Hildegund Keul

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Hildegund Keul (* 1961 ) is a theologian , religious scholar and Germanist . Her research focuses on the mysticism of the 13th century that arose from the poverty movement and its significance for the present, as well as the vulnerability discourse in its diverse contexts since 2010.

Life

University career

As a scholarship holder (1981–1986) from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation , Hildegund Keul first studied Catholic theology , German and philosophy (1980–1982) at the University of Trier ; then (1983–1992) at the University of Würzburg . In the meantime she was from 1982 to 1983 with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service to study ecumenical theology at Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem / Israel . In 1986 she obtained a diploma in Catholic theology from the University of Würzburg and in 1988 the degree of Magistra Artium in German studies. Supported by a doctoral scholarship (1989–1992) from the Cusanuswerk , she received her doctorate summa cum laude in 1992 at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . From 1986 to 1995 she held a teaching position at the same faculty to introduce the literature of feminist theology . After being awarded the qualification to teach in Fundamental Theology and Comparative Religious Studies in 2002 , she was authorized to teach as a private lecturer there in 2003 and has been teaching in these departments since 2009 as an adjunct professor . Since 2016 she has headed the interdisciplinary research group "Vulnerability, Security and Resilience" founded together with Pierre-Carl Link in Würzburg; Since 2018 she has been working on the research project "Vulnerabilities. A Heterology of Incarnation in the Vulnerability Discourse" funded by the German Research Foundation.

Hildegund Keul has received several awards for her work. In 1994 she received the Prize of the Lower Franconian Memorial Year Foundation for Science for her dissertation, and in 2003 the Karl Rahner Prize for theological research for her habilitation thesis . In 2003 she was proposed by the University of Würzburg for the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize . In 2008 she received the Theophrastus Foundation's Mystic Media Prize.

Further employment

From September 1993 to March 2004 was Hildegund Keul lecturer at the College seminar for parish ministry in Magdeburg and lecturer of the Department of Pastoral of the Episcopal Ordinariate Magdeburg, from April 2004 to July 2018 Director of the Center for Women's Pastoral Care of the German Bishops' Conference in Bonn and Dusseldorf.

Research priorities

Hildegund Keul began her research with a focus on the mysticism of the 13th century. Their emergence from the poverty movement at that time as well as their significance for the present are emphasized. It is about engravings of mysticism in systematic theology and religion, in ritual and sacrament - theology as heterology. Her habilitation thesis is about the beguine and mystic Mechthild von Magdeburg.

Hildegund Keul has been known for her research on the vulnerability discourse since 2010. Vulnerability is proving to be a key concept in theology, science and society. The power effects of vulnerability in personal and political, social and cultural contexts, and not least in religious life, are researched. The current debates on migration, the fight against poverty and the challenge of religious-political violence also come to the fore.

Fonts

Monographs (selection)
  • Becoming human through touch. Bettina Brentano-Arnim as a pioneer for a feminist theology (= Würzburg Studies on Fundamental Theology 16). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-631-46485-1 (also dissertation Würzburg 1992).
  • Where language breaks. The creative power of God's speech . Matthias-Grünewald, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-7867-2523-3 .
  • Silent speech from God. The mysticism of the Beguines Mechthild von Magdeburg (= Innsbruck theological studies. Volume 69). Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7022-2608-7 (also habilitation thesis Würzburg 2002).
  • Mechthild of Magdeburg. Poet - Begine - Mystic . Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-451-29355-2 .
    • Almudena Otero Villena (translator): Matilde de Magdeburgo. Poeta, beguina, mística . Herder, Barcelona 2016, ISBN 84-254-3415-7 .
  • Christmas - the risk of vulnerability . Patmos, Ostfildern 2013, 3rd edition 2017, ISBN 3-8436-0440-1 .
  • Resurrection as an art of living. What distinguishes Christianity . Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2014, ISBN 3-451-33287-6 .
Scientific articles (selection)
  • The Venture of Vulnerability. Christological Engravings on Disturbing Questions about Migration . In: Judith Gruber, Sigrid Rettenbacher (ed.): Migration as a Sign of the Times. Towards a Theology of Migration. Brill ∣ Rodopi: Leiden / Boston 2015, 167–190
  • Vulnerability - an unheard of power. Christian perspectives in the vulnerability discourse . In: Herder Korrespondenz 2015/12, 647–651
  • Mechthild von Magdeburg: poet, beguin, mystic . In: Eva Labouvie (ed.): Women in Saxony-Anhalt. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the Middle Ages to the 18th century. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2016, 250–255
  • Dare to surrender - act compassionately. An answer to the vulnerability of others. In: Journal for Catholic Theology 138 / 3–4, Special Issue Mercy - Gift and Order , (2016), 413–420
  • Vulnerability and Resilience - Christian Theological Perspectives . In: Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift 67/3 (2016), 224–233
  • Dare to be vulnerable. The incarnation theology of the council and the current challenge of heterogeneity in church and society . In: Walter Krieger, Balthasar Sieberer (ed.): Life is diversity . Wagner, Linz 2016, 71–89
  • Prevention as a sign of the times. The unheard-of power of vulnerability and the Church's salvation mission . In: Mary Hallay-Witte, Bettina Janssen (eds.): Schweigebruch. From sexual abuse to institutional prevention . Herder, Freiburg 2016, 271–289
  • Resilience out of vulnerability. The vulnerability discourse as an opportunity for a socially relevant theology . In: Hermeneutische Blätter 23/1: Issue Vulnerability , (2017), 105–120
  • Vulnerability, security and resilience - the vulnerability discourse as an opportunity for a socially relevant theology. In: Voices of the time 142/9 (2017), 589-598
  • Resurrection as an Art of Living: Restoring Faith After Abuse. In: H. Zollner, KA Fuchs, K. Demasure (Ed.): Safeguarding. Reflecting on Child Abuse, Theology and Care. Series: Center for Child Protection 1. Peeters, Leuven 2018, 105–126
  • "Happy Wound" - a heterological approach to vulnerability with Michel de Certeau. In: Christian Bauer; Marco A. Sorace (ed.): God, elsewhere? Theology in conversation with Michel de Certeau. Matthias-Grünewald, Ostfildern 2019
  • "Vulnerable. Theological and human-scientific perspectives on human vulnerability . Echter, Würzburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-429-05498-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Keul, Hildegund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1961