Gerhard Kruip

Gerhard Kruip, June 2009

Gerhard Kruip (born February 6, 1957 in Munich ) is Professor of Christian Anthropology and Social Ethics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Life

Kruip studied mathematics and Catholic theology in Würzburg and Paris from 1975 to 1981 . In 1982/83 he had his first long research stay in Mexico.

From 1985 to 1995 he was Wilhelm Dreier's research assistant at the Chair of Christian Social Science at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Würzburg , accompanied by two further research stays in Mexico in 1991 and 1992. In 1990 he also held a visiting professorship in Salamanca (Spain).

He received his doctorate in 1989 and qualified as a professor in Würzburg in 1995. In 1994 he started teaching at the Faculty of Theology in Fulda (until 1997), and in 1995 he went to Jerusalem for a visiting professorship . In the same year he became director of the Catholic Academy for Youth Issues in Altenberg (until 2000). Since 1996 he was also a private lecturer at the University of Würzburg and held a teaching position at the University of Cologne. In 2001 he was appointed associate professor in Würzburg. He also held teaching positions at the Catholic University of Social Sciences in Berlin (2000/2001).

Since June 2000 Kruip was director of the Research Institute for Philosophy in Hanover . On June 8, 2009, he was retired in this capacity. His successor is Jürgen Manemann . He had a teaching position at the University of Hanover (2001-2006).

Since August 30, 2006, Kruip has been a university professor for Christian anthropology and social ethics in Mainz. From October 2012 to September 2015 he was dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty and from May 2014 to September 2015 dean of Faculty 01 (Catholic Theology and Protestant Theology) at JGU Mainz.

Work and initiatives

Since 2012, Kruip has been publishing the peer-reviewed theological journal ET Studies on behalf of the European Society for Catholic Theology . It appears twice a year.

Kruip was a member of the Bioethics Commission of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, advisor to Commission VI, the sub-commission for contacts with Latin America (2006–2016), Commission XIII (Caritas Commission) and the Europe working group of the German Bishops' Conference (2016–2020) , Member of the expert group on the world economy and social ethics of the German Bishops' Conference, which he chaired from summer 2003 to spring 2008. He is also a member and advisory board of numerous national and international working groups, commissions, foundations and societies and associations.

His research focuses on theoretical and practical questions of justice , in particular from the perspective of globalization , poverty reduction, civil society, welfare state and democracy, intergenerational justice, environmental and climate protection. Kruip dealt particularly intensively with the countries of Bolivia and Mexico as well as with the relationship between the theology of liberation in Latin America and Catholic social teaching . Most recently, two larger projects financed from third parties deal with the human right to education (in cooperation with Marianne Heimbach-Steins , now University of Münster, funded by the DFG) and with the development of concepts for ethical education in general adult education (funded by the BMBF, project sponsor: Catholic Federal Working Group for Adult Education ). The latter of the two projects continues the scientific support for the "Ethics Meeting Point", on which Kruip worked in the years 2003-2006.

In 2011, Kruip was part of the initiative group that wrote the memorandum Church 2011: A Necessary Awakening . This memorandum calls for far-reaching reforms in the Catholic Church and was signed by over 300 theology professors, mostly from German-speaking countries.

Kruip volunteers to coordinate support for a development and education project in Oaxaca, Mexico, led by Antonio González and Luz Elena Moctezuma. A kindergarten is operated in Ocotlán as part of the project work. In addition, the project supports various grassroots initiatives by campesinos, indigenous people and small craftsmen and an ecological project in which the groundwater situation and thus also the local climate in Oaxaca is to be improved by building barrages and rainwater retention basins. Gerhard Kruip sends out a Christmas newsletter every year.

In October 2019, Kruip said that in Latin America people were in favor of church permission for the admission of married Roman Catholic priests alongside celibate single priests.

Fonts

Monographs:

• Church and society in the process of ethical historical self-understanding. The Mexican controversy over the 'discovery of America'. Münster: Lit Verlag 1996 (publications of the Institute for Christian Social Sciences of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster 34). XIV + 414 S. (doctoral thesis)
• Development or Liberation? Elements of an ethic of social structures using the example of selected statements from the Catholic Church in Mexico (1982 1987). Saarbrücken; Fort Lauderdale: Breitenbach, 1988. VI + 597 pp. (Habilitation thesis)
• Can I still eat meat? (Church and Society Green Series, No. 440, edited by the Catholic

Social Science Central Office), JP Bachem Medien, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7616-3192-8 .

Editorships

• Add. m. Prcela, Frano (ed.): The future of the order. With a foreword by Cardinal Karl Lehmann. Würzburg: Echter, 2016.
• Add. with Heimbach-Steins, Marianne; Wendel, Saskia (ed.): "Church 2011 - a necessary departure". Arguments about the memorandum. Freiburg i. Br .: Herder, 2011.
• Add. m. Heimbach-Steins, Marianne (ed.): Cooperative educational responsibility. Socio-ethical and educational perspectives on "Educational Governance". Bielefeld: W. Bertelsmann, 2011.
• Add. m. Gisbertz, Helga; Tolksdorf, Markus (ed.): Ethical learning in general adult education. Bielefeld: W. Bertelsmann, 2010.
• Add. m. Heimbach-Steins, Marianne; Kunze, Axel-Bernd (ed.): Educational Justice - Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Bielefeld: W. Bertelsmann, 2009.
• Add. m. Heimbach-Steins, Marianne; Kunze, Axel-Bernd (ed.): Education, politics and human rights. An ethical discourse. Bielefeld: W. Bertelsmann, 2009.
• Add. m.Heimbach-Steins, Marianne; Neuhoff, Katja (ed.): Educational paths as obstacle courses. On the human right to education in Germany. Bielefeld: W. Bertelsmann, 2008.
• Add. m. Heimbach-Steins, Marianne; Kunze, Axel-Bernd (Ed.): The human right to education and its implementation in Germany. Diagnoses - reflections - perspectives. Bielefeld: W. Bertelsmann, 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Kruip in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sozialethik.kath.theologie.uni-mainz.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Katholisch.de: Theologe Kruip: People on the Amazon want married priests , accessed on October 4, 2019