Friedemann Greiner

Friedemann Greiner (* 1946 in Nuremberg ) is a German theologian who primarily deals with interreligious dialogue, ecumenism and the relationship between politics and theology.

Friedemann Greiner studied Protestant theology and philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1976 under Wolfhart Pannenberg on the theology and religious philosophy of the Catholic theologian Karl Rahner . Then he was a lecturer at the medical academy of the Bundeswehr in Munich.

From 1991 to 2011 he was director of the Evangelical Academy in Tutzing . He created the renowned “ Tolerance Prize ” and brought the “Schloss Tutzing Foundation” into being (2007).

Since 1998 he has been a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation , from 2002 as a representative of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . In 2002 he became chairman of the program committee of Bavarian television.

Since July 2013, Greiner has been Honorary Consul of the Republic of Rwanda for the State of Bavaria , based in Tutzing .

Greiner was awarded the Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver, the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Bavarian Order of Merit.

Fonts

• The humanity of revelation: the transcendental foundation of theology in Karl Rahner , Munich, Kaiser 1978 (Munich monographs on historical and systematic theology, Volume 2, simultaneously his dissertation)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of the Federal Foreign Office