Erich Feifel

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Erich Feifel (born September 27, 1925 in Lauchheim ; † April 5, 2003 in Munich ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian , and university professor for religious education and kerygmatics .

Life

After military service and a prisoner-of-war period, Erich Feifel studied Catholic theology, philosophy and education in Tübingen. In 1950 he was ordained a priest for the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese .

He received his doctorate in 1957 under Franz Xaver Arnold . His habilitation in the field of religious education took place in 1963.

From 1968 to 1991 he taught and researched as a professor for religious education and kerygmatics at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. From 1970 to 1971 he was dean of this faculty and from 1972 to 1980 chairman of the study reform commission "Curricula in Theology" of the West German Faculty Conference. In what was then the Institute for Catechetics and Homiletics , he assumed the role of chairman of the board of trustees until its dissolution in 1982.

In his many years of teaching activity and in numerous publications, he has played a key role in shaping and further developing the subject of religious education in German-speaking countries since the 1960s and has made a significant contribution to its profile as a scientific discipline.

His students include a. Konrad Baumgartner , Hubert Brosseder , Fritz Köster SAC , Michael Long , Ehrenfried Schulz Jürgen Werbick and Paul Wehrle .

Works (selection)

Publications in book form

Monographs

  • Basics of a theology of worship, motifs and conception of the proclamation of faith Michael Helding , 1506 - 1561 as an expression of a Catholic “Reformation” (= UTS 15), 1960.
  • Catechesis under the sign of Christian openness to the world. The lectures of the Religious Education Course 1967 in the Cassianeum Donauwörth Donauwörth 1968.
  • Catechesi in un mondo senza Dio (= Collana Fondamenti di una catechesi rinnovata, Volume 2). Translated by Luigi Benna. Turin-Leumann 1969 (Italian; The Instruction of Faith and the Absent God ).
  • The problema pedagógico de la incredulidad . Translated by Eloy Requena. Barcelona 1970 (Spanish; The Teaching of Faith and the Absent God ).
  • Adult education. Sense of faith and theological learning process (= instruct and proclaim, Volume 21). Zurich, Einsiedeln, Cologne 1972, ISBN 3-545-26081-X .
  • Didactics of Religious Education. A guide . Edited by Fritz Weidmann . 5th, expanded, revised and supplemented edition, Donauwörth 1988, 6th, repeatedly changed edition Donauwörth 1992, ISBN 3-403-00944-0
  • Mission and claim of a theological faculty. Lecture on October 5, 1992 at the academic ceremony on the occasion of the elevation of the Philosophical-Theological College of the Salesians Don Bosco in Benediktbeuern to the theological faculty (= Benediktbeurer Hochschulschriften, Volume 4). Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7698-0738-3 .
  • Christian image of man in Catholic schools (= Handbook of Catholic Schools, Volume 2., Pedagogical Contributions, Book 9). 1992, ISBN 3-7616-1056-4 .
  • The educational mission of the Catholic school (= Handbook Catholic School, Volume 2., Pedagogical Contributions, Issue 24). 1992, ISBN 3-7616-1056-4 .
  • Christian image of man in school. Unrealistic requirement or educational opportunity? With a speech by Herbert Hauf on the occasion of a meeting of Catholic teachers in Bamberg . Edited by the press office of the Archbishop's Ordinariate Bamberg. Bamberg 1992.
  • Religious education in upheaval . Edited by Stephan Leimgruber and Michael Langer . Munich 1995, ISBN 3-466-36438-8 (with bibliography on Erich Feifel on pp. 313-320).

Editorships

  • together with Robert Leuenberger , Günter Stachel , Klaus Wegenast : Handbuch der Religionspädagogik (3 volumes: Volume 1: Religious Education. Theory and Factors ; Volume 2: Didactics of Religious Education . Philosophy of Science ; Volume 3: Religious educational fields of action in Church responsibility ). Gütersloh, 1973–1975.
  • Contributions to university didactics (= study of Catholic theology, volume 2). Edited on behalf of the West German Faculty Conference, the Curricula in Theology Commission by Erich Feifel. Zurich, Einsiedeln, Cologne 1974, ISBN 3-545-26114-X .
  • Busse, bus sacrament, bus practice (= theological contact study of the Department of Catholic Theology of the University of Munich, Volume 3), Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7698-0245-4 .
  • On the practical relevance of the study of theology (= study of Catholic theology, volume 4). Edited on behalf of the West German Faculty Conference, the Curricula in Theology Commission by Erich Feifel. Zurich, Einsiedeln, Cologne 1976, ISBN 3-545-26119-0 .
  • Framework (= Study of Catholic Theology, Volume 5). Zurich, Einsiedeln, Cologne 1976, ISBN 3-545-26122-0 .
  • World experience and Christian hope . Donauwörth 1977, ISBN 3-403-00722-7 .
  • Subject-oriented focus formation (= study of Catholic theology, volume 6). Zurich, Einsiedeln, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-545-26174-3 .
  • together with Walter Kasper : Crisis of faith in the tradition of tradition . Munich 1987, ISBN 3-466-36271-7 .

Articles in compilations (selection)

Article (in selection)

  • Symbol education through ritualization . In: Lebendige Seelsorge , Volume 29, 1978, pp. 309–315.

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personal data
SURNAME Feifel, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian, religious educator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauchheim
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2003
Place of death Munich