Christine Büchner
Christine Büchner (* 1970 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian and author .
Life
Christine Büchner studied Catholic theology, German and Latin philology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt from 1989 to 1995 . From 1995 to 1997 she did the traineeship. The Hanns Seidel Foundation supported her from 1998 to 1999 with a doctoral scholarship. She worked as a research assistant at the Department of Catholic Theology at the Goethe University Frankfurt in the subject of systematic theology from 1999 to 2004. In 2003, with the work of God's creature - “a pure nothing”? Unity of God as enabling of creature and personality in the work of Meister Eckhart . In 2004 and 2005 she studied Sanskrit at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . There she worked as a research assistant at the Catholic Theological Faculty (dogmatics and history of dogma) from 2004 to 2006, where she qualified as a professor in 2008 for dogmatics and ecumenical theology and taught as a private lecturer from 2008 to 2013. At the same time, she received graduate funding from the University of Tübingen and the Gerda Henkel Foundation . Between 2006 and 2011 she held several teaching positions at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. As a student councilor in Frankfurt, she taught from 2007 to 2013. From 2014 to 2020 she was Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Hamburg . Since 2020 she has been Professor of Dogmatics at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .
Past and current research focuses are mysticism and spirituality, theology of gifts, the history of theology of the Middle Ages, comparative theology with a focus on Christianity / Indian philosophies and religions and the theological thinking of women in the history of theology and in the present.
She is married to the writer Andreas Maier .
Publications (selection)
- God's creature - "a pure nothing"? Unity of God as an enabling of creature and personality in the work of Meister Eckhart . Tyrolia, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-7022-2640-0 (also dissertation, Frankfurt am Main 2003).
- with Andreas Maier : Bullau. Experiment over nature. Heinrich & Hahn, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-86597-038-9 .
- The transformation of Meister Eckhart's unified thinking in Heinrich Seuse and Johannes Tauler (= Meister-Eckhart-Jahrbuch , Supplement 1). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-17-019378-9 .
- Hildegard von Bingen . A life story (= Insel-Taschenbuch , Volume 3369). Insel-Verl., Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-458-35069-9 .
- How can God work in the world? Reflections on a theological hermeneutics of self-giving . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-32283-9 (also habilitation thesis, University of Tübingen, 2008).
- as editor with Christine Jung , Bernhard Nitsche and Lucia Scherzberg : Communication is possible. Theological, ecumenical and interreligious learning processes. Festschrift for Bernd Jochen Hilberath . Matthias-Grünewald-Verl., Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 3-7867-2993-X .
- as editor with Gerrit Spallek : In conversation with the world. An introduction to theology . Matthias-Grünewald-Verl., Ostfildern 2016, ISBN 3-7867-3067-9 .
- as editor with Markus Enders and Dietmar Mieth : Meister Eckhart interreligious (= Meister-Eckhart-Jahrbuch , Volume 10). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-17-031542-6 .
- as editor with Gerrit Spallek: In a nutshell. Basic concepts of theology . Matthias-Grünewald-Verl., Ostfildern 2017, ISBN 3786731195 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The theologian: Christine Büchner. In: Abendblatt.de . April 8, 2014, accessed January 25, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Büchner, Christine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Roman Catholic theologian and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |