Franz Wolfinger (theologian)

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Franz Wolfinger (* 1940 ) is a German Roman Catholic fundamental theologian, missiologist and university professor.

Life

After studying philosophy and theology, Wolfinger completed his doctorate and habilitation at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich under Heinrich Fries . At the Institute for Fundamental Theology there, he worked as a scientific assistant and then took on the role of director of the 1979 newly established Institute for Mission Theological Basic Research at missio Munich. The Philosophical-Theological University Benediktbeuern of the Salesians Don Bosco appointed him honorary professor at the local institute for systematic theology.

Works (in selection)

Publications in book form (authors and editors)

• Faith according to Johann Evangelist von Kuhn . Essence, forms, origin, development , (= studies on theology and intellectual history of the nineteenth century, volume 2) Göttingen 1972, (at the same time: Munich, Univ., Kath.-Theol. Fak., Diss. 1970), ISBN 978-3 -525-87454-7 .
• Thinking and transcendence, the problem of their mediation. The different path of the philosophies FH Jacobi and FWJ Schelling and their confrontation in the dispute about the divine things (1811/12) (= theology in transition, volume 7), Frankfurt a. M., Bern, Cirencester / UK 1981, (At the same time: Hochschulschrift, Munich, Univ., 01 - Catholic Theological Faculty, Habilitation thesis, 1979), ISBN 978-3-8204-6051-3 .
• with Heinrich Fries and Fritz Köster, Jesus in the World Religions , Volume 1, St. Ottilien 1981.
• (Ed.), Heinrich Fries (Ed.), Fritz Köster (Ed.), Church Religions Encounter. Church and Religions - Encounter and Dialogue (Series of publications by the Catholic Institute for Basic Research on Mission Theology, Volume 1), St. Ottilien 1981
• with Josef Glazik, Fritz Köster Niels-Peter Moritzen, Martin Lehmann-Habeck, Why Mission? Theological motifs in the history of missions in modern times (= church and religions) (= encounter and dialogue), St. Ottilien 1984.
• (Ed.) With Peter Neuner , On Because of Reconciliation. Contributions to the ecumenical discussion (= Festschrift for Heinrich Fries), Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 978-3-7820-0471-8 .
• Mission (= theology in correspondence course. 24th teaching letter, part 1), Würzburg, Cathedral School 1990.
• The religions and the human rights. A still undiscovered alliance (= Missio pockets, Volume 2), Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-7698-1216-9 .
• with Josef Elsener Siegfried Hertlein, Joseph Kalamba Mutanga, Church in Africa (= Missio pockets, Volume 5), Munich 2005.
• with Hans Waldenfels , Notker Wolf , The thing goes on… , Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-7698-1541-2 (= Missio pockets, Volume 6).

Articles in collective works

• The hierarchy of truths , in: Norbert Kutschki (ed.), The dispute about right belief, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-545-24081-9 , pp. 141–155.
• Liturgy and inculturation. 25 years of liturgical reform in the Junge Kirchen , in: in: Hansjakob Becker (Ed.), Bernd Jochen Hilberath (Ed.), Ulrich Willers (Ed.), Divine Service - Church - Society. Interdisciplinary and ecumenical location determinations after 25 years of liturgical reform , (= Pietas Liturgica, Volume 5), St. Ottilien 1991, ISBN 978-3-88096-285-9 , pp. 357-370.
• A common global ethic ? Reflections on a current dispute , Thomas Hausmanninger (ed.), Christian social ethics between modernity and postmodernism, Paderborn, Munich, Vienna, Zurich 1993, ISBN 978-3-506-73756-4 , pp. 171-185.
• Religion in a globalized society , in: Christoph Böttigheimer (ed.) And Hubert Filser (ed.), Church unity and global responsibility. (= Festschrift for Peter Neuner), Regensburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-7917-1998-6 , pp. 395-406.

Lexicon article

• Fegfeuer , I. Religionsgeschicht , in: LThK 3rd edition, 1995, volume 3, column 1204.

Magazine articles

• The reception of theological insights and their theological and ecumenical significance: From insight to realization , in: Catholica (Münster) (journal) , Münster, Volume 3. Issue 1, 1977, pp. 202–233.
• A new institute introduces itself in: Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft , Volume 64, 1980, S. 316. Register of the journal, created by Wolfinger, available online
• Sense and necessity of theological talk of the Trinity , in: Voices of Time , Volume 198, 1980, Issue 11, pp. 767-778.
• Christianity and the world religions. Conflict, Conversion, or Dialogue? In: Voices of the Time, Volume 198, 1980, Issue 1, pp. 45–54.
• Nature and task of theology. Understanding of theology in Döllinger (1799–1890) and Kuhn (1806–1887) , in: Voices of the Time, Volume 197, 1979, Issue 11, pp. 773–783.
• The Catholic Institute for Basic Research on Mission Theology in Munich , in: Journal for Mission Studies and Religious Studies , Volume 70, 1986, 243.