Matthias Beck (theologian)

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Matthias Beck (* 1956 in Hanover ) is a German pharmacist , physician , university professor for moral theology , book author and Roman Catholic priest .

Life

Beck studied pharmacy from 1976 to 1981 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University (WWU) in Münster. According to his own statements, he was junior European champion in dressage riding at this time.

From 1980 to 1987 he studied human medicine, also at the WWU Münster and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU). In 1985 he made a study visit to the Indian Medical College in Srinagar . 1988 doctorate Matthias Beck at the University of Muenster in specialist dermatology . At the same time he studied philosophy from 1987 to 1989 for a bachelor's degree and from 1990 to 1993 he completed a diploma in Catholic theology at the LMU Munich. He received his doctorate in theology in 1999.

In 2002 he went on a research stay at Georgetown University in Washington . In 2007 he completed his habilitation in moral theology in the medical ethics department at the University of Vienna . In 2007 he became an associate professor at the Institute for Systematic Theology and Ethics at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Vienna . Beck was ordained a priest in 2011.

In addition to his research and teaching activities, he works as a book author. His best-known works include the titles “Leben - Wie geht das?” (2012), “Faith - How does that work?” (2017) and “Being a Christian - what is that?” (2017) , published by Styria Verlag .

Beck is a member of the Austrian Bioethics Commission at the Federal Chancellery, the corresponding of the Pontifical Academy for Life in the Vatican, the advisory group of the European Bishops' Conferences in Brussels (COMECE) and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts .

Works (selection)

  • Soul and sickness. Illness in the field of tension between psychosomatic medicine and theological anthropology (1998, doctoral thesis in theology)
  • Human-animal-beings and other alternative sources for pluripotent stem cells (2007, habilitation thesis)
  • Life - how does it work? (2012)
  • Belief - How does it work? (2017)
  • To be a Christian - what is it? (2017)
  • Cancer. Body, mind and soul of a disease (2017)
  • What makes us free. For a Spirituality of Development (2018)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ martina.salomon, bernhard.gaul: theologian: “Today purgatory is the pain of what has been neglected”. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ https://www.kefb.de/245-Standorte/1539-Olpe/175-Olpe-Spezial/828-R%FCckschau/3253,Christentum-%96-was-ist-das-eigentlich.html
  3. ↑ Members of the Bioethics Commission - Federal Chancellery Austria. Retrieved on May 12, 2019 (Austrian German).
  4. ^ Corresponding Members. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Beck, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist, physician, university professor of moral theology, book author and Roman Catholic priest
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover