Hubertus Mynarek

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Hubertus Mynarek (born April 6, 1929 in Groß Strehlitz , Upper Silesia ) is a German philosopher , theologian , former Catholic priest, author, university professor and church critic .

Life

Mynarek grew up in a Catholic home. The NSDAP suggested that he attend a Nazi elite school , but his father forbade him to do so. Instead, he attended high school in Groß Strehlitz. In 1945 Mynarek was taken prisoner in Poland. While in custody, he made the decision to become a Catholic priest. He studied theology , philosophy and psychology and graduated in 1952 with an exam on theological aspects with the philosopher Max Scheler . 1953 Mynarek became a Catholic priest ordained . In 1954 he received his doctorate on Johannes Hessen's philosophy of religious experience .

In 1958 Mynarek moved to the Federal Republic of Germany and in 1966 was appointed professor for fundamental theology and religious studies at the University of Bamberg . In 1968 he moved to the University of Vienna as a professor of religious studies . At this faculty he was first vice dean (deputy dean), then dean .

Mynarek is married and has three children. He lives in Odernheim near Bad Kreuznach .

Exit from the Church

In 1972 Mynarek wrote an open letter to Pope Paul VI. in which he called for the abolition of celibacy and the democratization of the Catholic Church. In the same year he resigned from the church and married. According to him, he was the first university professor of German-speaking theology in the 20th century to leave the Catholic Church. In 1972 his church license to teach was revoked. He was then forced into retirement by the Austrian state. Mynarek sees this as proof of the extensive interdependence between church and state, which in Austria and Germany often leads to the suppression of opinions critical of the church.

In most of his books - for example in Lords and Servants of the Church , Eros and Clergy and The Pope Disenchantment - he criticizes in detail the teaching of the Catholic Church and its visible effects. He throws the church her u. a. hierarchical undemocratic structure and the lack of equal rights for women. Mynarek also criticizes the Catholic Church's sexual morality - the main theme of the book Eros and Clergy . In the book Lords and Servants of the Church , which is autobiographical, he criticized the behavior of church representatives that he himself experienced.

Engagement in organizations

Mynarek has been working as a freelance writer ever since. He was a co-founder of the Federal Working Group Christians in the Greens ; but he only belonged to the party for a short time. In the 1970s he approached the German Unitarian religious community , on whose behalf he wrote his book Orientation in Dasein in 1979 . Mynarek wrote numerous articles for the magazine this side , the main publication and membership magazine of the Humanist Association of Germany (HVD), and for the magazine Enlightenment and Criticism , of which he is co-editor. His book The New Inquisition was published in 1999 by the publisher Das White Horse, which is closely related to Universal Life . In the Bad Sobernheim community he ran for the Left Party in the 2009 local elections.

Works

His work includes not only theological topics, but also discussions about language, philosophy, atheism, his childhood (a youth in the east of the Third Reich) and much more.

  • Johannes Hessen's Philosophy of Religious Experience (Treatises on Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology of Religion, NF, Issue 7/8). Schöningh, Munich 1963.
  • Man, the goal of world development. Draft of a Christian image of man on the background of a dynamic-evolutionary cosmos with special consideration of the ideas of H. Schell and Teilhard de Chardins (= habilitation thesis from 1966). Schöningh, Munich 1967.
  • Man and language. About the origin and essence of language in its anthropological valence. Herder, Freiburg 1967.
  • God or man in the center? Christocentrism as a reconciliation of theocentrism and anthropocentrism. Auer, Donauwörth 1968.
  • Man, the being of the future. Faith and unbelief in an anthropological perspective. Schöningh, Munich 1968.
  • Existential crisis of God? The Christian God is different. Winfried-Werk, Augsburg 1969.
  • Lords and servants of the Church. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1973, ISBN 3-462-00970-2 ; Revised edition: Ahriman, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 3-89484-504-X .
  • The critical person and the question of meaning. Against the background of a secularized world. Self-published, Berlin 1976.
  • Religion. Possibility or limit of freedom. Science and politics, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-8046-8538-2 .
  • Eros and clergy. On the misery of celibacy. Econ, Düsseldorf 1978, ISBN 3-430-16960-7 ; New edition: The Blue Owl, Essen 1999, ISBN 978-3-89206-950-8 .
  • Orientation in existence. The human path of life from a holistic religious perspective. German Unitarian Publishing House, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-922483-03-8 .
  • Between God and comrades. As a priest in Poland. Ullstein, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-550-07944-3 .
  • Religious without God? New religiosity of the present in self-testimonies. A documentation. Erb, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-88458-057-4 .
  • Betrayal of the message of Jesus. Church without taboos. Das Wort, Rottweil 1986, ISBN 3-89201-001-3 .
  • Ecological religion. A new understanding of nature. Goldmann, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-442-12005-5 .
  • The reason of the universe. In search of the laws of life of the cosmos and psyche. Goldmann, Munich 1988; New edition: The Blue Owl, Essen 2003, ISBN 3-89924-066-9 .
  • The art of being. Philosophy, ethics and aesthetics of meaningful life. More knowledge, Düsseldorf 1989; New edition: The Blue Owl, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-89206-877-1 .
  • Mysticism and reason. Walter, Olten 1991; Revised new edition: LIT, Münster 2001, ISBN 978-3-8258-5312-9 .
  • Thought prohibition. Fundamentalism in Christianity and Islam. Knesebeck, Munich 1992; New edition: Asku-Presse, Bad Nauheim 2006, ISBN 3-930994-16-X .
  • First servant of His Holiness. A critical portrait of Cologne's Archbishop Joachim Meisner . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1993.
  • Jesus and the women. The love life of the Nazarene. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1995; New edition: The Blue Owl, Essen 1999, ISBN 978-3-89206-935-5 .
  • The judgment of the philosophers. Ernst Bloch - Erich Fromm - Karl Jaspers on God - Religion - Christianity - Church. The Blue Owl, Essen 1997, ISBN 3-89206-808-9 .
  • The new inquisition. Sect hunt in Germany. Mentality - motivation - methods of church and state sect commissioners. The White Horse, Marktheidenfeld 1999, ISBN 3-9808322-1-X .
  • Casanovas in black. Ten key stories about priestly affairs with women. The Blue Owl, Essen 2000, ISBN 3-89206-339-7 .
  • Immortality. The Blue Owl, Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89924-133-9 .
  • The Polish Pope. Balance of a pontificate. Ahriman, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-89484-602-X ( publisher's page: reviews, table of contents, foreword ).
  • Pope disenchantment. The true face of Joseph Ratzinger and the exact refutation of his theses. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2007, ISBN 978-3-8334-8033-1 .
  • A youth in the east of the Third Reich. The Blue Owl, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89924-217-1 .
  • The new atheists. Your theses put to the test. The blue owl, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89924-302-4 .
  • Luther without myth. Evil in the reformer. Ahriman, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89484-609-1 .
  • Why Hans Küng cannot save the church either. An analysis of its errors. Tectum, Marburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8288-3020-2 .
  • Value hierarchy and humanity. On the humanism debate between atheists, pantheists, monotheists and agnostics. The Blue Owl, Essen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89924-376-5 .
  • Pope Francis. The critical biography. Tectum, Marburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8288-3583-2 .
  • On the true spirit of humanity - Evolutionary naturalism is not humanism - The Giordano Bruno Foundation under criticism. NIBE Verlag, Alsdorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-947002-32-0 .
  • Beyond the death threshold. NIBE Verlag, Alsdorf 2018, ISBN 978-3-947002-66-5 .
  • Religious without God ?. NIBE Verlag, Alsdorf 2018, ISBN 978-3-947002-59-7 .

Essays

See also

Web links

Wikiquote: Hubertus Mynarek  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung Bad Kreuznach: Lists of the left are already in place (accessed on December 11, 2008)
personal data
SURNAME Mynarek, Hubertus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, theologian and church critic
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß Strehlitz