Claus Arnold (theologian)

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Claus Arnold (* 1965 in Ravensburg ) is a German Catholic theologian and church historian .

Life

After graduating from the Albert Einstein-Gymnasium in Ravensburg and completing basic military service at the School for Military Police and Staff Service in Sonthofen, Claus Arnold studied Catholic theology at the University of Tübingen from 1986 to 1992 and in 1988/1989 as a visiting student at the University of Oxford ( St Benet's Hall ). The Cusanuswerk sponsored him from 1988 to 1992 as a scholarship holder. From 1992 to 1997 he was a research assistant at the Catholic Theology Department at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In December 1997 he completed the doctoral procedure in Catholic theology at the PTH Sankt Georgen (in cooperation with the Department of Catholic Theology at Goethe University) with Klaus Schatz and Hubert Wolf . From 1997 to 2000 he was a research assistant in the department of Catholic theology at Goethe University. From 2000 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the Department of Medieval and Modern Church History at the University of Münster , where he received his habilitation in the subject of Medieval and Modern Church History and was appointed private lecturer in the 2002/03 winter semester . In the summer semester of 2002, he was on leave to take up a post- doctoral degree from the FAZIT Foundation .

After a substitute chair in the 2003/2004 winter semester at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, he became professor (C 3) for church history there in the 2004 summer semester . Since the summer semester 2014 he has been teaching as a professor (W 3) for Middle and Modern Church History / Religious Folklore at the Catholic Theological Faculty of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

His main research interests are the history of churches and theology of the 16th century (especially theological denomination ), the history of churches and theology of the 19th and 20th centuries (especially ultramontanism and the modernism crisis ), educational and university history, the history of the Roman Curia and the history of the national church , v. a. the Upper Rhine Church Province ( Mainz , Rottenburg , Freiburg ).

Arnold is Vice President of the Society for Middle Rhine Church History for the Diocese of Mainz and head of the Institute for Church History in Mainz. From 2012 to 2020 he was a member of Review Board 107 (Theology) of the German Research Foundation . He is u. a. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose (Bologna) and the Scientific Commission of the Commission for Contemporary History .

Fonts (selection)

  • Catholicism as a cultural power. The Freiburg theologian Joseph Sauer (1872–1949) and the legacy of Franz Xaver Kraus (= publications of the Commission for Contemporary History, Series B Research. Volume 86). Schöningh, Paderborn 1999, ISBN 3-506-79991-6 (also dissertation, PTH Sankt Georgen 1998).
  • with Hubert Wolf (ed.): The German-speaking countries and the II. Vaticanum (= program and impact history of the II. Vaticanum. Volume 4). Schöningh, Paderborn 2000, ISBN 3-506-73764-3 .
  • with Hubert Wolf (ed.): The Rheinische Reformkreis. Documents on Modernism and Reform Catholicism in Germany 1942–1955. 2 volumes. Schöningh, Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-506-79700-X .
  • with Manfred Weitlauff, Hubert Wolf (Ed.): Otto Weiß : Cultures - Mentalities - Myths. On the theological and cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70119-3 .
  • Little history of modernism. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, ISBN 3-451-29106-1 .
    • Polish: Mała historia modernizmu. Translator Tadeusz Zatorski. Wydawnictwo WAM, Krakow 2009, ISBN 978-83-7505-159-9 .
    • Czech: Malé dějiny katolického modernismu. Translator Helena Medek. Vyśehrad, Prague 2014, ISBN 978-80-7429-282-8 .
  • The Roman censorship of the works of Cajetan and Contarini (1558–1601). Limits to theological confessionalization (= Roman Inquisition and Index Congregation. Volume 10). Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76437-9 (also habilitation thesis, Münster 2003).
  • with Bernd Trocholepczy , Knut Wenzel (Ed.): John Henry Newman. Doctors of the modern age. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-30301-2 .
  • with Giacomo Losito (ed.): La censure d'Alfred Loisy (1903). Les documents des Congrégations de l'Index et du Saint Office (= Fontes Archivi Sancti Officii Romani. Volume 4). Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City 2009, ISBN 88-209-8318-4 .
  • with Giovanni Vian (Ed.): La condanna del modernismo. Documenti, interpretazioni, conseguenze (= I libri di Viella. Volume 106). Viella, Rome 2010, ISBN 978-88-8334-440-4 .
  • with Giacomo Losito (ed.): "Lamentabili sane exitu" (1907). Les documents préparatoires du Saint Office (= Fontes Archivi Sancti Officii Romani. Volume 6). Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City 2011, ISBN 978-88-209-8587-5 .
  • with Johannes Wischmeyer (Ed.): Transnational Dimensions of Scientific Theology (= publications of the Institute for European History Mainz. Supplement 101). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-88-8334-440-4 .
  • (Ed.): Thematic volume. After anti-modernism? Paths of Catholic Theology 1918-1958 (= Rottenburger Jahrbuch. Volume 32). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 3799563822 .
  • (Ed.): Peter Walter : Syngrammata. Collected writings on theology and church on the Middle Rhine (= contributions to Mainz church history. Volume 8). Echter, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-429-03815-1 .
  • with Christoph Nebgen (Ed.): Pictures of life from the diocese of Mainz. Volume 1. Eleven portraits. Echter, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-934450-64-6 .
  • with Christoph Nebgen (Ed.): Pictures of life from the diocese of Mainz. Volume 2. Fourteen portraits. Echter, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-429-04470-1 .
  • with Giovanni Vian (Ed.): The Reception and Application of the Encyclical Pascendi. The Reports of the Diocesan Bishops and the Superiors of the Religious Orders until 1914 (= Studi di Storia. Volume 3). Edizioni Ca'Foscari, Venice 2017, ISBN 8869691314 .

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personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg