Jörg Lauster

Jörg Lauster (born July 1, 1966 in Heidelberg ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Lauster studied Protestant theology , philosophy and Romance studies at the universities of Munich , Tübingen and Heidelberg . After receiving his doctorate in Munich in 1996 with Jan Rohls and his habilitation in Mainz in 2002, Lauster was Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion at the Philipps University of Marburg from 2006 to 2015 . In 2015 he became - as the successor to Gunther Wenz - Professor of Systematic Theology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Jörg Lauster is married and has a daughter.

Works (selection)

• Marsilio Ficino's doctrine of redemption. Theological-historical aspects of Renaissance Platonism. De Gruyter, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-11-015713-6 (dissertation, University of Munich, 1996).
• Principle and method. The transformation of the Protestant writing principle through historical criticism from Schleiermacher to the present day. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-16-148305-7 (habilitation thesis, University of Mainz, 2002/03).
• God and happiness. The fate of the good life in Christianity. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2004, ISBN 978-3-579-06500-7 .
• Religion as an interpretation of life. Theological Hermeneutics Today. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 978-3-534-17443-0 .
• The enchantment of the world. A cultural history of Christianity. Beck, Munich 2014; 5th edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-66664-3 .
• The eternal protest. Reformation as a principle. Claudius, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-532-62496-8 .

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 2009, p. 2385.
• Wolfgang Erich Müller: Review of: Jörg Lauster: Religion as an interpretation of life. In: Theological literary newspaper . 2006, p. 74 f. ( online ).
• Manfred L. Pirner : Bible - Hermeneutics - Experience. Three important books on a fundamental theological topic area that is important for religious education. In: Theo-Web. Journal for Religious Education. Vol. 6 (2007), H. 1, 160-162 ( online ).
• Armin Wenz: The question of truth in the field of tension between scriptural authority and modern hermeneutics. In: Lutheran contributions.  2006, H. 1, pp. 33-55 ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg Lauster in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
• Andreas Main: Liberal Theology and Church - “Not responsible for wellness”: Jörg Lauster in conversation. In: Deutschlandfunk broadcast “Day by Day”. November 1, 2018 (also as mp3 audio , 20.9 MB, 22:50 minutes). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Prof. Dr. Jörg Lauster: Vita. LMU Munich, accessed on November 1, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Lauster, Jörg: The enchantment of the world. CH Beck, accessed on September 18, 2018 .