Martin Maier (theologian)

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Martin Maier SJ (* 1960 in Meßkirch ) is a German Jesuit , theologian and publicist .

Life

Maier joined the Jesuit order in 1979. From 1981 to 1992 he studied philosophy , theology and music in Munich, Paris, Innsbruck and San Salvador. In 1988 he was ordained a priest. From 1989 to 1991 he was pastor in a rural community in El Salvador . In 1993 he was with a thesis on liberation theology of his religious brothers Ignacio Ellacuría and Jon Sobrino as doctor of theology doctorate . Maier was visiting lecturer at the Jesuit universities Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas” in San Salvador and Center Sèvres in Paris . From 2009 to 2014 he was rector of the Berchmanskolleg. Since 2014 he has worked at the Jesuit European Social Center in Brussels.

Journalistic activity

Martin Maier was a member of the editorial team (since 1998 also editor-in-chief) of Voices of the Time from 1995 to 2009 . In addition, he published articles and a. in the online portal of the Swiss Jesuit Province and wrote devotional texts for the program Thoughts on the day in the program of Bavaria 2 .

Maier works as a journalist on environmental issues and was present at the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002 . A personal concern of his is the memory of the Archbishop of San Salvador, Óscar Romero , who was shot in 1980 , and the Jesuits around Ignacio Ellacuría who were murdered in 1989 during the Salvadoran civil war . After the massacre of his friars and their two domestic workers, Maier had taken over the parish of one of the priests who had been killed. He has written numerous articles on what happened.

Fonts (selection)

  • Differentiation of theological discourses - criticism of ideology or listening to the people? In: Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (ed.): Liberation theology. Critical review and perspectives for the future. 2nd volume. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-7867-1975-6 , pp. 11–24.
  • Archbishop Oscar Romero's Church Conflicts. In: Klaus Hagedorn (Ed.): Oscar Romero. Integrated - between death and life. BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2006, pp. 45-60.
  • Pedro Arrupe . Witness and Prophet. Echter, Würzburg 2007 ( Ignatian impulses. Volume 24).
  • Pedro Arrupe, Superior General of the Jesuits. New biographical perspectives. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2008, ISBN 978-3-451-29675-8 .
  • Oscar Romero. Fighters for faith and justice. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-06201-8 ( Herder Spectrum. Volume 6201).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://universaar.uni-saarland.de/journals/index.php/tg/article/view/836/880
  2. ^ Annual report 2002 ( Memento from September 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Website of the Munich School of Philosophy . Retrieved January 12, 2011.
  3. ^ Klaus Hagedorn (ed.): Oscar Romero. Integrated - between death and life. BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2006, p. 192.
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maier, Martin SJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit, theologian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Messkirch