Heinz Giesen

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Heinz Giesen CSsR (born March 22, 1940 in Bochum ; † July 18, 2016 in Bonn ) was a German religious priest and Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

One of the five children of the married couple Hubert and Sophie Giesen, he initially worked in administration after his school days and the final apprenticeship examination at the Administration Academy in Bochum . After graduating from high school in 1962 at the Collegium Josephinum Bonn , he entered the novitiate of the Redemptorists in Trier , where he made his first profession on March 25, 1963 . From 1963 to 1968 he completed his philosophical and theological studies at the Redemptorist College in Hennef - Geistingen . Adolf Kindermann ordained him as a priest on July 22, 1968. This was followed by a second degree at the Pontificio Ateneo Sant'Anselmo in Rome , where he was awarded a Dr. theol. (specialist in dogmatic theology ) doctorate was. After further postgraduate studies at the Biblicum in Rome, he was awarded a Dr. Doctorate in re biblica ( exegesis ).

Since the winter semester 1973 he has been teaching at the university in Hennef as an associate professor and since the winter semester 1976 he has been a full professor for the subject of exegesis. After the Redemptorist College was dissolved in 1996, he taught New Testament exegesis at the PTH St. Augustin until his retirement in 2008 . In addition, he held temporary teaching assignments at the St. Lambert Study House , at the PTH Münster , at the University of Wuppertal and in the winter semester 2000/2001 a visiting professor at the theological faculty of the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . Heinz Giesen belonged to the monastery community in Geistingen for the longest time. In January 2006 he moved to the Bonn community.

research

Giesen was particularly interested in the Apocalypse of John . Another subject area with which he dealt intensively was the biblical theology of God's rule , especially in his book "Lordship of God - Today or Tomorrow? On the Salvation Message of Jesus and the Synoptic Gospels". In it, he turned against the thesis that the historical Jesus, the evangelists, and with them most of the first Christians the imminent end of the world anticipated ( imminent ).

Fonts (selection)

  • On the problem of excommunication according to the Gospel of Matthew . Athenaeum Anselmianum, Rome 1970, OCLC 77377663 (also dissertation, Papal Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo 1970).
  • Christian action. An editorial-critical examination of the Dikaiosynē term in the Gospel of Matthew (= European University Writings. Series 23 Theology. Volume 181). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern 1982, ISBN 3-8204-5762-3 (also dissertation, Biblicum 1982).
  • Belief and action. Volume 1. Contributions to the exegesis and theology of the Gospels of Matthew and Mark (= European university publications. Series 23 Theology. Volume 205). Lang, New York / Frankfurt am Main / Bern 1983, ISBN 3-8204-7650-4 .
  • Belief and action. Volume 2. Contributions to the exegesis and theology of the New Testament (= European university publications. Series 23 Theology. Volume 215). Lang, New York / Frankfurt am Main / Bern 1983, ISBN 3-8204-7642-3 .
  • John Apocalypse (= Stuttgart small commentary. New Testament NF. Volume 18). Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-460-15481-0 .
    • John Apocalypse (= Stuttgart small commentary. New Testament NF. Volume 18). 2nd edition, Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-460-15481-0 .
    • John Apocalypse (= Stuttgart small commentary. New Testament NF. Volume 18). 3rd edition, Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-460-15481-0 .
    • John Apocalypse (= Stuttgart small commentary. New Testament NF. Volume 18). 4th edition, Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-460-15481-0 .
    • Jindřich Slabý (translator): Kniha Zjevení apoštola Jana (= České Katolické Biblické Dílo. Řada Českého Katolického Biblického Díla. Volume 8). Karmelitánské Nakladat, Kostelní Vydří 1999, ISBN 80-7192-330-3 .
  • with Dieter Bauer and Wolfgang Baur: encouragement to be a Christian. Revelation (= Bible interpretation for practice. Volume 27). Verlag Katholische Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-460-25271-5 .
  • Lordship of God - Today or Tomorrow? On the message of salvation of Jesus and the synoptic Gospels (= Biblical Investigations. Volume 26). Pustet, Regensburg 1995, ISBN 3-7917-1454-6 .
  • The Revelation of John (= Regensburg New Testament ). Pustet, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7917-1520-8 .
  • Studies on the Johannes apocalypse (= Stuttgart biblical essays. New Testament. Volume 29). Verlag Katholische Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 978-3-460-06291-7 .
  • Jesus' message of salvation and the Church. Studies on eschatology and ecclesiology among the synoptics and in the first letter of Peter (= Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium. Volume 179). Leuven Univ. Press / Peeters, Leuven / Paris / Dudley 2004, ISBN 2-87723-817-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Heinz Giesen, Lordship of God - today or tomorrow? On the message of salvation of Jesus and the synoptic Gospels (= Biblical Investigations. Volume 26). Pustet, Regensburg 1995, ISBN 3-7917-1454-6 <, pp. 80-86, pp. 98-133
personal data
SURNAME Giesen, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious priest and Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH 18th July 2016
Place of death Bonn