Lindenthal Institute

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The Lindenthal Institute is a private scientific institute founded in 1973 and based in Cologne . The Lindenthal Foundation has been responsible for the institute since 2001.

Objective and work areas

The institute is dedicated to interdisciplinary research, especially in the following areas:

  • Culture of work (including business ethics )
  • Ethics (especially ethics in medicine, bioethics )
  • Knowledge theory (as opposed to natural and human sciences)
  • Family, demographics, family politics

Current activities include the organization of expert discussions, specialist conferences and international colloquia as well as book publications. In addition, employees and contributors publish books under their own names with the support of the work.

At the request of interested parties, the institute also organizes seminars and working groups for doctors, media professionals, managers in companies and students, in which topics from the institute's areas of work are conveyed and deepened.

Since the 2018/19 winter semester, the institute has been offering a one-semester orientation course under the name Gap.Cologne [www.gap.cologne], which consists of a general course in the humanities and a parallel study and professional orientation. The lecturers are employees of the institute and visiting professors from Germany and abroad. The cooperation partner is the University of Navarra .

Publications

The publications include congress and anthologies on current research topics by the institute's staff.

people

Founding director is the doctor Hans Thomas , who worked for many years in the management of Opus Dei and was still perceived as the most important leader of the organization in Germany at the beginning of the 1990s. As a prominent member, Thomas appears in church and secular media as well as on the publication platforms of the personal prelature and protects the secret organization against allegations. He was also on the board of the German section of the papal aid organization Church in Need , headed the Rhine-Danube Foundation in Munich and was President of the Limmat Foundation in Zurich .

The line consists of:

  • Johannes Hattler
  • Lothar Häberle

The executive board of the supporting foundation consists of:

  • Markus Maier, Munich, President
  • Johannes Hattler, Cologne, managing director
  • Dr. Lothar Häberle, Cologne, Secretary General
  • Ruthard von Frankenberg, Cologne

The following personalities belong or belonged to the scientific advisory board of the institute:

In colloquia and publications by the institute, a. with: Horst Albach , Elizabeth Anscombe , Patrick Bahners , Peter Berglar , Rocco Buttiglione , Herwig Birg , Juergen B. Donges , John C. Eccles , Viktor Frankl , Peter Geach , Boris Groys , Joseph Höffner , Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe , Fernando Inciarte , Peter Koslowski , Jérôme Lejeune , Detlef B. Linke , Nikolaus Lobkowicz , Josef Pieper , Robert Spaemann .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ministry of the Interior of NRW: Foundation directory for the state  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 18, 2001@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.im.nrw.de  
  2. ^ Lindenthal Institute: Lindenthal Foundation
  3. Compare the publications linked to the institute in the catalog of the German National Library. As of 2008
  4. Appearance in the ARD broadcast Veranda on July 21, 1991, documented in the Drewermann channel on YouTube , accessed on September 12, 2017.
  5. Hans Thomas: Opus Dei: Allegations and Answers ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.opusdei.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Publication from 1998, published on the Opus Dei website on February 16, 2006, accessed on September 12, 2017.
  6. At least between 2002 and 2007: Bishop Mixa becomes a member of the Church in Need. ( Memento of the original of September 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kath.net archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Kath.net , spring 2002, accessed on September 12, 2017 ;.