Helmuth Rolfes

Helmuth Rolfes (* 1944 ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

He grew up in Bremen , where he has lived since his retirement. After completing his doctorate at the University of Innsbruck in 1969 and in Münster in 1981, the priest of the Osnabrück diocese was professor of systematic theology at the University of Kassel from 1984 to 2009 . He is a member of the diocesan working group of Lübeck Martyrs in the Diocese of Osnabrück .

Works (selection)

• The meaning of life in Marxist thought. A critical account. With a foreword by Johann Baptist Metz (= Patmos-Paperback ). Patmos, Düsseldorf 1971, ISBN 3-491-00309-1 (also dissertation, Innsbruck 1969).
• (Ed.): Marxism, Christianity (= Grünewald material books . Volume 6). Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1974, ISBN 3-7867-0481-3 .
• Jesus and the proletariat. The Jesus tradition of the labor movement and Marxism and their function for the determination of the subject of emancipation (= Patmos-Paperback ). Patmos, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-491-77249-4 (also dissertation, Münster 1981).
• with Angela Ann Zukowski (ed.): Communicatio socialis. Challenge of theology and ministry in the church. Festschrift for Franz-Josef Eilers . Kassel Univ. Press, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89958-310-6 .
• with Stephan Winter (ed.): Confessors in the time of horror. In memory of the Lübeck martyrs in the Diocese of Osnabrück . Publishing Cathedral Bookstore, Osnabrück 2018, ISBN 3-925164-75-8 .