Józef Niewiadomski

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Józef Niewiadomski (born February 11, 1951 near Lublin in Poland ) is a Polish-Austrian Catholic theologian .

Life

Niewiadomski studied philosophy and theology at the Catholic University in Lublin and at the Theological Faculty of the University of Innsbruck . In 1975 he was ordained a priest in Rome with the support of the "Ostiesterhilfe" . From 1979 to 1991 he was an assistant at the Institute for Dogmatic and Ecumenical Theology in Innsbruck, and from 1991 to 1996 Professor for Dogmatics at the Theological Faculty of the Catholic Private University in Linz . From 1996 he held the same position at the University of Innsbruck, from January 2004 to March 2013 he was Dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty. In 2019 he retired .

In 2001 and 2004 he was visiting professor in the theological academic year at Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem .

As Raymund Schwager's first doctoral student , Niewiadomski advocated the further development of the “Dramatic Theology” approach developed by Schwager. Since 2014 he has published the 8-volume edition of Raymund Schwager's "Collected Writings" at Herderverlag. The festschrift, published on the occasion of the sixtieth birthday, Encountering God in the Drama of Life. Insights into the theology Józef Niewiadomski sums up that in Innsbruck the dramatic way of doing theology has meanwhile produced "a real school". Niewiadomski pursues a theology and exemplifies a spiritual attitude that really seeks and finds God in the drama of life - of one's own life and that of one's contemporaries. His style of thinking is an independent combination of discursive and narrative theology.

Memberships

Awards

  • Skowyra Jubilee Prize of the Catholic University in Lublin for scientific work 2002
  • Ambassador of the Peace Bell of the Alpine Region (Arge-Alp) 2009
  • Science award for exceptional research at the University of Innsbruck (from the Südtiroler Sparkasse Foundation) 2016
  • Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Innsbruck: Theological Faculty honors dogmatist Niewiadomski . Article dated June 26, 2019, accessed June 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ Nikolaus Wandinger, Petra Steinmair-Pösel (ed.): Encounter God in the drama of life. Insights into the theology of Józef Niewiadomski . LIT, Vienna, 2011, pp. 14–15.
  3. ↑ Franz Gruber: God's pleasure in his creation. Through the back door to Józef Niewiadomski's theology . In: Nikolaus Wandinger, Petra Steinmair-Pösel (ed.): Encountering God in the drama of life. Insights into the theology of Józef Niewiadomski . LIT, Vienna, 2011, pp. 102–116, here p. 108.
  4. ^ Theologian Józef Niewiadomski was awarded the Cross of Honor . Article dated June 27, 2019, accessed June 27, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Niewiadomski, Józef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-Austrian Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Poland