Gregor Taxacher

Gregor Taxacher (* 1963 in Cologne ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher of history, journalist and author.

life and work

Gregor Taxacher studied theology from 1983 to 1990 at the Universities of Würzburg , Tübingen and Bonn . From 1987 to 1989 he did nursing service in Düsseldorf . After a graduate scholarship from the Cusanuswerk , he was awarded a Dr. theol. PhD. Then he was a speaker at the Thomas-More-Akademie Bensberg . From 2003 to 2009 he was a freelance journalist and author, from 2009 to 2017 editor at Westdeutscher Rundfunk . Since 2017 he has been a research assistant at the Institute for Catholic Theology at the Technical University of Dortmund .

Works

• Trinity and Language. Dogmatic epistemology as theology of language. A systematic survey of Karl Barth . Echter, Würzburg 1994 (dissertation).
• Never ending end time. After Auschwitz, think about God in history . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 1998. 127 pp.
• (Ed.) Intercultural Competence and Migration. Contributions from the Bensberg Colloquium on Migrant Women Research . Bergisch Gladbach 2006.
• Christ to the end of the world. Paul's mission . Bergisch Gladbach 2009. 89 pp.
• Apocalyptic reason. Biblical historical thinking and its consequences . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2010. 254 pp.
  • Review by Rainer Feldbacher
• Apocalypse is now. The silence of theology in the face of the end times . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2012. 224 pp.
  • Review by Peter Zürn
  • Review by Reinhard Hempelmann
  • Review by Martin H. Thiele
• Fault lines. How we became what we are: A theological dialectic of history . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2015. 618 pp.
• with Simone Horstmann and Thomas Ruster : Everything that breathes. A theology of animals . Pustet, Regensburg 2018. 384 pp.

Web links

• Personnel page of the University of Dortmund
• Author site of the Randomhouse publishing house
• Interview with Taxacher about his book Apocalypse is now .