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Gregory Baum OC , originally Gerhard Albert Baum (born June 20, 1923 in Berlin ; † October 18, 2017 in Montreal ) was a German- Canadian Roman Catholic theologian , university professor and former clergyman of the Augustinian order .

Life

Gregory Baum came from a German family with Jewish roots . Both parents were non-denominational ( dissidents ) . His father Franz Siegfried Braun (1883-1924) was an engineer and employee of Fritz Haber . He died as early as 1924 of the long-term effects of a wound from the First World War . His mother Bettie, b. Mayer, remarried; however, this second marriage did not last long. She died in 1942 as a nurse in the Jewish Hospital in Berlin to meningitis .

In 1939, Gregory emigrated to England by means of a children's transport . In the spring of 1940 Baum, like all enemy aliens , was interned in Great Britain . After a short time on the Isle of Man , it was shipped to Canada . In 1942 he was released from the internment camp and was able to begin studying mathematics and physics at McMaster University in Hamilton (Ontario) .

In 1946 Baum joined the Roman Catholic Church and in 1947 the Augustinian Order. In the order he was given the name Gregory . In 1954 he was ordained a priest .

After World War II , he studied Roman Catholic theology , mathematics and physics at McMaster University, Ohio State University and the University of Freiburg (Switzerland) . With the dissertation Christian unity in papal documents of the 20th century it was in 1956 a doctorate . Since 1959 he has taught as a professor of Catholic theology at St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto and since 1986 at McGill University in Montreal . In 1999 he retired .

In 1960, at the suggestion of Cardinal Bea, he was appointed to the Council peritus and took part in the Second Vatican Council . He belonged to the sub-commission for the Jewish problem area of the Pontifical Unity Secretariat, on whose preparatory work the Council Declaration Nostra Aetate can be traced back.

From 1962 to 2004 he was co-editor of The Ecumenist magazine . In 1976 he resigned from the Augustinian order and resigned from his priesthood. In 1977 he married his girlfriend Shirley, a former nun.

In 1990, Baum was awarded the Officer of the Order of Canada . In 2016 he and Francis Xavier D'Sa received an honorary doctorate from the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . They were honored for “working with perseverance for interreligious and intercultural dialogue”.

Works (selection)

  • That They May Be One . Newman Press, 1958
  • The Jews and the gospel. A re-examination of the New Testament. 1961
    • The Jews and the Gospel. A New Testament Review. Benziger, Einsiedeln 1963
  • Progress and Perspective. 1962
  • Kerk en eenheid, voortgang en vooruitzichten . 1964
  • Is the New Testament anti-Semitic? A re-examination of the New Testament. 1965
  • (Ed.) The Future of Belief Debate . Herder & Herder, 1967
  • The Credibility of the Church Today . Herder & Herder, 1968
    • Credibility. To the self-image of the church. Herder, Freiburg 1969
  • Faith and Doctrine: a Contemporary View. 1969
    • Plea for Faith. A book for seekers and doubters. Styria, Graz 1972
  • Man becoming.  Herder & Herder, 1970
  • The Jews, faith and ideology. 1973
  • Religion and Alienation.  Paulist Press, 1975
  • Christian theology after Auschwitz . 1977
  • Truth Beyond Relativism: Karl Mannheim ’s Sociology of Knowledge . The Marquette Lecture. Marquette University Press, 1977
  • The Social Imperative. 1979
  • Catholics and Canadian Socialism: Political Thought in the Thirties and Forties. 1980
  • The Priority of Labor: Commentary on John Paul II's 'Laborem exercens' . Paulist Press, 1982
  • The Holocaust and Christian Theology. , 1982
  • New Religious Movements. 1983
  • Ethics and Economics: Canada's Catholic Bishops on the Economic Crisis. 1984
  • The Sexual Revolution. 1984
  • Theology and Society '.  Paulist Press, 1986
  • Thomas Berry and the New Cosmology. 1987
  • Compassion and Solidarity: The Church for Others . The 1987 CBC Massey Lectures. Anansi Press, 1988
  • Sports. 1989
  • The Logic of Solidarity: Commentaries on Pope John Paul II's Encyclical on Social Concern. 1990
  • Compassion and Solidarity: The Church for Others. , 1990
  • God and Capitalism: A Prophetic Critique of Market Economy. , 1991
  • The Church in Quebec.  Novalis, 1992
  • Sheed and Ward. 1994
  • Essays in Critical Theology. 1994
  • Karl Polanyi on Ethics and Economics . McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996
  • The Reconciliation of People: Challenge to the Churches. 1997; again in 2002
  • The Twentieth Century: A Theological Overview. 1999
  • Nationalism, Religion and Ethics . McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001
  • Le Monothéisme: Un Dieu, trois religions. 2003
  • Étonnante Église. 2006
  • Signs of the Times: Religious Pluralism and Economic Injustice . Novalis, 2008
  • The Theology of Tariq Ramadan : A Catholic Perspective . University of Notre Dame Press, 2009
  • Islam et modernité: la pensée de Tariq Ramadan. 2010
  • Truth and Relevance: Catholic Theology in French Quebec since the Quiet Revolution . McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014
  • Vérité et pertinence: un regard sur la théologie catholique au Québec depuis la Révolution tranquille. 2014
  • Fernand Dumont: A Sociologist Turns to Theology.  McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015
  • The Oil Has Not Run Dry: The Story of My Theological Pathway. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016

literature

  • Marguerite Mendell (Ed.): Reclaiming Democracy: The Social Justice and the Political Economy of Gregory Baum and Kari Polanyi Levitt. , McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005
  • Monika Rack: Gregory Baum: Critical. Partially. Contextual. A theological way of life. , LIT, Münster, 2000 ISBN 978-3-8258-4812-5 , zugl .: Paderborn, Univ., Diss., 1999 udT: Gregory Baum: Eine Theologie der Praxis

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gregory Baum: The Oil Has Not Run Dry: The Story of My Theological Pathway. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016, ISBN 9780773599963 , p. XI
  2. ↑ Michael Swan: Canadian theologian Gregory Baum, participant in Vatican II, dies at 94 . In: Crux , October 20, 2017, accessed on October 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ François Gloutnay: Le théologien Gregory Baum est décédé . In: Présence information religieuse , October 18, 2017, accessed on October 22, 2017 (French).
  4. ^ Family history according to Gregory Baum: The Oil Has Not Run Dry: The Story of My Theological Pathway. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780773599963 , pp. 13f
  5. ^ Section: "Tree" , The Guardian , May 19, 2016
  6. ^ Gregory Baum: The Oil Has Not Run Dry: The Story of My Theological Pathway. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780773599963 , pp. 13f
  7. ↑ Such a release, be it for study or for service in certain areas of the Canadian Army , enjoyed a number of these people, see generally Annette Puckhaber, A Privilege for a Few. German-speaking emigration to Canada in the shadow of National Socialism . Lit, Münster 2002 full text
  8. ↑ a b Werner Harenberg, Evenhuis: How powerful is the Pope? Spiegel talk with the Council Peritus Father Professor Dr. Gregory Tree . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1963, pp. 92–99 ( online - November 20, 1963 , detailed curriculum vitae on p. 95).
  9. ^ A b c Norbert Mette: Critical - partisan - contextual: the theologian and sociologist Gregory Baum . In: Feinschwarz , February 1, 2017, accessed October 22, 2017.
  10. ^ Order of Canada: Gregory Baum, OC, Th.D. Governor General of Canada, July 6, 2012, accessed October 22, 2017.
  11. ↑ A sign of tolerance and understanding . Press release, University of Tübingen , December 1, 2016, accessed on October 21, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Baum, Gregory
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baum, Gerhard Albert (original name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian Roman Catholic theologian and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 18th October 2017
Place of death Montreal