Karl Frielingsdorf

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Karl Frielingsdorf SJ (born February 23, 1933 in Düren ; † May 25, 2017 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German Jesuit , religious educator and pastoral psychologist .

Life

Karl Frielingsdorf began studying law in Cologne after graduating from high school in 1952 and joined the Jesuit order in 1953. From 1956 to 1959 he studied philosophy at the Berchmanskolleg of the Jesuits in Pullach (now University of Philosophy in Munich ) and from 1961 to 1965 theology at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main. This was followed by further studies at the Institut Supérieur de Pastorale Catéchétique (ISPC) in Paris and in pedagogy and psychology at the Institute for Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Psychology in Innsbruck , at the Catechetical Institute of the University of Munich and at the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt am Main. In 1969 he was awarded a doctorate degree at the University of Trier with a thesis on "The Doctrine of God in the Catechisms of the Enlightenment" (published as On the Way to a New Understanding of God ). theol. PhD. In 1972 he completed his habilitation at the Jesuit University Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main with a paper on group dynamics aspects of religious education and theology studies (title: Learning in groups ) and received the Venia legendi in religious education and pastoral psychology.

In 1974 Frielingsdorf was appointed to the professorship for religious education and pastoral psychology at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen. From 1975 to 1985 he was also a lecturer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. In 2001 he retired. In 2004 he handed over the management of the Institute for Pastoral Psychology and Spirituality, of which he was the founder and long-term director, to Klaus Kießling .

Act

Frielingsdorf was committed to the education and training of priests and clergy as well as employees in pastoral and pastoral service. He was a co-founder and longstanding board member of the German Society for Pastoral Psychology. With a publication on the situation of pastoral psychology in Germany, he first addressed the related subject of psychology and theology in 1974. He is regarded as the founder of the key method, a psychotherapeutic method related to systemic family therapy.

In the standard work The Psychology of the 20th Century , Karl Frielingsdorf is named as one of the “leading representatives in the reconciliation between psychology and theology”. He has published numerous papers and scientific articles.

Fonts (selection)

Publications in book form

  • On the way to a new understanding of God. JB Hirscher's doctrine of God as an answer to the secularized thinking of the Enlightenment period (=  Frankfurt theological studies . No. 6 ). Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1970, ISBN 978-3-7820-0033-8 (XI, 199 pages).
  • Learning in groups. Group dynamic aspects of religious education and theology studies (=  religious education - theory and practice . No. 22 ). Benziger, Zurich 1973, ISBN 978-3-545-26067-2 (266 pages).
  • together with Günther Stöcklin : Pastoral care as concern for people , Matthias Grünewald Verlag 1983, ISBN 3786705720
  • Accept my life. The pastoral therapeutic impulse of the key method , Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag 1993, ISBN 3786717141
  • The true God is different , Topos-Verlag 1997, ISBN 3786720088
  • Aggression creates relationships , Matthias-Grünewald Verlag 1999, ISBN 3786721602
  • Demonic images of God: their emergence, exposure and overcoming , Matthias-Grünewald Verlag 2001, ISBN 3786783756
  • This is where I want to be: 25 years of pastoral therapy work in Positano , Matthias-Grünewald Verlag 2001, ISBN 3786722951
  • Images of God: How they make you sick - how they heal (Ignatian impulses) , Echter Verlag 2007, ISBN 3429025362
  • From survival to life: Paths to identity and belief , Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag 2008, ISBN 3786727295
  • Reconciling my life with God: A course book for spiritual growth and accompaniment , Echter Verlag 2008, ISBN 3429029775
  • Aggression: destructive or life-enhancing , Echter Verlag 2016, ISBN 3429039304
  • Finding my happiness in life: To live more than to be lived , Echter Verlag 2017, ISBN 3429043425

Magazine articles

  • Dialogue between Peter and Jesus. Meditation for the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross , in: Der Prediger und Katechet , 156th year, 2017, issue 5.

literature

  • Agnes Lanfermann, Heinrich Pompey (ed.): In search of life you will meet God: Festschrift for Karl Frielingsdorf . Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-7867-2442-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice of Karl Frielingsdorf , FAZ from May 30, 2017
  2. ^ Hermann Kügler : Personality work in the training of Catholic priests and members of the order. In: Themenzentrierte Interaktion , Vol. 12 (1998), Issue 2, pp. 107–120. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
  3. ^ From survival to life , Bonifatiusbote, February 13, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Frielingsdorf, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frielingsdorf SJ, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit as well as religious educator and pastoral psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 2017
Place of death Frankfurt am Main