Hans-Joachim Schulz

This article deals with the priest and theologian Hans-Joachim Schulz. For the medical officer, see Hans-Joachim Schulz-Merkel .

Hans-Joachim Schulz (born February 18, 1932 in Berlin ) is a Catholic priest, liturgical scholar and Eastern church scholar .

Life

Schulz studied in Rome theology , received in 1956 in Aachen, the priesthood , and went after to Innsbruck where he was taught by Karl Rahner and Josef Andreas Jungmann received his doctorate in 1958th Until 1961 he worked as a pastor in the diocese of Aachen .

His habilitation took place in 1964 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster for the subjects of liturgical science and theology of the Eastern Churches . Then Schulz taught at the Theological University in Königstein im Taunus and from 1968 to 1978 as professor for liturgical science at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1978 he took over the chair for the history and theology of the Christian East at the University of Würzburg .

He was also involved in the advisory board of the Johann Adam Möhler Institute in Paderborn and as a consultor for the Pro Oriente Society in Vienna.

Focus

The focus of his academic work is the history of tradition, especially in the East, in the areas of liturgy and church teaching.

Memberships

For many years he was also a member of the Ecumenical Commission and the Catholic-Orthodox Commission of the German Bishops' Conference .

Honors

For his work on the history of the Byzantine liturgy in 1992 that gave him Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome , the honorary doctorate .

Publications (selection)

Books

• The Byzantine liturgy. Testimony of faith and symbolism . 3rd, revised and updated edition, Paulinus, Trier 2000, ISBN 3-7902-1405-1
• The Apostolic Origin of the Gospels. On the origin of the Gospel form in the primitive paschal celebration (= Quaestiones disputatae; 145). Herder, Freiburg / Breisgau 1993, 3rd edition (with the subtitle) 1997.
• Ecumenical unity of faith from Eucharistic tradition . Bonifatius, Paderborn 1976.
• Confession instead of dogma. Criteria for the binding nature of church teaching . Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1996.

Essays

• The sacred liturgical pastoral office in its eucharistic self-realization according to the testimony of liturgical tradition . In: P. Bläser: Office and Eucharist . Paderborn 1973, 208-255.
• "Change" in the Eastern Church liturgical understanding. An orientation in the dispute about transubstantiation and transignification . In: Catholica 40 (1986) 270-286.
• The sacramental character of episcopal office and episcopal ordination . In: W. Nyssen (Ed.), Simandron. The knocker. Commemorative letter for Klaus Gamber. Cologne 1989, 169-187.
• The Pneumatology of St. Basil: Impulse to reconsider the hermeneutic structure of theology and the church teaching as a creed and liturgy-related interpretation of scriptures . In: The Christian East: Its Institutions & Its Thought. Papers of the Intern. Scholary Congress for the 75th Anniversary of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, 30 May - 5 June 1993 ed. By Robert F. Taft. Roma: Pont. Is. Orientale 1996. (OCA 251) 543-564.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Joachim Schulz in the catalog of the German National Library