Notker Füglister

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Notker Füglister OSB (born March 2, 1931 in Rapperswil , † September 12, 1996 in Salzburg ) was a Catholic theologian and Old Testament scholar.

Life

As a monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Disentis , Füglister was ordained a priest in 1955. He studied Catholic theology in Einsiedeln and San Anselmo , where he received his doctorate in 1961. From 1971 until his death he was full professor for Old Testament biblical studies at the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Salzburg . His work focused on the unity of the Old and New Testaments, the importance of the Old Testament for Christians and the spirituality of psalmic prayer. He was a co-translator of the Münsterschwarzacher Psalter .

The distribution of the Psalms to the Hours of the Liturgy of the Hours, newly developed by him, was widely used . It was adopted in the weekly psalter of the Benedictine antiphonal .

Psalms as poetry

Fundamental to Füglister's understanding of the psalm prayer is that the texts are poetic. In order to bring poetry to life, he would like the Hebrew poetry to be reproduced in the German translation. The imagery, conciseness and linguistic rigor should not be watered down. Where necessary, conjectures should restore “the unbroken poetic structure on which so much depends”.

In order to be able to absorb the poetry of the Psalms in the Liturgy of the Hours, it is important that the Psalms match the character of the time of prayer , the day of the week and the church year . Second, the Psalms of the same Hore should be related to each other, which also included variety and “beneficial contrasts”. Third, the psalms should be recited according to their genre .

All of this was new and innovative in the 1960s, as the arrangement of the psalms had been dictated by tradition until then. In many cases, psalms only got their place in the Liturgy of the Hours because of a verse and its (allegorical) Christian interpretation. Füglister, on the other hand, saw every psalm as a whole and sought a correspondence between Christian festivals and times of prayer on the one hand, and genres of the psalm on the other.

literature

  • Notker Füglister: The Psalms Prayer , Munich 1965 (2nd edition Münsterschwarzach 1997)
  • Notker Füglister: The use and understanding of the Psalms and the Psalter at the turn of the ages. In: Josef Schreiner (Ed.): Contributions to research into the psalms. Echter Verlag, Würzburg 1988, ISBN 978-3-429-01174-1 .
  • Notker Füglister: The one Bible, God's word to us (collected essays), Tyrolia 1999. ISBN 978-3-7022-2225-3 .
  • Friedrich Vinzenz Reiterer: One God, one revelation. Contributions to biblical exegesis, theology and spirituality  : Festschrift for Notker Füglister OSB for his 60th birthday, Echter Verlag, Würzburg 1991. ISBN 3-429-01363-1 .
  • Georg Braulik : Psalms praying with the Benedictine antiphonals , 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63056-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Füglister, Notker. Retrieved December 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Notker Füglister: The psalm prayer . S. 122 .
  3. ↑ a b Notker Füglister: The psalm prayer . S. 77 .
  4. ↑ Notker Füglister: The psalm prayer . S. 87 .
  5. ↑ Notker Füglister: The psalm prayer . S. 79 .
  6. ↑ Notker Füglister: The psalm prayer . S. 82-86 .
personal data
SURNAME Füglister, Notker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic theologian and Old Testament scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Rapperswil
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1996
Place of death Salzburg