Norbert Mette

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Norbert Mette (born December 16, 1946 in Barkhausen ) is a German, Roman Catholic theologian at the University of Dortmund . His main focus is religious education .

Life

After finishing school, Norbert Mette studied Roman Catholic theology and social sciences at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and passed the first state examination in 1972. From 1973 to 1984 he was a research assistant at the seminar for pastoral theology and religious education at Münster University. In 1976 he received his doctorate as Dr. theol. and qualified as a professor in 1983 for pastoral theology and religious education. From 1984 to 2002 he was professor for Catholic theology with a focus on practical theology at the University of Paderborn . From 2002 to 2011 Mette was professor for Catholic theology and its didactics with a focus on religious education / practical theology at the University of Dortmund.

In December 2006, Mette recommended that schools disregard Cardinal Joachim Meisner's ban on multi-religious services for educational reasons, as well as referring to the guidelines of the Catholic German Bishops' Conference of 2003.

In view of the fact that, on the one hand, denominational religious education meets with less and less understanding among the public and that, on the other hand, the denominational division of Christianity is a nuisance for the faith itself and ecumenical understanding has meanwhile developed very far, Mette advocates a denominational a cooperative religious education that shows the way in a direction that has become due.

Honor

In 2002 Mette was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Friborg (Switzerland) .

Fonts (selection)

Publications in book form

  • with H.-U. v. Brachel (ed.): Communication and solidarity. Contributions to the discussion of the action-theoretical approach of Helmut Peukert in theology and social sciences , Freiburg / Schw., Münster 1985.
  • with Hermann Steinkamp : (Creative) reception of liberation theology in practical theology. In: Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (ed.): Liberation theology. Critical review and perspectives for the future. 3rd volume. Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-7867-1956-X , pp. 9-25.
  • Practical theological explorations , Münster 1998.
  • with Hans-Martin Gutmann : Orientation Theology. What she can do, what she wants. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2000.
  • (Hrsg.) With Folkert Rickers (Hrsg.), Ekkehard Starke (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Religionspädagogik. Two volumes. Neukirchener Verlagshaus, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2001, ISBN 978-3-7887-2153-4 .
  • Catholic Practical Theology. An overview. Scientific book club, Darmstadt 2005.
  • Religious education. Patmos, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 978-3-491-69428-6 .
  • Practical theological explorations 2 , Berlin 2007.
  • with Peter Schreiner, Dirk Oesselmann and Dieter Kinkelbur (eds.): Paulo Freire , Oppression and Liberation , Münster 2007 and Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Autonomy. Knowledge necessary for educational practice , Münster 2008.

Articles in collective works

  • (Religious) educational action . In: Edmund Arens (Hrsg.): Gottesrede - Glaubenspraxis. Perspectives of theological theory of action . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1994, 164-184, ISBN 3-534-11698-4 .
  • On the talk of communication in (communicative) theology - a benevolent and critical insight . In: Matthias Scharer , Brad E. Hinze, Bernd Jochen Hilberath (eds.): Communicative Theology: Approaches - Discussions - Differentiations / Communicative Theology: Approaches - Discussions - Differentiation , (= Communicative Theology, Volume 14), LIT-Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-50126-4 , pp. 44-57.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. i. R. Dr. Dr. hc Norbert Mette , accessed on October 25, 2019.
  2. ↑ Joachim Frank: Criticism of Meisner is increasing . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , December 8, 2006. Accessed February 9, 2011.
  3. ↑ http://www.rpi-ekhn.de/cms/fileadmin/rpz/download/schoenberger_hefte/2011/SH_2011-1_21_KkRU_BW.pdf
  4. ↑ Cf. Norbert Mette: The religious instruction in the school . A solid basis for the further development of this subject, in: Pastoraltheologische Informations, 31st year, 2011-2, pp. 45–59, 57f
  5. ↑ Norbert Mette receives an honorary doctorate from the Université de Friborg . Website of the University of Freiburg. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Mette, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Barkhausen (Porta Westfalica)