Johannes Brantl

Johannes Brantl (born May 31, 1968 in Schongau ) is a German theologian .

Life

After graduating from high school in Zwiesel in 1988, he studied Catholic theology at the University of Passau and the University of Freiburg im Üechtland from 1988 to 1993 . From 1993 to 1994 he completed his pastoral internship in the parish of Kößlarn . He was ordained a deacon in November 1993 and a priest in July 1994. From 1994 to 1995 he was chaplain in the parish association of Arnstorf and from 1995 to 1997 chaplain in the Passau parish of St. Anton and at the same time research assistant (part-time) at the chair for moral theology at the University of Passau. In 1997 he was appointed sub-rain in the St. Stephan Episcopal Seminary of the Diocese of Passau while retaining the position as a research assistant (part-time) at the University of Passau. He started working for Peter Fonk in 2000 with the work Connecting Morals. Doctorate in theological ethics and cross-cultural human ethology . From 2002 to 2006 he was a research assistant (full time) at the chair for moral theology . After completing his habilitation in moral theology in 2007 with the thesis Decision through Discrimination. Existential ethics as an inner element of medical ethics from a Christian perspective , he was appointed private lecturer . From 2007 to 2008 he was the student pastor of the Catholic student community at the University of Passau . Since 2008 he has been a professor of moral theology at the Trier Theological Faculty , of which he was dean of studies from 2009 to 2015 and of which he has been rector since April 1, 2015.

His main research interests are fundamental morality, medical ethics, ethics and art, and Christian spirituality.

Fonts

• Unifying morality. Theological ethics and cross-cultural human ethology (= studies on theological ethics. Volume 94). Univ.-Verl., Freiburg et al. 2001, ISBN 3-451-27853-7 (also dissertation, Passau 2000).
• Decision by distinction. Existential ethics as an inner moment of medical ethics from a Christian perspective (= studies of moral theology. Volume 37). Lit, Berlin et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0563-0 (also habilitation thesis, Passau 2007).
• Prayer activity in the prayer breath. Really live as a human being in exchange with God (= prayer apostolate in the Diocese of Trier ). Trier 2009.
• as editor with Christian Schröder: The human being between greatness and misery. On the value of life in Christian thought (= Trends in Medieval Philology. Volume 20). Duschl, Winzer 2011, ISBN 978-3-941425-34-7 .
• as editor with Renate Brandscheidt , Maria Overdick-Gulden and Werner Schüßler : Challenge "Human". Philosophical, theological and medical aspects Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2012, ISBN 3-506-77628-2 .
• as editor with Hans-Georg Gradl , Mirijam Schaidt and Werner Schüßler: The prayer "the intimacy of transcendence" Echter, Würzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-429-03699-7 .
• as editor with Walter Euler and Margarete Eirich : The Second Vatican Council. Resolutions - Ideas - People Paulinus, Trier 2016, ISBN 3-7902-1847-2 .

Web links

• Information about Brantl on the website of the Trier theological faculty