Karl-Heinz Menke

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Karl-Heinz Menke (born January 28, 1950 in Fürstenau ) is a German theologian, priest and pastor. He is professor emeritus for dogmatics and theological propaedeutics at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn .

Scientific career

Karl-Heinz Menke studied philosophy, Catholic theology and classical philology in Münster and Rome from 1968 to 1978 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . He was ordained a priest in 1974 . He acquired in 1975 the licentiate in theology from the Gregorian University in Rome with a thesis on the Catholic Tubingen school of the 19th century. In 1978 the doctorate to Dr. theol. at the Gregoriana in Rome with a thesis on reason and revelation with Antonio Rosmini-Serbati . Between 1979 and 1981 he was vicar , religious teacher and dean's youth pastor in Twistringen near Bremen, before he was secret secretary of the Bishop of Osnabrück, cathedral vicar , director of the diocesan office for professions of the church and head of the diocesan foreigners department from 1981 to 1984 .

In 1984/1985 Menke took over the management of the parish of Bad Iburg and was a religion teacher at the local grammar school. Between 1986 and 1990 he worked on his habilitation . From 1987 to 1990 he was a research assistant at the chair for dogmatics, history of dogma and ecumenical theology at the University of Freiburg with Gisbert Greshake . In 1990 he completed his habilitation in the subject of dogmatics and the history of dogma at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with a thesis on the subject of “ Deputy . Key Concept of Christian Life and Basic Theological Category ”. In 1990 he received a call to the chair for dogmatics and basic philosophical questions in theology of the Catholic-Theological Faculty in Paderborn and a call to the chair for dogmatics and theological propaedeutics of the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn. Since October 1, 1990, he has been Professor of Dogmatics and Theological Propaedeutics at the University of Bonn.

1991 Menke Bureau member was of the Faculty of Arts, University of Trento collaborative research project formed "philosophy and theology of the 19th century." And member of Commission IV (occupations of the church) of the German Bishops' Conference . Since 1992 he has been co-editor of the Collana "Religione e Cultura" (Morcelliana publishing house, Brescia) and since 1993 co-editor of the "Bonner Dogmatic Studies" (Echter publishing house, Würzburg). In 2001 he became a member of Commission I (Theology) of the German Bishops' Conference. From 2000 to 2002 he was director of the general administration of the Catholic-Theological Faculty in Bonn, from 2002 to 2004 he was Dean of the Catholic-Theological Faculty in Bonn, from 2004 to 2006 Vice Dean. In 2005 he was appointed to the clearing commission of the German Bishops' Conference to revise the missal .

Pope Francis appointed him on September 23, 2014 for five years as a member of the International Theological Commission .

Honors

Fonts

  • Reason and Revelation according to Antonio Rosmini. The apologetic plan of a Christian encyclopedia (ITS 5), Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich 1980 ISBN 3-7022-1353-8
  • Bridges to Christ, Innsbruck / Vienna 1986 ISBN 3-7022-1612-X
  • (Ed.), Arguments for God. God thinkers from antiquity to the present. An author's lexicon, Freiburg 1987
  • The uniqueness of Jesus Christ in the horizon of the question of meaning (criteria 94), Einsiedeln / Freiburg: Johannes Verlag 1995, ISBN 978-3-89411-331-5
  • Representation. Key concept of Christian life and theological basic category, Einsiedeln-Freiburg: Johannes-Verlag 2nd edition 1997 (1991), ISBN 978-3-89411-300-1
  • / Antonio Staglianò (ed.), Credere Pensando. Domande della teologia contemporanea nell'orizzonte del pensiero di Antonio Rosmini. Atti del convegno tenuto a Rovereto il 3-4-5 maggio 1995 (Bibliotheca Rosminiana 7) Brescia (Casa Editice Morcelliana) 1997, ISBN 88-372-1626-2
  • The God who already gives the future. Plea for a christological theodicy, in: Harald Wagner (ed.), Arguing with God. New approaches to the theodicy problem, Freiburg: Herder 1998, ISBN 978-3-4510-2169-5
  • / Antonio Autiero (ed.), Bridge builder between church and society - A. Rosmini, JH Newman, M. Blondel and R. Guardini, Münster 1999 ISBN 3-8258-4178-2
  • Mary became flesh. The history of Israel and the Church's belief in Mary, Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet 1999, ISBN 978-3-7917-1665-7
  • Will God act if I ask him? (Topos plus Taschenbuch 331), Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet 2nd edition 2001 (2000), ISBN 978-3-7867-8331-2
  • The criterion of being a Christian. Floor plan of the doctrine of grace, Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet 2003, ISBN 978-3-7917-1729-6
  • "... and became human". Sermons and intercessions for Advent and Christmas, Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet 2005, ISBN 978-3-7917-1973-3
  • The question of the essence of Christianity. An analysis of the history of theology (publications of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences G 395), Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh 2005, ISBN 978-3-5067-2888-3
  • Jesus is God the Son. Forms of thought and focal points of Christology, Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet 2008, ISBN 978-3-7917-2115-6
  • The central idea of ​​Josef Ratzinger: The entanglement of vertical and horizontal incarnation (publications of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences G 415), Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh 2008, ISBN 978-3-5067-6567-3
  • Diagnosing and fighting evil. Epiphenomena of nature or proof of formally unconditional autonomy ?, in: Bernd J. Claret: Theodizee. Evil in the world, Darmstadt: WBG 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-19049-2
  • Sacramentality: Essence and Wound of Catholicism, Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet 2012, ISBN 978-3-7917-2425-6
  • Does truth make free or freedom real? A pamphlet, Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet 2017, ISBN 978-3-7917-2915-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes: Annual report 2017 , p. 86.
  2. ^ Nomina di nuovi Membri e conferme nella Commissione Teologica Internazionale in: Press Office of the Holy See, Daily Bulletin of 23 September 2014
personal data
SURNAME Menke, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, priest and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenau