Joseph Gehringer

Joseph Gehringer (born April 10, 1803 in Unterkochen , † September 8, 1856 in Jerusalem ) was a German Catholic theologian .

Life

From 1822 to 1826 he studied Catholic theology at the University of Tübingen . After being ordained a priest in 1827, he became a repetitee at Wilhelmsstift . In 1831 he became pastor in Mögglingen . In 1839 he was elected as a member of the Württemberg state parliament, where he resigned when he took over the chair for moral theology and New Testament exegesis in Tübingen in 1841. He was positive about the Josephine reforms of Catholic religious education. With his synoptic compilation of 1842 he is one of the Catholic pioneers of the two-source theory . His guide to academic lectures , published in 1848, and the theory of pastoral care were banned by the church by decree of the Roman Index Congregation of January 12, 1850. The Roman expert in each case was Augustin Theiner . Gehringer had already given up his chair in 1849 in the face of opposition from his ultramontane faculty colleagues Carl Joseph Hefele and Johannes Evangelist Kuhn . He became a pastor in Kochertürn and died in 1856 on a scientific trip to Palestine in the Franciscan hospice in Jerusalem . He is buried there too.

Fonts (selection)

Synoptic compilation of the Greek text of the four Gospels according to the principles of authentic harmony . Tubingen 1842.
Liturgy. A guide to academic lectures on Christian liturgy according to the principles of the Catholic Church . Tübingen 1848.
Pastoral Theory. A guide to academic lectures on Christian pastoral care according to the principles of the Catholic Church . Tübingen 1848.

literature

Michael Theobald : Joseph Gehringer (1803-1856). Author of a long-forgotten synopsis of the Gospel and pioneer of the two-source theory . In: Matthias Blum , Rainer Kampling (ed.): Between Catholic Enlightenment and Ultramontanism. New Testament exegetes of the "Catholic Tübingen School" in the 19th century and their significance for Catholic biblical studies (= Contubernum . Volume 79 ). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10199-8 , pp. 147-181 .

Web links

Catholic-theological faculty: moral theology: history of the chair: 1841 - 1848 Joseph Gehringer , website of the University of Tübingen

Individual evidence

↑ Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966 . Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , pp. 374–375 (French, Google digitized version ).
↑ Hubert Wolf (Ed.): Systematic Repertory on Book Censorship 1814-1917. Index Congregation . Schöningh, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-71387-6 , pp. 277-278 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gehringer, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 10, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH	Undercooking
DATE OF DEATH	September 8, 1856
Place of death	Jerusalem

[1] Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966 . Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , pp. 374–375 (French, Google digitized version ).

[2] Hubert Wolf (Ed.): Systematic Repertory on Book Censorship 1814-1917. Index Congregation . Schöningh, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-71387-6 , pp. 277-278 .