Ludwig Wenzler

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Ludwig Wenzler (born August 29, 1938 in Endingen am Kaiserstuhl ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

Ludwig Wenzler studied Catholic theology at the University of Freiburg . In 1963 he was ordained a priest and from 1963 to 1967 he was vicar in Überlingen, from 1967 to 1970 he was prefect (home educator) at the Archbishop's student home in Freiburg. From 1971 to 1979 he worked as a research assistant / assistant at the chair for fundamental theology at the University of Augsburg , where he received his doctorate in 1977.

From 1980 to 1987 he was a research assistant at the Chair for Fundamental Theology and Christian Philosophy of Religion at the University of Freiburg i.Br., where he completed his habilitation in 1988 , and then taught there as a private lecturer , and in 1995 he was appointed as an adjunct professor .

From 1990 until his retirement in 2002 Wenzler was director of the Catholic Academy in Freiburg im Breisgau.

His research interests include Russian philosophy of religion , the thinking of Emmanuel Levinas , the phenomenology of the sacred and anthropological approaches to faith.

Publications (selection)

  • What truth do people need? , Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau 2003
  • The face, the trace, the time , 1987 [habilitation thesis]
  • Courage to think, courage to believe , Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994
  • The voice in the voices , Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1992
  • The sense of love, Vladimir Solovʹev , Meiner, Hamburg 1985
  • Time and the Other, Emmanuel Lévinas , Meiner, Hamburg 1984
  • Freedom and Evil according to Vladimir Solov'ev . Verlag Karl Alber (Symposium 59), Freiburg / Munich 1978. ISBN 3-495-47400-5 [dissertation]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catholic Academy Freiburg is 50 years old ( Badische Zeitung , September 22, 2006)
personal data
SURNAME Wenzler, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Endingen am Kaiserstuhl