Gregor Maria Hoff

Gregor Maria Hoff (born January 29, 1964 in Mönchengladbach ) is professor of fundamental theology and ecumenical theology at the Paris-Lodron University in Salzburg .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1983 at the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Viersen-Dülken , Hoff studied classical philology , Catholic theology , philosophy and German in Bonn and Frankfurt am Main . From 1994 to 1996 he completed his legal clerkship for secondary levels I and II in the subjects of Catholic religion and German, and in 1995 he received his doctorate in theology. In 1999 he qualified as a private lecturer for fundamental theology and philosophy of religion at the University of Bonn.

From 1999 to 2003 Hoff taught at the Marienschule Krefeld , an Ursuline grammar school. After teaching positions in Vallendar , Aachen and Cologne , he became a university professor for fundamental theology and ecumenical theology in Salzburg in 2003 . Since 2009, Hoff has been Vice-President of the Katholisches Hochschulwerk (Salzburg), Deputy Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research of the Görres Society  and Director of the Cardinal König Institute of the European Academy of Sciences (Salzburg). From 2005 to 2015 he was also chairman of the Salzburg University Weeks . He has been a freelance writer for ZEIT since November 2015 .  

He is married and has two children.

Memberships

Hoff is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Adalbert Foundation . He is also a member of the Faith Commission and the sub-commission for religious relations with Judaism at the German Bishops' Conference . On February 20, 2014, he was appointed as the successor to Hans Hermann Henrix as consultor in the papal commission for relations with Judaism .

Works

Monographs

• Aporetic theology . Viersen 1995. ISBN 3-930115-06-9 (= dissertation)
• The precarious identity of the Christian. The challenge of postmodern difference thinking for a theological hermeneutics . Paderborn 2001. ISBN 3-506-73948-4 (= habilitation)
• Revelations from God? A history of theological problems . Regensburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-7917-2091-3
• Ecumenical Passages - Between Identity and Difference . Innsbruck 2005. ISBN 3-7022-2711-3
• The new atheisms Kevelaer 2009. ISBN 978-3-8367-0671-1
• Criticism of Religion Today , 2004, 2nd edition, Kevelaer 2010. ISBN 978-3-8367-0523-3
• Samples: theological inversions Innsbruck 2010. ISBN 978-3-7022-3106-4
• Thinking Present Faith: Vol. 6. Ecclesiology . Paderborn 2011. ISBN 978-3-506-77315-9
• Another atheism. Spirituality Without God? (Topos Taschenbücher 1020), Regensburg: Pustet 2015. 
• Ghosts of religion. Attempt on religious shock , Paderborn: Schöningh 2017. 
• Counter clockwise. Ecclesiology of Church Presents , Paderborn: Schöningh 2018. 

Editorships

• (Ed.) On exploration: theological reading trips through foreign book worlds . Mainz 2005. ISBN 3-7867-2565-9
• (Ed.) God in Coming . Innsbruck 2006. ISBN 978-3-7022-2801-9
• (Ed.) Power and powerlessness . Innsbruck 2007. ISBN 978-3-7022-2869-9
• (Ed.) Love - Provocations . Innsbruck 2008. ISBN 978-3-7022-2963-4
• (Ed.) The ethnological construction of Christianity: foreign perspectives on a known religion . Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-17-020161-3
• (Ed.) World Orders . Innsbruck 2009. ISBN 978-3-7022-3031-9
• (Ed.) Between substitute religion and new expectations of salvation: reinterpretations of health and illness . Freiburg 2010. ISBN 978-3-495-48303-9
• (Ed.) Finally! Life and survival . Innsbruck 2010. ISBN 978-3-7022-3103-3
• (Ed.) Certainly unsure . Innsbruck 2011. ISBN 978-3-7022-3148-4
• (Ed.) Religious conflicts: on the local topography of a globalization phenomenon . Innsbruck 2011. ISBN 978-3-7022-3108-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Gregor Maria Hoff in the catalog of the German National Library
• uni-salzburg.at

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gregor Maria Hoff: A Mönchengladbacher becomes an advisor to the Pope. In: RP Online . February 20, 2014, accessed August 22, 2018 .