Marie-Theres Wacker

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Marie-Theres Wacker (born October 30, 1952 in Kaldenkirchen , née Hüther) is a Roman Catholic feminist theologian .

Life

Wacker attended the Liebfrauenschule in Mulhouse and studied Roman Catholic theology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, and the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem . She did her doctorate in Tübingen in 1982 and completed her habilitation in Münster in 1995 . From 1996 to 1998 she was Professor of Biblical Theology at the University of Cologne . Marie-Theres Wacker has been Professor of Old Testament and Theological Women's Studies at the University of Münster since 1996, and on July 31, 2018, she retired. Her research focuses on the Old Testament and theological research on women as well as recent Jewish history and phenomena of Christian anti-Judaism .

The work Feminist Exegesis, published by her in 1995 . Research Papers on the Bible from a Women's Perspective was published in 1998 in English and Dutch and in 2006 in Portuguese translation. In 1998, together with Luise Schottroff, she published the Compendium Feminist Biblical Interpretation, in which the entire Christian Bible was interpreted from a feminist perspective for the first time in the German-speaking area, including selected writings that have become non-canonical. Wacker was co-editor of the theological magazine Concilium from 2005 to 2017 . From 2012 to 2015 she worked with a small staff of employees to document the approx. 400 gravestones in the Münster Jewish cemetery .

Marie-Theres Wacker is married to the theologian Bernd Wacker and has two children and four grandchildren. She is one of the signatories of the Church 2011 memorandum  : A necessary departure .

Works (selection)

  • World order and judgment. Studies on 1 Enoch 22 . Echter Verlag, Würzburg 1982, ISBN 3-429-00794-1 .
  • The god of men and women . Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-491-77677-5 .
  • Feminist exegesis. Research outputs on the Bible from the perspective of women . (Together with Luise Schottroff and Silvia Schroer ) Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt, 1995, ISBN 3-534-12070-1 .
  • Figurations of the feminine in the Hosea book . Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1996, ISBN 3-451-23951-5 .
  • Compendium of Feminist Biblical Interpretation. (Together with Luise Schottroff) Gütersloh 1998; 3rd edition 2007.
  • Extinguished. Memory of the Jewish community in Salzkotten . (Together with Bernd Wacker), Salzkotten 2002, ISBN 3-00-009198-X .
  • Of goddesses, gods and the only god. Studies on biblical monotheism from a feminist-theological point of view . Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6829-X .
  • Ester. Jewess, queen, savior . Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-932203-96-1 .
  • Images of men. Discussion of critical research on men and theological research on women . (Ed. Together with Stefanie Rieger-Goertz) Berlin, Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-8258-9267-8 .
  • The Book of Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah. Wisdom Commentary Series, Collegville 2016.
  • Early Jewish writings. (Together with Eileen Schuller) Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-17-032496-1 .
  • Ecclesia and Synagoga in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Münster 2018 (private print by the Franz Delitzsch Society Münster, available from the Institutum Judaicum of the University of Münster).
  • Escape and Religion. (= Münster contributions to theology NF 1; edited together with Judith Könemann) Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-402-12310-2 .
  • What is the Bible good for? Theological impulses. (= Münster contributions to theology NF 3), Münster 2019, 978-3-402-12314-0.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Münster: Marie-Theres Wacker
  2. ^ Bible in Righteous Language: Marie-Theres Wacker ( Memento from December 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ uni-muenster.de , accessed on April 22, 2019.
  4. ^ Concilium: Marie-Theres Wacker
  5. ↑ juedischer-friedhof-muenster.de
personal data
SURNAME Wacker, Marie-Theres
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hüther, Marie-Theres (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaldenkirchen