of tension of modernity . Verlag F. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78534-3 .