Johannes Kleinhappl

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Johannes Kleinhappl SJ (born August 26, 1893 in Maria Lankowitz near Köflach in Styria , † September 2, 1979 ) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and professor of moral theology . He was removed from office as a moral theologian in 1947 because of his criticism of the church.

Life

Johannes Kleinhappl was the son of a miner. So he came from a poor background and knew the social misery of normal workers from his own family, which shaped his whole attitude. In 1918 he graduated from the Jesuit College Kalksburg in Kalksburg . and then studied philosophy and theology at the Jesuit Faculty in Innsbruck . After July 14, 1926, a dissertation on marriage and family in the rights of Assyria and Israel for Dr. theol. received his doctorate , he was ordained a priest on July 26, 1926 . After that, he studied political science at the University of Innsbruck, which he on 15 July 1933, a dissertation on the sociology of Franz Suarez graduated with which he to Dr. rer. pole. received his doctorate.

Kleinhappl's approach was strongly influenced by Wilhelm Hohoff and Karl von Vogelsang . He saw the official position of the Church more and more critical and rejected the encyclical Quadragesimo from 1931.

In 1945 after the Nazi era, Kleinhappl resumed his lectures as a private lecturer in Innsbruck. Within the Jesuit order, however, he was viewed critically and denounced. He is allegedly communist or too close to socialism . In the spring of 1947 the Dutch Jesuit priest Peeter von Gestel (1897–1972) was commissioned with a visitation , who informed Kleinhappl at Easter 1947 that objections had been raised against his theology . Until the matter was finally resolved, Kleinhappl was banned from appearing in public, and he was also banned from publishing.

The Innsbruck local bishop Paulus Rusch , who himself was called the “red bishop”, visibly showed sympathy for Kleinhappl, so that he could be appointed professor of moral theology. On October 1, 1947, he was appointed full professor of moral theology at the Innsbruck Theological Faculty . On December 25, 1947, the Austrian Order Province issued an instruction that Kleinhappl had to cease his lectures immediately and leave Innsbruck on the orders of the Jesuit order leadership in Rome . His work on The Social Question of the Present was checked by two censors of the order, one of whom was Oswald von Nell-Breuning , and then rejected as questionable.

Through these disputes, Kleinhappl came to the conclusion that as a Jesuit he could no longer represent his scientific convictions. He resigned from the order in autumn 1948. Bishop Rusch did not withdraw the missio canonica from him . Kleinhappl then worked at the Archbishop's Church Court .

Publications

  • Marriage and family in the rights of Assyria and Israel, Innsbruck 1928.
  • Work - duty and right. Questions of business ethics. Vienna / Frankfurt a. M./Zürich 1962.
  • Christian business ethics. Analyzes, essays and fragments from the estate. Edited and introduced by Ernst van Loen, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-210-25105-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also on the following, v. a. With regard to the basic data, head of the week: moral theologian and social theorist Johannes Kleinhappl (1893–1979) . (As of November 16, 2014)
  2. ↑ See also on the following Gerhard Oberkofler: A memory of the moral theologian Johannes Kleinhappl (as of November 16, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Kleinhappl, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Roman Catholic priest and professor of moral theology
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Maria Lankowitz near Köflach , Styria
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1979