Johannes Arnold (theologian)

Johannes Arnold (* 1965 ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian and professor of ancient church history and patrology at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

He passed his Abitur in 1984 at the Lessing-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main and then studied theology at the local Philosophical-Theological University Sankt Georgen, where he received the theological intermediate diploma and the bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1986 and, interrupted by a study visit in 1986/87 at the papal Biblical Institute in Rome , graduated in theology in 1989. He obtained his theological doctorate in 1993 at the University of Freiburg with the dissertation The Trinity Theology of Wilhelm von Auxerre . He was ordained a priest in 1995 in Limburg an der Lahn and was then chaplain in Montabaur (Westerwald). After completing a postgraduate course in addition to pastoral work in Bochum, he headed the seminary and the personnel training department of the Diocese of Limburg from 2003-2006 . After teaching at the Theological University of St. Georgen and postgraduate studies at the University of Mainz , he completed his habilitation in 2008 at the University of Bochum with the work The True Logos of the Kelsos for church history and patristicism . In 2009 he was appointed Professor of Ancient Church History and Patristics at the Theological University of Sankt Georgen.

Fonts

• Perfecta communicatio - Wilhelm von Auxerre's theology of the Trinity (Contributions to the History of Philosophy and Theology of the Middle Ages NF 42). Aschendorff, Münster 1995, ISBN 3-402-03937-0 .
• The "True Logos" of the Kelsos. A structural analysis (Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity, Supplementary Volume 39), Aschendorff, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-402-10807-9 .

Editorial activity:

• Chief editor of the journal Theologie und Philosophie (2013-2018)
• Member of the editorial team of the journal Theologie und Philosophie (2011-2018)
• Member and speaker of the editorial team of the series Frankfurt Theological Studies (2010–2017)

Web links

• Biography and bibliography (sankt-georgen.de)