Ladislaus Boros

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Ladislaus Boros (born October 2, 1927 in Budapest , † November 8, 1981 in Cham ; actually: László Boros ) was a Catholic theologian and a Jesuit until 1973 .

Life

After his escape from communist Hungary in 1949, Boros studied philosophy and theology at various European Jesuit universities. In 1954 he received his doctorate in philosophy in Munich with a thesis on the problem of temporality with Augustine . He was ordained a priest in Enghien (Belgium) in 1957 and worked for the Jesuit magazine Orientation in Zurich from 1958 to 1973 . From 1963 he had a teaching position for religious studies at the theological faculty in Innsbruck .

After resigning from the Jesuit order in 1973 and getting married, he spent the last years of his life, marked by illness, as a freelance writer near Zug .

theology

Boros develops the so-called “final decision hypothesis” within the framework of Christian eschatology , according to which at the moment of death of the individual all individual acts are summarized in a ultimately valid decision for or against God. He wrote: “ In death the possibility of the first fully personal act of man opens up; thus it is the preferred place in terms of being of awareness, freedom, the encounter with God and the decision about eternal fate ”.

In addition, he advocates a “theology of hope” , in which God , especially in the Christ event, is the goal and pivot of prayerful thinking.

Works

  • The problem of temporality in Augustine's. Munich, Philosophical Faculty, dissertation 1954
  • Mysterium mortis: The human being in the final decision. Olten; Freiburg i. Br .: Walter 1962 (new edition: Mainz 1993 ISBN 3-7867-1719-2 )
  • The God Present: Paths to an Existential Encounter. Olten; Freiburg i. Br .: Walter 1964 (paperback as: The God present: Jesus viewed humanly. Freiburg et al. 1972 ISBN 3-451-01941-8 )
  • Living from Hope: Expecting the Future in Christian Thinking. Olten; Freiburg i. Br .: Walter 1968 (new edition: Mainz 1992 ISBN 3-7867-1620-X )
  • We are the future. Mainz: Matthias-Grünewald 1969
  • 1975 "Phases of Life" (growth, crises, development and perfection of man). Walter publishing house, Olten.
  • 1977 "Redeemed existence" (In six theological meditations Boros speaks about creation, suffering, death and resurrection, in one word: about the love of God). Topos Pocket Books, Volume 2, ISBN 3-7867-0385-X .
  • 1978 "In der Temptation" (practice in meditation), Herder-Taschenbuch, Volume 660, ISBN 3-451-07660-8 .
  • 1979 "Encountering God in Man" - Topos pocket books, Volume 78, ISBN 3-7867-0740-5 .
  • with Hermann Kiefer: trust in life . Grünewald, Mainz 1987, ISBN 3-7867-1284-0 .

literature

  • Peter C. Düren: Death as the end of the earthly pilgrimage. Reflection on a Catholic doctrine. Dissertation, Buttenwiesen 4th edition 2002. ISBN 3-934225-10-1 (pp. 269–343 on the final decision hypothesis of Ladislaus Boros)
  • Josef Stierli : "Boros Ladislaus". In: LThK 3 Vol. 2, Col. 597-599
  • Josef Stierli: Ladislaus Boros: 1927 - 1981; man and his work; a sketch. Edlibach / Zug: Bad Schönbrunn Education Center 1982
  • Pamela Kirk: Death and resurrection within an anthropologically applied theology: hermeneutic study on individual eschatology with Karl Rahner , Ladislaus Boros, Gisbert Greshake. Bad Honnef: Bock and Herchen 1986 ISBN 3-88347-138-0
  • Thomas Schnelzer: Death as the last decision: Plea for the final decision hypothesis of Ladislaus Boros. Regensburg: Roderer 1992 ISBN 3-89073-568-1
  • Thomas Schnelzer: "Mysterium Mortis". In: Michael Eckert u. a. (Ed.): Lexicon of theological works. Stuttgart: Kröner 2003 ISBN 3-520-49301-2 , pp. 521-522
  • Ekkart Sauser :  BOROS, Ladislaus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 813-814.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ On the presentation and criticism of the decision hypothesis see: Ladislaus Boros: Considerations about death. In: Ders .: Redeemed existence. Aschaffenburg: BoD 2001 Google Booksearch ; Gisbert Greshake: Comments on the decision hypothesis. In: GG and Gerhard Lohfink: Immediate expectation - resurrection - immortality. Freiburg 5 1982, pp. 121-130
  2. ↑ Ladislaus Boros: Mysterium mortis. The man in the final decision. Olten and Freiburg i. B. 2nd ed. 1963, p. 9

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personal data
SURNAME Boros, Ladislaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boros, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1981
Place of death Cham ZG