Klaus Müller (theologian)

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Klaus Müller (born June 23, 1955 in Regensburg ) is a Roman Catholic priest and professor of fundamental theology and philosophy of religion as well as director of the seminar for basic philosophical questions in theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

biography

After studying philosophy and Catholic theology in Regensburg , Rome , Munich and Freiburg Klaus Müller was in 1982 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Carlo Huber to Dr. phil. PhD. Even as a young seminarian, philosophy was his favorite subject; he dreamed of becoming a "priest-philosopher".

After his ordination in 1984 he was active in the pastoral service of his home diocese in Regensburg , initially at the parish level, later as a pastor of the Regensburg correctional facility and as a spiritualist for students of theology at the University of Regensburg .

In 1992 he took on a teaching position for homiletics at the University of Regensburg.

In 1994 he obtained the degree of a doctorate in theology ( Dr. theol. Habil.) For fundamental theology and religious philosophy at the University of Freiburg and became a private lecturer at the University of Regensburg.

Since 1996 he has been professor for basic philosophical questions in theology and director of the seminar of the same name at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster.

Visiting professorships led him to the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck (2003) and to the St. Augustine Millennium Seminary (Dep. Legon University Accra) in Tamale , Ghana (2005). Two more in 2009 to the Karl-Franzens-University Graz in Austria, and to the Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano in Switzerland.

Publications (selection)

  • Thomas Aquinas Theory and Practice of Analogy. The dispute over right prejudice and the analysis of a revealing discrepancy in the "Summa theologiae". Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; New York 1983. (Regensburg Studies on Theology; Vol. 29).
  • When I say "I". Studies on the fundamental theological relevance of self-conscious subjectivity. Frankfurt am Main 1994. (Regensburg Studies on Theology; Vol. 46).
  • Homiletics. A manual for critical times , Pustet, Regensburg 1994, ISBN 978-3-7917-1438-7
  • God on the verge. Speeches for Advent and Christmas , Pustet, Regensburg 1999, ISBN 3-7917-1669-7
  • Think God's existence. A philosophical doctrine of God for today , Pustet, Regensburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-7917-1741-8
  • Know God. The adventure of God's proofs , Pustet, Regensburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-7867-8405-0 . (Topos plus; vol. 405).
  • Against Shadow Power. A sermon reader for the Easter festival group , Pustet, Regensburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-7917-1834-7 .
  • At the limits of knowledge. Introduction to philosophy for theologians , F. Pustet, Regensburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-7917-1886-6 .
  • Reason and Faith: An interim balance sheet on ongoing debates , LIT, Münster 2005, ISBN 978-3-825-87345-5
  • Belief - questions - thinking. Volume I: Basic topics in the encounter between philosophy and theology , Aschendorff, Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-402-00420-3 .
  • Quarrel about god. Politics, poetics and philosophy in the struggle for the true image of God , F. Pustet, Regensburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-791-71993-1 .
  • Belief - questions - thinking. Volume II: Wise Men of World Relations , Aschendorff, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-402-00421-0 .
  • Belief - questions - thinking. Volume III: Self-Relationship and the Question of God , Aschendorff, Münster 2009, KSBN 978-3-402-00422-7.
  • Think about faith. A critical approach to being a Christian in ten chapters , Aschendorff, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-402-12835-0
  • Immortal at last: between body cult and cyberworld ; Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 2011, ISBN 978-3-7666-1479-7
  • In the endless loop of reason and faith: Athens versus Jerusalem once more (via Jena and Oxford) , LIT, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11449-5
Editing

Offices and activities (selection)

  • Since September 1999 Rector Ecclesiae of the Dominican Church (Catholic university church) in Münster and Catholic university preacher
  • Since 1999 Scientific Advisory Board of the Instituto Internazionale Jacques Maritain, Roma
  • Since October 2001 adviser to commissions III (pastoral) and IX (journalism) of the German Bishops' Conference
  • Since the winter semester 2003/04 member of the working group of the Catholic German Faculty Conference and the subgroup of Commission VIII (Science) of the German Bishops' Conference for questions of study reform

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.uni-muenster.de/FB2/philosophie/predigte/Ueberschwang_Hierl_Montag_Karwoche_B.html
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and philosopher, professor of fundamental philosophical questions in theology
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg