Johannes Först

Johannes Först (* 1972 in Forchheim ) is a Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

From 1991 to 1997 he studied Catholic theology at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Bamberg . He obtained his diploma there in 1997 from the Faculty of Catholic Theology, his doctorate in 2002 from the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen ( Ottmar Fuchs ) and his habilitation in 2009 from the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Bamberg (Heinz-Günther Schöttler, Marianne Heimbach-Steins , Wolfgang Klausnitzer ). From 1999 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Research into Contemporary Religious Culture at the University of Bayreuth ( Christoph Bochinger / Joachim Kügler ). From 2005 to 2008 he was a research assistant at the chair for pastoral theology and kerygmatics at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Bamberg ( Heinz-Günther Schöttler ). He was awarded the 2009 Cardinal Wetter Prize of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria for his habilitation thesis. From 2008 to 2015 he was an academic (senior) councilor at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Regensburg , department for pastoral theology (Heinz-Günther Schöttler). From 2015 to 2017 he taught as Professor of Practical Theology at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology ( Tilburg University ) in Utrecht . In 2018 he was appointed Professor of Pastoral Theology at the University of Würzburg .

Works (selection)

• To hell with hope? The discovery of church practice and social form as a resource of a hope-led eschatology (= Tübingen perspectives on pastoral theology and religious education. Volume 20). Lit, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6426-X (also dissertation, Tübingen 2002).
• with Joachim Kügler (Ed.): The unknown majority. With baptism, marriage and burial through life? An empirical study on the "casuality piety" of Catholics - report and interdisciplinary evaluation (= Werkstatt Theologie. Volume 6). Lit, Berlin / Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9195-X .
  • with Joachim Kügler (Ed.): The unknown majority. With baptism, marriage and burial through life? An empirical study on the "casuality piety" of Catholics - report and interdisciplinary evaluation (= Werkstatt Theologie. Volume 6). 2nd expanded edition, Lit, Berlin / Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-8258-9195-4 .
• with Heinz-Günther Schöttler (Ed.): Quo vadis, theologia? New Perspectives on “Religion” in the Late Modern Age. Texts from the International Symposium “Quo Vadis, Theologia? Practical Theology and Church Action in the Context of Late Modern Forms of Religion ”from April 3rd to 5th, 2006 at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Bamberg (= Biblical Perspectives for Preaching and Teaching. Volume 4). Lit, Berlin / Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-0434-3 .
• with Friedolf ​​Lappen and Johanna Rahner (eds.): Abbruch oder Aufbruch? Con the dynamic of the church's structural change (= Bamberg theological forum. Volume 12). Lit, Berlin / Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10446-5 .
• Empirical religious research and the question of God. A theological methodology for the reception of religion-related data (= Biblical perspectives for preaching and teaching. Volume 5). Lit, Berlin / Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10871-5 (also habilitation thesis, Bamberg 2009).
• with Heinz-Günther Schöttler (Ed.): Introduction to the theology of pastoral care. A textbook for students, teachers and church workers (= textbooks and study books on theology. Volume 7). Lit, Berlin / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11435-8 .
• with Barbara Schmitz (Ed.): Useful for life and in accordance with tradition. Jewish and Christian updates on the God-human relationship. Festschrift for Heinz-Günther Schöttler (= contributions on the contemporary meaning of Jewish and Christian traditions. Volume 1). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 3-95650-139-X .
• Reconciliation with modernity. Reconstructions of church practice (= contributions to the contemporary meaning of Jewish and Christian traditions. Volume 3). Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 3-95650-236-1 .

Web links

• Internet presence at the University of Würzburg