Josef Pichler (theologian)

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Josef Pichler (* 1967 in Freistadt ) is an Austrian Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

From 1985 to 1990 Pichler studied Catholic theology and religious education at the PTH St. Pölten and the PTH Benediktbeuern (1987/1988). From 1990 to 1992 he was a pastoral assistant in Gars am Kamp and did an internship at the Federal Commercial Academy and Federal Commercial School St. Pölten. In June 1992 he became a university assistant at the Institute for New Testament Biblical Studies at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Graz .

After the dissertation (awarded the Karl Rahner Prize for Theological Research) in 1996 on the subject of Paul Reception and Paul Image in Acts 13: 16–52 and the habilitation in 2003 at the Karl Franzens University Graz for the subject New Testament Biblical Studies with the work St. John Passion and synoptic , Josef Pichler has been teaching since 2003 as associate professor for New Testament biblical studies at the Catholic-Theological Faculty in Graz.

Since 2006 he has been teaching as professor for New Testament biblical studies at the PTH St. Pölten . From the winter semester 2008/2009 to the winter semester 2009/2010 he represented the chair for New Testament biblical studies in Augsburg . From 2014 to 2016 he led the FWF project Biblical Narratology and Subject-Oriented Biblical Didactics together with Wolfgang Weirer .

His main research interests are the passion narratives, the Lukan work, the reception of Paul and the Gospel of John.

Fonts (selection)

  • Paul's reception in the Acts of the Apostles. Investigations on the speech in Pisidic Antioch (= Innsbruck theological studies. Volume 50). Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7022-2096-8 (also dissertation, Graz 1995).
  • as editor with Peter Trummer : Holy Land - both sides of the Jordan. A biblical travel companion . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-7022-2177-8 .
  • as editor with Peter Trummer: Can the Sermon on the Mount move mountains? . Verlag Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-222-12970-3 .
  • as editor with Christoph Heil : Healings and Miracles. Theological, historical and medical approaches . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 3-534-20074-8 .
  • Jesus, the giver of life. On the spiritual wealth of the Gospel of John (= writings of the Philosophical-Theological University St. Pölten. Volume 8). Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 3-7917-2676-5 .
  • as editor with Christine Rajič: Ephesus as a place of early Christian life. Perspectives on a hotspot of antiquity (= writings of the Philosophical-Theological University of St. Pölten. Volume 13). Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2017, ISBN 3-7917-2836-9 .
  • as editor with Wolfgang Weirer and Renate Wieser: Open up the meaning of the writings. Lk 24 as a challenge for exegesis and subject didactics (= innovative religious education. Volume 22). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 3-17-030084-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Pichler, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Catholic fundamental theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Free City