Gerhard Beestermöller

Gerhard Beestermöller (* 1958 ) is a German Catholic theologian.

Beestermöller studied Catholic theology and philosophy in Frankfurt, Santiago de Chile and Munich. He was visiting professor at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Northern Germany and deputy director at the Institute for Theology and Peace in Hamburg, where he had been working since 1984. At the Jesuit College in Frankfurt he received his doctorate with a study on the peace ethics of Thomas Aquinas . On October 1, 2014, Archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich appointed him Professor of Moral Theology and Social Ethics at the Center Jean XXIII in Luxembourg.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Publications

• Thomas Aquinas and the Just War. Peace ethics in the theological context of the Summa Theologiae (= Theology and Peace. Vol. 4). Bachem, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7616-1028-9 (also: Frankfurt am Main, Univ., Diss.).
• The League of Nations idea. Efficiency and limits of war ostracism through state solidarity (= theology and peace. Vol. 10). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1995, ISBN 3-17-013723-9 (also: Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Habil.-Schr.)
• War against Iraq - return to the anarchy of states? A critical commentary from the perspective of a war ostracism ethics (= contributions to peace ethics. Vol. 35). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-17-017912-8 .
• Nils Goldschmidt (Hrsg.), Gerhard Beestermöller (Hrsg.), Gerhard Steger (Hrsg.), The future of the family and their dangers. Norbert Glatzel on the occasion of his 65th birthday (= writings of the Institute for Christian Social Sciences at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster, Volume 44), Münster 2002.
• as editor with Hauke ​​Brunkhorst : Return of the torture. The rule of law in the twilight? (= Beck series 1684). Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54112-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Beestermöller in the catalog of the German National Library