Gottfried Bachl

Gottfried Bachl (born April 16, 1932 in Linz ; † May 23, 2020 ) was an Austrian theologian and university professor of Catholic dogmatics .

Life

Bachl grew up in Pregarten . From 1953 to 1963 he studied theology in Rome and was ordained a priest in 1959. From 1963 to 1966 he was chaplain in Wels , from 1966 to 1970 first a lecturer, then professor for dogmatics and ecumenical theology at the Catholic Theological University in Linz .

From 1983 Bachl was Professor of Dogmatics at the Theological Faculty of the University of Salzburg , 1991–1995 as Dean and then until 1997 as Vice Dean. In 1998 Bachl retired.

In some sermons and publications Bachl turned against "definitive answers to the unfathomable"; He rejected intellectual, theological or political “totalitarian language”.

According to his obituary, he was a father and a grandfather.

Fonts

Books (selection)

• God moves. Echter, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-429-03491-7 .
• Eucharist: power and pleasure of consumption. EOS, St. Ottlien 2008, ISBN 978-3-8306-7332-3 .
• Traces in the face of time: a little eschatology. Müller, Salzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7013-1144-6 .
• The difficult Jesus. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-7867-8578-3 .
• Thinking: Mauthausen, Gusen - Hartheim - St. Radegund. Ed. Kirchen-Zeit-Geschichte, Ort 2002, ISBN 3-902330-00-7 .
• Description of God: speeches and readings. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-7867-8438-8 .
• The envied angel: theological sketches. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 2001, ISBN 3-7022-2390-8 .
• Mail air and ice drift: 100 prayers. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 1998, ISBN 3-7022-2131-X .
• The damaged eros: woman and man in Christianity. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1989, ISBN 3-451-21470-9 .
• Reading: A Path to Freedom. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 1989, ISBN 3-7022-1733-9 .
• Things have their tears too. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 1988, ISBN 3-7022-1653-7 .
• Providence and action of God. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1988, ISBN 3-451-02115-3 .
• The future after death. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1985, ISBN 3-451-20520-3 .
• Eucharist - food as a symbol? Benziger, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-545-27062-9 .
• About death and life after. Styria, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-222-11287-8 .

Lectures

• Gregor Maria Hoff , Ulrich Winkler (ed.): Poetry of theology: experimental arrangements between literature and theology: Bachl Lectures 2007–2011. Tyrolia, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3192-7 .

Honor

1997 Sexau Community Prize for Theology

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dogmatist Gottfried Bachl died , kathisch.de, published and accessed on May 26, 2020.
2. ↑ We mourn Prof. Dr. Gottfried Bachl. Accessed June 7, 2020 (German). 
3. ↑ Curriculum Vitae em. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gottfried Bachl. Retrieved June 19, 2014 .  (PDF)
4. ↑ Ulrich Winkler: Univ. Prof. Dr. Gottfried Bachl. (PDF; 243 kB) Professor of theology in Salzburg and theological writer. University of Salzburg, accessed on June 19, 2014 . 
5. ^ Platform "We are Church". October 20, 2012, accessed June 19, 2014 . 

Web links

• Literature by and about Gottfried Bachl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Systematic theology at the University of Salzburg: Gottfried Bachl