Heribert Arens

Heribert Arens OFM (* 1942 in Werl ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian , religious priest, Franciscan and homileticist.

Life

Heribert Arens has been a member of the Franciscan Order since 1961. After studying philosophy and theology in Münster and Paderborn, he was ordained a priest in Paderborn in 1967. From 1968 to 1970 he studied homiletics and speech training in Munich at the Institute for Catechetics and Homiletics . He was active in hospital and conversation counseling, as well as in preaching training. From 1983 to 1989 he headed the (then) Saxon Franciscan Province as Provincial , then as head of the novitiate of the Province he was responsible for the next generation of the Order, from 1995 to 2001 he was Provincial of the Province in a second term. From 2001 to 2005 he worked at the Institut der Orden (IMS) as a department head for process and chapter support . He was guardian in the monastery Hülfensberg in Eichsfeld ( Thuringia ) and has been guardian in the monastery and pilgrimage director at the Basilica Vierzehnheiligen since 2013 .

Participation in specialist committees

• Homiletic working group Münster
• Editing of the sermon magazine Der Prediger und Katechet (PUK)
• Committee for the ecumenical sermon Price of publishing for the German economy

Award

• ecumenical sermon Price of publishing for the German economy (2000)

Works (selection)

Publications in book form

• The sermon as a learning process. Munich 1972, ISBN 3-466-20152-7 .
• with Franz Richardt and Josef Schulte, creativity and preaching work. Think more versatile, preach more imaginatively , Munich 1974, ISBN 3-532-71312-8 .
• Together with Franz Richardt and Josef Schulte : Preach positively: Homiletic aids and examples. Munich 1977, 2nd edition Munich 1978, ISBN 3-532-71315-2 .
• Together with Franz Richardt and Josef Schulte: The sermon of the philanthropic God: Commandments and suffering as touchstones of the proclamation. Munich 1980, ISBN 3-532-71306-3 .
• with Werner Mertens, Gisbert Preuß, Wolfgang Strotmeier and Josef Tasch, Wi (e) der die Steinzeit - models for sermons, community work and catechesis , Munich 1981.
• God, you are so human: Observations and meditations on the Gospel of Luke, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7904-0364-4 .
• (Ed.): Preach ecumenically. Sermons with background. Edition The Preacher and Catechist . Donauwörth 2003.
• If you are looking for God, then look for him below: Seven impulses to a grounded spirituality. Donauwörth 2003, ISBN 3-87904-297-7 .
• With Gisela Rosemann: Say a clear yes. 33 building blocks for firm catechesis. Donauwörth 2003, ISBN 3-87904-274-8 .

Articles in collective works

• "There comes this dreamer ..." , in: Hubert Brosseder, Josef . Shaping the Old Testament in adult education, sermon and teaching, Wewel-Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-87904-202-9 , pp. 32–44.
• Abraham, go away! , in: Hubert Brosseder (Ed.): Abraham . Designing the Old Testament in adult education, sermon and teaching , Wewel-Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-87904-200-5 , pp. 34-36.
• "... that you are determined for yourself to act like this" , in: Uto J. Meier (ed.), Leadership. Power. Sense. Ethos and ethics for decision-makers in business, society and the church, Pustet-Verlag, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7917-2264-1 , pp. 490-500.

Journal articles (selection)

• Overcoming borders, sermon Christmas (Am Tag), 24./25. December 2010. In: PUK , 150th volume, 2011, issue 1, available online.
• Easter - the feast of human dignity, Easter sermon (Am Tag), 20/21. April 2014. In: PUK, Volume 153, 2014, Issue 3, pp. 355–357.
• »Comfort my people«, sermon Second Sunday in Advent - December 10, 2017. In: PUK, Volume 157, 2018, Issue 1.
• The virtue of tenacity (Lk 18.1-18), reading sermon on the 29th Sunday of the year - October 20, 2019. In: PUK, Volume 158, 2019, No. 6 pp. 735–756.
• God's unfathomable decisions (Rom. 6: 33-36), sermon on the 21st Sunday of the year - 23 August 2020. In: PUK, Volume 159, 2020, Issue 5, pp. 611–614.