Herbert Frohnhofen
Herbert Frohnhofen (born April 23, 1955 in Erkelenz ) is a German theologian and philosopher .
Life
After studying mathematics, social sciences, philosophy and theology in Aachen and Munich, which was funded by the Cusanuswerk , he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1981 ( University of Philosophy , Philosophical Faculty SJ / Munich) and in 1986 in Catholic theology ( LMU Munich ). Frohnhofen lived in the Munich study house of the Benedictines of Sankt Ottilien (1976–1985). Following an assistantship with Peter Stockmeier (1982–1986) and a position as head of studies at the Catholic Academy Rabanus Maurus / Wiesbaden-Naurod from 1987 onwards, he has been Professor of Fundamental Theology and Dogmatics since 1992, succeeding Bernd Jochen Hilberath at the Catholic University of Mainz . He has lived in Dornburg / Westerwald since 2004, is married and has two children.
Teaching
Frohnhofen's thinking was shaped primarily by Immanuel Kant , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and his contemporaries Lorenz Bruno Puntel , Karl Rahner , Peter Stockmeier and Joseph Ratzinger .
The primary goal of his teaching is to prove that people are fundamentally truthful in all areas. This means that the community of people in all contexts (natural and social sciences, philosophy, theology, etc.) is fundamentally capable of seeing through the structures of the world to the extent that it could live in them in a salutary way ("1st path of revelation" / “Book of Creation” / “State of Paradise”). If and to the extent that you actually - collectively as well as individually - often do not (completely) succeed or sometimes even almost completely fail, this is caused by behavior that - motivated by selfishness or hubris - refuses to accept the structures of wholesome / true life ( "Sin") and, as a result, clouding in the right action as well as in the right cognition and knowledge, which in turn collectively seek their victims and (consequential) perpetrators ("original sin" / "universal fall into sin"). From this state the Creator God (who thereby also becomes the Savior God) leads people into a new salvation by revealing himself first to the people of Israel and then in Jesus Christ to all of humanity as the universal love that helps every person / sinner Able to endure and overcome sin (“2nd path of revelation” / “Book of the Bible”). The Church is that community founded by this Spirit of God, which has the unique task of proclaiming and symbolically realizing the Gospel of God in Jesus Christ who overcomes all sin and thus creates new salvation. Your sacraments are central means of salvation on this new path of salvation. This dynamic of salvation is carried and enclosed by the salvation that can already be experienced selectively today, but which is hoped for in the future in its perfection, which will overcome all injustice and dry all tears.
This faith based on Jesus Christ is that "true philosophy" (Justin), which interprets human or worldly being most appropriately. It is a worldview that has to compete with other worldviews / religions. Also and especially in this area truth is necessary and possible. Non-Christian worldviews and religions are fundamentally to be respected as cultural developments of humanity. If and to the extent that they correspond to the goal of universal salvation for all creation, they are highly valued; if and to the extent that they contradict this goal, they are resolutely rejected or fought. Of course, the worldview favored by him has not yet made a final decision about the individual salvation of man.
Since the 1st and 2nd path of revelation belong together, because they both describe the establishment of a relationship and the relationship between the one God and people, reason and faith cannot fundamentally contradict one another. Yes, the fact that human cognition and thinking on the one hand, like his trusting faith in the God of Jesus Christ on the other hand, should constantly - individually and collectively - struggle with one another for harmony, even struggle, distinguishes the Christian faith understood in this way - at least in the Catholic Church any fundamentalist (Christian or non-Christian) ideology.
Political commitment
As a student he was a member of the CSU, 2013–2015 in the AfD, and Herbert Frohnhofen has been a member of the CDU since the beginning of 2019. He is involved here in the State Committee on Education and in working on the basic program.
Publications
As an author:
- The concept of structure in mathematics. An analysis of existing definitions and uses . University of Philosophy, Munich 1981 (Dissertation, Munich, University of Philosophy, 1981).
- Apatheia tou theou. About the lack of affect of God in ancient Greece and among the Greek-speaking church fathers to Gregorios Thaumaturgos . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-8204-1103-8 (dissertation, Munich, University, 1986).
As editor:
- with Jörg Splett “Either - or”. Challenged by Kierkegaard . Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-7820-0581-3 .
- Christian anti-Judaism and Jewish anti-Paganism: their motives and backgrounds in the first three centuries (= Hamburg theological studies. Vol. 3). Steinmann and Steinmann, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-927043-13-3 .
- Education / Catholic University of Applied Sciences Mainz . EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 2006, ISBN 3-8306-7254-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Herbert Frohnhofen in the catalog of the German National Library
- List of printed publications
- Internet publications
- Scripts on systematic theology
- Literature and texts on topics and terms of systematic theology
Individual evidence
- ^ Who's who in Religion, 1992, p. 171.
- ^ Who's who in Religion, 1992, p. 171.
- ↑ http://www.kfh-mainz.de/kontakt/frohnhofen.htm
- ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frohnhofen, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erkelenz |