Markus Enders

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Markus Enders

Markus Enders (born September 2, 1963 in Fulda ) is a German philosopher and Roman Catholic theologian. He has been Professor of Christian Philosophy of Religion at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg since 2001 .

Life

From 1983 to 1989 Markus Enders studied philosophy, Catholic theology, religious studies and German in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich. From 1985 to 1989 Markus Enders was a scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk's bishop's scholarship for philosophy. He completed his studies in philosophy in 1988 with the acquisition of a Magister Artium, in 1989 he completed his studies in Catholic theology with the acquisition of a diploma. In 1991 he received his doctorate in philosophy on the subject of “The mystical knowledge of Heinrich Seuse ” with Werner Beierwaltes . From 1992 to 1998 he worked as a research assistant and from 1998 to 1999 as a senior research assistant at Werner Beierwaltes’s chair for philosophy III at the Institute for Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1997 he qualified as a professor in philosophy with a thesis on “ Truth and need . Anselm of Canterbury's theory of truth in the overall context of his thinking and taking into account his ancient sources ( Aristotle , Cicero , Augustine , Boethius ) ”. 1999 followed the doctorate in Catholic theology on the topic “ Transcendence and the world . The hermeneutical understanding of transcendence and the world of Martin Heidegger against the background of the modern history of the concept of transcendence ”by Richard Heinzmann . From 1999 to 2001, Markus Enders was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation.

After a call to the theological faculty of Fulda, which he rejected, Markus Enders took over the chair for Christian philosophy of religion at the theological faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in 2001 as successor to Bernhard Casper , Klaus Hemmerle and Bernhard Welte . In 2009 he was appointed Adjunct Professor (with the areas of specialization: Philosophy of Religion, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, German Mysticism) at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's (Newfoundland). In 2013 he was offered a professorship for basic philosophical questions in theology at the theological faculty of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, which he turned down. In the academic year 2014/15 Markus Enders was dean of the theological faculty at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. In July 2017 he was accepted as a full member of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Markus Enders is married and has three children.

Act

Markus Enders focuses on teaching and research:

  • Philosophical doctrine of God in the past and present, in particular the history and systematic meaning of the so-called ontological concept of God and proof of God
  • History of the philosophical concept of truth
  • Philosophy of the monotheistic world religions, especially in the thinking of the (Latin) Middle Ages
  • Theory and central themes of Christian mysticism , especially so-called German mysticism ( Meister Eckhart , Heinrich Seuse , Johannes Tauler )
  • Philosophical concept of transcendence from a systematic and historical perspective, especially in modern philosophy
  • Philosophical studies on the religiosity of people and on a concept of religion that can be used interreligiously
  • Studies on the relationship between postmodern, Christian and new religious thinking
  • Studies on representatives of the so-called Freiburg religious-phenomenological school (Bernhard Welte, Klaus Hemmerle, Bernhard Casper)
  • Phenomenological and metaphysical considerations on the nature of the gift and on the personal acts of giving, giving oneself, forgiving and forgiving
  • Edition of the Karl Jaspers Complete Edition in the role of head of the Heidelberg office of the Karl Jaspers Complete Edition of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen

In 2010, together with Rolf Kühn , he founded the third-party funded research center for young French religious philosophy in the Christian Philosophy of Religion division, of which he has been deputy head since then.

Since 2012 he has been the first chairman of the Bernhard-Welte-Gesellschaft e. V.

Markus Enders has been a full member of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2017.

Since April 2020, Markus Enders has been the successor to Jens Halfwassen (died 2020) and head of the Heidelberg office of the Karl Jaspers complete edition of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen.

Visiting professorships

Selected memberships

  • Member of the Scientific Committee since 2001 and Chairman of the Bernhard-Welte-Gesellschaft e. V.
  • Founding member of the International Society for Theological Medieval Studies e. V.
  • Founding member and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Gustav Siewerth Society
  • 2007–2011 chairman (since 2011 simple member) of the board of trustees for the award of the Bernhard Welte Prize at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
  • 2007–2010 speaker of the doctoral program “Philosophy, Faith and Hermeneutics” within the graduate school “Theology and Religious Studies” at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
  • Since 2011 member of the inter-university research network for metaphysics and philosophy of religion Munich / Tübingen
  • Since 2012 member of the extended board of the Meister-Eckhart-Gesellschaft eV
  • Since 2017 member of the editorial board of the Meister-Eckhart-Jahrbuch and the supplements to the Meister-Eckhart-Jahrbuch
  • Member of the Görres Society for the Care of Science
  • Member of the scientific advisory board of the Heidegger yearbook
  • Member of the advisory board of the European Institute for Philosophy and Religion at the Philosophical-Theological College Benedict XVI. Heiligenkreuz
  • Member of the Society for Ancient Philosophy (Ganph) e. V.
  • Member of the German Society for Philosophy of Religion e. V.
  • Since 2017 full member of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences

Selected publications

Monographs

  • The mystical knowledge in Heinrich Seuse ( publications of the Grabmann Institute for the research of medieval theology and philosophy, N. F. 37), Paderborn a. a. (Schöningh), 1993.
  • Truth and necessity. Anselm von Canterbury's theory of truth in the overall context of his thinking and with special consideration of his ancient sources (Aristoteles, Cicero, Augustinus, Boethius) ( studies and texts on the intellectual history of the Middle Ages  64), Leiden / New York / Cologne (Brill), 1999 .
  • Transcendence and world. The hermeneutical understanding of transcendence and the world of Martin Heidegger against the background of the modern history of the concept of transcendence, Frankfurt a. M. u. a. (Lang), 1999.
  • Natural theology in the thinking of the Greeks ( Fuldaer Hochschulschriften  36), Frankfurt a. M. (Knecht), 2000.
  • Serenity and Seclusion - Studies on German Mysticism ( Boethiana  82), Hamburg (Dr. Kovač), 2008.
  • On the concept of infinity in Western thought. Infinity of God and infinity of the world ( Boethiana  86), Hamburg (Dr. Kovač), 2009.
  • Postmodernism , Christianity and New Religiosity. Studies on the relationship between postmodern, Christian and new religious thinking, Hamburg (Dr. Kovač), 2010.
  • La teología natural en el pensamiento de los griegos, Córdoba / Argentina (Eduvim), 2019.

Editing of individual volumes

  • (together with Holger Zaborowski) Phenomenology of Religion. Approaches and basic questions. Files of the international religious-philosophical congress - Freiburg im Breisgau 2003, Freiburg i. Br./München (Alber), 2004.
  • (together with Jan Szaif) The history of the philosophical concept of truth, Berlin (de Gruyter), 2006.
  • (together with Rolf Kühn ) "In the beginning there was the logos ...". Studies on the history of reception of the Johannes prologue from antiquity to the present, with a contribution by Christoph Bruns ( Research on European Intellectual History  11), Freiburg i. Br./Basel/Wien (Herder), 2011.
  • (together with Rolf Kühn) Critique of contemporary culture. Phenomenological and Christian perspectives ( soul, existence and life  22), Freiburg i. Br./München (Alber), 2013.
  • Immanence & Unity. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Rolf Kühn ( Studies on the Interaction of Art, Thought and Power  7), Leiden / Boston (Brill), 2015.
  • Meister Eckhart and Bernhard Welte. Meister Eckhart as a source of inspiration for Bernhard Welte and for the present ( Heinrich-Seuse-Forum  4), Münster / Berlin (Lit), 2015.
  • (together with Christine Büchner and Dietmar Mieth) Meister Eckhart - interreligious ( Meister-Eckhart-Jahrbuch  10), Stuttgart (Kohlhammer), 2016.
  • Self-giving and self-giving. On the meaning of a universal phenomenon ( soul, existence and life  30), Freiburg i. Br./München (Alber), 2018.
  • (together with Bernd Goebel) The Philosophy of the Monotheistic World Religions in the Early and High Middle Ages ( Fuldaer Studien  24), Freiburg i. Br. U. a. (Herder), 2019.

Editorships of magazines and series

  • Yearbook for Philosophy of Religion, Frankfurt a. M. (Klostermann), 2001-2011.
  • (together with Holger Zaborowski) Yearbook for Philosophy of Religion / Philosophy of Religion Annual, Freiburg i. Br./München (Alber), since 2012.
  • (together with Bernhard Uhde ) Scientia et Religio. Studies in philosophy and religion, Freiburg i. Br./München (Alber), since 2004.
  • Heinrich Seuse yearbook. Journal for an interdisciplinary study of Heinrich Seuse's spirituality and German mysticism, Münster / Berlin (Lit), 2008–2011.
  • Scientia mystica. Studies on Christian and extra-Christian mysticism, Münster a. a. (Lit), since 2009.
  • Writings of the Bernhard-Welte-Gesellschaft, published on behalf of the Bernhard-Welte-Gesellschaft by Markus Enders, Freiburg i. Br., 2013-2016.
  • Publication series of the Bernhard-Welte-Gesellschaft e. V., Nordhausen (Bautz), since 2017.

Editions of editions

  • Anselm of Canterbury, About the Truth. Latin – German, translated, with an introduction and notes, edited by Markus Enders ( Philosophische Bibliothek  535), Hamburg (Meiner), 2001, 2nd edition 2003.
  • Gustav Siewerth, Educational and Educational Love, Konstanz (Gustav Siewerth Society), 2005.
  • Bernhard Welte, Gesammelte Schriften  II / 1: Thinking in Encounters with the Thinkers I: Master Eckhart Thomas von Aquin Bonaventura, introduced and edited by Markus Enders, Freiburg i. Br./Basel/Wien (Herder), 2007.
  • Bernhard Welte, Gesammelte Schriften  III / 2: Smaller writings on the philosophy of religion, introduced and edited by Markus Enders, Freiburg i. Br./Basel/Wien (Herder), 2008.
  • Bernhard Welte, Gesammelte Schriften  VI: Entire Register for Departments I to V, edited by Bernhard Casper in collaboration with those responsible for editing the individual volumes, Freiburg i. Br./Basel/Wien (Herder), 2011.
  • Michel Henry, Radical Religious Phenomenology. Contributions 1943–2001, ed. v. Rolf Kühn and Markus Enders, translated from the French by Rolf Kühn, Freiburg i. Br./München (Alber), 2015.
  • Gustav Siewerth, Pedagogical and Anthropological Writings  I – III ( Collected Works  6 a – c), on behalf of the Gustav Siewerth Society. V. edited by Markus Enders, Konstanz (Gustav Siewerth Society), 2016–2018.
  • Bernhard Welte Inedita, on behalf of the Bernhard Welte Society e. V. edited by Markus Enders, Freiburg i. Br./Basel/Wien (Herder), since 2018.
  • Karl Jaspers Complete Edition, published on behalf of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen by Markus Enders, Thomas Fuchs, Jens Halfwassen † and Reinhard Schulz, Basel (Schwabe), since 2020.

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personal data
SURNAME Enders, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda