Fritz Köster (theologian)

Fritz Köster SAC (born March 1, 1934 in Olpe ; † May 25, 2014 in Boppard ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian , pastor and religious ( Pallottine ).

Life

After entering the order he studied theology and was ordained a priest in 1961. Then he was deployed in Augsburg, Paris, Cameroon and Brussels. In the late 1970s and 1980s he continued his theological studies and did his doctorate and habilitation in Munich with Erich Feifel . At the same time, Köster worked as a department head and speaker at Missio Munich. He supported Lea Ackermann in founding SOLWODI . He worked with her in many contexts. After serving in pastoral care in Munich, Baldham and on Lake Starnberg, Fritz Köster moved to Boppard-Hirzenach in 1988, from where he continued to teach throughout Germany with lectures.

Focus of his scientific theological work

• Investigations into African Christianity
• Education in Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism
• Christian education and socialization in Europe
• The Second Vatican Council with its approaches for a church supported by laypeople as a successor community of Jesus Christ

Works

Publications in book form (as author and editor)

• with Marietta Peitz, Weltmission. From Western Christianity to the Young Churches; Order forever, history from yesterday, change today, chance for tomorrow , Donauwörth 1976, ISBN 978-3-403-00676-3 .
• African Christianity. A challenge in religious education (Studies on Practical Theology, Volume 12), Zurich, Einsiedeln, Cologne: Benziger 1977, ISBN 978-3-545-21512-2 .
• Religious education in the world religions. Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam , Darmstadt 1986, ISBN 978-3-534-02440-7 .
• (Ed.), Heinrich Fries (Ed.), Franz Wolfinger (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
• (Ed.) And Paul M. Zulehner (Ed.), Power and Powerlessness in the Philippines. Church of Liberation as a unifying force , Olten, Freiburg im Breisgau 1986, ISBN 978-3-530-54351-3 .
• Church in a coma? The courage to do something completely different , Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 978-3-7820-0589-0 .
• Change of authority. Back to the Praxis Jesu , Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 978-3-7820-0605-7 .
• Christianity at the turn. Visions of Hope , Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 978-3-7820-0635-4 .
• Wanted: Johannes XXIV. Letters to his unforgettable predecessor , Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 978-3-7820-0719-1 .
• Fitness for soul and spirit. People need three muscles ... , St. Ottilien 1995, ISBN 978-3-88096-794-6 .
• Religious and free. Faith without church? , Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 978-3-7820-0769-6 .
• Pope wanted. Letters of Hope , Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-7820-0793-1 .
• Christianity under scrutiny: enough teachings are proclaimed. Jesus' invitation to “true life” , Aachen 2001, ISBN 978-3-8265-8467-1 .
• with Lea Ackermann and Cornelia Filter (collaboration), About God and the World. Conversations at the kitchen table , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-466-36737-5 .

Articles in collective works

• Lay initiatives - the continuation of the council by other means , In: Werner Matt (Ed.), Birgit Brida (Ed.) And Wolfgang Ortner (Ed.), Das Montagsforum, Dornbirn 2010, p. 404–.
• with Maria von Weiser and Inge Bell, Drei Voices zu Solwodi , in: Lea Ackermann, Mary Kreutzer , Alicia Allgäuer, Living in freedom, that was only a dream for a long time. Courageous women tell of their escape from violence and modern slavery, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-466-30878-1 , pp. 23-30.
• Lea Ackermann (Ed.), Do we need priestesses? A provocation , in: Our pastor is a woman. Experiences and consequences; an ecumenical assessment, Freiburg im Breisgau, Vienna, etc. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-32561-8 , pp. 262-.

Articles in magazines (selection)

• Experiential Christianity? A review of the Heilig-Rock exhibition in Trier , in: Voices of the Time , year 121, 1996, p. 567–.

literature

• Lea Ackermann (Ed.), Challenge and Answer. Fritz Köster on his 60th birthday , St. Ottilien 1994, ISBN 978-3-88096-718-2 .
• Obituary for Fritz Köster on the Sowodi website. available online

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Köster in the catalog of the German National Library