Max Seckler

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Max Seckler

Max Seckler (born September 23, 1927 in Westerhofen , then Oberamt Ellwangen an der Jagst, today Ostalbkreis , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German theologian and emeritus full public professor for fundamental theology at the University of Tübingen .

Life

After completing school in Stuttgart , Ellwangen, Aalen , Friedrichshafen and Ehingen an der Donau (1947), which was interrupted by military service and captivity , Seckler began studying philosophy and Catholic theology at the University of Tübingen in the winter semester of 1947/48. In the summer of 1951 he passed the exam, entered the seminary in Rottenburg am Neckar and was ordained on July 20, 1952 in the collegiate church in Ellwangen . From summer 1952 to autumn 1955 he worked as a vicar in Ludwigsburg , Stuttgart and Esslingen am Neckar . He then continued his studies in Paris at the Institut Catholique and at the Sorbonne (until summer 1956) and in Rome at the Gregoriana and the Angelicum as a scholarship holder of the Anima . During his time as parish administrator in Tübingen-Bühl from 1957 to 1960, he also studied Latin and Romance languages, from 1958 to 1960 in Tübingen, then for another two years in Munich. On July 22, 1959, Seckler was awarded a doctorate from the University of Tübingen for his dissertation on instinct and will to believe after Thomas von Aquin (Mainz 1961) theol. PhD. From 1960 to 1962 he was a research assistant at the chair for fundamental theology in Munich ( Heinrich Fries ). In October 1962 he took over the temporary professorship for the subject of fundamental theology at the Philosophical-Theological University in Passau for two years . After his habilitation in January 1964 and private lecturer at the University of Munich, appointments were made to the Philosophical-Theological University of Passau and, at the same time, to the University of Tübingen. Seckler accepted the latter and was a full public professor (chair of fundamental theology) at the University of Tübingen from 1964 to 1993. Between 1970 and 1980 he was visiting professor in Jerusalem; In 1972 he was offered a visiting professorship at Harvard . Seckler could not make up his mind to apply for the successor to Fries requested by the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Munich in 1979. In September 1993 he retired in Tübingen.

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Seckler initially made a name for himself internationally for research in medieval philosophy and theology through his work on Thomas Aquinas . Hence the historical and systematic relationship between reason and faith, philosophy and theology, became one of his great themes. Other innovative work and research focuses included the concept of revelation in the context of modern criticism of revelation and religion, interreligious dialogue, the interdependencies between church teaching and theological science, the philosophy of science and encyclopedia of theology, the principles and epistemology of theology , the Loci theologici Melchior Canos, the kingdom of God theme in modern times, the tolerance problem in Catholicism, the theory of Christianity and numerous other fundamental theological questions such as B. in the fields of soteriology and ecclesiology. In the four-volume handbook of fundamental theology , which he largely conceived and directed , his contributions to the construction of theology as a science of faith and to the technical identity of fundamental theology are considered to be groundbreaking. Seckler contributed to the third edition of the Lexicon for Theology and Church as a specialist advisor and author of central articles. His list of publications provides information about his further varied journalistic activities. After moderating the anniversary issue of the Tübingen Theological Quarterly for its 150th anniversary (1970) and with his case study theology in court (on Wilhelm Koch ), his interest in researching the history of the Catholic Tübingen School increased, which he finally made the focus of his Creation. Since 1997, the first four volumes of his critical edition of the posthumous writings and printed works of Johann Sebastian Dreys (1777–1853) have been published under his leadership . The introductory and accompanying texts by Seckler included in these volumes are monographic in nature and volume. With this edition, Drey's epoch-making achievement, the founder of the Catholic Tübingen School, which has had a worldwide reputation in the past and present, appears in a new light.

Seckler is a full member of the Académie Internationale des Sciences Religieuses, Brussels, the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea , Salzburg, and the Pontificia Academia Theologiae , Rome, as well as the holder of the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg.

Fonts (selection)

Written books

  • Attempts at hope . Freiburg i. Br. 1972.
  • In the field of tension between science and church. Theology as a creative exposition of reality. Freiburg i. Br. 1980.
  • The leaning walls of the Lehrhaus. Catholicity as a challenge. Freiburg i. Br. 1988.
  • Faith Science and Belief. Contributions to fundamental theology and the Catholic Tübingen School . 2 volumes. Selected u. ed. v. Michael Kessler, Winfried Werner and Walter Fürst. Tübingen 2013 (GWG).

Scientific editions

  • Johann Sebastian Drey. Legacy writings . Vol. 1. My diary on philosophical, theological and historical subjects 1812-1817 (theological diary). Ed. U. a. v. Max Seckler. Tübingen 1997 (TüA 1).
  • Johann Sebastian Drey. Breve introduzione allo studio della teologia con particolare riguardo al punto di vista scientifico e al sistema cattolico . A cura di Max Seckler. Premessa di Joseph Ratzinger. Postfazione di Bruno Forte. Brescia 2002.
  • Johann Sebastian Drey. Legacy writings . Vol. 2. Praelectiones dogmaticae 1815-1834, held at Ellwangen and Tübingen . In two volumes. Ed. U. a. v. Max Seckler. Tübingen 2003 (TüA 2).
  • Aux origines de l'école catholique de Tübingen . Johann Sebastian Drey: Brève introduction à l'étude de la théologie (1819). Avec des contributions du cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, du cardinal Walter Kasper et de Max Seckler (Éditions du Cerf: Patrimoines Christianisme ). Présentée et introduite [et avec des annotations] by Max Seckler. Paris 2007.
  • Johann Sebastian Drey. Legacy writings . Vol. 3. Brief introduction to the study of theology with regard to the scientific standpoint and the Catholic system . Tübingen 1819. Ed. U. a. v. Max Seckler. Tübingen 2007 (TüA 3).
  • Johann Sebastian Drey. Legacy writings . Vol. 4. Revision of the current state of theology. Ideas on the history of the Catholic dogma system. On the spirit and essence of Catholicism. With other early writings 1812–1819 as well as with documents on the founding history of the theological quarterly . Ed. U. with introductions by Max Seckler. Tübingen 2015 (TüA 4).

Other editorships

  • Theological quarterly (ThQ). Since year 144 (1964); Register for the theological quarterly Tübingen 1895–1970 . Mainz 1975.
  • Tübingen Theological Studies (TTS). Mainz 1973–1990 (34 vol.).
  • Tuebingen Studies in Theology and Philosophy (TSTP). Mainz 1991-1996 (10 vols.); Tübingen 1996-2006 (up to vol. 24).
  • Theology, Church, Catholicism. Contributions to the program of the Catholic Tübingen School by Joseph Ratzinger, Walter Kasper and Max Seckler. With reprographic reprint of Johann Sebastian Dreys' program from 1819 on the study of theology . Ed. V. Michael Kessler u. Max Seckler. Tübingen 2003.

literature

  • Fides quaerens intellectum. Contributions to fundamental theology. Max Seckler on his 65th birthday . Ed. V. Michael Kessler, Wolfhart Pannenberg u. Hermann Josef Pottmeyer. Tübingen 1992.
  • Martin Mikolášik, Integrative Fundamental Theology. On the new conception of fundamental theology at Max Seckler . Frankfurt a. M. 2003.
  • Antonio Russo, La Scuola cattolica di Tubinga. Max Seckler interprete di Drey, in «Studium», CXI, 6 (2015), pp. 946-955.
  • Rino Fisichella, Teologo del postconcilio , in: L'Osservatore Romano 157, No. 217 of September 22, 2017, p. 5.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Salvation in History. Historical theological thinking in Thomas Aquinas . Munich 1964.
  2. ↑ Max Seckler , Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online , accessed on April 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. em. Max Seckler - Leben , University of Tübingen website, accessed on April 24, 2016.
  4. ↑ See instinct and will to believe according to Thomas Aquinas . Mainz 1961, as well as the habilitation thesis cited in note 1, plus French translation: Le salut et l'histoire. La pensée de Saint Thomas d'Aquin sur la théologie de l'histoire . Paris 1967; Polish translation: Zbawienie w historii. Teologia historii w nauce Świętego Tomasza z Akwinu (Dominikańska Biblioteka Teologii 3). Kraków 2015.
  5. ↑ See e.g. B. "Philosophia ancilla theologiae". About the origins and the meaning of a formula that has become objectionable , in: ThQ 171 (1991) 161-187; Reason and Faith, Philosophy and Theology. The innovative contribution of the encyclical "Fides et Ratio" of September 14, 1998 to theological theory of knowledge , in: ThQ 184 (2004) 77-91.
  6. ↑ See e.g. B. Enlightenment and Revelation , in: Christian Faith in Modern Society (CGG) Vol. 21. Freiburg i. Br. 1980, 2 1981, 8-78; The concept of disclosure , in: HFTh 1 2 (1985) 60-83; Hfth 2 2 (2000) 41-61; What does revealed religion mean? A semantic orientation , in: Jan Rohls, Gunther Wenz (ed.), Vernunft des Glaubens. Scientific theology and church teaching . Göttingen 1988, 157-176.
  7. ↑ See for example Theology of Religions with Question Marks , in: ThQ 166 (1986) 164-184; Synod of Religions. The event of Assisi and its perspectives for a theology of religions , in: ThQ 169 (1989) 5-24; fundamentally: The theological concept of religion , in: HFTh 1 1 (1985) 173-194; HFTh 2 1 (2000) 131-148.
  8. ↑ See e.g. B. Theology as ecclesiastical science according to Pius XII. and Paul VI. , in: ThQ 149 (1969) 209-234; Magisterium and Theology. Unnecessary conflict or healing tension? Düsseldorf 1981; "Teacher of Christianity in the name of the church" (Johann Sebastian Drey). About the nature, the task and the position of theology in the church and about some aspects of the problem of dissent , in: ThQ 174 (1994) 1-16.
  9. ↑ See e.g. B. Theologian. A basic idea in three ways. On the theory of theology and on the criticism of the monocausal justification of theology , in: ThQ 163 (1983) 241-264; The relationship between fundamental theology and dogmatics , in: Eberhard Schockenhoff, Peter Walter (eds.), Dogma und Glaube. Building blocks for a theological theory of knowledge . Mainz 1993, 101-129; On the structure of theology and the study of theology. The "Brief Introduction to the Study of Theology" by Johann Sebastian Dreys from 1819 as a pioneering encyclopedic program publication. A contribution to Drey reception , in: ThQ 182 (2002) 197-235.
  10. ↑ See: The ecclesiological meaning of the system of loci theologici. Epistemological catholicity and structural wisdom , in: Walter Baier u. a. (Ed.), Wisdom of God - Wisdom of the World . Vol. 1, St. Ottilien 1987, 37-65; The communio-ecclesiology, the theological method and the loci-theologici teaching Melchior Canos , in: ThQ 187 (2007) 1-20.
  11. ↑ See e.g. B. Kingdom of God as a subject of thought. A philosophical and a theological model (E. Bloch and JS Drey) , in: Heribert Gauly u. a. (Ed.), In conversation: man. An interdisciplinary dialogue . Düsseldorf 1981, 53-62; The Kingdom of God motif in the early days of the Catholic School of Tübingen (Johann Sebastian Drey and Johann Baptist Hirscher). At the same time a contribution to the theory of Christianity , in: ThQ 168 (1988) 257-282.
  12. ↑ See for example Tolerance, Truth, Humanity , in: Hermann Josef Vogt (ed.), Church in Time . Munich 1989, 126-149; Religious freedom and tolerance. The declaration "On Religious Freedom" of the Second Vatican Council in the context of the church's tolerance and intolerance doctrines , in: ThQ 175 (1995) 1-18.
  13. ↑ See e.g. B. Christianity , in: LThK 3 2 (1994) 1105-1117.
  14. ↑ See for example Theosoterik and Autosoterik , in: ThQ 162 (1982) 289-298; Theosotericism - an option and its dimensions. Fundamental theological inquiries and impulses for soteriology , in: ThQ 172 (1992) 257-284.
  15. ↑ Ed. Walter Kern, Hermann Josef Pottmeyer, Max Seckler. 4 vols., Freiburg i. Br. 1985-1988 (HFTh 1 ); Italian: Corso di Teologia Fondamentale . 4 vols., Brescia 1990; Handbook of Fundamental Theology , 4 vols., 2., updated a. improved edition. Tübingen 2000 (HFTh 2 ).
  16. ^ Theology as Faith Science, in: HFTh 1 4 (1988) 180-241; HFTh 2 4 (2000) 131-184; see. Faith Science , in: LThK 3 4 (1995) 725-733.
  17. ↑ Fundamental Theology: Tasks and Structure, Concept and Name , in: HFTh 1 4 (1988) 450-514; Hfth 2 4 (2000) 331-402; see. Fundamental Theology , LThK 3 4 (1995) 227-238.
  18. ^ Theology in court. The Wilhelm Koch Case - A Report. Tübingen 1972.
  19. ↑ See e.g. B. Cosmopolitan catholicity. The idea of ​​the Wilhelmsstift Tübingen in past and present , in: ThQ 162 (1982) 178-202; Catholic Tübingen School , in: LThK 3 10 (2001) 287-290; The Catholic Tübingen School - the "youngest" of the Tübingen theological schools? Clarifications and corrections to their beginnings and their conceptual history , in: Michael Kessler, Ottmar Fuchs (ed.), Theology as an instance of modernity. Contributions and studies on Johann Sebastian Drey and the Catholic Tübingen School (TSTP 22). Tübingen 2005, 217-244.
  20. ↑ See Scientific Editions above .
  21. ↑ See especially Johann Sebastian Drey's diary on philosophical, theological and historical subjects : TüA 1 (1997) XV-LVII; Johann Sebastian Dreys Praelectiones dogmaticae : TüA 2 (2003) 1 * -125 *; Johann Sebastian Dreys Brief introduction to the study of theology : TüA 3 (2007) 1 * -251 *; Johann Sebastian Drey's revision of the current state of theology : TüA 4 (2015) 1-84; Johann Sebastian Dreys Dissertatio historico-theologica originem ac vicissitudines exomologeseos in ecclesia catholica ex documentis ecclesiasticis illustrans : TüA 4 (2015) 265-315; Johann Sebastian Drey's Oratio de dogmatum christianorum incremento institutioni divinae haud adverso : TüA 4 (2015) 347-361; Johann Sebastian Dreys On the spirit and essence of Catholicism : TüA 4 (2015) 369-490; as well as documents on the founding history of the theological quarterly publication: TüA 4 (2015) 491-539.
personal data
SURNAME Seckler, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fundamental theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Westerhofen (Westhausen) , municipality of Westhausen