Elias H. Füllenbach

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Elias H. Füllenbach (* 1977 in Düsseldorf ) is a German theologian and church historian who primarily deals with the Christian-Jewish relationship and the time of National Socialism . He is a member of the Dominican order and has been prior of the Düsseldorf Dominican monastery at St. Andrew's Church since November 2014 . He is the archivist of the German Dominican Province of Teutonia and at the same time director of the Institute for Research into the History of the Dominican Order in the German-speaking area in Cologne.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1996, Füllenbach joined the Dominican Order in Worms . From 1998 to 2006 he studied Catholic theology , history and art history at the University of Bonn and Jewish Studies at the Martin Buber Institute of the University of Cologne . From 2000 to 2001 he spent a year abroad in Oxford .

In May 2006 Füllenbach was ordained a priest in Cologne . From 2006 to 2012 he was chaplain in Düsseldorf on the left bank of the Rhine and from 2006 to 2011 at the same time a research assistant at the Chair for Middle and Modern Church History at the University of Bonn. In the 2009/2010 winter semester, he held a teaching position at the Institute for Catholic Theology at Saarland University in Saarbrücken.

Füllenbach was elected to the board of the German Coordination Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in 2019 . Since 1998 he has been a member of the board of the Düsseldorf Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation. At the same time he is a Catholic guest in the “Christians and Jews” committee of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . Until 2018 he was also a member of the scientific advisory board of the German Edith Stein Society.

On behalf of the German Order Province, he initiated an exhibition in Regensburg for the 800th anniversary of the Dominican Order, which was opened on May 10, 2016 under the title "More than Black & White".

Füllenbach is the great-grandson of Düsseldorf's first post-war mayor, Wilhelm Füllenbach .

Publications

Books

  • (together with Walter Homolka ): Leo Baeck. A sketch of his life. Gütersloh 2006.
  • St. Andreas in Düsseldorf - The Hofkirche and its treasures. For the 350th birthday of Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz. Edited by the Dominican monastery in Düsseldorf, editing: Elias H. Füllenbach / Antonin Walter. Düsseldorf 2008.
  • (together with Walter Homolka): Rabbi Leo Baeck. A picture of life. Teetz / Berlin 2008 ( Jewish miniatures, vol. 75).
  • Dominicans and Jews. People, Conflicts and Perspectives from the 13th to the 20th Century / Dominicans and Jews. Personalities, Conflicts, and Perspectives from the 13th to the 20th Century. Edited by Elias H. Füllenbach OP and Gianfranco Miletto, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2015 ( Sources and research on the history of the Dominican Order , New Series, Vol. 14).
  • More than black and white. 800 years of the Dominican Order. Edited by Elias H. Füllenbach with the collaboration of Susanne Biber. Regensburg 2016.

Articles (selection)

  • The canonization of Edith Stein - an obstacle in the Christian-Jewish dialogue? In: Freiburger Rundbrief, NF 6 (1999), pp. 3–20.
  • Hieronymus de Moravia OP. A music theorist of the 13th century. In: Wort und Antwort, 42 (2001), pp. 41–43.
  • "Do not forget - it is our common world". Future tasks of Christian-Jewish cooperation in Germany. In: 50 Years of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Düsseldorf e. V. (Festschrift). Düsseldorf 2001, pp. 77-83.
  • Auschwitz as a crisis in Christian theology. To the Edith Stein monument by Bert Gerresheim in Cologne . In: Edith Stein Jahrbuch, 10 (2004), pp. 175–192.
  • An outsider as a scapegoat? The Josef Nadler case. In: Kritische Ausgabe, 8 (2004), Heft 2, pp. 25–30.
  • Father Ludwig Maria (Nikolaus Modest) Paly. In: Witnesses for Christ. The German martyrology of the 20th century. Edited by Helmut Moll on behalf of Dt. Episcopal Conference. 4th, increased u. updated edition, Paderborn et al. 2006, pp. 1346–1350.
  • Shock, Renewal, Crisis: Catholic Reflections on the Shoah. In: Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust. Edited by Kevin P. Spicer, published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington, DC, Bloomington, IN 2007, pp. 201-234.
  • Cardinal Kaspers' position on the new Good Friday Prayer. In: "... so that they may know Jesus Christ". The new Good Friday intercession for the Jews. Edited by Walter Homolka and Erich Zenger. Freiburg i. Br. 2008 ( Controversial Theology ), pp. 106–114.
  • From Paul to Saul. Christian and Jewish Interpretation of Paul in the 20th Century. In: Wort und Antwort, 49 (2008), pp. 100-104.
  • Aachen - Dominicans. In: Nordrheinisches Klosterbuch. Lexicon of the monasteries and monasteries until 1815, part 1: Aachen to Düren. Edited by Manfred Groten, Gisela Muschiol et al. Siegburg 2009 ( Studies on Cologne Church History, Vol. 37.1), pp. 45–51.
  • Scholasticism. In: Handbook of Antisemitism. Anti-Semitism in Past and Present, Vol. 3: Concepts, Theories, Ideologies. Edited by Wolfgang Benz, Berlin / New York 2010, pp. 295–297.
  • Wilms, Hieronymus Maria. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8 , Sp. 1486-1491.
  • St. Andreas in Düsseldorf's old town. In: Places of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Traces of the artists in Düsseldorf. Edited by the Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz, Neuss 2011 ( Rheinische Kunststätten, Issue 528), pp. 68–69.
  • Dominican Order. In: Handbook of Antisemitism. Anti-Semitism in Past and Present, Vol. 5: Organizations, Institutions, Movements. Edited by Wolfgang Benz. Berlin / Boston 2012, pp. 215–221.
  • Albertus Magnus as Bishop of Regensburg. In: Analecta Coloniensia 10/11 (2012), pp. 131-150.
  • (together with Bastian Fleermann ): “… these murderers call themselves National Socialists”. A letter from a Düsseldorf woman to the Vatican from 1933. In: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch. Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine , 83 (2013), pp. 405–418.
  • The Dominicans between Thomism and suspicion of modernism. The Order's study houses in Europe and their connections. In: Transnational Dimensions of Scientific Theology. Edited by Claus Arnold and Johannes Wischmeyer. Göttingen 2013 (publications by the Institute for European History Mainz, Dept. for Occidental Religious History, Supplement 101), pp. 169–193.
  • “Friends of the old and new people of God”. Theological approaches to Judaism after 1945. In: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte, 32 (2013), pp. 235–252.
  • Spatial context: the town church and the Wittenberger Judensau. In: The Jew as a traitor. Anti-Jewish polemics and Christian art. A working aid for the Wittenberg “Reformation Altar” by Lucas Cranach the Elder in the context of the Christian-Jewish relationship. Published by the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Düsseldorf 2014, pp. 16–18.
  • Catholic initiatives against anti-Semitism and the beginnings of the Christian-Jewish dialogue in Germany. In: Freiburger Rundbrief, NF 22 (2015), pp. 2-19.
  • Dominican spirituality. In: Thomas Handbook. Edited by Volker Leppin. Tübingen 2016, pp. 121–126.
  • Canonization. In: Thomas Handbook. Edited by Volker Leppin. Tübingen 2016, pp. 426-430.
  • Josef Nadler. In: Handbook of the Volkish Sciences. Actors, networks, research programs. Edited by Michael Fahlbusch, Ingo Haar and Alexander Pinwinkler. 2. completely revised u. exp. Edition Berlin 2017, pp. 533-540.
  • Judaism / anti-Semitism. In: Edith Stein Lexicon. Edited by Marcus Knaup and Harald Seubert. Freiburg i. Br. 2017, pp. 207-210.
  • Hunting Dogs? Dominican Mission to the Jews in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. In: Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, NS 2 (2017), pp. 157–168.
  • "German Catholics write to the Pope". The initiative of Gertrud Luckner for the promotion of "Nostra aetate" (spring 1965). In: Catholics and the Second Vatican Council. Petitions, reports, photographs. Edited by Regina Heyder and Gisela Muschiol. Münster 2018, pp. 214–222.
  • Biblical and Hebrew studies by Italian Dominicans of the 15th and 16th centuries. In: Bible study and sermon in the Dominican order. History, ideal, practice. Edited by Viliam Stefan Doci and Thomas Prügl. Rome 2019, pp. 255-271.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dominikaner-duesseldorf.de
  2. ↑ archiv.dominikaner.de
  3. ↑ https://www.deutscher-koordinierungsrat.de/dkr-vorstand
  4. ↑ Mittelbayerische.de
  5. ↑ wz-newsline.de
  6. ↑ kritische-ausgabe.de
  7. ↑ ekir.de
personal data
SURNAME Füllenbach, Elias H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf