Margareta Gruber

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Margareta Gruber OSF (* 23. December 1961 in Bad Saulgau as Brigitte Gruber ) is a German nun , Roman Catholic theologian and university lecturer .

Life

Margareta Gruber studied German and Catholic theology at the University of Tübingen from 1980 to 1987 and at the theological faculty of the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem . She earned her diploma in Catholic theology in 1987 with a thesis on the Old Testament with Walter Groß . From 1983 to 1987 she was a scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk episcopal study grant. In May 1991 she was awarded the Dr. Leopold Lucas Young Scientist Prize awarded at the University of Tübingen. In 1997 she started at the PTH Sankt Georgen with the thesis “ Glory in weakness. An interpretation of the apology of the Second Corinthians 2 Cor 2,14-6,13 “(Supervisor: Norbert Baumert) for Dr. theol. PhD.

Since the summer semester 1999 she has been teaching the New Testament at the Philosophical-Theological University in Vallendar (PTHV). After her habilitation on June 5, 2007 at the PTH Vallendar, she was awarded the Venia legendi for New Testament Exegesis and Biblical Theology. In the 2007/2008 winter semester and 2008 summer semester, she represented the New Testament chair at the University of Augsburg. Since the summer semester 2008 she has been teaching as professor for New Testament exegesis and biblical theology at the PTH Vallendar near Koblenz . From August 2009 to July 2013 she was on leave for the Laurentius Klein Chair for Biblical and Ecumenical Theology (funded by the BMBF ) at the Dormitio Mariae Abbey, in connection with the Theological Faculty of the Pontificio Ateneo Sant'Anselmo in Rome and as dean of the theological academic year Jerusalem and long-term lecturer at the DAAD in Jerusalem. Since April 2015 she has been the dean of the theological faculty at PTH Vallendar.

Her main areas of work are the Gospel of John , the Revelation of John , the Bible in an interreligious context, exegesis and biblical spirituality, biblical hermeneutics and intertextuality .

From 2007 to 2017 she was an advisor to the sub-commission of the pastoral commission of the German Bishops' Conference “Women in Church and Society”. She has been a member of the Eastern European Liaison Committee of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS) since 2016 . She has been on the editorial team of the international magazine Concilium since 2018 .

Margareta Gruber is a Franciscan of Sießen .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Norbert Baumert : Paul and love. On the relationship between the sexes . Johannes-Verlag, Leutesdorf 1993, ISBN 3-7794-1275-6 .
    • with Norbert Baumert: Nő és férfi Szent Pál leveleiben. Egy félreértés tisztázása . Lámpás K., Abaliget 1995, ISBN 963-759325X .
  • Glory in weakness. An interpretation of the apology of the second letter to the Corinthians 2 Cor 2,14–6,13 (= research on the Bible. Volume 89). Echter, Würzburg 1998, ISBN 3-429-02041-7 , (also dissertation, PTH Sankt Georgen 1997).
  • as editor with Joachim Schmiedl : For a whole life. Philosophical and theological considerations on the durability of life decisions (= Pallottine Studies on Church and World. Volume 6). EOS-Verlag, Sankt Ottilien 2003, ISBN 3-8306-7169-5 .
  • with Georg Steins : The difficulties only begin with God (= Münsterschwarzacher Kleinschrift. Volume 17). Vier-Türme-Verlag, Münsterschwarzach 2005, ISBN 3-87868-647-1 .
  • Longing for God. Exercises in Franciscan Spirituality . Kösel, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-466-36692-5 .
  • as editor with Stefan Kiechle : God's friendship. Think religious life today . Echter, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-429-02921-0 .
  • as editor with Joachim Negel : Figures of Revelation. Biblical - Religious Theological - Political (= Jerusalem Theological Forum. Volume 24) (= Ecumenical contributions from the Jerusalem Theological Academic Year. Volume 1). Aschendorff, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-402-11025-6 .
  • The star woman in the Revelation of John - archetype of redeemed humanity. A Catholic and ecumenical interpretation of Rev 12: 1-17 . Adlerstein-Verlag, Wiesmoor 2018, ISBN 3-945462-84-3 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Gruber, Margareta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruber, Brigitte (baptismal name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nun, Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Saulgau