Josef Rudin

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Josef Rudin SJ (born December 4, 1907 in Zurich ; † September 3, 1983 ibid) was a Swiss Jesuit , depth psychologist and university professor .

Life

Josef Rudin was the son of the upholsterer Adolf Rudin.

He attended grammar school in Einsiedeln monastery and entered the Society of Jesus in 1927 . He received his philosophical and theological studies at the religious colleges and was ordained a priest in 1938 .

In 1942 he received his doctorate in psychology from the University of Friborg (Switzerland) and was then a permanent employee of the Apologetic Institute of the Swiss Catholic People's Association .

He was the editor of the Apologetic Papers and from the beginning of the 11th year 1947 Orientation , of which he was editor-in-chief from 1947 to 1952. He converted the magazine from an anti-communist information service to a forum for questions of ecumenism , the third world and liberation theology , so that it became a medium for a critically open-minded Catholicism.

In 1950 he opened a therapeutic practice and became a lecturer at the Institute for Applied Psychology in Freiburg in 1964 and at the CG-Jung Institute in 1965 . From 1966 to 1969 he was honorary professor for pastoral psychology at the University of Innsbruck .

Act

Josef Rudin performed an important pioneering and mediating function between depth psychology and pastoral theology .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Rembrandt German . Dublin Rathfarnham 1933.
  • The urge to experience: its psychological basis and pedagogical evaluation . Work from the Educational Science Institute of the University of Friborg (Switzerland) 1942.
  • Roman Boos ; Josef Rudin; Heinrich Barth ; Fritz Eymann ; Helvetic disputation: The image of man in the Catholic, Protestant, anthroposophical ideal of education: Lectures on the occasion of the IV. Helvetic disputation of November 24, 1944, to which Roman Boos invited . Bern: Haupt, 1946.
  • Josef Rudin; Heinrich Barth; Friedrich Eymann: The image of man in the Catholic, Protestant, anthroposophical ideal of education . Bern: Haupt, 1946.
  • Psychotherapy and direction de conscience . Louvain Nova & Vetera 1954.
  • Dealing with neurotic adolescents . Freiburg im Breisgau Herder 1956.
  • The conscience from a Catholic point of view . Zurich Rascher 1958.
  • Psychotherapy and religious problems . Stuttgart Klett 1961.
  • Religion and Experience: A Way to Overcome the Religious Crisis . Freiburg im Breisgau Walter-Verlag, 1963.
  • Depth Psychology and Religious Issues . Göttingen Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1964.
  • Josef Rudin; Laura Carola Mazirel : Fanaticism: A Psychological Analysis . Olten: Walter, 1965.
  • A contribution by CG Jung to the psychology of religion . Freiburg im Breisgau Walter-Verlag 1975.
  • Fanaticism: the magic of violence . Olten: Walter, 1975.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lukas Vischer, Rudolf Dellsperger: Ecumenical Church History of Switzerland . Saint-Paul, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-7228-0417-5 , p. 291 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Rudin, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudin, Josef SJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Jesuit, depth psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1983
Place of death Zurich