Hans Hermann Henrix

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Hermann Henrix in the Matthias Church Budapest 2013
Hans Hermann Henrix with Cardinal Erdő 2013

Hans Hermann Henrix (born November 21, 1941 in Schwalmtal, Lower Rhine ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian.

biography

Henrix studied economics in Cologne and philosophy and theology in Frankfurt , Innsbruck and Münster . He began his professional career in 1969 as a lecturer in theology and ecumenism at the Episcopal Academy of the Diocese of Aachen . In 1988 the then Aachen Bishop Klaus Hemmerle appointed him director of the academy. Henrix held this position until his retirement on November 30, 2005.

From 1985 to 1987 HH Henrix was the Catholic President of the German Coordination Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation .

His main focus was on the relationship between Christianity and the Church and Judaism . Henrix advises the German bishops on questions of Judaism. On 16 January 2003 it appointed Pope John Paul II. For a consultor of the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews . Pope Benedict XVI reappointed him to this office with the document signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone of March 18, 2008. At Henrix's own request, Pope Francis refrained from another appointment, so Henrix resigned from this office on February 19, 2014. His successor was the theologian Gregor Maria Hoff, who taught in Salzburg .

Henrix is ​​the author and editor of many books. He has also written more than 220 articles, essays and contributions for anthologies and journals and is a member of several editorial boards of theological journals. He is an honorary professor at the University of Salzburg, was a substitute professor at RWTH Aachen University and a visiting professor at the University of Salzburg, and is a member of scientific advisory boards at universities. He represents the German Bishops' Conference on the Advisory Board of the International Martin Buber Foundation and is one of the most important living promoters of the dialogue between Jews and Christians in the Catholic Church.

He is a member of the board of directors of the Adalbert Foundation . Henrix is ​​married and has three children.

Honors

The University of Osnabrück awarded him on 25 May 2000, the dignity of Dr. phil. hc , together with his important Jewish interlocutor, the Canadian Rabbi Erwin Schild . In May 2009 the University of Salzburg awarded Henrix the title of honorary professor.

Works (in selection)

  • Europe: A Continent of Dialogue. Thinkers and Ideas in Judaism and Christianity (= European Dialogue of the Adalbert Foundation ). Adalbert Foundation, Krefeld 2009, ISBN 978-979-95200-4-3 .
  • Adalbert von Prag, bridge builder between East and West Europe , ( Writings of the Adalbert Foundation , Volume 4), Nomos, Baden-Baden 1997, ISBN 3-7890-4834-8 .
  • What is justified in speaking of a martyr memoria in Xanten? in: Trier Theological Journal No. 84, pp. 216–235. 1976, ISSN  0041-2945 .
  • Hans Hermann Henrix: "Are you the one to come, or should we expect someone else?" (Mt 11,2). Our faith in Christ and the Jewish hope for the Messiah
  • Nostra Aetate - a forward-looking Council text: the attitude of the Church to Judaism 40 years later ISBN 3-9363-4250-4
  • God's Yes to Israel: Ecumenical Studies of Christian Theology ISBN 3-9363-4230-X
  • Bishop Klaus Hemmerle (1929-1994): a spiritual master; ISBN 3-9363-4239-3
  • Judaism and Christianity: community against will; ISBN 3-7867-8525-2
  • Dialogue or monologue? : on the liturgical relationship between Judaism and Christianity ISBN 3-4510-2208-7
  • Miserere: Template for a memorial service of a Christian community in the face of the Jewish people - especially on November 9th
  • Window to the world: fifty years of academic work in Aachen; ISBN 3-9363-4219-9
  • Pope John Paul II and the development of Europe during his pontificate; ISBN 978-83-923994-7-6
  • The churches and Judaism. Volumes 1 and 2. Documents from 1945 - 1985 and 1986 - 2000 . Bonifatius, Paderborn 1988 to 2001, ISBN 3-89710-155-6 and ISBN 3-89710-148-3
  • Encouragement from external sources, encounters with personalities from Judaism and Christianity (Topos Taschenbücher, Volume 807) ISBN 978-3-8367-0807-4
  • Christ Jesus to the Jewish People Today. New Explorations of Theological Interrelationships (Associate Editor); ISBN 978-0-8028-6624-0
  • Perspectives of politics and religion for the reconciliation between Hungary and Slovakia / A politika és a vallás perspái Magyarország és Szlovákia megbékésében (European Dialogue of the Adalbert Foundation); ISBN 978-963-08-3523-7
  • Gesú Cristo e il poplo ebraico, Interrogativi per la teologia the oggi; ISBN 978-88-7653-662-5
  • Christ in the mirror of other religions (Forum Christians and Jews Vol. 12), Lit-Verlag, Berlin - Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12618-4
  • Israel carries the church - On the theology of the relationship between church and Judaism (Forum Christians and Jews, Vol. 17) Lit-Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-643-14248-1

Web links

Commons : Hans Hermann Henrix  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/moenchengladbach/ein-moenchengladbacher-wird-berater-des-papstes-aid-1.4050609 RP-Online
  2. ↑ https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/zeitschriften-und-kapitel/9514/kirche-und-israel Church and Israel
  3. ↑ http://www.uni-salzburg.at/index.php?id=41747&newsid=4142&s=1 University of Salzburg
  4. ↑ http://www.campus.rwth-aachen.de/rwth/all/event.asp?gguid=0xB1F1F548412F044488508DA4B17243EA&tguid=0xA393F76E128F574ABF63DE120D3E7B38 RWTH Aachen
  5. ↑ http://www.uni-salzburg.at/index.php?id=32090 University of Salzburg
  6. ↑ http://www.martin-buber-stiftung.com/Personen.html Martin Buber Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Henrix, Hans Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwalmtal (Lower Rhine)