Klaus Demmer

Klaus Demmer MSC (born May 27, 1931 in Münster ; † July 18, 2014 there ) was a Roman Catholic moral theologian .

Life

Demmer joined the Congregation of Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis Jesu (Sacred Heart Missionaries) in 1957 and received the sacrament of Holy Orders . In 1961 he received his doctorate at the Pontifical Gregorian University with the thesis Ius caritatis: On the christological foundation of the Augustinian doctrine of natural law . In 1971 he completed his habilitation at the University of Innsbruck .

From 1962 he taught at the religious college in Oeventrop and from 1966 to 1970 he was a lecturer in moral theology at the theological faculty in Paderborn . From 1970 to 2003 he was professor of moral theology at the Gregoriana in Rome . He held various visiting professorships in the USA and was a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts . After his retirement, Klaus Demmer lived in his Westphalian hometown of Münster and was also superior of his order in Münster.

In 1987 he was honored with the Order of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany . In 1999 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Friborg .

Fonts (selection)

• Ius caritatis: On the christological foundation of the Augustinian doctrine of natural law , Libreria editrice dell'università Gregoriana Rome 1961 (dissertation)
• Being and Commandment: The Significance of the Transcendental Philosophical Approach in Contemporary Scholasticism for the Formal Outline of Fundamental Morality , Schöningh Paderborn 1971 (habilitation thesis)
• Klaus Demmer: Applied Theology of Ethics , Verlag Herder 2003, ISBN 978-3-451-28072-6
• Klaus Demmer: Think God - act morally. Traces of ethical theology , Verlag Herder 2008, ISBN 978-3-451-29817-2
• Klaus Demmer: Oppressed freedom. The doctrine of participation - rethought , Verlag Herder 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-32294-5
• Klaus Demmer (Ed.), Aldegonde Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn: The heart speaks to the heart. Reflections on marriage , Verlag Herder 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-30659-4
• Klaus Demmer: Self-Enlightenment Theological Ethics: Topics - Theses - Perspectives , Schöningh Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77944-1

swell

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, Saur Verlag 1996, Volumes 1–3, Page 561
• Melanie Wolfers: Theological ethics as an action-guiding science of meaning. The fundamental ethical draft by Klaus Demmer (dissertation), Studies on Theological Ethics 99, Freiburg 2003, ISBN 3-451-28071-X (Herder).
• Who is who ?: Das Deutsche who's who, 2006, page 231

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Demmer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Roman moral theologian Klaus Demmer has died , Vatican Radio , July 21, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Melanie Wolfers: Theological ethics as action-guiding science of meaning. The fundamental ethical draft by Klaus Demmer , Freiburg 2003, ISBN 3-451-28071-X , p. 26.
2. ↑ List of honorary doctors of the Theological Faculty of the University of Friborg (Switzerland) ( Memento from August 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )