Matthias Reményi

Matthias Reményi (* 1971 in Bad Säckingen ) is a German fundamental theologian .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1990, he studied Catholic theology (diploma) at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg ( diploma thesis The Anthropology in the Work of Gustav Siewerth ) from 1991 to 1998 and education (diploma) at the Freiburg University of Education from 1994 to 1999 . From 1998 to 2001 he was an education officer in the pupil department of the Archbishop's Youth Welfare Office in Freiburg. From 1999 to 2002 he taught Christian Anthropology at the KFH Freiburg . From 2001 to 2004, his dissertation project was For the Sake of Hope. Research on Jürgen Moltmann's eschatological theology was funded with a doctoral scholarship from the Cusanuswerk . From 2004 to 2010 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Catholic Theology at RWTH Aachen University , Chair of Systematic Theology. After graduation in 2005 to doctor of theology with an overall grade summa cum laude , (the work was awarded the Bernhard Welte price of the Theological Faculty of the University of Freiburg azusgezeichnet) he was in the 2009 Freiburg Cathedral as Permanent Deacon ordained. From March 1, 2010 to March 31, 2017 he was Junior Professor for Systematic Theology at the Department of Catholic Theology (Department of History and Cultural Studies) at the Free University of Berlin . From October 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016, he represented the W3 professorship in Systematic Theology at the University of Siegen . After his habilitation in dogmatics (July 4, 2016) (habilitation lecture and positive decision by the habilitation committee, University of Innsbruck ), he has been teaching as professor for fundamental theology and comparative religion at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg since July 17, 2017 .

His work and research focus are theological anthropology , eschatology , thanatology , self-determined dying / ethical questions at the end of life, ecclesiology / official theology, thought-form analysis and metaphor theory and action of God and God-world relation. He is a member of the European Society for Catholic Theology, German Section and the Working Group on Catholic Dogmatics and Fundamental Theology of the German-speaking area.

Web links

• University of Würzburg