Margit Eckholt

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Margit Eckholt (born June 16, 1960 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a Roman Catholic theologian and university professor for dogmatics (with fundamental theology) at the University of Osnabrück .

Life

From 1970 to 1979 Margit Eckholt attended the St. Hildegard Catholic girls' high school in Ulm / Donau. From 1979 to 1986 she studied Catholic theology , Romance studies and philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . From 1981 to 1982 she studied in Poitiers / France on a DAAD scholarship. In the winter semester 1984/85 she completed her state examination in Romance studies, in the winter semester 1985/86 the state examination in Catholic theology followed and in the summer semester 1986 the diploma examination in Catholic theology. In summer semester 1986 Margit Eckholt received the Dr. Leopold Lucas Young Scientist Prize from the University of Tübingen. From May 1986 to June 1993 she was a research assistant on the project “Catholic Social Teaching in Latin America. A dialogue program with Latin American partners ”under the direction of Peter Hünermann . Her dissertation on “Reason in corporeality. The Christological Mediation in Nicolas Malebranche's Thought ”at the Kath.-theol. Faculty of the University of Tübingen was awarded the Karl Rahner Prize in 1992 .

From July 1993 to July 1994 she was a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Facultad de Teología of the Pontificia Universidad Santiago de Chile. In addition, from August 1993 to December 1994 she was a visiting professor at the Facultad de Teología of the Pontificia Universidad Santiago de Chile.

From 1995 to 1998 she received a DFG habilitation grant and in 1999/2000 the Margarete von Wrangell habilitation grant from the state of Baden-Württemberg. Your habilitation at the Catholic theol. She graduated from the faculty of the University of Tübingen in 2000 with the subject “Culture - Poetics - Hermeneutics. In search of a form of theology in the field of tension between cultural diversity and global processes of change in world society "and was appointed private lecturer at the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Tübingen in June 2001.

From March 2001 to August 2009 Margit Eckholt was Professor of Dogmatics at the Philosophical-Theological College of the Salesians Don Bosco's Benediktbeuern . Since September 2009 she has been professor for dogmatics (with fundamental theology) at the University of Osnabrück .

Margit Eckholt has been a member of the board of the Institute for Catholic Theology since 2010 and was director of the institute from 2013 to 2015. From 2013 to 2015 she was dean of studies and from 2015 to 2017 pro-dean of studies of the Faculty of Education and Cultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück. Margit Eckholt is also a member of the ethics committee of the University of Osnabrück, internationalization officer in the Department of Education and Cultural Studies and Latin America officer at university level. She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Cultural History of the Early Modern Age (IKFN), the Gender Research Center and the Costa Rica Center. In addition, she is a member of the “Ecumenical University Worship Services” preparatory team and, beyond the university, works in cooperation with the Diocese of Osnabrück (e.g. “Round table religious instruction”, Ecumenical Commission).

In 2019 Eckholt received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lucerne .

engagement

Eckholt has been chairwoman of the Scholarship Association Latin America Germany eV (IntercambioCultural AlemánLatinoamericano - ICALA) since 2002. She is a member of the jury of the Erwin Kräutler Prize (intercultural theology / University of Salzburg), on the advisory board of the Institute for World Church and Mission (St. Georgen, Frankfurt), on the academic committee of KAAD (Catholic Academic Foreign Nationals Service) and on the board of the International Institute for Mission Science Research (IIMF). From 2002 to 2017 she was a member of the scientific working group for universal church tasks of the German Bishops' Conference and from 2011 to 2015 on the advisory board of the Misereor aid organization.

Eckholt has been chairwoman of "AGENDA - Forum of Female Catholic Theologians" since 2015 and has been in close cooperation with the Argentine network of women theologians "Teologanda", which was founded in 2001/2002 and in whose development and establishment she was instrumental, for many years.

She regularly accepts lecture invitations at Latin American universities, she has received invitations to visiting professorships at various Catholic universities (PUC Porto Alegre October 2013, PUC Santiago de Chile April / May 2016, Teologado salesiano in Guatemala City July 2017).

Research priorities

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The research horizon is the development of an intercultural-ecumenical and interreligious-sensitive, systematic theology. The ecclesiological foundation for this intercultural work is provided by the 2nd Vatican Council. Based on Council hermeneutics, it deals with the question of the role of women in church and theology.

Margit Eckholt's intercultural work focuses on theology, philosophy and culture in Latin America. Since her work in Chile in the mid-1990s, she has made research contacts to Latin America, which contribute sustainably to the mediation and development of a theology between Latin America and Germany. Two more recent projects in particular are an expression of this communication: In 2015/2016, a German-Argentine scientific cooperation on the topic of "Women-Peace-Spaces" with two international congresses (Stuttgart and Buenos Aires) was carried out under the leadership of Margit Eckholt. An important communication of the approaches of a Latin American, feminist-theologically shaped peace theology into German-speaking theology has finally been achieved through the publication “Friedens-Raum. Intercultural theology of peace in feminist-liberation-theological perspectives ”(Ostfildern 2018) took place. In the service of mediating between European and Latin American theology, the project “Pastoral Urbana. The Latin American Mega-Cities and the Current Social, Cultural and Religious Transformation Processes: Challenges for the Catholic Church and its Pastoral Care ”(2010–2013). The focus was on creative new approaches in the context of the question of new pastoral forms.

In the context of interculturality, migration and interreligious dialogue there is also the joint graduate college of Protestant, Islamic and Catholic theology at the University of Osnabrück on the topic of “Shaping Religious Differences. Formation of pluralism in Christianity and Islam ”(2018–2021), which Margit Eckholt co-supervises and is her co-spokesperson.

Honors

The University of Lucerne awarded Margit Eckholt an honorary doctorate in 2019.

Works (selection)

  • Reason in corporeality with Nicolas Malebranche . The Christological mediation of reason . In: Innsbruck theological studies , Innsbruck 1993
  • Poetics of Culture. Building blocks of an intercultural dogmatic methodology . Herder-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2002
  • Hermeneutics and theology with Paul Ricœur . Food for thought for a theology in the pluralism of cultures . In: Benediktbeurer Hochschulschriften 19 , Munich 2002
  • Challenged by strangers. Study day of the KSFH and PTH Benediktbeuern . In: Benediktbeurer Hochschulschriften 21 , Munich 2003, together with Christine Plahl
  • Lesson 13. Man in God's grace. Correspondence course theology: The Christian Faith: Basic Course . Wuerzburg 2007
  • Creation theology and creation spirituality. A look at the theologian Sallie McFague (Don Bosco) , Munich 2009
  • There is no church without women. The departure of the council and the signs of the times , Ostfildern (Grünewald) 2012.
  • Iglesia en salida. Esbozos para una eclesiología intercultural , Santiago de Chile (Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado) 2014.
  • with Stefan Silber (ed.): Faith in Mega-Cities. Transformation processes in large Latin American cities and their effects on pastoral care , Ostfildern (Grünewald) 2014.
  • with Stefan Silber (ed.): Vivir la Fe en la ciudad hoy. Las grandes ciudades latinoamericanas y los actuales procesos de transformación social, cultural y religiosa , 2 tomos, Ediciones Paulinas, México 2014.
  • Go to the periphery. In the footsteps of poor Jesus - From Vatican II to Pope Francis , Ostfildern (Grünewald) 2015.
  • Woman from the people. Open spaces of faith with Mary . Innsbruck 2015.
  • Studying Gender: Learning Process for Theology and Church . Ostfildern 2017. ISBN 978-3-7867-3090-3
  • with Virginia Azcuy (ed.): Friedens-Raum. Intercultural theology of peace in feminist-liberation-theological perspectives , Ostfildern (Grünewald) 2018.
  • with Virginia Raquel Azcuy / M. Marcela Mazzini (eds.): Espacios de Paz. Lectura intercultural de un signo de estos tiempos , Buenos Aires (Agape Libros) 2018.
  • with Georg Steins (ed.): Active non-violence. Theology and Pastoral Care for Peace , Würzburg (Echter) 2018. ISBN 978-3-429-04441-1
  • with Ulrike Link-Wieczorek , Dorothea Sattler , Andrea Strübind (eds.): Women in church offices. Reform movements in ecumenism , Herder / Vandenhoeck-Ruprecht, Freiburg / Göttingen 2018.
  • Women in church. Between disempowerment and authorization , Echter, Würzburg 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b uni-osnabrueck.de
  2. ^ University of Osnabrück: Margit Eckholt
  3. ↑ Professor Margit Eckholt is the new chairwoman of AGENDA , accessed on July 1, 2015.
  4. ↑ Faculties award five honorary doctorates , accessed on October 25, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Eckholt, Margit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr