Klaus Rohmann

Klaus Rohmann (born March 10, 1939 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German old Catholic theologian .

Life

Rohmann studied Catholic theology, philosophy and educational science in Paderborn , Munich and Bonn . In 1976 he was in Bonn with a thesis on the American "God is dead theology-" the doctor of theology doctorate . For his work he received the annual award for the best dissertation from the University of Bonn. From 1965 he worked as a chaplain for a few years . From 1976 to 1981 he was a high school teacher in Essen, specializing in Catholic religious studies, pedagogy and Hebrew . Then he was Professor of Systematic Theology at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Northern Germany in Vechta and Osnabrück until 2002 .

He has lectured at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California , Florida State University in Tallahassee, and the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut . (1996). After joining the Old Catholic Church , he began teaching at the Old Catholic Seminary at the University of Bonn in 2004 . Since 2004 he has also been a member of the editorial committee of the “ International Church Journal ” (IKZ), the theological quarterly publication of the Old Catholics in the Union of Utrecht . From 2013 to 2016 he was Associate Professor (Adjunct Researcher) at the Department of Christian Catholic Theology of the Theological Faculty of the University of Bern . He has lived in Bonn since 2017.

Focus of work

Rohmann's work focuses on the question of God in the contemporary context, theological-philosophical anthropology , ecumenical theology and apologetics as a conversation “over the garden fence” with the world religions (especially Judaism and Islam ) and with special religious communities such as the “ Unification Church ” and Scientology as well as Old Catholic ecclesiology and doctrine of the sacraments .

Literature (selection)

• Perfection in nothing? A documentation of the American "God is dead theology", Zurich (Benziger) 1977.
• The laughter and the hope. Some considerations on "political theology" in view of the "sacrifice of Isaac" (E. Wiesel), in: H. Waldenfels (ed.), Theologie - Grund und Grenzen (FS for Heimo Dolch), Paderborn (Schöningh) 1982, 609-635 .
• Belief against god. Initiatives from the work of Elie Wiesel, in: KJ Lesch / M. Saller, Why, God ...? The questioning person before the mystery of God, (FS for Ralph Sauer) Kevelaer (Butzon & Bercker) 1993, 226–235.
• Radical Theology in the Making: Richard L. Rubenstein Reshaped Jewish Theology from Its Beginnings, in: Betty Rogers Rubenstein / Michael Berenbaum (eds.), What Kind of God? Essays in Honor of Richard L. Rubenstein, New York / London (Lanham) 1995, 3–23.
• The return of the magic - psycho sects in the slipstream of the current zeitgeist, in: H. Petri (ed.), Zeit - Geist - Zeitgeist, Bochum (Brockmeyer University Press) 1997, 88-133.
• Nicholas of Cusa: His idea of ​​the Coincidence of Opposites and the Concept of Unity in Unification Thought, in: Andrew Wilson (ed.), Journal of Unification Studies, vol. III, 1999/2000, 117-129.
• Resentment towards the West in the “best society that arose among people”. Islam in view of the challenge posed by modern science, in: Lebendigeszeugnis 58 (2003) 1, 30–44.
• The sacramentality of marriage. A plea for underlining the ecclesial reference, in: A. Berlis / M. Ring (ed.) Anchor in heaven. Assumptions about the Church in the Future (FS for Bishop Joachim Vobbe), Bonn (Old Catholic Diocese Publishing House) 2007.
• Can the unconditional validity of human dignity still be justified? In: A. Holling / E. Ockel / R. Siedenbiedel, Identity as a life theme (FS for Arnold Schäfer), Vechta-Langförden (Geest-Verlag) 2007.
• Georg Witzel, An Old Catholic of the Sixteenth Century, in: IKZ 99 (2009) 4, 209-23.
• Is Israel a State Like Any Other? In: A. Goller / A. Krebs / M.Ring (ed.), Weg-Gemeinschaft (FS for Günter Eßer), Bonn (Alt-Katholischer Bistumsverlag) 2015, 251–267
• Becoming oneself with dignity. Philosophical-theological reflection on being human today, Darmstadt (wbg Academic) 2019.

Web links

• Klaus Rohmann on the website of the University of Bern