Josef Wohlmuth

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Josef Wohlmuth (born January 7, 1938 in Laibstadt , Bavaria ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian . He worked as a professor at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn.

Life

After graduating from high school in Eichstätt , he studied Catholic theology in Eichstätt and Innsbruck . After being ordained a priest in Eichstätt in 1964 and the primary on July 5, 1964 in Laibstadt , Wohlmuth worked as a chaplain in Gunzenhausen for four years . For his doctoral studies he was at the universities of Tübingen , Bologna , Nijmegen , Regensburg and Bonn . His doctoral supervisor was Josef Ratzinger . In 1980 he completed his habilitation at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn in the subject of dogmatics and the history of dogmas . In 1981 he was appointed professor for theology and its didactics at the educational science faculty of the University of Cologne , where he worked until 1986. He then moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn as a professor of dogmatics , where he stayed until his retirement in 2003. In 1984/85 and 2003/04 Wohlmuth was Dean of Studies for the theological academic year at the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem.

From May 1, 2004 to September 30, 2011, Josef Wohlmuth was director of the Cusanuswerk . His successor is Georg Braungart .

The Catholic Theological Faculty of the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg awarded Wohlmuth an honorary doctorate on July 7, 2009, as did the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on December 12, 2014.

Research priorities

  • Dogma and council history,
  • Ecumenical questions,
  • Christian-Jewish dialogue as well as examination of contemporary philosophy and modern aesthetics.

Monographs

  • Real presence and transubstantiation in the Council of Trent (1975)
  • Understanding in the Church. Examined using the language of the Council of Basel (1983)
  • Jesus' way - our way. Little Mystagogical Christology (1992)
  • Close to each other in secret. Theological essays on the relationship between Judaism and Christianity (1996)
  • The Torah speaks the language of the people. Theological essays and meditations on the relationship between Judaism and Christianity (2002)
  • Mystery of Metamorphosis - An Eschatology from a Catholic Perspective in Conversation with Contemporary Jewish Thinking (2005)
  • Jerusalem Diary 2003/04 - Theological-Spiritual-Political (= Jerusalem Theological Forum , Vol. 8; 2006).
  • On the threshold of the sanctuary. Christian Theology in Conversation with Jewish Thought (2007).
  • Be a guest in the Holy Land. A narrative-theological travel book (2008).
  • Theology as an Announcement of Time (2016).
  • Published together with Hubert Frankemölle: The salvation of others. Problem area “mission to the Jews” . (= QD 238; 2010).

literature

  • In the face of the other. Conversations between Christian theology and Jewish thought . (FS for Josef Wohlmuth on his 75th birthday), edited by R. Dausner and F. Bruckmann (2013)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.donaukurier.de/lokales/hilpoltstein/Laibstadt-Primiz-vor-50-Jahren-in-Laibstadt;art596,2934032
  2. ↑ Professor Dr. Dr. hc Josef Wohlmuth was retired as head of the Cusanuswerk in Bonn , October 31, 2011
  3. ↑ Press release of the KU Eichstätt from December 12, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Wohlmuth, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Heideck