Markus Tomberg

Markus Tomberg (* 1968 in Orsoy on the Lower Rhine) is a German Catholic theologian. He teaches as a full professor for religious education at the theological faculty in Fulda .

Life

Tomberg studied Catholic theology , philosophy , German philology and education in Münster . There he obtained a diploma in Catholic theology in 1994 and a Magister Artium in 1995 with a major in philosophy. Until 2000, he did a doctorate with Thomas Pröpper . From 1992 to 1998 Tomberg was a fellow of the Cusanuswerk .

Tomberg was founded in 2000 in Muenster with a thesis on Analysis Fidei Dr. theol. PhD. He then worked as a religion teacher in the church service of the Archdiocese of Freiburg at various high schools in southern Baden. In 2008 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on religious education at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Münster and was appointed as a private lecturer in religious education. He taught in Münster from 2008 to 2011. From 2011 to 2012 he held teaching positions in religious education and dogmatics at the Ludwigsburg University of Education . In March 2012 he was appointed full professor for religious education at the Fulda Theological Faculty. Since the winter semester 2012/13 he has also had regular teaching assignments at the Catholic seminar at the Philipps University in Marburg . Tomberg has been the training manager for applicants for pastoral care in the diocese of Fulda and head of the applicant group since 2012 .

Tomberg is married and has five children.

Teaching

In continuation of the considerations of his academic teacher Thomas Pröpper, Tomberg examines the practice of freedom in its relevance for the self-understanding of the Christian exercise of faith. At first he was interested in Ernst Cassirer 's symbolic self-fulfillment of freedom in culture and society, before he developed the certainty of belief from self-fulfillment of freedom in his dissertation. Because the reflexive reassurance alone remains inadequate for freedom - it is always ahead of all its determinations and therefore withdrawn - Tomberg turns to its own practice and, using the example of religious instruction, outlines a regional action theory of the Christian faith as the practice of freedom. This proves to be critically compatible with current discourses on religious education, especially about the denomination of religious education, the competence orientation of school learning and the heterogeneity of learning groups. As the publisher of several regional editions of the educational book "Shaping Life" (Klett-Verlag), Tomberg develops practical components of a competence-oriented religious education that is interested in freedom and advocates it. In addition, Tomberg is working on a didactic of Christology and on questions of the religious-pedagogical reception of children's and youth literature.

Works (selection)

• The concept of myth and science in Ernst Cassirer and Kurt Hübner , Münster: Lit 1996.
• Studies on the meaning of the term symbol. Plato - Aristoteles - Kant - Schelling - Cassirer - Mead - Ricoeur , Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2001.
• Certainty of faith as a freedom event. A relecture of the treatise De analysi fidei [Ratio Fidei 8] , Regensburg: Pustet 2002.
• Religious Education as a Practice of Freedom. Reflections on a theory of religious action oriented towards didactic religion [= practical theology in scientific discourse 7] , Berlin: de Gruyter 2010.

As editor

• Shaping life. Educational work for Catholic religious instruction , regional editions for Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia and other federal states, Berlin-Stuttgart: Klett-Verlag 2011ff.
• All major books are about God. Religious traces in current children's and youth literature [= Fuldaer Hochschulschriften 58] , Würzburg: Echter 2016.

Web links

• Personal page for the Faculty of Theology Fulda
• Private website with blog on children's and youth literature
• Literature by and about Markus Tomberg in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biography. Theological Faculty of Fulda, accessed on January 3, 2014.
2. ↑ Appointed professor. In: Bistum-Fulda.de . April 26, 2012, accessed December 7, 2013.
3. ↑ Markus Tomberg: Becoming a fellow human being of Jesus Christ: Contours of a Christologically sensitive religious education. ( Memento of the original of December 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Notepad 50/2011, accessed on January 3, 2014 (PDF).