Joachim Valentin

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Joachim Valentin (born August 5, 1965 in Hadamar ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian . He is director of the Catholic Academy Rabanus Maurus, Haus am Dom Frankfurt, and adjunct professor for Christian religious and cultural theory at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

After graduating from the Fürst-Johann-Ludwig-Schule in 1984 and doing military service in 1984/1985, he studied Catholic theology , philosophy and classical philology from 1986 to 1992 (Dipl. Theol. 1992). From 1987 to 1992 he was a student and from 1993 to 1996 doctoral scholarship from the Cusanuswerk Episcopal Study Foundation . After receiving his doctorate in 1996 as a Dr. theol. ( Fundamental theology ) with Hansjürgen Verweyen in Freiburg im Breisgau he trained as a pastoral officer in the diocese of Limburg from 1996 to 1998 . From 1998 to 2005 he was a research assistant and senior assistant at the Department of Religious History, Freiburg. After his habilitation (fundamental theology and religious history) on May 25, 2004, he taught at the University of Mannheim from 2004 to 2009 . Since 2005 he has been director of the Catholic Center Haus am Dom in Frankfurt am Main. From 2006 to 2009 he was an adjunct professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , since 2009 an adjunct professor for Christian religious and cultural theory at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt .

His main areas of research and interests are religions and new media, film and theology, religions and modernity, post-biblical Judaism versus philosophy, new religious movements (NRB) and fundamentalism.

Works

Monographs

  • Eschatology. Paderborn (Schöningh) 2013.
  • Between fictionality and criticism. The topicality of apocalyptic motifs as a challenge to theological hermeneutics. Freiburg (Herder) 2005.
  • Atheism in God's footsteps. Theology after Jacques Derrida. Mainz (Grünewald) 1997.

Editorships

  • Types of rationality in theology. (Ed. according to Günter Kruck) Quaestiones disputatae Bd. 285, Freiburg (Herder) 2017.
  • Film images of Islam. With Stefan Orth and Michael Staiger. Marburg (Schüren) 2014.
  • The Tebartz-van Elst case. Church crisis under the magnifying glass. Freiburg (Herder) 2014.
  • Spaces, bodies and icons. (Post) denominational film iconographies (Film & Theology 19). With Charles Martig and Karsten Visarius. Marburg (Schüren) 2013.
  • Paul among the philosophers. With Christian Strecker. Stuttgart (Kohlhammer) 2013.
  • Culture, of course. Post-secular positioning. With Martin Ramb. Paderborn (Schöningh) 2010.
  • Religious looks? Look at the religious. Visuality and religion. With Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati and Bärbel Beinhauer-Köhler. Zurich (TVZ) 2010.
  • How does God come into the world? Foreign glances at the body of Christ. Frankfurt a. M. (Publishing House of World Religions) 2009.
  • Parallel worlds, Christian religion and the multiplication of reality. ReligionsKulturen 6. Stuttgart (Kohlhammer) 2009. With Johann Evangelist Hafner.
  • Religious Turns - Turning Religions. Changed cultural discourses, new forms of religious knowledge. (Religious cultures 1). Stuttgart (Kohlhammer) 2008. With Andreas Nehring.
  • Dogville - Godville. Methodical approaches to a film by Lars von Triers. (Film and Theology 12). Marburg (Schüren) 2008. With Stefan Orth and Michael Staiger.
  • Threat or promise? Talking about God under the conditions of modernity. Ostfildern (Grünewald) 2007. With Magnus Striet and Karsten Kreutzer.
  • Sacrilege - a blasphemy? Read Dan Brown's work critically. Münster (Aschendorff) 2007.
  • Cinematic Art and Social Criticism - Socio-Ethical Explorations. (Film and Theology 7). Marburg (Schüren) 2005. With Walter Lesch and Charles Martig.
  • Children in the cinema - religious dimensions. (Film and Theology 6). Marburg (Schüren) 2004. With Stefan Orth and Michael Staiger.
  • Miracles as a source of faith? Investigations into the unbroken enthusiasm for miracles inside and outside the Catholic Church. (Working texts for religious and ideological information and discussion) Seelsorgeamt Freiburg 2003.
  • World religions in film. Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism. (Film and Theology 3). Marburg (Schüren) 2002.
  • Absolute understanding ?! Fundamental theology between first philosophy and hermeneutics. Regensburg (Pustet) 2001. With Saskia Wendel.
  • Doomsday or New Church? Apocalyptic thinking on the fringes and beyond the major churches. (Working texts for religious and ideological information and discussion) Seelsorgeamt Freiburg 2001.
  • Divine Comedies. Religious dimensions of the comic in film. Film and Theology 2. Cologne (KIM and Schüren) 2001. With Stefan Orth and Reinhold Zwick.
  • Search for salvation and longing for redemption. Esoteric and Christian landscapes, exemplified in the Freiburg area. Münster (LIT) 2000. With Thomas Körbel and Albert Lampe.
  • Jewish Traditions in 20th Century Philosophy. Darmstadt (Scientific Book Society and Primus Verlag) 2000. With Saskia Wendel.

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