Hermann Josef Pottmeyer

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Hermann Josef Pottmeyer (born June 1, 1934 in Bocholt ) is a German fundamental theologian .

Life

After studying Catholic theology and philosophy in Münster and Rome , he was ordained a priest in 1960 . In 1964, Pottmeyer was at the Pontifical Gregorian University after completing his dissertation The culmination of the debate about faith and science in the 19th century. Dogmatic-historical investigation of the constitution "Dei Filius" of the 1st Vatican Council for Dr. theol. PhD . In 1974 he acquired the license to teach through his habilitation in the field of systematic theology (dogmatics and dogma history) at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. Also in 1974 he was appointed full professor of fundamental theology at the Ruhr University in Bochum . He retired as professor of fundamental theology in 2000.

From 1980 he was a member of the Faith Commission of the German Bishops' Conference ; from 1987 adviser for the Central Committee of German Catholics . From 1993 in the Ecumenical Working Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians and in the International Theological Commission ; 1993 Appointment to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Istituto Paolo VI (Brescia).

approach

In his scientific work, Hermann Josef Pottmeyer deals significantly with the processing of the results of the Second Vatican Council . He assumes that the potential of this central ecclesiastical event of the 20th century has not yet been fully developed or that it needs to be continued. The conception of the Pope's ministry within the Church plays a central role ("The Petrine ministry will only gain its true dimension, a service to the communion of all churches and Christians, when its conception is no longer determined by pre-conciliar ecclesiology" ) as well as the right interpretation of the “hierarchical” constitution of the Church and the role of the laity in it.

One of Pottmeyer's main scientific merits is the edition of the “Handbuch der Fundamentaltheologie” together with Walter Kern and Max Seckler , which became the standard work of this scientific discipline in German and - in translation - in Italian.

Awards

Main publications

  • Faith before the demands of science: The Constitution on the Catholic Faith "Dei Filius" of the First Vatican Council and the unpublished theological votes of the preparatory commission [Freiburg Theol. Studies, 87] (Freiburg: Herder, 1968).
  • What remains in the office and mission of the presbyter: The ecclesiological classification of the priesthood as a concern of contemporary theology, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 21 (1970), 39-48.
  • Theology of synodal structures, in: Questions of the Church Today, ed. by Adolf Exeler (Würzburg: Echter, 1972), 164–182.
  • The assignment of laypersons and priests in pastoral service, in: Lebendige Seelsorge 29 (1978), 9-18.
  • Church in Transition: A Critical Interim Assessment after the Second Vatican Council. Edited by Giuseppe Alberigo / Yves Congar / Hermann Josef Pottmeyer. Patmos, Düsseldorf 1982.
  • The Reception of the Second Vatican Council, ed. by Hermann Josef Pottmeyer / Giuseppe Alberigo / Jean-Pierre Jossua (Düsseldorf: Patmos, 1986).
  • Handbook of Fundamental Theology, I: Treatise Religion, ed. by Walter Kern / Hermann Josef Pottmeyer / Max Seckler (Freiburg: Herder, 1985; second, improved and updated edition [UTB 8170], Tübingen / Basel: A. Francke, 2000) (= Corso di Teologia Fondamentale, I: Trattato sulla Religione , Brescia: Queriniana, 1990); II: Treatise on Revelation, ed. by Walter Kern / Hermann Josef Pottmeyer / Max Seckler (Freiburg: Herder, 1985; second, improved and updated edition [UTB 8171], Tübingen / Basel: A. Francke, 2000) (= Corso di Teologia Fondamentale, II: Trattato sulla Rivelazione , Brescia: Queriniana, 1990); III: Tractate Church, ed. by Walter Kern / Hermann Josef Pottmeyer / Max Seckler (Freiburg: Herder, 1986; second, improved and updated edition [UTB 8172], Tübingen / Basel: A. Francke, 2000) (= Corso di Teologia Fondamentale, III: Trattato sulla Chiesa , Brescia: Queriniana, 1990); IV: Treatise on theological theory of knowledge, ed. by Walter Kern / Hermann Josef Pottmeyer / Max Seckler (Freiburg: Herder, 1988; second, improved and updated edition [UTB 8173], Tübingen / Basel: A. Francke, 2000) (= Corso di Teologia Fondamentale, IV: Trattato di Gnoseologia Teologica, Brescia: Queriniana, 1990).
  • The role of the papacy in the third millennium [Quaestiones Disputatae 179] (Freiburg: Herder, 1999) (= Le role de la papauté au troisième millénaire, Paris: Cerf, 2001; Il ruolo del papato nel terzo millennio, Brescia: Queriniana, 2002) .
  • The realization of the 2nd Vatican Council. Central concern of the Great Jubilee 2000, in: International Catholic Journal 30 (2001), 251–260 (= The actualization of Vatican II, in: Theology Digest 49, 2002, 145–150).
  • The Second Vatican Council and the Communio in Christo, in: Communio in Christo 27 (2004) No. 1, 30–35 (also in: The lived Council, edited by K.-H. Haus (Mainz: Grünewald, 2005) , 86-93.)
  • Focus on the sacrament of consecration, in: Experience God. Religious orientation through sacraments [Theology in Context Vol. 13], ed. by R. Göllner (Münster: LIT, 2005), 73–89.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Role of the Papacy in the Third Millennium , 122
personal data
SURNAME Pottmeyer, Hermann Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and fundamental theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Bocholt