Elmar Salmann

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Elmar Salmann (born May 12, 1948 in Hagen in Westphalia) is a German theologian and was a professor in Rome.

After graduating from high school in Hagen in 1966, Salmann studied Catholic theology from 1966 to 1971 at the Paderborn Theological Faculty and the University of Vienna . On December 8, 1972, he was ordained a priest in Paderborn Cathedral. On February 5, 1973 he entered the Benedictine Abbey of Gerleve . He made solemn profession on August 6, 1977 in Gerleve . During these years he was active in the pastoral care accompanying the biography. With a thesis on the Benedictine monks Anselm pride and Alois Mager he received his doctorate in 1979 in Münster at Peter Hünermann Dr. theol. From 1981 to 2012 Salmann was Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology at the Pontifical Universities of Sant'Anselmo and Gregoriana in Rome. Since 2012 he has been working again in the lecture work and pastoral care of the Benedictine Abbey of Gerleve .

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His thinking revolves around conveying Christianity and modernity, mysticism, psychology and philosophy, the phenomenology of life and experience, experience and language. His main works are Modern Times and Revelation (Rome 1986) and The Divided Logos (Rome 1992). In the former he tries to develop a grammar of revelation, modernity, dialogue and prayer with a view to renewing the doctrine of the Trinity. The second book is more fundamentally theologically oriented and wants to rethink and conjugate Christianity from the point of view of its external controversy and description. It is based on Kant, Hegel, Jewish and postmodern thinking and in this confrontation finds surprising traces of the presence of the mysteries of Christianity for the present day. In his Italian writings Salmann deepens and orchestrates these basic insights and develops a style of wisdom-symbolic theology. From 1989 to 2001 he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty at Ateneo Sant'Anselmo and during this time he founded the Institute for Philosophy and Mysticism with Aniceto Molinaro. At the same time he was involved in the establishment of the Institute for the History of Theology at the local theological faculty.

Publications (selection)

  • Modern times and revelation. Studies on the Trinitarian Analogics of Christianity. Roma 1986.
  • Anna Katharina Emmerick - her mystical existence from a postmodern perspective. 2007. (collaboration with: von Clemens Engling, Günter Scholz, Nicole Priesching, Carl Möller, Wolfgang Frühwald).
  • Contro Severino. Incanto e incubo del credere. Casale M. 1996.
  • Cur Deus Homo: Atti Del Congresso Anselmiano Internazionale Roma, 21-23 Maggio 1998. (collaboration with: Paul Gilbert, Helmut Karl Kohlenberger).
  • The shared logos: On the open process of modern thinking and theology. Roma 1992.
  • Patrimony Fidei: Understanding the history of tradition At the end? Festschrift for Magnus Löhrer and Pius Ramon Tragan. Roma 1997 (collaboration with: Magnus Löhrer, Pius-Ramon Tragan, Marinella Perroni).
  • Taking Reason into Prayer: Philosophical-Theological Considerations. 2000. (collaboration with Joachim Hake).
  • Emmerick and Brentano: Documentation of a symposium of the Episcopal Commission “Anna-Katharina Emmerick”. 1983. (collaboration with: by Wolfgang Frühwald, Peter Hünermann, Winfried Woesler, Bernd Wacker, Renate Moering, Hubert Larcher, Basilius Senger, Clemens Engling, Heinrich Schleiner).
  • Filosofia E Mistica: Itinerari Di Un Progetto Di Ricerca. Roma 1997. (collaboration with: Aniceto Molinaro).
  • L'Attualità filosofica di Anselmo d'Aosta. Roma 1990. (collaboration with: by Carlo Huber, Aniceto Molinari).
  • Le ragioni della fede. Come credere oggi. 1997. (collaboration with: Colzani Gianni; Giustiniani Pasquale).
  • Mystery of Christ: symbolic presence and theological meaning. Festschrift for Basil Studer. Roma 1996. (collaboration with: Magnus Löhrer).
  • La teologia è un romanzo. Milan 2000.
  • Presenza di spirito. Il cristianesimo come gesto e pensiero. Padova 2000.
  • (Ed.), La teologia mistico-sapienzale di Anselm Stolz. Roma 1988.
  • Contro Severino. Incanto e incubo del credere. Casale Monferrato 1996.
  • La palabra partida. Cristianismo y cultura posmoderna. Madrid 1999.
  • La teologia e un romanzo. Un approccio dialettico a questioni cruciali. Milan 2000.
  • Meanwhile: Postmodern Thoughts on Christianity Today. 2004.
  • Daleka bliskość chrześcijaństwa. Kraków 2005.
  • Passi e passaggi nel Cristianesimo. Assisi 2009.
  • Scienza e spiritualità. Affinità elettive. 2009.
  • “Reading traces of life”, in: How do we cure the church . (Ed .: Alfred Neven DuMont) DuMont Buchverlag, 2013, p. 181 ff.
  • Presence of Mind: Figures and Forms of Life. St. Ottilien 2010.
  • Memorie italiane. Impressioni e impronte di un cammino teologico (collaboration with: Gianluca De Candia - Armando Matteo), Assisi 2012.
  • Sancta morum elegantia. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Prof. Elmar Salmann (Italian-German), Ed. G. De Candia - Ph. Nouzille, Studia Anselmiana 177, EOS Verlag 2018, ISBN 3830679203 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://freethoughtsspaces.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/the-theology-of-elmar-salmann/
personal data
SURNAME Salmann, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictine, professor of theology
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen