Hans Jürgen Münk

Hans Jürgen Münk (* 1944 ) is a Swiss theologian .

Life

Münk obtained a theological licentiate specializing in moral theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1974 . From 1974 to 1977 he worked in church pastoral care. From 1977 to 1983 he was a research assistant in the department of theological ethics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . After receiving his doctorate in 1983 in Freiburg im Breisgau as Dr. theol. with Bernhard Stoeckle and Rudolf Henning with a dissertation on the influence of the ethics of Kant on the Catholic moral theology of the late Enlightenment period followed in 1986 there the habilitation Did Christianity lead us into the environmental crisis? Historical-systematic considerations on a controversial thesis in the run-up to ecological ethics for the subjects of moral theology and Christian social theory. From 1987 until his retirement in 2009 he taught as a professor of theological ethics in Lucerne .

His research focuses on the historical area (relationship of theological ethics to philosophical currents; early history of an autonomous morality in the Christian context) and partly in the area of ​​normative foundation questions and current ethical focal points (ethical questions of technology; scientific ethics; human medical ethics; animal welfare ethics).

Münck was editor of the Theological Reports for many years .

Works (selection)

• The Freiburg moral theologian Ferdinand Geminian Wanker (1758-1824) and Immanuel Kant. Historical-comparative study taking into account further philosophical-theological ideas of the late Enlightenment . Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1985. Moral theological studies. Historical department. 10. ISBN 3-491-71072-3 (also dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau 1983)

Editing

• with Alberto Bondolfi : Theological Ethics Today. Answers for a humane future. Hans Halter on his 60th birthday . NZN-Buchverlag, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-85827-131-4
• with Helmut Hoping : Service in the name of Jesus Christ. Impetus for pastoral care, catechesis and liturgy . Paulusverlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2001. (Theological reports. 24.) ISBN 3-7228-0517-1
• When is education fair? Ethical and theological contributions in an interdisciplinary context . Bertelsmann, Bielefeld 2008. (Forum Bildungsethik. 4.) ISBN 978-3-7639-3654-0
• The United Nations six decades after it was founded. Balance sheet and reform prospects . Lang, Bern 2008. ISBN 3-03911-489-1
• with Michael Durst : Church, Theology and Education Paulusverlag, Freiburg in Germany 2001. (Theological reports. 32nd) ISBN 978-3-7228-0761-4
• with Michael Durst : Creation, Theology and Science Paulusverlag, Freiburg. (Theological Reports. 29.) ISBN 978-3-7228-0687-7

Web links

• Prof. em. Dr. Hans J. Münk (PDF) , University of Lucerne