Dirk Ansorge

Dirk Ansorge (born July 13, 1960 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian and dogmatist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1979 at the Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Gymnasium in Gelsenkirchen, he did basic military service in the Air Force in Pinneberg and Diepholz from 1979 to 1980 . From 1980 to 1982 he studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Funded by a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD ), he spent an ecumenical year of study in Jerusalem from 1982 to 1983 . While studying theology from 1983 to 1984 at the Université des Sciences Humaines in Strasbourg , he was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation in 1984. From 1984 to 1986 he studied Catholic theology and physics in Bochum . The state graduate support of the state of Baden-Württemberg supported him in 1987 with a doctoral scholarship. From 1987 to 1992 he worked at the chair for dogmatics with Peter Hünermann at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , where he received his doctorate in Catholic theology in 1993 . The University of Innsbruck awarded him the Karl Rahner Prize for theological research in 1994 . From 1993 to 2011 he lectured at the Catholic Academy of the Ruhr Diocese of Essen Wolfsburg (Mülheim an der Ruhr) . After his habilitation in Catholic theology in 2008 at the University of Münster , the granting of the license to teach ( venia legendi ) for dogmatics and the history of dogmas and the appointment as a private lecturer , he taught as visiting professor for dogmatics at the University of Vienna in 2009/2010 .

From 2011 to 2012 he was initially a lecturer in dogmatics at the PTH Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main , where he has been a professor for dogmatics since 2012 . Ansorge has been Vice-Rector of the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main since 2014 .

Act

His work focuses on the history of theology and dogma, especially christology , ecclesiology , theology of creation and theology of the sacraments , theology of reconciliation in the area of ​​tension between justice and mercy, anthropological and theological aspects of guilt, forgiveness and reconciliation, relationships between time and eternity in the context of the relationship between God and the world -Man, Catholic dogmatics in ecumenical responsibility, Christian theology in dialogue with Judaism and Islam, tradition and presence of Christian churches in the Near and Middle East, determinations of the relationship between religion, culture, politics and violence and Islamic peace ethics .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dirk Ansorge in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Dirk Ansorge in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Search for "Dirk Ansorge" in the German Digital Library
• Website Dirk Ansorge (PTH Sankt Georgen Frankfurt)