Heinz Schütte
Heinz Schütte (born October 15, 1923 in Werden ; † July 12, 2007 in Paderborn ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and ecumenist .
Life
After the Second World War, Schütte studied Catholic theology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1951 he received the Cologne Cathedral , the priesthood and worked as a chaplain and religion teacher. When his first book About Reunification in Faith appeared in 1958, the Vatican admonished him and dismissed him as a teacher of religion. Schütte decided to do a postgraduate course in Catholic and Protestant theology in Bonn and at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster . In 1965 he received his doctorate for a thesis on Protestantism under Joseph Ratzinger , who was then professor for dogmatics and the history of dogma in Münster , as a Doctor theologiae .
Schütte completed his habilitation in 1974 in systematic theology , also with Joseph Ratzinger. In 1977 Schütte received a professorship for systematic theology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn and held this chair until his retirement in 1988. He also took on teaching positions at the universities of Wuppertal , Cologne and the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen .
From 1979 to 1999 he continued to work as a research assistant at the Johann Adam Möhler Institute for Ecumenism in Paderborn.
Most recently Schütte worked as a subsidiary in the Paderborn parish of St. Heinrich.
Schütte was a world-renowned theologian who made a name for himself in the Lutheran-Catholic dialogue. Schütte played a decisive role in the creation of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification , which was signed on October 31, 1999 in Augsburg .
Works (selection)
- Goal: Church fellowship. For ecumenical orientation , Benno, Leipzig 1985, ISBN 3746204674 .
- Faith in ecumenical understanding, the basis of Christian unity, Ecumenical Catechism , Lembeck, Paderborn 1993, ISBN 3874762947 .
- Church in ecumenical understanding, Church of the Triune God , Lembeck, Paderborn 1991, ISBN 3874762769 .
- together with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and Hugo Staudinger : On basic questions of theology today , Paderborn 1992, ISBN 3-87088717-6
- Small ecumenical catechism , Leutesdorf 1998, ISBN 3779414112 .
- Being Christian in ecumenical understanding , Lembeck 1999, ISBN 3874763498 .
- In the service of one church , Paderborn 2000, ISBN 3897101262 .
- Protestantism today. Ecumenical orientation , Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3897102927 .
- Martin Luther and Christian Unity , Paderborn 2007, ISBN 3933425484 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinz Schütte in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schütte, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian, professor of systematic theology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Become |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 2007 |
| Place of death | Paderborn |