Martin Kirschner (theologian)

Martin Kirschner (born April 6, 1974 in Bad Kreuznach ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian.

Life

Martin Kirschner attended schools in Bilbao , Bad Kreuznach and Hargesheim from 1980 to 1993 . After graduation in 1993 he made from 1993 to 1994 the civil service in a facility of the Diakonie Bad Kreuznach institutions for social rehabilitation of homeless. From 1994 to 2001 he studied Catholic theology (Dipl.) And Political Science (MA) in Trier and Tübingen . He earned a Diploma in Catholic Theology (2000) and Magister Artium in Political Science (2001).

From 2001 to 2005 he was a research assistant for Peter Hünermann , u. a. Participation in the Theological Commentary on the Second Vatican Council. From 2001 to 2006 he taught as a lecturer at the Leibniz College and at the VHS Tübingen. After completing his doctorate in Catholic theology at the University of Tübingen in 2005 , he was awarded the Dr. Leopold Lucas Young Scientist Prize (Tübingen) and the Erfurt doctoral prize “Religion and Ethics” (Erfurt) in 2006. From 2006 to 2012 he was assistant at the chair for dogmatics ( Thomas Freyer ) at the University of Tübingen. In 2008 he set up a theological course to accompany the Würzburg correspondence course in the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese .

Since he was ordained permanent deacon in 2009 , he has been a deacon in the civil profession in the parish of Sankt Paulus, Tübingen.

Since June 2016 he has held the Heisenberg Professorship for Theology in Transformation Processes of the Present at the University of Eichstätt . In 2020 he was elected director of the "Center for Religion, Church, Society in Transition" (ZRKG) at the University of Eichstätt.

His main areas of research and interests are the theology of God's names and the performativity of God's speech, questions of theological rationality and communication, the social shape of the church in the late modern era, political and public theology, border issues between politics and theology and Anselm von Canterbury .

Web links

Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Footnotes

↑ Press release of the University of Eichstätt: Kirschner and Pittrof lead the new “KU Center Religion, Church, Society in Transition”. February 13, 2020, accessed February 14, 2020.

personal data
SURNAME	Kirschner, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 6, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bad Kreuznach

[1] Press release of the University of Eichstätt: Kirschner and Pittrof lead the new “KU Center Religion, Church, Society in Transition”. February 13, 2020, accessed February 14, 2020.