Josef Sudbrack

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Josef Sudbrack (born January 8, 1925 in Trier , † July 15, 2010 in Cologne ) was a theologian, member of the Jesuit order and one of the most important mystic researchers of our time. One of the central concerns of Josef Sudbrack was to bring Christian mysticism into a dialogue with the cross-Christian phenomenon of mysticism .

Life

Josef Sudbrack grew up as the third of five children in Trier. His parents had a bakery there. As a soldier in World War II , Sudbrack was seriously wounded and has been unable to walk since then. His love for swimming helped him into old age to survive this severe life impairment. In 1945 he joined the Society of Jesus (Jesuit order). After studying religious orders (philosophy and theology in Pullach and Frankfurt am Main ), he received his doctorate in Bonn in 1963 with a thesis on Johannes von Kastl and received his habilitation in 1973 in Innsbruck . There he was a lecturer in spiritual theology, later also visiting professor for a year at Harvard University in Boston .

In 1979 (until 1986) he took over the editing of Geist und Leben , a magazine for theology and spirituality. Together with the evangelical mystic expert Wolfgang Böhme , he founded the Society of Friends of Christian Mysticism in 1987 , an association that aims to make the rich tradition of Christian mysticism known to a wider public. Sudbrack practiced zazen with Karlfried Graf Dürckheim , who promoted Zen meditation in the German-speaking area . He had, as he said, a deep all-oneness experience.

Josef Sudbrack lived in Cologne-Mülheim during the last years of his life, where he died on July 15, 2010 at the age of 85.

Works

  • The spiritual theology of Johannes von Kastl. 2 Vols. Aschendorff, Münster / Westphalia 1966–1967
  • Meditation, theory and practice. Echter, Würzburg 1971, ISBN 3-429-00205-2
  • Challenged to Meditation - Christian Experience in Conversation with the East. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-451-07611-X
  • Experience of love: Teresa of Ávila's mysticism as an encounter with God. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-451-18289-0
  • Come to the Garden of My Soul: Introduction to Christian Mysticism. Gütersloher Verlagshaus Mohn, Gütersloh 1979, ISBN 3-579-03744-7
  • To conceal oneself in God's order: from the richness of Christian meditation. Echter, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-429-00992-8 (New edition as What does Christian meditate mean? Paths to yourself and to God's you. Herder, Freiburg 1990)
  • With open arms. Text-image meditations on Holy Saturday (drawings: Hortense von Gelmini ), Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1987, ISBN 3-7867-1285-9
  • New religiosity - a challenge for Christians. Matthias-Grünewald, Mainz 1987, ISBN 3-7867-1291-3
  • Mysticism in dialogue: Christian tradition, East Asian tradition, forgotten traditions. Echter, Würzburg 1992, ISBN 3-429-01428-X
  • Eugen Drewermann …:… about the humanity of Christianity. Echter, Würzburg 1992, ISBN 3-429-01467-0
  • Hildegard von Bingen : Look at the cosmic wholeness. Echter, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-429-01696-7
  • Religious experience and human psyche: on borderline questions between religion and psychology, holiness and disease, God and Satan. Matthias-Grünewald, Mainz 1998 ISBN 3-7867-2100-9
  • God's spirit is concrete: spirituality in the Christian context. Echter, Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-429-02078-6
  • Drunk by the bright and light darkness of the absolute: Dionysius the Areopagite and the poetry of the experience of God. Johannes, Einsiedeln; Freiburg [Breisgau] 2002, ISBN 3-89411-367-7
  • Mysticism: search for meaning and the experience of the absolute. Primus, Darmstadt 2002 ISBN 3-89678-444-7 Publishing information
  • In the face of the absolute: leading to the center of Christian spirituality. Echter, Würzburg 2004 ISBN 3-429-02643-1

literature

  • Paul Imhof (ed.): God's closeness: religious experience in mysticism and revelation; Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Josef Sudbrack. Echter, Würzburg 1990, ISBN 3-429-01295-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by PJ Sudbrack

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Sudbrack, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit, Catholic theologian, mystic researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 2010
Place of death Cologne