Heinrich Döring (theologian)

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Heinrich Döring (born October 12, 1933 in Schierschwende , Thuringia ) is a German Roman Catholic fundamental theologian , religious scholar and university professor emeritus .

Life

Heinrich Döring was born as the son of Paul and Emma (née Degenhardt) Döring. After studying Catholic theology from 1955 to 1962 in St. Augustin / Bonn , Fulda and Würzburg Heinrich Döring in 1962 by Adolf Bolte in Fulda for priests ordained , then he served as until 1965 Kaplan and religion teacher in Fulda and Bad Hersfeld operates. In 1968, his doctorate was followed to Dr. theol. in Würzburg, in 1971 his habilitation in the subject of fundamental theology and comparative religious studies by the University of Würzburg.

From 1971 he became a private lecturer at the University of Würzburg, in the same year a full professor for fundamental theology, ecumenical theology, comparative religious studies and theology of religion at the Philosophical-Theological University of Fulda and at the Catholic-Theological Seminar of the University of Marburg . At the same time he worked as a spiritual director at the Episcopal Seminary in Fulda. In 1972 he moved to the Philosophical-Theological University of Passau as a full professor of fundamental theology, and in 1977 as professor of fundamental theology at the newly founded University of Passau . From 1979 to 2001 he was full professor for fundamental theology and ecumenical theology, at the same time head of the institute of the same name at the LMU Munich as successor to Heinrich Fries . In 2001 he retired .

Since 2011 he has been working in pastoral care in St. Laurentius (Ohlstadt) .

His better-known students include Armin Kreiner , Alexander Loichinger , Claude Ozankom and Perry Schmidt-Leukel .

Honors

Works (selection)

Publications in book form

  • Churches - on the way to unity. The struggle for the visible unity of the churches in the documents of world church conferences. A phenomenological-theological consideration (= treatises on philosophy, psychology, sociology and religion and ecumenism, New Series, Issue 17/20), Schöningh, Paderborn, Munich, Vienna 1969 (at the same time university publication Würzburg, Theological Faculty, dissertation from April 19, 1968 ).
  • Absence of God. Questions and answers of today's theology (= denominational and controversial theological studies, Volume 40), Verlag Bonifacius-Druckerei, Paderborn 1977, ISBN 978-3-87088-164-1 , (also university publication: Würzburg, Univ., Department of Catholic Theology, Habilitation thesis , 1971).
  • Basic course in ecumenical information , Meitingen 1978.
  • (Author), Martin Moritz (drawings), The Way of the Cross. A theological meditation on a drawn way of the cross , Passavia Passau 1986, ISBN 978-3-87616-126-6 .
  • Outline of ecclesiology. Central aspects of the Catholic self-image and their ecumenical relevance (= Grundrisse, Volume 6), Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1986 (reprint 1988), ISBN 978-3-534-06351-2 .
  • (Author), Maria Jepsen (Author), Paul-Werner Scheele (Author), Gunther Wenz (Author), Ulrich Wilckens (Author), Is ecumenism at its end? , Regensburg 1994 (2nd edition 1999), ISBN 978-3-7917-1407-3 .
  • Ecumenism before the goal (= contributions to fundamental theology and philosophy of religion, volume 2), Ars Una, Neuried 1998, ISBN 978-3-89391-452-4 .
  • Ecumenical discoveries. Ways of creative integration (= contributions to fundamental theology and philosophy of religion, volume 6), Ars Una, Neuried 2000, ISBN 978-3-89391-456-2 .
  • (Author), Eva Okršlar (Pictures), Given the vastness of divine life. From the diverse happenings of faith , EOS-Kloster-Verlag, St. Ottilien 2006. ISBN 978-3-8306-7256-2 .
  • Dialogic broadcast. The mission of the church in the context of religions (= contributions to fundamental theology and philosophy of religion, volume 11), Ars et Unitas, Neuried 2007, ISBN 978-3-89391-468-5 .
  • The angel of Schlehdorf. A Fundamental Theological Reflection , Ars et Unitas, Neuried 2011, ISBN 978-3-936117-64-6 .
  • God in human experience. Fundamental theological reflections on the Christian understanding of the experience of God (= contributions to fundamental theology and philosophy of religion, volume 14), Ars et Unitas, Neuried 2014, ISBN 978-3-936117-43-1 .

Articles in compilations and series

  • The human being in the question of meaning and reason. Lesson 3 of the basic course , in: Domschule Würzburg eV (Ed.), Theologie im Fernkurs, Würzburg 1969 (several translations); in a new version 1979.
  • (Author), Franz-Xaver Kaufmann (Author), Contingency Experience and Question of Meaning , in: Franz Böckle (Ed.), Christian Faith in Modern Society, Volume 9, Freiburg-Basel-Vienna 1981, pp. 5-67.
  • The sacramental structure of the church from a Catholic point of view , in: Johann-Adam-Möhler Institute (Ed.), The sacramentality of the church in the ecumenical discussion. Lectures and discussions at a symposium on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Möhler Institute, (= Konfessionskundliche Schriften, Volume 15), Paderborn 1983.
  • Theology in the Medium of Experience , in: Peter Neuner (Ed.), Harald Wagner (Ed.), Responsibility for Faith (Festschrift for Heinrich Fries), Herder, Freiburg 1992, ISBN 978-3-451-22534-5 , Pp. 47-67.
  • Disput about the experience of God , in: Michael Kessler (Ed.), Wolfhart Pannenberg (Ed.), Hermann Josef Pottmeyer (Ed.), Fides quaerens intellectum. Contributions to Fundamental Theology (Festschrift for Max Seckler ), Francke, Tübingen-Basel, 1992, ISBN 978-3-7720-1944-9 , pp. 17–41.

Magazine articles

  • The understandable, incomprehensible belief. Reflections on a remarkable fundamental theological handbook , in: Voices of the Time , 210th Volume, 1992, Issue 4, pp. 278–284.

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personal data
SURNAME Döring, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic fundamental theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Schierschwende , Thuringia