Erwin Bischofberger

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Erwin Bischofberger SJ (born May 1, 1936 in Switzerland ; † December 5, 2012 ) was a Swedish Jesuit and medical ethicist .

Life

Bischofberger came from the Swiss Rhine Valley . He received on 19 March 1961 in the Cathedral of St. Eugenia in Stockholm the priesthood and spent six years as a chaplain in Gothenburg operates. On January 7, 1968, he joined the religious order of the Jesuits and was admitted to the Philosophical-Theological College Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main in 1974 with the work The Moral Conditions of Faith. On fundamental ethics John Henry Newman for Dr. theol. PhD.

Since 1973 he was a professor of medical ethics at the Karolinska Institute , a medical university in Sweden Solna in Stockholm and at the Jesuit Newman Institute , a university based in Uppsala . Bischofberger was a member of the Swedish National Ethics Council for 15 years.

He had been a priest at St. Eugenia in Stockholm since 1983 . From 1985 to 1996 he lived in a Jesuit community in Uppsala, then in Stockholm.

He has published numerous essays, papers and books. Among other things, he wrote for Signum magazine .

Fonts

  • (Collaboration): Experiment of a welfare society: the model Sweden , 1974, ISBN 3-7867-0487-2 .
  • The moral presuppositions of faith. On fundamental ethics , John Henry Newmans , 1974, ISBN 3-7867-0443-0 ; also Diss. Philos. Theol. Hochsch. Sankt Georgen, 1974.
  • Trons mysterium: teologiska reflexioner kring nattvarden , 1981.
  • Guds födelse iomanniskan: om mystik och inre bön i kristen tradition , 1986.
  • Mannniskan inför livsfrågorna: en studiebok i etik , 1989.
  • Mannniskovärdet vid livets gränser: etiska riktmärken för livsvetenskaperna och sjukvården , 1992.
  • Label i tandvården , 1998
  • Kroppens etik , 2002.
  • För att världen skall leva , 2004.
  • Barnet i vården , 2004.
  • Katolska kyrkan i fickformat , 2007.
  • Den svårlösta conflicts - om den oföddaomanniskan , 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erwin Bischofberger: The moral requirements of faith: to the fundamental ethics of John Henry Newman . M. Grünewald, Mainz 1974, ISBN 3-7867-0443-0 , OCLC 1143086 .
personal data
SURNAME Bischofberger, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish Jesuit and medical ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 2012