Johanna Rahner

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Johanna Rahner (born December 21, 1962 in Baden-Baden ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian ( fundamental theology , dogmatics , ecumenical theology ). She is professor for dogmatics, the history of dogmas and ecumenical theology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .

Life

Rahner studied Catholic theology and biology at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg from 1982 to 1989 . She completed her studies in 1988 with a diploma in Catholic theology and in 1989 with the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools (Catholic theology, biology). She then taught and researched there until 1994 and again from 1997 to 2003 as Hansjürgen Verweyen's assistant in the fundamental theology department. In 1997 she was awarded a doctorate in New Testament literature and exegesis ( Lorenz Oberlinner ) with a thesis on Jesus of Nazareth as the place of God's revelation in the Gospel of John theol. PhD. In 2003, she completed her habilitation with a thesis on the relationship between justification and the church for fundamental theology and ecumenical theology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster ( Jürgen Werbick ).

During this time, from 1990 to 1999, Rahner taught the subjects of dogmatics, fundamental theology and canon law at the Freiburg Academy for Pastoral and Religious Education . From 2000 to 2005 she was a lecturer in Biblical and Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cologne .

After several professorships in Freiburg, Münster and Karlsruhe, Rahner held the substitute professorship for dogmatics at the Catholic theological faculty and for fundamental theology and dogmatics at the Institute for Catholic Theology at the Otto Friedrich University Bamberg from 2006 to 2010 . From 2010 she was Professor of Systematic Theology at the Institute for Catholic Theology at the University of Kassel. In 2013 she was offered a chair for dogmatics, history of dogma and ecumenical theology at the University of Tübingen (successor Bernd Jochen Hilberath ), which she took over in the 2014 summer semester.

Johanna Rahner has been co-editor of the Quaestiones disputatae series since 2019 . Since 2020 she has been chairwoman of the Catholic Theological Faculty Conference.

Research topics

Rahner's research and publications cover a broad spectrum of fundamental theological and dogmatic subject areas, whereby the following focal points can be identified:

  • Relevance of Biblical Hermeneutics for Systematic Theology (especially Christology)
  • Ecumenical theology and its ecclesiological problem areas
  • Relationship between religion, culture, education, politics and society
  • Interaction between contemporary culture, worship and theology of the sacraments
  • Theoretical foundation and practical meaning of the dialogue of the world religions in the horizon of a globalized world
  • Relationship between reason and faith, theology and philosophy, theology and natural sciences
  • Patchwork religiosity and subjective belief pluralism
  • Religiousness of children and adolescents, especially on the basis of youth and cult literature and pop music

Fonts

  • “But he spoke of the temple of his body”: Jesus of Nazareth as the place of God's revelation in the fourth gospel. Bodenheim: Philo, 1998. (Biblical contributions from Bonn; Vol. 117) ISBN 3-8257-0097-6
  • Creatura evangelii: on the relationship between justification and church. Freiburg in Breisgau; Basel; Vienna: Herder, 2005. ISBN 978-3-451-28499-1
  • Introduction to Catholic dogmatics. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2008. (Introduction to theology) ISBN 978-3-534-20063-4
  • Introduction to Christian eschatology. Freiburg, Br .; Basel; Vienna: Herder, 2010. (Fundamentals of theology) ISBN 978-3-451-30337-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Newsletter Uni Tübingen currently no. 2/2013: People
  2. ↑ Female Instrumentation: theologian Rahner new head of the faculty day , Domradio , February 2, 2020th

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personal data
SURNAME Rahner, Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian (fundamental theology, dogmatics, ecumenical theology)
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden-Baden