Gerd Neuhaus

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Gerd Neuhaus (* 1952 in Essen ) is a German Catholic theologian .

Life

From 1973 to 1978 he studied Catholic theology, German language and literature and philosophy in Bochum , completing the first state examination for teaching at the grammar school in the subjects of Catholic religion and German. From 1978 to 1981 Neuhaus administered the position of a scientific assistant at the chair for philosophical-theological borderline questions in Bochum. After receiving his doctorate in 1981 as Dr. theol. and the legal clerkship in 1982 for teaching at grammar schools in Duisburg , he became a teacher for Catholic religion and German at the Abtei-Gymnasium in 1983 and was also head of the Catholic religion at the Oberhausen seminar from 1989-1998. After his habilitation in 1992 for the subject of fundamental theology in Bochum, he was appointed private lecturer in 1993 and an adjunct professor in 1999 . In January 2018 he retired as a teacher, but continues to perform his duties as an adjunct professor.

His work focuses on religion and violence, Christianity's claim to truth and the diversity of religions, belief in God and experience of suffering.

Works (selection)

  • Transcendental experience as a loss of history? The reproach of subjectlessness in Rahner's concept of historical existence and a further perspective of transcendental theology . Patmos, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-491-71057-X (also dissertation, Bochum 1981).
  • Atheism or anonymous Christianity? An attempt at the transcendental hermeneutics of belief in God, dealing with Feuerbach, Marx, Horkheimer and Benjamin . Plöger-Verlag, Annweiler 1985, ISBN 3-924574-01-4 .
  • Theodicy - breaking off or offending faith . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 1993, second edition 1994, ISBN 3-451-23237-5 (also habilitation thesis , Bochum 1992).
  • No world peace without a Christian claim to absoluteness. A religious-theological analysis of Hans Küng's "Project Global Ethic" (= Quaestiones disputatae . Volume 175) Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-451-02175-7 .
  • Piety of theology. - On the logic of the open theodicy question (= Quaestiones disputatae . Volume 202) Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-451-02202-8 .
  • Believe in talking to the present . Plöger-Verlag, Annweiler 2005, ISBN 3-89857-195-5 .
  • Fundamental theology. Between the claim to rationality and the claim to disclosure . Pustet-Verlag, Regensburg 2013, second edition 2017, ISBN 3-7917-2489-4 .
  • Fortune cookies from God? Religious instruction between lifeworld orientation and religious responsibility , Pustet-Verlag, Regensburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7917-3101-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Neuhaus, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH eat