Johannes Hoffmann (theologian)

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Johannes Hoffmann (born April 6, 1937 in Altreichenau , Lower Silesia Province ) is a German Roman Catholic moral theologian and social ethicist .

Life

Johannes Hoffmann studied Catholic theology and economics at the Universities of Münster , Munich and Bonn , as well as psychology at the University of Saarbrücken . In 1972 he received his doctorate from the University of Bonn in Franz Böckle Dr. theol. After academic positions at the University of Saarbrücken and the Pedagogical University of Westphalia-Lippe in Münster, he taught from 1976 until his retirement in 2002 as a professor of moral theology and social ethics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Hoffmann is the managing project manager of the Ethical-Ecological Rating project at the University of Frankfurt am Main and a member of the environmental advisory board of the Umweltbank . He was chairman from 2000 to 2007 and has been honorary chairman of the Association for Ethically Oriented Investors (CRIC eV) since 2007, and chairman of the Debt Compass Germany project group at SCHUFA Holding AG from 2003 to 2007 .

Fonts

  • Practicing Catholics between Church and Society. A contribution to the problems of the proclamation of morality. Dissertation. University of Bonn 1971. Patmos, Düsseldorf 1973, ISBN 3-491-00398-9 .
  • with Gerhard Scherhorn : Clean profits: this is how you invest your money ethically and ecologically. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-451-05202-4 .
  • Stereotypes, prejudices, images of peoples in East and West in science and education: a bibliography. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.
  • with Gerhard Scherhorn (Ed.): A policy for sustainability - reorganization of the capital and goods markets. Altius, Erkelenz 2009, ISBN 978-3-932483-22-6 .

literature

  • Christian Beck, Wolfgang Fischer (Hrsg.): So that everyone can live: Plea for humane ethics; Festschrift for Johannes Hoffmann on his 70th birthday. Altius, Erkelenz 2007, ISBN 3-932483-16-2 .
  • Maria Hungerkamp, ​​Matthias Lutz (Ed.): Ethics that transcend borders: Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Johannes Hoffmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Publishing house for intercultural communication, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-88939-444-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German moral theologian and social ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Altreichenau , Province of Lower Silesia