Karl-Heinz Weger

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Karl-Heinz Weger (born July 17, 1932 in Schweinfurt , † January 15, 1998 in Munich ) was a German Catholic theologian and philosopher.

Weger joined the Society of Jesus in 1951 . After the novitiate he went to England to study philosophy from 1954–57 - first at Heythrop College in Chipping Norton near Oxford , then at Manresa College in London (1954–1957). He then worked for a year as an educator at the Jesuit college in St. Blasien . In 1958 he went to Indonesia, initially as an English teacher at the Minor Seminary in Mertojudan. From 1960 to 1964 he studied theology at Ignatius College in Yogyakarta , where he was ordained a priest in 1963. In 1967 he received his doctorate in Maastricht . From 1966 to 1971 Weger was an editorial member of the monthly magazine Voices of the Time . From 1969/70 he was a lecturer, from 1975 professor for the foundations of systematic theology and philosophical anthropology at the University of Philosophy in Munich. There he founded and headed the Institute for Religious Criticism for many years.

Weger's theological thinking revolved primarily around fundamental theological issues that were strongly influenced by Karl Rahner's theology . Furthermore, he repeatedly dealt with the issues of criticism of religion in research and teaching .

Works (selection)

  • Theology of Original Sin . With an excursus about original sin and monogenism by Karl Rahner, (Quaestiones disputatae 44), Freiburg 1970
  • The faith of the church in the documents of the teaching of Josef Neuner u. Heinrich Roos. Revised by Karl Rahner u. Karl-Heinz Weger, Regensburg 1971
  • Original sin today. Foundation and preaching aid , Munich 1972
  • Criticism of religion. Contributions to the atheistic criticism of religion today , Munich 1976 (Ed.)
  • Karl Rahner. An introduction to his theological thinking , Freiburg 1978
  • Criticism of Religion from the Enlightenment to the Present. Lexicon of authors from Adorno to Wittgenstein , Freiburg 1979 (Ed.)
  • What should we still believe? Theologians face the questions of faith of a new generation , Freiburg 1979 (together with Karl Rahner)
  • On the misery of critical rationalism. Critical discussion of the question of the recognizability of God in Hans Albert , Regensburg 1981
  • Man before God's claim. Establishing faith in an agnostic world , Graz 1981
  • God has revealed himself , Freiburg 1982
  • Paths to Theological Thinking. How can one clarify statements of faith from experience? , Freiburg 1984
  • Arguments for God. God-Thinker from Antiquity to the Present , Freiburg 1987 (Ed. With the collaboration of Klemens Bossong)
  • What are we on earth for? Experience of meaning in faith , Freiburg 1989
  • Criticism of religion (series: Texts on Theology: Department of Fundamental Theology; 1), Graz 1991.

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SURNAME Weger, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinfurt
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1998
Place of death Munich