Ludwig Weimer

Ludwig Weimer (born February 3, 1940 in Eichenbühl ) is a German theologian and priest of the Catholic Integrated Congregation .

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Ludwig Weimer attended the humanistic grammar school in Miltenberg / Bavaria . From 1960 to 1968 he studied philosophy , theology and German at the Universities of Würzburg and Munich and obtained a theological diploma. Further studies followed at the Institute for Catechetics and Homiletics in Munich. In 1971 he completed his theological doctorate on "Religion and Revelation with Ernst Bloch " with Heinrich Fries . From 1974 to 1979 he completed his habilitation on the systematic topic of "Grace and Freedom" with Joseph Ratzinger at the University of Regensburg .

Weimer has been a theologian in the Integrated Congregation, Munich, since 1968. He was ordained a priest in 1983 and is a member of the “Community of Priests in Service to Integrated Congregations”.

He is a member of the Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI student group. since it was founded in 1978.

In 2003 Weimer became director of a newly founded “Academy for the Theology of God's People”. The work of this academy has been continued since 2009 by the endowed chair “Theology of the People of God” at the Redemptor Hominis Pastoral Institute of the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. Weimer was the founding director of this chair. He is the main author of the teaching letters for postgraduate distance learning, which the chair will be offering from September 30, 2016 in the form of a two-year course.

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Monographs

• Understanding religion and revelation with Ernst Bloch , dissertation at the University of Munich , Theological Faculty 1971 DNB 720406757 .
• The joy of God and his cause or can grace and freedom, faith and reason, redemption and liberation be reconciled? Herder, Freiburg i.Br. 1981, ISBN 3-451-19195-4 (plus habilitation thesis , University of Regensburg 1979)
• Being a Christian in view of the many religions (Urfeld series; Vol. 3). Urfeld publishing house, Bad Tölz 2002, ISBN 3-932857-22-4 .
• How God came to his people: Biblical stories re-read from Abraham to Rut , Urfeld Verlag, Bad Tölz 2003, ISBN 978-3-93285-712-6 (together with Bernhard Koch and Arnold Stötzel).
• Where is Christianity? Soren Kierkegaard reread (. Urfelder texts; Vol 3). Urfeld publishing house, Bad Tölz 2004, ISBN 3-932857-43-7 .
• 30 years accompanying Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI. and the Catholic Integrated Church . Urfeld Verlag, Bad Tölz 2006, ISBN 978-3-932857-40-9 (together with Traudl Wallbrecher and Arnold Stötzel).
• Mary - not without Israel . A New View of the Immaculate Conception Doctrine . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2008, ISBN 978-3-451-34139-7 (together with Gerhard Lohfink ).
• The Jew Jesus of Nazareth. On the conversation between Jacob Neusner and Pope Benedict XVI. Bonifatius Druckerei, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-89710-419-8 (together with Achim Buckenmaier and Rudolf Pesch ).
• The seven signs of the Messiah. The one people of God as a sacrament for the world , Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7917-2426-3 (together with Achim Buckenmaier and Arnold Stötzel)

Essays

• Articles in: Association for the promotion of theological research and education eV (Ed.): The integrated community. Christian existence in a secular world; Contributions to the Reform of the Church , Vol. 1–17 (1969–1976), u. a.
• Wisdom as a gift from the Holy Spirit. A contribution to the problem of God's action in the world . In: Walter S. Baier, Otto Horn, Christoph Schönborn, Vinzenz Pfnür, Siegfried Wiedenhofer, Ludwig Weimer (eds.): Wisdom of God - Wisdom of the World. Festschrift for Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the occasion of his 60th birthday, vol. 2 . EOS Verlag, St. Ottilien 1987, pp. 1245-1278, ISBN 3-88096-185-9 .
• How did the speaking of providence and action get into crisis? Analysis and interpretation of the problem situation since the Enlightenment . In: Gottfried Bachl (Ed.): Providence and Action of God (Qaestiones Disputatae; Vol. 115). Herder, Freiburg / B. 1988, pp. 17-71, ISBN 3-451-02115-3 .
• On the theology of "religious pluralism" . In: International Catholic Journal Communio , Vol. 28 (1999), pp. 439-453, ISSN  0341-8693
• The blessing of criticism of Christianity . In: Robert Leicht (Ed.): Birth defects? On the curse and blessing of Christianity . Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 2001, pp. 95-118, ISBN 3-88981-126-4 .
• The building laws of Joseph Ratzinger's theology of history . In: Gerhard Nachtwei (Ed.), Hope for Perfection. On eschatology by Joseph Ratzinger (Ratzinger Studies, Vol. 8), Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2015, pp. 55–74, ISBN 978-3-7917-2732-5
• And God was the word - how can we hear him today? Joseph Ratzinger's answer. Catechesis in the Munich parish church of St. Peter on February 5, 2016, printed in Mitteilungen Institut Pope Benedikt XVI., Year 9/2016, pp. 46 - 61, edited by Rudolf Voderholzer, Christian Schaller, Franz-Xaver Heibl, Verlag Schnell & Steiner , Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7954-3196-9

• Posts on the blog "Zettels Raum", z. B. June 25, 2019 Why the Jews?

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Weimer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Ludwig Weimer Foundation
• Distance learning theology of God's people

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. P. Dr. Stephan Otto Horn, Chairman of the Board: Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI Foundation. Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI Foundation based in Munich (public foundation under civil law), September 16, 2016, accessed on November 26, 2016 (German). 
2. ↑ http://www.jcrelations.com/Postgraduales_Fernstudium_Theologie_des_Volkes_Gottes.5342.0.html?L=2&page=3 , Jewish-Christian Relations, Postgraduales Fernstudium Theologie des Volks Gottes
3. ^ Rev. Prof. Ludwig Weimer: "Il mistero della storia secondo Ratzinger". Pontificia Università Lateranense, accessed on September 11, 2016 . 
4. ^ Cattedra per la teologia del popolo di dio: Theology of the people of God. Pontifical Lateran University, accessed September 11, 2016 . 
5. ↑ https://www.pul.it/it/cattedra-la-teologia-del-popolo-dio/ Cattedra per la Teologia del Popolo di Dio Pontificia Università Laternanense