Paul B. Steffen

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Paul B. Steffen SVD (born October 19, 1954 in Leutesdorf am Rhein , Rhineland-Palatinate ) is a Roman Catholic theologian, missiologist and professor of pastoral theology .

Life

At the beginning of 1962 his family moved to Andernach , where he continued his school education. Steffen studied practical theology from 1974 to 1977 at the Catholic University of Mainz with a degree in religious education, from 1977 to 1983 at the Philosophical-Theological University of the SVD in St. Augustin. From the end of 1983 to the beginning of 1987 Steffen worked in the parish pastoral care in the highlands of Papua New Guinea . From 1987 to 1992 Steffen did a licentiate and doctorate in missiology at the Pontifical Gregorian University of the Jesuits in Rome.

For 20 years Steffen has been teaching as a missiologist and pastoral theologian in Papua New Guinea, Germany, the Philippines and since 2002 as a professor at the Mission Studies Faculty (Istituti Affiliati in Missiologia) of the Pontifical Urban University in Rome. In August 2014 he was appointed associate professor and full holder of the chair for missionary pastoral theology. On March 1st, 2019 P. Steffen was appointed full professor.

As a practical theologian, he does research in contextual theology such as small Christian communities and pastoral institutes in Asia, Africa and Oceania as places of renewal and education that promote a participatory and relational approach in Christian communities and ministries. He also researches and publishes on the Papua New Guinea mission and church history, in particular on the missionaries of the Steyler missionaries and the Steyler missionary sisters on the mainland of New Guinea from 1896. He wrote numerous articles in the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL)

Publications

Monographs
  • Mission start in New Guinea. The beginnings of the Rhenish, Neuendettelsauer and Steyler missionary work in New Guinea (= Studia Instituti Missiologici Societatis Verbi Divini . Volume 61). Steyler Verlag, Nettetal 1995, ISBN 3-8050-0351-X . (also dissertation, Gregoriana 1992).
  • Centers of Formation and Evangelizing Ministry. Pastoral Institutes in Oceania and Africa (= Studia Instituti Missiologici Societatis Verbi Divini . Volume 102). Franz Schmitt Verlag, Siegburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-87710-541-2 .
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  • From Church to Mission. Assessment and Perspectives of the Catholic Church in Mainland New Guinea after Its First Hundred Years . In: Divine Word Missionaries in Papua New Guinea 1896–1996. Festschrift (= Verbum SVD . Volume 37,1 / 2). Steyler Verlag, Nettetal 1996, pp. 231-258, ISBN 3-8050-0380-3 .
  • The School and Language Approach of the Divine Word Missionaries in Mainland New Guinea . In: MI-CHA-EL CSMA . 2 (1996), pp. 20-58, OCLC 749297397 .
  • The Catholic Missions in German New Guinea . In: Hermann Joseph Hiery (ed.): The German South Sea. A manual . 2. reviewed u. verb. Edition. Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2002, ISBN 3-506-73912-3 , pp. 343-383.
  • The Universality of Mission: Methods and Structures of Missionary Migrant Ministry , in: Quaderni Universitari , Pontificio Consiglio della Pastorale per i Migranti e gli Inteneranti, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Roma 2008, ISBN 978-88-209-8046-7 , p. 88 -115.
  • Places and Models for Formation and Ministry. Pastoral Institutes in Africa and Asia , Verbum SVD 51, 2010, 4, 423-438, ISSN  0042-3696 .
  • Migrant Ministry. The Kairos for a Pastoral-Missionary Work , in Verbum SVD 51, 2010, 3., 313-340, ISSN  0042-3696 .
  • Migrant Youth and the Mission of the Church. A pastoral-theological reflection , in Sedos Bulletin 43-2011-2, pp. 76-84, ZDB -ID 307004-9 .
  • A pioneer of Catholic missiology. Theodor Grentrup (1878-1967). Church, mission and international law , in: Mariano Delgado , Michael Sievernich (Ed.): Mission and prophecy in times of interculturality. Commemorative publication for the centenary of the International Institute for Mission Science Research 1911–2011 , ZMR special volume 95–2011, St. Ottilien 2011, EOS, 2011, pp. 481–489, ISBN 978-3-8306-7510-5 .
  • Gli Istituti pastorali dell'Asia e dell'America Latina , in: Nurt SVD 1: 131 (2012) 55-77, ZDB -ID 2759120-7 .
  • Eberhard Limbrock , the founder of the Steyler New Guinea Mission , died eighty years ago . In: Verbum SVD. 52: 1-2 (2011), pp. 117-122, ISSN  0042-3696 .
  • Father Franz Vormann SVD (1868–1929) from Billerbeck - co-founder of the Catholic Mission a. Church in New Guinea , in: Geschichtsblätter des Kreis Coesfeld, Kreisheimatverein Coesfeld (ed.), Vol. 36 (2011) 105–119, ISSN  0723-2098 .
  • From a Hunsrück maid to a missionary sister in Brazil. The career of Anna Steffen, Sister Zachäa (1882–1914) from Beltheim , in: Hunsrücker Heimatblätter No. 148, 54 vol., March 2012, 469–479, ISSN  0947-1405 .
  • Witness and Holiness, the Heart of the Life of Saint Joseph Freinademetz of Shandong , in: Studia Missionalia 61 (Roma 2012) 257–392, ISBN 978-88-7839-225-0 .
  • Lieu de formation pour une pastoral de communion. Gaba, l'institut pastoral pour l'Afrique orientale , in: Sedos Bulletin 44: 3–4 (2012) 70–88, ZDB ID 307004-9 .
  • Il Melanesian Institute - la sua missione e il suo ministero pastorale e sociale . in: Nurt SVD, Vol 47, Tom 133, 1 (2013) 73-116, ZDB -ID 2759120-7 .
  • The holistic evangelization method of the Catholic Mission and its contribution to the development of the country in Papua New Guinea . In: Annales Missiologici Posnanienses. Tom 18, 2012, 7-56, ISSN  1731-6170 .
  • Practical missiology or practical theology with a missionary perspective? Transformations in missiology before and after the Second Vatican Council in the field of contextual practical theology . In: Transformations of Mission Studies. Festschrift for the 100th year of the ZMR . Special volume of the journal for missiology and religious studies 2016, edited by Mariano Delgado / Michael Sievernich / Klaus Vellguth, EOS Verlag, Sankt Ottilien, 2016, 155–165.
  • Status and desiderata of today's mission history research. In the Swiss Journal for Religious and Cultural History (SZRKG) - Revue suisse d'histoire religieuse et culturelle (RSHRC) 110 (2016) 457-470.
  • The missionary's contribution to building a local church: his origins and training, his motivation, his lifestyle and his work. In: - Traugott Bautz - Bernd Jaspert (Ed.): 50 Years of Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon - A Path to the Future , Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2018, ISBN 978-3-95948-351-3 , 775-826.
  • The networking of the pastoral institutes in Asia: As a learning community to face the new tasks. In Zeitschrift für Missionwissenschaft und Religiouswissenschaft 102 (2018) 104 - 113.
  • Nurturing Human and Christian Communities , in Lazar, Thanuzraj Stanislaus, SVD / vanThanh Nguyen (ed.): SVD Missionary Discipleship in Glocal Contexts , (Studia Instituti Missiologici SVD - 112), Franz Schmitt Verlag, Siegburg, 2018, 317–329.
  • The Mission and Ministry of the East Asian Pastoral Institute for the local churches in Asia and Oceania. In Word and Worship 51 (NBCLC: Bangalore, 2018) 1, 60-83.
  • The Long Road to Aggiornamento. Vatican II, the Church in India & the NBCLC , in Towards New Horizons , Sr. Annette Thottakara - Fr. Sagaya John (eds.), The National Biblical, Catechetical & Liturgical Center, Bangalore 2017, 40–64.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Paul B. Steffen SVD appointed holder of the chair for missionary pastoral theology , orden-online.de, August 28, 2014
  3. ↑ Steyler Missionaries - Father Paul Steffen SVD appointed full professor. Retrieved March 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Steffen, Paul B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic missiologist and pastoral theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Leutesdorf am Rhein , Rhineland-Palatinate