Matthias Blum

Matthias Blum is a German Catholic theologian and educator .

Life

He acquired the Graecum and Hebraicum at the Bethel Church University and studied Catholic theology, educational science, adult education, psychology and sociology. With the diploma thesis The Habermassche Communication Theory and its Significance for Educational Science , he obtained the diploma in education . With Rainer Kampling he was a research assistant at the seminar for Catholic theology from 1996 to 2008. On June 26, 2001, he started studying catholic theology at the seminar for catholic theology of the Free University of Berlin with an interpretative work"... for they know not what they do 'On the Reception of intercession of Jesus on the cross (Luke 23,34a) in the ancient Judeo-Christian controversy doctorate . After completing his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin and being awarded the teaching qualification for the subject of educational science on May 28, 2009 with the habilitation thesis The question of anti-Judaism in pedagogy against the background of Friedrich Schleiermacher's educational theory , he was deputy project manager and project coordinator of the third-party funded project from June 2009 to September 2011 New Testament exegetes of the Catholic Tübingen School in the 19th century . He represented the professorship for exegesis and theology of the New Testament at the Department of Catholic Theology at Goethe University Frankfurt in the summer semester 2013. He was visiting professor at the semester for Catholic theology at the Free University of Berlin in the winter semester 2013/2014 and summer semester 2014. He has been researching since May 2015 as a research assistant at the Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg .

His work and research focus are general educational science, biblical didactics, educational theories against the background of the anti-Judaism / anti-Semitism question from a historical and contemporary perspective, educational philosophy, history of biblical studies with special consideration of the 19th century, history of Christian hostility towards Jews and their coming to terms, Holocaust education / Education after Auschwitz, Judaism in Catholic religious instruction, Judeo-Christian dialogue, the Lukan double work, new and old Pauline perspective, history of reception of the Bible, Schleiermacher and Schleiermacher's reception, theories of religious education and value education / democracy education.

Fonts (selection)

• as editor with Rainer Kampling: Borders and Paths (= Spirituality on site. Volume 1). More, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-87554-339-4 .
• as editor with Rainer Kampling and Andreas Hölscher : Die Grenzgänger. How illegal can a person be? . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3351-0 .
• as editor with Andreas Hölscher: The art of conveying faith. Perspectives on contemporary religious education (= Berliner Schriften. Volume 17). More, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-87554-347-5 .
• as editor with Rainer Kampling: In the face of Israel. Studies on the historical and theological relationship between the Church and Israel (= Biblical Contributions from Stuttgart. Volume 47). Verl. Kath. Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-460-00471-1 .
• “... because they do not know what they are doing.” On the reception of Jesus' intercession on the cross (Lk 23,34a) in the ancient Judeo-Christian controversy (= New Testament treatises, New Series. Volume 46). Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-04794-2 (also dissertation, FU Berlin 2001).
• “I would be an enemy of Jews?” On anti-Judaism in Friedrich Schleiermacher's theology and pedagogy (= contributions to historical educational research. Volume 42). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20600-0 (also habilitation thesis, FU Berlin 2009).
• as editor with Rainer Kampling: Between Catholic Enlightenment and Ultramontanism. New Testament exegetes of the "Catholic Tübingen School" in the 19th century and their significance for Catholic biblical studies (= Contubernium. Tübingen contributions to the history of universities and science. Volume 79). Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 3-515-10199-3 .

Web links

• Free University of Berlin