Elmar Nass

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Elmar Nass (2018)

Elmar Nass (born July 5, 1966 in Kempen / Niederrhein) is a German Catholic priest and social ethicist with a focus on business ethics .

Life

After training as a banker, Nass studied Catholic theology and social sciences at the University of Bonn , the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the University of Trier . From 1990 to 1995 he studied as an alumnus of the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum in Rome and was ordained priest there in 1994 . He completed his social science licentiate in Rome in 1995. Nass was a chaplain in Viersen-Süchteln until the end of 1999 . In addition to completing his theological diploma in Trier, he initiated a political and religious youth ministry. Nass then obtained his doctorate in Christian social sciences at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Trier (2002), then in the field of social policy and social economics at the Social Science Faculty of the University of Bochum (2006). In addition to his priestly parish work in the Bochum district of Linden , he was a research assistant and lecturer at Jörg Althammer's chair and lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen .

After a teaching position at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne (2006), he took over lectures and exams at the Chair for Christian Social Studies and Pastoral Sociology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn from 2007–2012. Teaching assignments at the Philosophical Faculty of RWTH Aachen University followed . Since 2013 he has been professor for economic and social ethics at the private Wilhelm Löhe University of Applied Sciences in Fürth . 2014 he was at the Philosophical Faculty of the RWTH Aachen habilitation and received the instructor for the subject Christian Economic and Social Ethics.

From 2006 to 2013, Nass was the episcopal representative for the training of pastoral staff in the diocese of Aachen and has been vicar at Aachen Cathedral since 2007 . From 2007 to 2011, Nass was the scientific director of the Christian Democratic Workforce in Germany . In addition, he has been a member and pastor of the student association KDStV Marchia zu Aachen in the Cartell Association since 2011 . He is a board member of the Joseph Höffner Society and Society for the Promotion of Economics and Ethics (GWE) eV

2014 he was selected by Cardinal Grand Master Edwin Frederick O'Brien Cardinal Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem and appointed on 10 May 2014 in Aachen Cathedral by Reinhard Cardinal Marx , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy , invested .

Act

The main teaching and research area of ​​Elmar Nass is social ethics with a focus on business ethics . He also researches the relevance and language skills of the church in general and Christian social ethics in particular in today's society.

In the tradition of Joseph Höffner and Oswald von Nell-Breuning, he represents a social ethics based on natural law , which he also defines ecumenically as normative humanism. With his thesis of an objectively justifiable human dignity and rights and obligations derived from it, he builds bridges from a Thomasian tradition to neo-Aristotelian approaches to justice ( Amartya Sen , Martha Nussbaum ) and to a Kantian ethic of reason. With such an ideological coalition, he wants to counter the relativization of human dignity. The Pope Benedict XVI. He shares the advocated shift towards a new emphasis on virtue ethics in the context of social ethics. Nass drew attention to himself with ethical positions on the currency crisis, in which he emphasized subsidiarity versus solidarity.

In addition to research and teaching, Nass placed emphasis on high-profile pastoral care. There are numerous articles by him on youth and adult education, as well as a number of homiletic texts. Nass is co-founder of the research forum 'Ethics and Social Market Economy', which is financed by the Action Group for the Social Market Economy (ASM).

In his practical writings, Nass draws a line from liturgical practice to diaconal action and personal witness of faith. The focus is on the plausibility of Christian belief and action as well as the virtues of courage and hope based on it. A necessary reform of the church must discover and promote radiating core groups of the faith.

Fonts (selection)

  • Utopia Christiana - On Being Church and Christian Today, LIT Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-643-14221-4
  • Vision man - mission hope: Faith that wins again , Schöningh Paderborn 2011, ISBN 350677333X
  • with Alfred Schüller , Joseph Cardinal Höffner: Economy, Currency, Values. The Euro (pa) crisis in the light of Catholic social teaching , Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77868-0
  • The human being as the goal of business ethics
  • with Mathias Hartmann, Peter Helbich; Handbook of leadership ethics: Part I: Systematics and relevant schools of thought (Dynamically Shaping Living / Innovative Management in Social and Health Economics, Volume 7) , Kohlhammer 2017, ISBN 3170322044

editor

  • with Christian Müller, Elmar Nass, Johannes Zabel: Natural law and morality in pluralistic society (publications by the Joseph Höffner Society; Vol. 6), Schöningh Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78685-2

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SURNAME Nass, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic clergyman and social ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempen