Felix Koerner

Felix Körner SJ (* 1963 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German theologian and Islamic scholar who is considered one of the best experts on Islam on the Roman Catholic side . He belongs to the Jesuit order .

Life

Körner passed the Abitur at the Leibniz School in Offenbach in 1982 . After doing basic military service, community service and a social internship, he entered the Jesuit order in 1985. He studied in Munich , London , Bamberg and Freiburg i.Ü. Catholic theology , philosophy , Islamic Studies and Turkish Studies and was modern Turkish theologians of the so-called Ankara School PhD. Körner lived in the Jesuit community in Ankara for several years . He is intensively involved in the Christian-Muslim dialogue and has published on Koran exegesis and Koran hermeneutics in Turkey .

From 2002 to 2008 he lived in Ankara and had a teaching position at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen . Since 2008 he has been teaching at the Pontifical Gregorian University (Professor of Dogmatics and Theology of Religions).

In 2008 and 2011 he was one of the delegation participants in the 1st and 2nd seminars of the Catholic-Muslim Forum .

In 2012 he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI. Appointed to the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims .

He spoke of positive reactions from the Islamic world to the election of Pope Francis .

Publications (selection)

• Revisionist Koran Hermeneutics in Contemporary Turkish University Theology: Rethinking Islam . Würzburg 2005
• Church in the face of Islam . Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2008
• Old text - new context . Freiburg, Br .: Herder, 2006 (Book series of the Georges Anawati Foundation Religion and Society; 1)
• Richard Heinzmann , Mualla Selçuk, Felix Körner (eds.): Human dignity. Basics in Christianity and Islam. Symposium of the Eugen Biser Foundation and the Islamic Theological Faculty of the University of Ankara on October 3rd and 4th, 2005 (Intercultural and interreligious symposia of the Eugen Biser Foundation; Vol. 1). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-170-20169-9 (German, Turkish).

Web links

• Personal website with publications to download
• Curriculum vitae , University of Friborg, Switzerland
• Book series , Anawati Foundation

Publications

• New Islamic Theology . Felix Körner on a modernist Koran exegesis in Ankara, FAZ, February 22, 2006.
• sg.org.tr: How is the Koran to be understood today? , Austrian St. Georgs Congregation Istanbul
• The Jesuit Felix Körner on the Christian-Muslim dialogue , interview Christian-Islamic meeting and documentation center (CIBEDO)

References and footnotes

1. ↑ The Jesuit Felix Körner on Christian-Muslim dialogue. In: cibedo.de . Retrieved August 14, 2009, August 21, 2018.
2. ↑ acommonword.com: Delegations to the 'Second Catholic-Muslim Forum' ( A common word between us and you ) & cibedo.de: The 2nd international Catholic-Muslim forum (P. Markus Solo Kewuta SVD )
3. ↑ jesuiten.org: Islamic scholars advise the Vatican, from September 22, 2012 ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ kybeline.com: The new Pope is already talking about the dialogue with Islam ( memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.