Michael Seewald

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Michael Seewald (born July 13, 1987 in Saarbrücken ) is professor of dogmatics and the history of dogma at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster .

biography

Seewald, who has both German and French citizenship, attended the Ludwigsgymnasium in Saarbrücken , where he skipped the 10th grade and graduated from high school in 2005. In 2004 he was national winner in the youth debate competition . He studied Catholic theology , political science and philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , in Pune (India) and at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen .

In 2011 he was at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to Dr. theol. doctorate, he was ordained deacon in 2012, ordained priest in 2013; he is incardinated in the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart . 2015 habilitation Seewald at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. In 2016, at the age of 29, he was appointed to the chair for dogmatics and the history of dogma at the University of Münster, making him one of the youngest professors in Germany in a humanities discipline. Seewald previously taught at the Ambrosianum Tübingen , at the Universities of Munich and Bonn, and at Saint John's Seminary (seminary) in Boston.

Focus of work

Michael Seewald is interested in theories of dogmatic development, the stability and dynamics of religious images of man, as well as questions of method in ecumenical and interreligious theology. At the intersection of theology and political science, he researches “Religion as a transcendent secondary valuation and its political consequences.” In his dogma-historical research, Seewald dedicates himself to the theology of the Enlightenment of the 18th century.

In 2017, in the debate about the conditions for admission to the priesthood, Seewald called for the discussion not to be narrowed down to celibacy , but rather to campaign aggressively for the admission of celibate women. The exclusion of women is more difficult to justify than the celibate way of life of the public officials, because the no to the ordination of women is a gender-specific discrimination, whereas celibacy is a voluntarily chosen way of life. In February 2019, Seewald expressed the view that a spatially limited abolition of the celibacy of priests is possible in his opinion: whether priests must live celibate or there may also be married priests, one does not need to resolve uniformly in the universal church. However, the occurrence of a "domino effect" then appears likely.

Seewald sees democratic deficits in all religions. The Christianity was it not fundamentally better than Islam , have historically but a positive attitude towards democracy developed what Islam is also capable. Seewald demands that Islam be given the same legal status in Germany as the churches.

Honors and prizes

Seewald's studies on the Enlightenment of the 18th century in Catholic dogmatics were awarded the Karl Rahner Prize for Theological Research 2016.

In 2017 he was the first theologian to be awarded the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize , with which the German Research Foundation and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research recognize “outstanding scientific achievements” by young researchers from all disciplines. The reason given was that Seewald was “an exceptional scientist in several respects”, who devoted himself to “irritations” and the “tense relationship” between religion and modernity in his “intellectual crossings”.

Web links

  • Seewald on the website of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Catholic-Theological Faculty: WWU Münster> Faculty 2> Seminar for Dogmatics and the History of Dogmas> Seewald, Michael, Prof. Dr. Retrieved June 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ National youth debates competition 2004: Valentin Jeutner from Hamburg and Michael Seewald from Saarbrücken win today's final in Berlin . In: presseportal.de . ( presseportal.de [accessed on August 12, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Catholic-Theological Faculty: WWU Münster> Faculty 2> Seminar for Dogmatics and the History of Dogmas> Seewald, Michael, Prof. Dr. Retrieved May 22, 2017 .
  4. ↑ WWU Münster> Faculty 2> Seminar for Dogmatics and the History of Dogma> Seewald, Michael, Prof. Dr. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Michael Seewald consecrate celibate women in Herder Korrespondenz June 2017, p. 49ff, ISSN 0018-0645
  6. ^ Church + Life: Münster professor wants a new debate about the female priesthood. Retrieved May 29, 2017 .
  7. ↑ kathisch.de : Bätzing: Celibacy valuable, but better voluntary , accessed on February 20, 2019.
  8. ↑ Michael Seewald: What Islam means. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 20, 2016 (No. 294), p. 2.
  9. ↑ Michael Seewald receives Karl Rahner Prize - Diocese Rottenburg Stuttgart. Retrieved May 22, 2017 .
  10. ↑ http://www.dfg.de/download/pdf/gefoerderte_projekte/preistraeger/hml-preis/2017/laudatio_seewald.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Seewald, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-French Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken