Hermann Pius Siller

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Hermann Pius Siller (born March 3, 1929 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

Hermann Pius Siller studied Roman Catholic theology, philosophy, folklore and art history at the universities of Tübingen and Innsbruck. In 1963 he received his doctorate with a dissertation supervised by Karl Rahner on the incomprehensibility of God in Thomas Aquinas . In 1972 Siller became a lecturer and in 1973 professor for religious education at the Weingarten University of Education. In 1977 he became a full professor for Catholic theology ( practical theology and religious education ) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Here he was one of the founders of "Theologie Interkulturell" and became its first director. In 1994 Siller retired.

Honors

A commemorative publication was dedicated to him, “the practitioner of theological theory of action”, on his 65th birthday, as well as on his 75th birthday.

Fonts

  • The Incomprehensibilitas Dei with Thomas Aquinas . Diss., University of Innsbruck 1963; Revised edition: Freiburg University Library 2009 ( digitized version ).
  • with Günter Biemer : Basic questions of practical theology . Grünewald, Mainz 1971.
  • Manual of religious didactics . Herder, Freiburg 1991.
  • as editor: search movements. Syncretism - cultural identity and church creed . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1991.
  • Last experiences. From the light of incomprehensibility . Echter, Würzburg 2012.

literature

  • Thomas Schreijäck (Ed.): Workshop future. Education and theology in the horizon of eschatologically determined reality (FS Hermann Pius Siller) , Herder, Freiburg 2004.
  • Edmund Arens (ed.): God's speech - faith practice. Perspectives of theological theory of action , Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Pius Siller (ed.): Search movements . Darmstadt 1991, p. 210 .
  2. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar 2001, p. 3063.
  3. ^ Hermann Pius Siller: Thoughts on the method of theology intercultural . In: Maria Hungerkamp u. a. (Ed.): Ethics that transcend borders . Frankfurt a. M. 1997, p. 99-114 .
  4. ^ Hermann Pius Siller: Make the unmanageable expressly (farewell lecture) . In: Edmund Arens (ed.): Communicative action and Christian faith . Paderborn 1997, p. 179-196 .
  5. ↑ Edmund Arens (ed.): Gottesrede - Glaubenspraxis. Perspectives of theological theory of action . Darmstadt 1994, p. Flyleaf .
  6. ↑ Hermann Pius Siller: Action theory course to a theological prospect of art . In: Walter Lesch (Ed.): Theology and aesthetic experience . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1994, p. 48-67 .
personal data
SURNAME Siller, Hermann Pius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenheim an der Brenz