Jean Ehret

Jean Ehret (born June 8, 1967 in Luxembourg ) is a theologian and literary scholar. Since 2015 he has been the founding director of the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society .

academic career

After studying theology in Trier and Louvain-la-Neuve , Ehret completed his vicarage in Luxembourg Bonneweg ; then he studied French and comparative literature in Luxembourg , Metz , at the Sorbonne and at Harvard . At the Sorbonne he was a student of Pierre Brunel. He decided to continue his doctoral studies at the Paul Verlaine Metz University , where he received his doctorate in French linguistics and literature in 2005 with a comparative thesis on literary and theological aesthetics. His eclectic dissertation Art de Dieu art des hommes. L'esthétique théologique à l'ère du pluriel du beau et du singulier de l'art was supervised by Marc-Mathieu Münch and takes up his general literary aesthetic, which he developed in his study L'Effet de vie ou le singulier de l ' art developed. In 2009 Ehret received his doctorate in theology from the same university; his work Verbum vitae. Études sur le rapport entre la foi et la vie chrétiennes was supervised by Marie-Anne Vannier and is working on an understanding of theology that could do justice to life as a locus theologicus .

Since 2012, Jean Ehret has been Professor of Theology and Spirituality at the Center Jean XXIII - Grand Séminaire, of which he became director in 2013; In 2015 he founded the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society and integrated it into an international network of collaborations. He is also Episcopal Vicar for Academic Affairs and Cathedral Chapter in the Archdiocese of Luxembourg .

Research priorities

Ehret particularly focuses on the relationship between aesthetics and theology . From this follows the question to what extent theology is literature (and literature theology), what is the theology of the arts. He is particularly interested in the form and renewal of theologies in a secularized society and the question of how discourses about God in a secularized, pluralistic and individualistic society and in view of what the natural sciences mean as knowledge about life, the world, and people pretend, culturally designed and personally and institutionally responsible. One focus of Ehret's work is therefore the morphology of thinking, a topic on which he will hold a research seminar together with Prof. Dr. Gianluca Cuozzo, Director of the Department of Excellence in Philosophy and Education at the University of Turin . He deals with cognitive and institutional processes as well as with the permanence and (trans) formation of this morphology, especially in theology.

Memberships

Jean Ehret is u. a. Vice-President of the European Society for Catholic Theology (France Section), full member of the Section des sciences morales et politiques of the Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg and full member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Section VII). He is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Görres Society .

Recent publications

• Nicolas de Cues, écrivain engagé, et la liberté religieuse. In: Harald Schwätzer, Marie-Anne Vannier (eds.): La joie et la liberté chez Eckhart et Nicolas de Cues (= texts and studies on European intellectual history, series B, volume 22). Aschendorff, Münster 2019, pp. 193–203.
• Nicolas de Cues et le fait religieux dans la société luxembourgeoise actuelle. In: Harald Schwätzer, Marie-Anne Vannier (ed.): Nikolaus von Kues: The Greater Region as a Space for Thinking and Living (= Texts and Studies on European Intellectual History, Series B, Volume 22). Aschendorff, Münster 2019, pp. 217–228.
• The legal situation of Muslims in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The agreement between the State of Luxembourg and the Shura of January 26, 2015 in a historical, social and political context. In: Karlies Abmeier, Andreas Jacobs, Thomas Köhler (eds.): Legal options for cooperation between the German state and Muslim communities , Münster, Aschendorff, 2019, 127–144.
• Lecture de la Bible en petites communautés et théologie. In: Daniel Laliberté, Georg Rubel (Ed.): Bible - Pastorale - Didactique. Animatio biblica totius actionis pastorales (= Dieux, hommes et religions, volume 26). Peter Lang, Bruxelles 2019, pp. 171–190.
• Religions & School: a permanent challenge. In: Jean Ehret, Jean-Louis Zeien (ed.): Challenge religion (s) and school (s) (= religious education in context, volume 9). Logos Verlag, Berlin 2018, pp. 109–150.
• as publisher: L'esthétique de l'effet de vie. Perspectives interdisciplinaires , Paris, L'Harmattan, coll. “L'Univers esthétique”, 2012.

Web links

• Information on Jean Ehret on the website of the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society