Edmund Arens

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Edmund Arens (born April 24, 1953 in Letmathe , now the city of Iserlohn ) is a Catholic theologian and professor emeritus for fundamental theology at the theological faculty of the University of Lucerne . He combines political theology with critical theory and works on a theological theory of action. He understands this as public theology , which he is biblically founded, systematically and practically unfolds and continues in terms of religion theory and religion theology.

Life

After graduating from high school in Hohenlimburg , Arens studied Catholic theology in Münster with Johann Baptist Metz and Helmut Peukert from 1972 to 1978 and philosophy with Willi Oelmüller , and from 1978 to 1981 philosophy in Frankfurt with Karl-Otto Apel and Jürgen Habermas . In 1982 he received his doctorate at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and in 1989 his habilitation there at JB Metz. From 1981 to 1986 he was a research assistant for systematic theology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Between 1982 and 1985 he was a member of the international ecumenical study group “ Theology and Communication ” of the World Association for Christian Communication (London). From 1985 to 1990 he worked as a co-coordinator for the courses "The Future of Religion" at the Inter-University Center for Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik. From 1991 to 1996 he was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation. In 1992 he was visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York .

Since 1996 he has been Professor of Fundamental Theology at the University of Lucerne. From 1999 to 2000 he was one of the speakers for Wort zum Sonntag on Swiss television. In 2006 he became President of the Switzerland Section of the European Society for Catholic Theology. From 2006 to 2010 he headed the working group of Catholic dogmatists and fundamental theologians of the German-speaking area. From 2009 to 2016 he was a member of the university research focus “Religion and Social Integration in Europe ” (REGIE) at the University of Lucerne. He retired on August 1, 2017. He is a signatory of the memorandum “ Church 2011: A Necessary Awakening ”. He was married to Brigitte Arens nee Rugger (1951–2011).

Works

  • Communicative actions. The paradigmatic meaning of the parables of Jesus for a theory of action , Düsseldorf 1982
  • Witness and confess. Elementary acts of faith , Düsseldorf 1989
  • Habermas and theology. Contributions to the theological reception, discussion and criticism of the theory of communicative action (ed.), Düsseldorf 1989 (second edition 1989)
  • Habermas e la teologia. Contributi per la ricezione, discussione e critica teologica della teoria dell'agire communicativo (ed.), Brescia 1992
  • Habermas et la théologie, sous la direction de Edmund Arens , Paris 1993
  • Remembrance, liberation, solidarity. Benjamin, Marcuse, Habermas and political theology (together with O. John and P. Rottländer), Düsseldorf 1991
  • Christopraxis. Basics of theological theory of action , Freiburg-Basel-Vienna 1992
  • Christopraxis. A Theology of Action , Minneapolis 1993
  • Speech of God - Practice of Faith. Perspectives of theological theory of action (ed.), Darmstadt 1994
  • The Logic of Pragmatic Thinking. From Peirce to Habermas , Atlantic Highlands (NJ) 1994
  • Recognition of others. A basic theological dimension of intercultural communication (ed.), Freiburg-Basel-Vienna 1995 (second edition 1995)
  • Communicative action and Christian faith. A theological discourse with Jürgen Habermas (ed.), Paderborn-Munich-Vienna-Zurich 1997
  • How much theology can the public tolerate? (Ed. Together with H. Hoping), Freiburg-Basel-Wien 2000
  • Counter words. Thoughts against the zeitgeist , Lucerne 2001
  • Presence of mind. On the future of university education (together with J. Mittelstrass, H. Peukert, M. Ries), Luzern 2003
  • God understanding. A communicative theology of religion , Freiburg-Basel-Vienna 2007
  • Think time. Eschatology in interdisciplinary discourse (ed.), Freiburg-Basel-Vienna 2010
  • Present. Aesthetics meets theology (ed.), Freiburg-Basel-Vienna 2012
  • Integration through religion? Historical findings, social analyzes, legal perspectives (Ed. Together with M. Baumann, A. Liedhegener, WW Müller, M. Ries), Zurich / Baden-Baden 2014
  • Integration potential of religion and civil society. Theoretical and empirical findings (together with M. Baumann and A. Liedhegener), Baden-Baden / Zurich 2016
  • Religious identities and social integration (ed. Together with M. Baumann, A. Liedhegener, WW Müller, M. Ries), Baden-Baden / Zurich 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Arens, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Letmathe , now Iserlohn