Michael Stickelbroeck

Michael Stickelbroeck (born July 15, 1963 in Walbeck on the Lower Rhine ) is a Catholic theologian .

Life

Michael Stickelbroeck grew up on the Lower Rhine border with the Netherlands . In 1983 he passed the Abitur examination at the episcopal boarding school Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck near Goch . After a year of civil service at the Gustav Siewerth Academy in Weilheim -Bierbronnen, he studied philosophy and theology for four years at the Grootseminarie Rolduc of the Diocese of Roermond in Kerkrade (Netherlands). He then continued his studies in Austria at the Philosophical-Theological University of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey and in 1990 obtained the degree of Magister in Theology from the University of Vienna .

In 1993 he entered the service of the diocese of St. Pölten . On November 27, 1994, he received at St. Anne's Church to Poeggstall the deacons - and on June 29, 1995 at the Cathedral to St. Pölten the priesthood . Then Stickelbroeck was chaplain in Neulengbach ( Vienna Woods ) and in Waidhofen an der Ybbs . In 1998 he became provisional parish priest in the pilgrimage town of Hoheneich ( Waldviertel ), where he then worked for four years as a pastor . He currently works as a provisional in Wald bei Pyhra .

Scientific career

In 1990 he started at the University of Augsburg in Professor Anton Ziegenaus doctoral studies in dogmatic theology , which he in the summer of 1993 with the graduation to the Dr. theol. finished. Stickelbroeck wrote a doctoral thesis on "Mysterium Venerandum. The Trinitarian Thought in the Work of Bernhard von Clairvaux ". In 1993 he expanded his training at the Theological University in St. Pölten in the field of "independent religious education" and graduated with a diploma .

Stickelbroeck completed his habilitation on May 29, 2001 at the Catholic-Theological Faculty in Munich under Gerhard Ludwig Müller with a thesis on the relationship between Christology and Metaphysics , Christology in the Horizon of the Question of Being. About the epistemological and metaphysical prerequisites of the commitment to the universal mediation of salvation of Jesus Christ .

Since October 2001 he has been a lecturer for the introduction to the mystery of salvation and lecturer for dogmatics and dogmatic sacramental theology at the Theological-Philosophical University in St. Pölten . Since June 29, 2002, he has been a full professor of dogmatics and ecumenical theology at the same university.

Stickelbroeck's current research focuses on eschatology and grace .

Publications (selection)

• Mystery Venerandum. The trinitarian thought in the work of Bernhard von Clairvaux . Münster 1994, Aschendorff, ISBN 3-402-03936-2 .
• Christology on the horizon of the question of being. About the epistemological and metaphysical prerequisites of the commitment to the universal mediation of salvation of Jesus Christ. St. Ottilien 2002, Eos-Verlag, ISBN 3-8306-7133-4 .
• After death. Heaven , Hell , Purgatory . Augsburg 2004, St. Ulrich, ISBN 3-936484-33-3 .
• Original, Fall and Original Sin. In the post-Augustinian era until the beginning of scholasticism. Latin theology. (Handbuch der Dogmengeschichte, Fasc. 3a Tl. 3), Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3451007804 .
• On the Eucharist and the Mass Canon (two essays by Matthias Joseph Scheeben), ed. and commented by Michael Stickelbroeck, Regensburg 2011, Friedrich Pustet, ISBN 978-3-7917-2392-1 .
• The salvation of man as grace , Regensburg 2014, Friedrich Pustet, ISBN 978-3-7917-2586-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Stickelbroeck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Internet presence at the Philosophical-Theological University of St. Pölten