Giovanni B. Sala

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Giovanni Battista Sala SJ (born April 28, 1930 in Terno d'Isola , † March 15, 2011 in Munich ) was an Italian Catholic theologian and philosopher .

Life

Giovanni B. Sala joined the Jesuit order in 1947 and studied theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty Aloisianum in Gallarate (Fondazione Centro Studi Filosofici Gallarate). In 1961 he was ordained a priest . At the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn , he was in 1970 when Gottfried Martin (1901-1972) with a study of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Lonergan's Insight to Dr. phil. PhD .

Since 1971 Sala has taught as a professor at the order's own University of Philosophy in Munich. The focus of his work was the philosophy of Kant and Lonergan .

Twenty years after his dissertation and many specialist articles (as well as works in Italian), his second monograph was published in German: “Kant and the question of God. Evidence of God and Critique of Evidence of God in the Writings of Kant ”(1990), which is still considered a standard work today and is cited internationally. He judged Kant from Lonergan's Aristotelian-Thomistic point of view. Sala was close to the Gustav Siewerth Academy .

Publications (selection)

  • The structure of human knowledge . A theory of knowledge, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: 2009. * [1]
  • Controversial theology. Selected theological writings . Festival for the 75th birthday, ed. by Ronald K. Tacelli and Ulrich L. Lehner, Bonn 2005. *
  • Kant's Critique of Practical Reason. A comment Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: 2004. *
  • The Christology in Kant's "Religion within the Limits of Mere Reason". Weilheim-Bierbronnen 2000.
  • Church advice centers and participation in the Abortion Act. A moral theological investigation . Frankfurt a. M. 1998.
  • Kant on human reason. The critique of pure reason and the knowledge of God through practical reason . Weilheim-Bierbronnen 1993.
  • Kant and the question of God. Evidence of God and Critique of Evidence of God in the writings of Kant . Berlin / New York 1990.

literature

  • Ulrich Lehner, Ronald Tacelli (Ed.): Giovanni Sala. Controversial theology. Selected theological writings. With an introduction by Cardinal Leo Scheffczyk . Celebration for the 75th birthday. Nova et vetera Verlag, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-936741-00-X
  • Richard Schaeffler : On GB Sala's criticism of my interpretation of the Kantian philosophy of religion , in: Theologie und Philosophie 56 (1981) 244-258.
  • Norbert Fischer : On the recent discussion of Kant's philosophy of religion , in: Theologie und Glaube 83 (1993) pp. 170–194 (critical of Sala's interpretation of Kant).

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personal data
SURNAME Sala, Giovanni B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sala, Giovanni Battista (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Jesuit, Catholic theologian and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Terno d'Isola
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 2011
Place of death Munich