Josef Rudin
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
- Josef Bruhin: Rudin, Josef. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).
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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 |