Ernst Feil

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Ernst Feil (born May 15, 1932 in Dorsten ; † March 11, 2013 in Munich ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian .

life and work

Feil studied Roman Catholic theology , Greek and philosophy in Münster , Innsbruck and Munich . After the first and second state exams and the legal clerkship for the teaching post at grammar schools, Feil was a study assessor in Recklinghausen . In 1962 he became a research assistant to Johann Baptist Metz at the fundamental theological seminar of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. He was in 1970 with a thesis on the understanding of the world at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Münster Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Dr. theol. PhD . From 1971 Feil taught as a full professor in Dortmund . In 1975 he was appointed to the Chair of Systematic Theology and Religious Education at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich , where he taught until his retirement. His main work are the four volumes on “Religio” (published between 1986 and 2007); it systematically clarifies the different positions of the historical development of a central dimension of human existence. He was a clear-thinking, systematic and precise researching theologian with a vision and a sense for the questions of the present. His theology was linked to a philosophically supporting foundation.

Ernst Feil had been a member of the Bund New Germany since 1950 , worked as a theological advisor at Bundestag parliaments from 1974 and from 1977 to 1979 in a leading position at the federal level. He is one of the signatories of the memorandum “Church 2011 - A Necessary Awakening”. Ernst Feil was married to Mechthild (née Kochs) in Gilching ; they have two daughters Monika and Christine.

Appreciation (selection)

  • Homann, Karl, Riedel-Spangenberger, Ilona (eds.): World - Heuristics of Faith, On the 65th birthday of Ernst Feil . Kaiser Gütersloh 1997.

Works (selection)

  • Religio. Volumes 1-4:
    • Religio, Volume 1: The history of a modern basic concept from early Christianity to the Reformation . Research on Church and Dogma History Volume 36. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1986.
    • Religio, Volume 2: The history of a modern basic concept between Reformation and Rationalism (approx. 1540-1620) . Research on Church and Dogma History Volume 70. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997.
    • Religio, Volume 3: The history of a modern basic concept in the 17th and early 18th centuries . Research on Church and Dogma History Volume 79. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, 2. durchges. Edition 2012
    • Religio, Volume 4: The history of a modern basic concept in the 18th and early 19th centuries . Research on church and dogma history; Volume 91. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, 2nd through. 2012 edition
  • The theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Hermeneutik - Christologie - Weltverbundnis , 1st ed. 1977, 5th exp. Edition 2006
  • The Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer , Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985
  • The theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer , Lit, Münster 2005
  • (Ed.), On the Concept of Religion , Global Publ., Binghamton 2000
  • Civil courage and democratic culture , Lit, Münster 2002
  • Dispute "Religion" , Lit, Münster 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice Süddeutsche Zeitung, Saturday, March 16, 2013, p. 33
  2. ^ Reference in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Feil, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorsten
DATE OF DEATH 11th March 2013
Place of death Munich