Franz Gmainer-Pranzl

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Franz Gmainer-Pranzl (born September 16, 1966 in Steyr ) is an Austrian Roman Catholic theologian and priest .

Life

After graduating from high school in Steyr in 1984, he studied specialist theology at Kath.-Theol from 1984 to 1989 . University of Linz . In 1989 he obtained the Mag. Theol. ( Linz ) with the diploma thesis with Walter Raberger : The self-transcendence of anthropology. Attempt to present the transcendental Christology of Karl Rahner . From 1989 to 1994 he studied as a student at the International Theological Convict Collegium Canisianum in the diploma course in philosophy and in the doctoral course in dogmatics and ecumenism at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Innsbruck . From 1991 to 1994 he was assistant to Karl Heinz Neufeld at the Institute for Fundamental Theology at the University of Innsbruck . The dissertation with Lothar Lies and Adolf Darlap in 1994 for Dr. theol. 1994 awarded. The Mag. Phil. fac. theol. (Innsbruck) he obtained his diploma thesis from Otto Muck in 1995 : “Philosophy of the world. An examination of Husserl's Crisis Script ". After being ordained a priest ( Diocese of Linz ) on June 29, 1995, he was assistant to Hanjo Sauer at the Institute for Dogmatics and Fundamental Theology of the Catholic Theological College / Private University Linz from 1995 to 2002 . At the same time he worked pastorally in the parishes of St. Konrad and Stadtpfarre Urfahr (Linz). From 1995 to 2004, e completed a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Vienna as a professional . After the dissertation for Dr. phil. In 2004, with Franz Martin Wimmer and Helmuth Vetter , he became professor at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Salzburg on March 1, 2009 and head of the “Intercultural Theology and Study of Religions” center. On October 4, 2011, he obtained his habilitation in fundamental theology at the University of Innsbruck with the cumulative habilitation thesis “The logos of Christian hope in polyglot responsibility. Studies on a responsive-theological theory of knowledge "with Kurt Appel , Margit Eckholt , Markus Knapp and Joachim Georg Piepke . Since 2011 he has been the editor of the book series “Salzburg Interdisciplinary Discourses”.

In June 2020 it was announced that he would succeed Michael Max as Rector of the St. Virgil Education Center in Salzburg . The handover should take place in early September 2020.

Fonts (selection)

  • Belief and history with Karl Rahner and Gerhard Ebeling. A comparison of transcendental and hermeneutic theology (= Innsbruck theological studies . Volume 45). Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1996, ISBN 3-7022-2044-5 (also dissertation, Innsbruck 1994).
  • as editor with Hanjo Sauer: Life - Experience - Understanding. To connect person and theology. Ceremony for Johannes Singer on his 80th birthday (= Linz philosophical-theological contributions . Volume 5). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2001, ISBN 3-631-37981-1 .
  • Heterotopia of reason. Sketch of a methodology of intercultural philosophizing on the background of the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl (= philosophy . Volume 64). Lit, Vienna / Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-8258-9546-7 (also dissertation, Vienna 2004).
  • as editor with Magdalena Holztrattner : Partner of the people - witness of hope. The Church in the Light of the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes (= Salzburg Theological Studies . Volume 41). Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 978-3-7022-3107-1 .
  • as editor with Martina Schmidhuber: The claim of the foreign as a resource of the human (= Salzburg interdisciplinary discourses . Volume 1). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-61411-2 .
  • as editor with Judith Gruber: Interculturality as a requirement of university teaching and research (= Salzburg interdisciplinary discourses . Volume 2). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 3-631-63304-1 .
  • as editor with Anke Graneß: Perspektiven intercultural philosophizing. Contributions to the history and methodology of polylogues. For Franz Martin Wimmer . Facultas.wuv, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7089-0884-7 .
  • as editor with Raúl Fornet-Betancourt and Hans Schelkshorn : On the way to a just universality. Philosophical foundations and political perspectives. Documentation of the 10th International Congress for Intercultural Philosophy (= traditions of thought in dialogue. Studies on liberation and interculturality . Volume 36). Mainz, Aachen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86130-641-2 .
  • as editor with Sigrid Rettenbacher: Religion in Post-Secular Society. Interdisciplinary perspectives (= Salzburg interdisciplinary discourse . Volume 3). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 3-631-62998-2 .
  • as editor with Rodrigue M. Naortangar: Christian Faith in Africa Today. Contributions to a theological assessment (= Salzburg theological studies . Volume 49). Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2013, ISBN 3-7022-3289-3 .
  • Christ and the religions of the earth. In what confession does God meet? (= Cardinal König Library . Volume 2). Styria Premium, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-222-13401-2 .
  • as editor with Ingrid Schmutzhart and Anna Steinpatz: Are Gender Studies Changing Society? On the transformative potential of an interdisciplinary discourse (= Salzburg interdisciplinary discourse . Volume 5). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 3-631-65603-3 .
  • as editor with Eneida Jacobsen: Deslocamentos - Shifts in theological knowledge. An ecumenical and intercultural project (= Salzburg theological studies . Volume 54). Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2016, ISBN 3-7022-3496-9 .
    • as editor with Eneida Jacobsen: Deslocamentos da teologia contemporânea (= Teologia Pública . Volume 5). SINODAL, São Leopoldo 2015, ISBN 8581940722 .
  • as editor with Angela Schottenhammer : Science and global thinking (= Salzburg interdisciplinary discourses . Volume 7). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 3-631-67297-7 .
  • as editor with Beate Kowalski and Tony Neelankavil : Challenges of Intercultural Theology (= Contributions to Comparative Theology . Volume 26). Lang, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 3-506-78550-8 .
  • as editor with Anita Rötzer: Developing the future. Documentation of the 15th Development Policy University Weeks at the University of Salzburg in 2015 (= Salzburg interdisciplinary discourses . Volume 8). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 3-631-69933-6 .
  • as editor with Astrid Ingruber and Markus Ladstätter: "... with wisdom and love" (Nostra aetate 2). Documentation of the conferences to promote interreligious dialogue 2012-2015 (St. Virgil, Salzburg) . Wagner Verlag, Linz 2017, ISBN 3-903040-19-3 .
  • as editor with Jessica Fortin-Rittberger : Democracy - An interdisciplinary research project (= Salzburg interdisciplinary discourses . Volume 10). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-631-72956-4 .
  • as editor with Sandra Lassak and Birgit Weiler: Theology of Liberation Today. Challenges - Transformations - Impulses (= Salzburg theological studies . Volume 57). Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2017, ISBN 3-7022-3577-9 .
  • as editor with Britta Saal: Thinking polylogically. Considerations on an intercultural-philosophical minimum rule . Facultas, Vienna 2018, ISBN 3-7089-1579-8 .
  • as editor with Ulrike Brandl, Ricarda Drüeke , Jochim Hansen, Eva Hausbacher and Elisabeth Klaus : Inclusion / Exclusion. Current social dynamics (= Salzburg interdisciplinary discourses . Volume 12). Lang, Berlin 2018, ISBN 3-631-76289-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Rector for the St. Virgil Education Center in Salzburg. In: kathpress.at. June 17, 2020, accessed June 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gmainer-Pranzl, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Steyr