Karl Josef Rivinius

Karl Josef Rivinius SVD (born September 2, 1936 in Bous (Saar) ) is a German Catholic theologian .

Life

He attended the eight-grade elementary school in his home parish (1942–1950). From 1950 to 1953 training as a cutting machine operator . He was a skilled worker at the local Société des Usines à Tubes de la Sarre (the former Mannesmann tube works) with subsequent professional activity until 1956. After graduating from high school in February 1962, he entered the novitiate . He completed his studies in philosophy at the Philosophical-Theological University of St. Gabriel in Mödling near Vienna (1962–1965) with a Philosophikum. The study of theology at the Philosophical-Theological College SVD St. Augustin (1965–1969) he completed with the final theological examination in March 1969 and the licentiate in theology in October 1969.

He completed his studies in history and educational science in Münster since the winter semester 1969/70 in May 1972 with the first state examination in history and educational science and in theology in March 1969. From December 1969 to October 1970 he was a research assistant at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Münster, where from November 1970 to October 1973 he managed the scheduled assistant position in the subject of church history. For four years he worked on the critical Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler -Gesamt-Edition, which was edited and published on behalf of the Academy of Sciences and Literature . He completed his legal clerkship for the grammar school from December 1, 1974 to January 31, 1976 at the Hamm district seminar and at the Michael-Gymnasium Ahlen training school in the subjects of Catholic religious studies, history and educational science, and completed his second state examination in these subjects in December 1975. After the Rigorosa on November 18 and 19, 1974, the graduation ceremony took place on February 6, 1975.

After his habilitation on July 9, 1986 at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn , he was awarded the Venia legendi for Middle and Modern Church History, including mission history. From the summer semester 1976 until his retirement in the summer semester 2004 he taught middle and recent church history at the Philosophical-Theological College SVD Sankt Augustin , also 1976–1978 ancient church history including patrology . In the following years teaching assignments in the subject Middle and Modern Church History at the Studienhaus St. Lambert in Lantershofen , at the RWTH Aachen , at the University of Bochum and Münster (here also in the winter semester 1986/1987 substitute professor) as well as at the University of Cologne and at the University of Siegen . From the winter semester 1980/81 up to and including the summer semester 1983 rector at the PTH SVD Sankt Augustin, from the winter semester 1992/93 up to and including the summer semester 1998 rector at the university in question.

His main research interests are church, social and mission history. He wrote numerous articles in the Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon (BBKL).

Fonts (selection)

• Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler and the Pope's infallibility. A contribution to the discussion of infallibility at the 1st Vatican Council (= European University Writings. Series 23 Theology. Volume 48). Lang, Bern / Frankfurt 1976, ISBN 3-261-01543-8 (also dissertation, Münster 1975).
• Mission and Politics. An unpublished correspondence between members of the "Steyler Missionsges." and the central politician Carl Bachem (= publications of the Missionspriesterseminar Sankt Augustin near Bonn. Volume 28). Steyler Verlag, Sankt Augustin 1977, ISBN 3-87787-100-3 .
• The Catholic Mission in South Shantung. A report by Legation Secretary Speck von Sternburg from 1895 on the Steyler Mission in China (= Studia Instituti Missiologici Societatis Verbi Divini. Volume 24). Steyler Verlag, Sankt Augustin 1979, ISBN 3-87787-117-8 .
• Establishment of the chair for missiology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (= series of publications of the Neue Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft. Volume 30). Neue Zeitschrift für Missionwissenschaft , Immensee 1985, ISBN 3-85824-065-6 .
• Secular protection and mission. The German protectorate over the Catholic mission of South Shantung (= Bonn contributions to church history. Volume 14). Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-412-00987-3 (also habilitation thesis, Bonn 1986).
• Between heresy and orthodoxy. The poverty movement of the Middle Ages using the example of the Waldensians and the Franciscans. Lecture at the conference "Consensus Fidelium - or about the anchoring of doctrine in the life of believers", March 4-6, 1988. (= Academy Lectures. Volume 35). Catholic Academy Schwerte 1990, ISBN 3-927382-05-1 .
• Traditionalism and modernization. The commitment of Bishop Augustin Henninghaus in the field of education and upbringing in China (1904 - 1914) (= publications of the St. Augustin Missionary Seminary near Bonn. Volume 44). Steyler Verlag, Nettetal 1994, ISBN 3-8050-0326-9 .
• Johann Baptist Anzer and Johann Baptist Mehler. A mosaic stone for the biography of the first bishop of the Society of the Divine Word (= Studia Instituti Missiologici Societatis Verbi Divini. Volume 83). Steyler Verlag, Nettetal 2003, ISBN 3-8050-0496-6 .
• The Collegium Sinicum in Naples and its transformation into an Oriental Institute. A contribution to history (= Collectanea serica ). Steyler Verlag, Nettetal 2004, ISBN 3-8050-0498-2 .
• In the service of mission and science. On the genesis of the journal Anthropos (= Studia Instituti Anthropos. Volume 51). Acad. Press, Friborg 2005, ISBN 3-7278-1528-0 .
• Bishop JB Anzer in the mirror of his letters to Magdalene Leitner. A contribution to the Steyl piety history (= Studia Instituti Missiologici Societatis Verbi Divini. Volume 88). Steyler Verlag, Nettetal 2006, ISBN 3-8050-0537-7 .
• In the field of tension between mission and politics. Johann Baptist Anzer (1851 - 1903) bishop in South Shandong (= Studia Instituti Missiologici Societatis Verbi Divini. Volume 93). Steyler Verlag, Nettetal 2010, ISBN 978-3-8050-0569-2 .
• The controversial Bishop Johann Baptist Anzer and the Steyler missionaries in China . Steyler Verlag, Nettetal 2013, ISBN 978-3-8050-0607-1 .
• The project of a Catholic encyclopedia for China (= Studia Instituti Missiologici Societatis Verbi Divini. Volume 99). Steyler Verlag, Nettetal 2013, ISBN 978-3-8050-0609-5 .
• 100 years of Steyler Missionaries St. Augustine . Steyler Verlag, Nettetal 2014, ISBN 978-3-8050-0625-5 .
• Collegium Sinicum. An educational institution for Chinese priests in Beijing (= Studia Instituti Missiologici Societatis Verbi Divini. Volume 103). Schmitt, Siegburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-87710-542-9 .
• Education offensive. P. Wilhelm Schmidt SVD in East Asia (1935) (= Studia Instituti Missiologici Societatis Verbi Divini. Volume 106). Schmitt, Siegburg 2016, ISBN 3-87710-545-9 .
• Giordano Bruno, Leo XIII. and Roman question . Aschendorff, Münster 2018, ISBN 3-402-13291-5 .

literature

• Reimund Haas and Eric W. Steinhauer (eds.): “The hand of the Lord laid out this vineyard and tended it.” Ceremony for Karl Josef Rivinius SVD (= Theology and University. Book 1). Verl.-Haus Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-86582-359-5 .