Hans-Richard Reuter

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Hans-Richard Reuter (* 1947 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German Protestant theologian and ethicist . Until 2013 he was Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Institute for Ethics and Related Social Sciences (IfES) at the University of Münster.

Life

Hans-Richard Reuter studied Protestant theology , philosophy and sociology at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal , the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the University of Zurich . After the first and second theological exams and the vicariate he worked as a research assistant for social ethics at the University of Heidelberg. There he received his doctorate in 1978 under Heinz Eduard Tödt with a religious-philosophical thesis on the dialectic of Friedrich Schleiermacher . In 1981 he was ordained pastor of the Evangelical Church in Baden . In 1982 he switched to the interdisciplinary research center of the Evangelical Study Community (FEST) in Heidelberg as a research assistant specializing in peace ethics, church theory and fundamental questions of Protestant church law . The habilitation took place in 1995 with studies on legal ethics in the subject of systematic theology at the University of Bochum . In 1999 he accepted the chair for Christian social sciences in the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Münster, founded by Heinz Dietrich Wendland, and took over the management of the institute of the same name (ICG). To clarify the teaching and research focus, he initiated the renaming of the professorship and institute (Institute for Ethics and Related Social Sciences [IfES]) in 2004. From 2004 to 2006 he was dean of the Evangelical Theological Faculty. He was one of the main applicants of the Münster Cluster of Excellence 'Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Pre-Modernity and Modernity', which was established in 2007 and after his retirement in 2013 worked in this context until December 2018 as a senior professor with a focus on the importance of the religious factor in the development of the welfare state. His habilitation candidates include Torsten Meireis and Sabine Plonz.

Focus of work

Theory of ethics, political ethics (peace ethics), legal ethics (human rights), social ethics (religion and the welfare state), ecclesiology and church theory, basic questions of church and religious constitutional law, general sociology of religion

Functions

Hans-Richard Reuter was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy for Technology Assessment in Baden-Württemberg from 1992 to 1999, of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Theology and Peace in Hamburg from 2002 to 2015, and of the editors of the Social Protestantism Yearbook from 2007 to 2019. He acts as (co-) editor u. a. of the journal for Protestant ethics and as a member of the ethics committee of the Westphalia-Lippe Medical Association and the medical faculty of the University of Münster. He is also a board member of the Adolf Loges Foundation based in Heidelberg. In the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) he has been a member of the board of the Social Science Institute of the EKD since 2002 and of the EKD Chamber for Public Responsibility since 2004. Here he was u. a. significantly involved in the peace memorandum of 2007 (Live from God's Peace - Provide for Just Peace, Gütersloher Verlagshaus), which is committed to the concept of peace through law, but does not advocate pacifism in principle.

Publications (selection)

  • with Karl Gabriel (Ed.): Religion and welfare state in Germany. Denominations-Semantics-Discourses . Tübingen 2017.
  • with Wolfgang Huber and Torsten Meireis (eds.): Handbuch der Evangelischen Ethik . Munich 2015.
  • Law and peace. Contributions to political ethics . Leipzig 2013.
  • with Karl Gabriel, Andreas Kurschat and Stefan Leibold (eds.): Religion and the welfare state in Europe. Constellations-cultures-conflicts . Tübingen 2013.
  • Taken at your word. Sermons . Stuttgart 2012.
  • with Christel Gärtner and Karl Gabriel: Religion among opinion makers. An investigation among elite journalists in Germany . Wiesbaden 2012.
  • with Karl Gabriel (ed.): Religion and Society. Texts on the sociology of religion . 2nd Edition. Paderborn 2010.
  • Message and order. Contributions to church theory . Leipzig 2009.
  • with Torsten Meireis (Ed.): The good and the goods. Studies on ethics of goods . Berlin 2007.
  • with Wolfgang Lienemann (ed.): The law of religious communities in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe . Baden-Baden 2005.
  • (Ed.): Ethics of Human Rights. To the dispute about the universality of an idea I (= religion and enlightenment . Volume 5). Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 1999.
  • Legal ethics in theological perspective. Studies on the foundation and concretion . Gütersloh 1996.
  • with Gerhard Rau and Klaus Schlaich (eds.): The right of the church . 3 volumes. Gütersloh 1994ff
  • with Wolfgang Huber: Peace ethics . Stuttgart 1990.
  • The unity of Friedrich Schleiermacher's dialectic. A systematic interpretation . Munich 1979.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uni-muenster.de accessed on July 14, 2016
  2. ^ Religion and Politics. In: University of Münster. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Reuter, Hans-Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main