Ottmar Fuchs

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Ottmar Fuchs (born May 6, 1945 in Buch , Erlangen-Höchstadt district ) is a German theologian . From 1998 to 2014 ( emeritus ) he was a full professor for practical theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen .

Life

Ottmar Fuchs studied philosophy and theology at the Universities of Bamberg and Würzburg . After ordination in 1972, he worked as a chaplain in the parish of St. Michael in Nuremberg and as a student pastor and mentor for lay theologians in Bamberg. In 1977 he did his doctorate with the pastoral theologian Rolf Zerfaß at the University of Würzburg with the dissertation speaking in contrasts. Opinion and counter-opinion in church speech . 1981 followed the habilitation for pastoral theology, also in Würzburg. In the winter semester 1981/82 he became a full professor for pastoral theology and kerygmatics in Bamberg. In 1998 he moved to the chair for practical theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen, where he was the Dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty from 2000 to 2004 . He is a member of the Bund New Germany .

Publications (selection)

  • Church cable capital. Viewpoints of a Christian media policy. With a foreword by Peter Düsterfeld. Edition Liberación, Münster 1989, ISBN 3-923792-23-9 .
  • Practical Hermeneutics of Scripture. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-017353-7 .
  • The Last Judgement. Hope for justice. Pustet, Regensburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7917-2063-0 .
  • with Franz Weber : Community theology intercultural. Latin America, Africa, Asia. Grünewald, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7867-2681-4 .
  • Endangered at heart. For a new relationship between church office and people of God. Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7022-3030-2 .
  • Nothing is lost. Ottmar Fuchs in conversation with Rainer Bucher and Rainer Krockauer. Echter, Würzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3429032142 .
  • In the space of poetry. Theology on the Paths of Literature. Grünewald, Mainz 2011, ISBN 978-3-7867-2816-0 .
  • The torn god. The trinitarian image of God in the fractures of the world. Grünewald, Mainz 2014, ISBN 978-3-7867-2992-1 .
  • Sacraments - always free, never in vain. Echter, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-429-03878-6 .
  • “But you are a priestly people”. A pastoral theological interjection to confirmation and ordination. Schwabenverlag, Ostfildern 2017, ISBN 978-3-7867-4025-4 .
  • The Last Judgement. Hope beyond death. Pustet, Regensburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7917-2814-8 .
  • In the shadow of damnation. Nonni - his way out of church constriction. Echter, Würzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-429-05431-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Ottmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic pastoral theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Book (Gremsdorf)