Jan Rohls

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Jan Rohls (born December 17, 1949 in Gronau (Westphalia) ) is a German theologian and emeritus professor .

Life

Rohls attended the Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium in Gronau. After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology and philosophy from 1968 to 1973 at the Bethel Church University , the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg , the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU) and the University of Oxford . After the first church service examination in Leer (1974) he was a research assistant at Wolfhart Pannenberg . Since 1977, Vicar of the Reformed community of Munich , doctorate he in 1978 at the LMU in Wolfhart Pannenberg to Dr. theol. In the same year he became a Philosophical Magister in Heidelberg .

After the second church service examination, he went to Leuven , Paris , Toronto and Rome for two years as a postdoctoral fellow of the German Research Foundation in 1978 . In 1980 he was ordained as a pastor in the Reformed parish in Herbishofen . As a pastor in Munich , he completed his habilitation in 1982 in the subject of systematic theology . After six years as a private lecturer , he received a C2 professorship in 1988 . After he had represented the chairs of Eberhard Jüngel (Tübingen) and Pannenberg (Munich), the LMU appointed him C3 professorship for systematic theology with special emphasis on philosophy .

From 1995 to 1997 he held a teaching position at the University of Zurich . Since 1998 he has been on the advisory board of the Johannes a Lasco Library in Emden . From 1999 to 2003 he was Dean of the Evangelical Theological Faculty at LMU .

In 2004 Rohls was co-editor of the two-volume series Münchner Theologische Forschungen .

He has a son with his wife Christina Hoegen-Rohls .

Works (selection)

  • William of Auvergne and Medieval Aristotelianism. Munich 1980.
  • Theology of Reformed Confessions. Goettingen 1988.
  • Theology and metaphysics. The ontological proof of God and its critics. Gütersloh 1988.
  • K. Stumpf, The Theologian Faust. A modern history game. Tubingen 1989.
  • “... I teach and explain this!” Letters from 41 famous theologians from the rediscovered secret archive of the Zienhausen monastery, made known to the public for the first time. Gütersloh 1993.
  • Protestant theology of modern times. Volumes I and II, Tübingen 1997.
  • Between iconoclasm and capitalism. The contribution of reformed Protestantism to the cultural history of Europe. Tübingen 1999.
  • History of ethics. 2nd completely revised edition, Tübingen 1999.
  • Philosophy and Theology in Past and Present. Tübingen 2002.
  • Schleiermacher and the Scientific Culture of Christianity. Berlin 2009 ( digitized version ).
  • Revelation, reason and religion (= history of ideas of Christianity. Vol. 1). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-16-151012-0 .
  • Scripture, tradition and confession (= history of ideas of Christianity. Vol. 2). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-16-151014-4 .
  • God, Trinity and Spirit (= history of ideas of Christianity. Vol. 3). 2 volumes. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-16-152789-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ^ Dissertation: Wilhelm von Auvergne and medieval Aristotelianism. Concept of God and Aristotelian philosophy between Augustine and Thomas von Aquin (= Munich monographs on historical and systematic theology. Department of Protestant Theology. Vol. 5). Kaiser, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-459-01280-3 .
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: God and Necessity. Printed as: theology and metaphysics. The ontological proof of God and its critics. Gütersloher Verlags-Haus Mohn, Gütersloh 1987, ISBN 3-579-00269-4 .
  4. ↑ Munich Theological Research on vr.de.
personal data
SURNAME Rohls, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Gronau (Westphalia)