Hans Zirker

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Hans Zirker (born March 17, 1935 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

From 1954 to 1962, Zirker studied philosophy , Catholic theology , German and Semitic languages at the universities of Mainz and Munich . He graduated with the first state examination in 1962 and the second state examination in 1964 for the subjects of Catholic religion , German, philosophy and Hebrew . In the same year 1964 he received his doctorate in Catholic theology. From 1962 to 1971 he worked as a high school teacher, from 1971 to 1974 as head of Catholic religious instruction at the Institute for Teacher Training in Mainz, until he was offered a professorship at the Pedagogical University of Rhineland , Dept. Neuss, where until 1980 he taught as a professor for Catholic theology and its didactics . From 1980 to 1993 he was university professor for Catholic theology with a focus on fundamental theology at the University of Duisburg , then until his retirement in 2000 at the University of Essen .

Research priorities

  • Prerequisites for credibility and mutual understanding of personal faith and institutional religion, especially with a view to the social foundations of faith in religious or church communities and socially pluralistic societies
  • The relationship between Christianity and Islam
    • in historical terms: Islam as a piece of the Judeo-Christian history of impact, especially the history of Christian dogma ; mutual perceptions and patterns of judgment in the past and present
    • in hermeneutical terms: prerequisites for understanding when talking about God and man (world, history, individual life)
    • in social terms: places and forms of conflict between religion and modern society (under the conditions of secularization , social plurality and a democratic state); Manifestations and patterns of justification of fundamentalism .

Fonts (selection)

  • The cultic visualization of the past in the psalms. Bonn 1964
  • Language problems in religious education. Düsseldorf 1972 ( online ).
  • Readings of God and the world. Small theology of religious understanding. Düsseldorf 1979 ( online ).
  • Criticism of religion. (Guide to Theology 5). Düsseldorf 1982, revised. u. exp. 3rd edition 1995 ( online ).
  • Ecclesiology. Düsseldorf 1984 ( online ).
  • Christianity and Islam. Theological Kinship and Competition. Düsseldorf 1989, 2nd edition 1992, with corrective marginal notes 2016 ( online ).
  • Islam. Theological and social challenges. Düsseldorf 1993 ( online ).
  • The Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam . In: Muslim Review . Vol. 21 (2000), No. 76, pp. 54-66 ( online ).
  • Perception of Islam - Learning from Islam. An autobiographical-theological sketch , in: DuEPublico (Duisburg-Essen Publications online) , 2017
  • The Koran. Approaches - Structures - Readings, 4th, rev. u. exp. Edition. Darmstadt 2018.
  • The Koran. Translated and introduced. Darmstadt 2003; 6th edition 2018; Correction notes in: DuePublico (Duisburg-Essen Publications online)
  • Koran transliteration : online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data from Hans Zirker in: Wer ist Wer - Das deutsche Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2000, ISBN 978-3-7950-2029-3 , p. 1581.
personal data
SURNAME Zirker, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein