Leo Zirker

Leo Zirker (born November 24, 1937 in Rheinzabern ; † June 4, 2014 in Munich ) was a German Catholic moral theologian , pastoral consultant and university professor .

Life

Leo Zirker studied Catholic theology , including 1962–1964 in Innsbruck (at the University of Innsbruck and at the Canisianum ). It was founded in 1974 with a thesis on John Gründel for Doctor of theology doctorate. From 1974 to 1977 he worked as a pastoral consultant in the parish pastoral care in Munich St. Thomas More, then as a consultant in theological education work at the Cardinal Döpfner House in Freising . From 1986 until his retirement in 2003 he was professor of moral theology and pastoral conversation in the University of applied sciences degree in religious education and church educational work at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . He was Vice Dean for the Munich Department of the Faculty (1987–1991), Senator of the University (1991–1995) and Dean of the Faculty for Religious Education and Church Education (1995–1997).

For many years he also took over the management of the "Advisory Service for Church Professions" initiated by Cardinal Döpfner in 1968.

He was buried in the forest cemetery in Bad Tölz .

Fonts

Publications in book form

• Life in dialogue: perspectives for a contemporary image of priests. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1976 (also dissertation, University of Munich, Catholic Theological Faculty, Dialogical Existence in Service for the Believing Congregation , Munich 1974), ISBN 3-7867-0541-0 .
• The Sermon on the Mount. Hear the word of God anew. Adult education - catechesis - youth work. Don Bosco Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7698-0487-2 .

Contributions to compilations

• In the service of church professions. Notes on the work of the Munich counseling center , in: Ehrenfried Schulz (Ed.), Hubert Brosseder (Ed.), Heribert Wahl (Ed.), Follow the people. Open pastoral care as diakonia in society. Hans Schilling for the 60th birthday of friends, students and colleagues, Sankt Ottilien 1987, ISBN 3-88096-023-2 , pp. 349–361.
• with Karl Berkel, life - not just survival. Key qualifications for pastoral services , in: Franz Weber (Hrsg.), Thomas Böhm (Hrsg.), Anna Findl-Ludescher (Hrsg.), Hubert Findl, (Hrsg.), Becoming Human in Faith. Impulses for pastoral care that comes into the world (= Festschrift Hermann Stenger ), Münster 2000, ISBN 3-8258-4738-1 , pp. 173-186.

Journal articles (selection)

• The Sermon on the Mount , in: Theologische Revue , Volume 80, 1984, pp. 461–463.
• in: PUK , 1986, No. 6, pp. 750-762.
• Advisory service for church professions. A free initiative by pastors, doctors and psychologists in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising , in: Wegbereiter, 2000, issue 4, p. 15, available online
• Now is the time, now is the hour 28th Sunday of the year , in PUK, 2005, issue 4, pp. 739–743.
• Deceptive maneuvers, First Sunday of Lent - February 25, 2007 , in PUK, 2007, issue 2, pp. 200–204.
• Throwing fire and catching fire, Twentieth Sunday of the year - August 19, 2007 , in PUK, 2007, issue 5, pp. 618–620.
• A king of his own kind (Joh 18,33b-37). Christmas King Sunday - November 22, 2009 , in: PUK, 2009, issue 6, available online .
• Christian time management (Mt 25: 1–13) Thirty-second Sunday in the annual cycle - November 6, 2011 , in: PUK, 2011, issue 6, available online .
• Quo vadis, Jesus? Twenty-fourth Sunday - September 16, 2012 , in: PUK, 2012, issue 5 ,.

Literature on Leo Zirker

• Thomas Teuchner, On the death of Prof. Dr. Leo Zirker (1937-2014) , in: Pinwand, Volume 23, No. 69, November 2014, pp. 24–15.

Web links

• Eichstätt: Professor Zirker died , Donaukurier , June 10, 2014
• Markus Eham : OBITUARY Prof. Dr. Leo Zirker , website of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt