Mario Fischer (theologian)

Mario Fischer (2018)

Mario Fischer (* 1976 in Darmstadt ) is a German Protestant theologian and General Secretary of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE) since 2018 .

Life

After graduating from the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt, Mario Fischer studied theology, philosophy and ecumenics in Mainz, Marburg, Rome and Munich. In 2004 he laid the first Theological Examination before the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau, and was in the DFG - Graduate College of religious experience in European religion and religious theory and its influence on the non-European religions The term at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich added . He completed the vicariate in three parishes on the Lahn and was special vicar for one year in the office of the Community of Evangelical Churches in Europe in Vienna. From 2011 to 2014 Fischer was pastor in Steinheim am Main and vacancy representative for various parishes in the Rodgau Evangelical Dean's Office.

In 2012 he received his doctorate from the University of Philosophy in Munich with a thesis on the importance of religious experience in the phenomenology of the early Heidegger . His doctoral supervisor was Gerd Haeffner SJ.

Fischer has been working in the office of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe in Vienna since 2015, initially as an office manager. In February 2018, the Council of the Community of Evangelical Churches in Europe appointed Fischer as the first full-time General Secretary of the CPCE. After the 8th general assembly of the CPCE in Basel, Fischer took over this office from his predecessor, Bishop Michael Bünker .

Publications (selection)

• Religious experience in the phenomenology of the early Heidegger (= research on systematic and ecumenical theology 130). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-525-56408-0 .
• (as ed. with Margarethe Drewsen): The presence of the present. Festschrift for P. Gerd Haeffner SJ on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Alber, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-495-48203-2 .

Articles (selection)

• Justification of belief. Religious experience as a subject of the analytical philosophy of religion. In: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Gemeinde 11 (2006), pp. 110-131.
• Regina Coeli . The ecumenical significance of the history of impact using the example of the sun woman in Rev. 12. In: Materialdienst des Konfessionskundlichen Institut Bensheim 57 (2006), pp. 43–49.
• 100 years of the anti-modernist encyclical “ Pascendi dominici gregis ”. In: Material service of the denominational institute Bensheim 58 (2007), pp. 43–46.
• The Charter Oecumenica as a fundamental obligation of the churches in Europe. In: Una Sancta 72 (2017), pp. 82–95.
• Creed ecclesiam. Unheard-of ecclesiological heckling in the church reorganization debates of the 1950s. In: Material service of the denominational institute Bensheim 69 (2018), pp. 33–38.
• The discovery of the Trinitarian basis of the Church in the ecumenical movement. In: Quatember 82 (2018), pp. 193-200.
• Limits of unity and diversity. Church plurality in Europe as a challenge and opportunity for ecumenism using the example of the CPCE. In: Material service of the denominational institute Bensheim 69 (2018), pp. 95-100.

Web links

• CPCE press release on Fischer's appointment as General Secretary
• EKHN press release on Fischer's appointment as General Secretary