Falk Wagner

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Falk Wagner (born February 25, 1939 in Vienna ; † November 18, 1998 ibid) was an Austrian Protestant systematic theologian .

Life

Growing up in Hessen (Germany), Wagner first studied philosophy and sociology in Frankfurt am Main (among others with Theodor W. Adorno , Bruno Liebrucks , Jürgen Habermas and Wolfgang Cramer ) and later also Protestant theology in Mainz (1961–1964). His teachers were there a. a. Herbert Braun , Gert Otto , Wolfhart Pannenberg and Hans Walter Wolff . From 1968 to 1969 he worked as a research assistant at the study office of the Evangelical Economic Guild in Karlsruhe. From 1969 to 1972 he worked at the German Institute for International Educational Researchin Frankfurt. In 1969 he received his doctorate under Wolfhart Pannenberg with a thesis on the idea of ​​the personality of God in Fichte and Hegel as Dr. theol. In its original version, completed in 1967, the work was 750 pages long, but initially did not meet with Pannenberg's approval and was subsequently shortened considerably by Wagner. After completing his doctorate, Wagner passed the ecclesiastical examination of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau. His habilitation thesis from 1972, also supervised by Wolfhart Pannenberg, was devoted to Friedrich Schleiermacher's dialectics . He then became a private lecturer, scientific adviser and professor for systematic theology as well as dean at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (October 4th, 1982 - September 30th, 1983 and October 1st, 1987 - September 30th, 1988). From 1979 to 1988 he was a board member of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Munich . In 1988 he was appointed Professor of Systematic Theology AB at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna , where he taught until his death in 1998. He gave his farewell lecture in Munich on July 27, 1988.

In view of an incurable cancer, Wagner voluntarily passed away. He was buried in the Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof II in Berlin, just a few meters from Friedrich Daniel Schleiermacher's grave.

Image of the grave of the Protestant theologian Falk Wagner

theology

With Theodor W. Adorno, the exegetes HW Wolff and H. Braun, and the systematist W. Pannenberg, Falk Wagner quickly learned to translate his critical zeal into his own theological position with the help of the "effort of the term". In his early days, especially in the wake of Hegel, Wagner endeavored to portray the “supersession of religious ideas in the philosophical concept” (1976), and tried to incorporate the “spirit of modern subjectivity” into the theological discussion as a possible “realizer or competitor [ en] of Christian freedom ”(1985). After the committed endeavor to advance as a consciously speculative theologian "[z] ur reasonable justification and communicability of faith", the longer he had to learn more about the program of a theology as a connection between a "theory of the absolute" and "the Christian idea of ​​God [ns] "resign. The “Revolutionizing the Thought of God” (1995) in the Christian context failed because of Wagner's “Fall of the Individual” (1990). The deep crisis of theology in the modern age, whose normative claim is permanently questioned by pluralism, led Wagner to extensive studies, especially of approaches to the sociology of religion ( Niklas Luhmann , Günter Dux ). This made him a conversation partner primarily in philosophy and sociology, but the ability to connect within theology remained difficult.

His major scientific draft was comprehensively designed so that he not only discussed the classic questions of Christian dogmatics (doctrine of God, creation, christology, pneumatology, fundamental theology) in detail, but also important ethical (bioethics, peace, economy, dialogue of religions) and theological history topics ( especially on Protestant theology of the 19th and 20th centuries).

Fonts

  • On the legitimacy of mission , Munich 1968 (Theological Existence today, Vol. 154).
  • The thought of the personality of God in Fichte and Hegel , Gütersloh 1971.
  • Schleiermacher's dialectic. A critical interpretation , Gütersloh 1974.
  • Money or god? On the determination of money in the cultural and religious world , Stuttgart 1985 (2nd edition Göttingen 2019, ed. By Thomas Scheiwiller, Karl Tetzlaff = Vienna Forum for Theology and Religious Studies, Vol. 18).
  • What is religion Studies on their concept and topic in the past and present , Gütersloh 1986 (2nd edition 1991).
  • The forgotten speculative theology. In memory of Carl Daub on the occasion of the 150th year of his death , Zurich 1987 (2nd edition 1987) (Theologische Studien Vol. 133).
  • What is theology Studies on its concept and topic in modern times , Gütersloh 1989.
  • On the current situation of Protestantism , Gütersloh 1995 (2nd edition 1995).
  • Religion and the Thought of God , Frankfurt a. M. 1996 (contributions to rational theology, vol. 7).
  • Metamorphoses of modern Protestantism , Tübingen 1999.
  • Lecture on Christology (winter semester 1989/90 in Vienna) . In: Christian Danz , Michael Murrmann-Kahl (eds.): Between historical Jesus and dogmatic Christ , Tübingen 2010, pp. 309–401 (Dogmatik in der Moderne Vol. 1). (2nd edition 2011)
  • To revolutionize the idea of ​​God. Texts on a modern philosophical theology. Edited from the estate by Christian Danz and Michael Murrmann-Kahl, Tübingen 2014.
  • Christianity in the modern age. Selected essays . Edited by Jörg Dierken and Christian Polke, Tübingen 2014 (= Dogmatik in der Moderne Vol. 9).
Bibliographies
  • Chronological bibliography Falk Wagner (1939–1998) , compiled by Michael Murrmann-Kahl. In: Christian Danz, Jörg Dierken , Michael Murrmann-Kahl (eds.): Religion between justification and criticism , Frankfurt a. M. 2005, pp. 203–223 (contributions to rational theology, vol. 15).
  • Annotated directory of Wagner's publications . In: Kathrin Mette: Self-determination and dependence. Studies on the genesis, content and systematics of the consciousness and culture-theoretical dimensions of Falk Wagner's theory of religion in his early work (= Dogmatics in Modern Vol. 6), Tübingen 2013, pp. 258-296.

literature

  • Self-testimony: Falk Wagner . In: Christian Henning, Karsten Lehmkühler (ed.): Systematic Theology of the Present in Self- Representations, Tübingen 1998, pp. 276–299.
  • Wilhelm Gräb : Religion as a subject of theology. History, standpoints and perspectives of theological criticism of religion and justification of religion , Munich 1999.
  • Michael Murrmann-Kahl: Obituary for Falk Wagner (1939–1998) . In: Theologische Literaturzeitung 124, 1999, pp. 244–246.
  • Martin Berger, Michael Murrmann-Kahl (ed.): Transformation processes of Protestantism. On the self-reflection of a Christian denomination at the turn of the millennium , Gütersloh 1999.
  • Ulrich Barth : From speculative theology to the sociological concept of religion. Attempt to approach the thinking of Falk Wagner . In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Theologie 3, 2000, pp. 233–268 (reprinted in: ZNThG 7 (2000), pp. 251–282).
  • Gunther Wenz : Address on the occasion of the funeral service for the death of Dr. Falk Wagner . In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Theologie 3, 2000, pp. 269–275.
  • Michael Murrmann-Kahl: Christological Complexity - Considerations in connection with Falk Wagner's conceptions . In: Christian Danz, Michael Murrmann-Kahl (eds.): Between historical Jesus and dogmatic Christ , Tübingen 2010, pp. 159–187 (= Dogmatics in Modernism Vol. 1). (2nd edition 2011)
  • Kazimir Drilo, Critique of Religious Consciousness. Falk Wagner's theological interpretation of Hegel's "Science of Logic". In: Christoph Asmuth, Kazimir Drilo (Ed.): The one or the other. "God" in classical German philosophy and in contemporary thinking, Tübingen 2010, pp. 141–155 (= Religion in Philosophy and Theology 44).
  • Matthias Geist:  Wagner, Falk. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 1490-1496.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Kathrin Mette: Self-determination and dependence. Studies on the genesis, content and systematics of the consciousness and culture-theoretical dimensions of Falk Wagner's theory of religion in his early work (= Dogmatics in Modern Vol. 6), Tübingen 2013.
  • Christian Danz , Michael Murrmann-Kahl (ed.): Speculative theology and lived religion. Falk Wagner and the discourses of modernity (= Dogmatics in Modernism, Vol. 13), Tübingen 2015.
  • Thomas Scheiwiller: "Knowledge about religion or knowledge from religion"? On the relationship between education and culture in Paul Tillich and Falk Wagner, in: Ders., Thomas Weiß (ed.): Paul Tillich and the religious educational processes. Religious education - systematic-theological - interdisciplinary perspectives, Münster 2017, pp. 147–175.
  • Matthias Schnurrenberger: The detour of freedom. Falk Wagner's theory of the Christian spirit (= Dogmatics in Modernism, Vol. 25), Tübingen 2019.
  • Karl Tetzlaff: Free for a divine reason? Falk Wagner's critical rereading of Luther's doctrine of justification, in: Understanding Understanding the Understanding of Luther and Reformation Interpretations in the Past and Present, ed. v. Notger Slenzcka / Claas Cordemann / Georg Raaz, Leipzig 2018, 133-160.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Mette, Self-Determination and Dependency. Studies on the genesis, content and systematics of the consciousness and cultural theoretical dimensions of Falk Wagner's theory of religion in his early work. Tübingen 2013. p. 9.
  2. ↑ K. Mette, Self-Determination and Dependency. Studies on the genesis, content and systematics of the consciousness and cultural theoretical dimensions of Falk Wagner's theory of religion in his early work. Tübingen 2013. P. 9. Cf. also F. Wagner, Zur Revolutionierung des Gottesgedankens. Texts on a modern philosophical theology. Tübingen 2014. p. 15.
  3. ↑ F. Wagner, On the Revolutionization of the God Thought. Texts on a modern philosophical theology. Tübingen 2014. p. 15.
  4. ↑ Falk Wagner: Self-portrait . In: Christian Hennig / Karsten Lehmkühler (ed.): Systematic theology of the present in self-portrayals . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-8252-2048-6 , p. 276-299, here 284 .
  5. ↑ F. Wagner, On the Revolutionization of the God Thought. Texts on a modern philosophical theology. Tübingen 2014. p. 15.
  6. ^ The chairmen of the Munich Society. In: gcjz-m.de. Retrieved June 18, 2013 .
  7. ↑ K. Mette, Self-Determination and Dependency. Studies on the genesis, content and systematics of the consciousness and cultural theoretical dimensions of Falk Wagner's theory of religion in his early work. Tübingen 2013. p. 9.
  8. ↑ F. Wagner, On the Revolutionization of the God Thought. Texts on a modern philosophical theology. Tübingen 2014. p. 462.
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Falk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1998
Place of death Vienna