Josef Rist

Josef Rist (* 1962 in Heimenkirch ) is a German Catholic church historian . Since April 1, 2009 he has been Professor of Ancient Church History, Patrology and Christian Archeology at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Life

Rist studied Catholic Theology ( Diploma ), Ancient History , Philology of the Christian Orient and Christian Archeology ( MA ) in Munich , Rome , Milwaukee and Würzburg and became Proklos of Constantinople and his Tomus ad Armenios in 1993 . Studies on the life and work of a Constantinopolitan bishop of the fifth century doctorate before the 1994 priests of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising ordained was. He then worked as a research assistant at the universities of Munich and Würzburg. From 2004 to 2009 he was a university lecturer for church history at the Institute for Catholic Theology at RWTH Aachen University . Since 2015 he has been head of the section for Customers of the Christian Orient of the Görres Society .

Publications (selection)

• Proclus of Constantinople and his Tomus ad Armenios. Investigations into the life and work of a Constantinopolitan bishop of the fifth century , Würzburg 1993 (dissertation).
• with Christof Breitsameter (ed.): Word of God. The revealed religions and their understanding of scriptures ( Theology in Contact. New Series ; Volume 1). Aschendorff, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-402-13024-7 .
• Rist wrote numerous articles in the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL).

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef Rist in the catalog of the German National Library
• CV and list of publications