Oliver Wiertz

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Oliver J. Wiertz (born March 7, 1964 in Mainz ) is a German philosopher .

Life

From 1970 to 1983 he attended the Martinus elementary school and the Willigis grammar school in Mainz-Altstadt . He studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Philosophical-Theological University Sankt Georgen Frankfurt (1985–1987), philosophy at the University of Philosophy in Munich (1987–1989) and Catholic theology at the PTH Sankt Georgen Frankfurt (1989–1994). During his doctoral studies in Catholic theology at the PTH St. Georgen (1994–2000) he received the sponsorship award from the Freundeskreis Sankt Georgen e. V. and studied in 1998 as a graduate visiting student with Richard Swinburne at Oriel College . From 2000 to 2004 he trained as a pastoral officer in the diocese of Mainz and worked as a pastoral assistant in the parishes of St. Jakobus in Friedberg - Ockstadt and St. Michael in Rosbach vor der Höhe . From 2003 to 2005 he completed a doctoral degree in philosophy at the Goethe University . As a lecturer and lecturer , he taught philosophy at the PTH Sankt Georgen Frankfurt from 2005 to 2006. Since 2008 he has been professor of philosophy at the PTH Sankt Georgen Frankfurt.

His research interests are philosophy of religion (especially: rationality of religious convictions, problem of evil, religious diversity), epistemology (especially: epistemic theories of justification) and the history of analytical philosophy.

Fonts (selection)

  • as editor with Hans-Ludwig Ollig : Reflected Faith. Festschrift for Erhard Kunz SJ on his 65th birthday (= German university publications . Volume 1156). Hänsel-Hohenhausen, Egelsbach / Frankfurt / Munich 1999, ISBN 3-8267-1156-4 .
  • Established Belief? Rational Belief Responsibility Based on Analytical Theology and Epistemology . Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 2003 (also dissertation, PTH Sankt Georgen 2000).
  • as translator: Richard Swinburne: Faith and Reason (= Religion in the Modern Age. Volume 20). Echter, Würzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-429-03175-6 .
  • as editor with Hans-Joachim Höhn , Martin Endreß and Thomas M. Schmidt : Challenges of Modernity (= Religion in Modernity. Volume 25). Echter, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-429-06075-6 .
  • as editor: Catholic Church and Modernism . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2015, ISBN 3-402-16062-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the author
  2. ↑ Author information
personal data
SURNAME Wiertz, Oliver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiertz, Oliver J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz