Michael Waldstein

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Michael Maria Waldstein (born October 25, 1954 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian-American Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

Michael Waldstein studied philosophy and theology at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula near Los Angeles , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1977 , and then in Dallas , at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and at Harvard . He received his doctorate in 1981 in Dallas with a topic on the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar , obtained his licentiate in Biblical Studies in Rome and in 1989 he received his doctorate again in New Testament Studies at Harvard on the topic The Mission of Jesus in John: Probes into the Apocryphon of John and the Gospel of John . From 1988 to 1996 he taught as an "Assistant Professor" for New Testament at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend (Indiana) , where he was tenured in 1996 .

He then worked at the International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family (ITI) in Austrian gaming , which he headed as the founding president from 1996 to 2006. Until the summer of 2008 he was still a "Senior Professor" and taught the New Testament. From August 2008 to December 2017 Waldstein was " Max Seckler Professor of Theology" at Ave Maria University in Florida . Since the beginning of 2018 he has been working as a biblical scholar at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in the Steubenville diocese , where he has again been professor of the New Testament since August 2018.

In addition to biblical topics, a focus of his lectures and lectures is the "Theology of the Body" developed by Pope John Paul II , the texts of which Waldstein published in 2006 using the original Polish manuscripts of Wojtyłas in a newly arranged version that was translated into English . He found out that the Polish manuscripts and not, as previously assumed, the Italian text of the Pope's “Wednesday catechesis” are to be regarded as the original version of his treatises on the theological significance of human sexuality .

Waldstein has been a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family, which was dissolved by Pope Francis in 2016 as part of the reform of the Curia, since 2003 . In 2011 he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI. member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas appointed.

Michael Waldstein is married and has eight children. He is a son of the Austrian legal historian Wolfgang Waldstein .

Publications (selection)

  • Pope John Paul II's personalist teaching and St. Thomas Aquinas: Disagreement or development of doctrine? Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula 2001.
  • As editor and editor with Frederik Wisse: The Apocryphon of John. Synopsis of Nag Hammadi Codices II, 1; III, 1 and IV, 1, with Papyrus Berolinensis Gnosticus 8502,2 (= Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, Volume 33), Brill, Leiden 1995.
  • As translator: Johann Auer (1910–1989): The Church. The Universal Sacrament of Salvation (= Dogmatic Theology, Volume 8). The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, DC 1993.
    Original: The Church, the general sacrament of salvation (= Little Catholic Dogmatics, Volume 8), Pustet, Regensburg 1986.

Web links

  • CV (PDF; 1.5 MB) (as of 2016)
  • CV (as of 2018)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Paul II: Man and Woman He Created Them. A Theology of the Body. Translation, Introduction, and Index by Michael Waldstein. Pauline Books and Media, Boston 2006.
  2. ↑ 'Theology of the Body' newly translated. In: Kath.net , August 24, 2006, accessed February 2019.
  3. ↑ An interview with Michael Waldstein. Online publication. ITI , Fall 2006, accessed February 2019.
  4. ↑ Message from Ave Maria University , January 25, 2019, accessed February 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Waldstein, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldstein, Michael Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg