Michael Schüßler (theologian)

Michael Schüßler (born June 19, 1972 ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

He studied Catholic theology from 1993 to 2000 and pedagogy from 1996 to 2000 (NF Sociology and Psychology ). From 2001 to 2012 he was a lecturer at the Caritas Academy for Social Education in Erlangen . After completing his doctorate in practical theology in Tübingen in 2006 with Ottmar Fuchs and his habilitation in pastoral theology ( Graz ) with Rainer Bucher in 2012 , he was a research assistant at the chair of practical theology in Tübingen from 2012 to 2015 . In 2015 he was appointed to the chair for practical theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Tübingen.

His research focuses on event dispositive: Changed time structures as a challenge for church and theology, research into church liquefaction processes and the unbounded presence of the gospel, questions of theological relevance of digitality, changed (postheroic) formation of diaconal presence of church / theological generativity of types of charity, theology of gender difference and pastoral care Lifestyles after the end of church pastoral power (doing gender meets doing religion), epistemological and methodological foundations of practical theology (systems theory, empirical social research, cultural turn, event-thinking, new realism) and research into the affect structure of Catholicism.

Publications (selection)

• Blessed are the street children. Perspectives of system-theoretical social pastoral care , Ostfildern 2006.
• Start over with God. The time dimension of theology and pastoral care in event-based society , Stuttgart 2013 ( Practical Theology Today , Vol. 134).
• with Tobias Kläden: Too fast for God? Theological controversies on acceleration and resonance ( Quaestio disputatae 286), Freiburg im Breisgau 2017.
• with Christian Bauer (ed.): Pastoral teaching post? Scope of a theology of familial forms of life , Ostfildern 2015.

Web links

• Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen