Perry Schmidt-Leukel

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Perry Schmidt-Leukel (born September 21, 1954 in Bonn ) is a German theologian and religious scholar. Since 2009 he has been a professor for religious studies and intercultural theology at the University of Münster . There he also heads the seminar for religious studies and intercultural theology ( Center for Religious Studies and Inter-faith Theology ).

Life

After graduating from high school in 1973, Schmidt-Leukel completed his studies in 1982 with a diploma in Catholic theology at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich. Then, in February 1984, he obtained his Magister Artium in Philosophy there, and in February 1990 he also received his doctorate theologiae . In May 1996 he was able to qualify for his habilitation in the fields of fundamental theology , ecumenical theology and religious studies . Before his call to Münster, Schmidt-Leukel taught at the universities of Munich, Innsbruck, Salzburg and Glasgow. The focus of his work lies in the area of fundamental theology , the theology of religions, pluralistic approaches in religions, interreligious relations in general and the Christian-Buddhist dialogue in particular. Schmidt-Leukel has been a member of the Anglican Church ( Scottish Episcopal Church ) since 2001 .

Perry Schmidt-Leukel is a representative of the pluralistic theology of religion . This denies that Christianity is the religion that is superior to all others and assumes that at least some religions are equal to each other with regard to their knowledge of divine reality and their power to mediate salvation. Because of this view, which relativized the Christian claim to superiority, the Archbishop of Munich, Friedrich Cardinal Wetter, withdrew his church teaching license ( Nihil obstat ) after completing his habilitation . Thus Schmidt-Leukel could not become a private lecturer .

In October 2015 Schmidt-Leukel was the first German to hold the renowned Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow in 25 years . In these lectures on “Interreligious Theology: The Future Shape of Theology”, he presented his thoughts on a fractal interpretation of religious diversity for the first time. With this interpretation he was "far ahead of the university and church theology of the Christian denominations [...]", judged Norbert Copray . In 2019, a volume edited by Alan Race and Paul Knitter (“New Paths for Interreligious Theology: Perry Schmidt-Leukel's Fractal Interpretation of Religious Diversity”) appeared in which internationally renowned scholars from the perspective of different religions and disciplines Schmidt-Leukel's thesis that show and discuss fractal patterns in religious diversity. In July 2020, the Catholic Press Association (CPA) awarded the work with the "Book Award. 3rd Place" in the category Ecumenism / Interreligious Relations. On February 5, 2020, the University of Vechta Schmidt-Leukel awarded the Höffmann Science Prize for Intercultural Competence.

Works

Books (author and co-author)

  • The meaning of death for human self-understanding in Pali Buddhism (= church and religions - encounter and dialogue, special volume 2), St. Ottilien: EOS Verlag 1984, ISBN 3-88096-382-7 .
  • “Hear the lion roar”. On the hermeneutics of a Christian understanding of the Buddhist message of salvation , Paderborn 1992, ISBN 978-3-506-70773-4 . (also university thesis, dissertation)
  • with Heinrich Döring , Armin Kreiner : Thinking about faith. New ways of fundamental theology , Freiburg i.Br .: Herder 1993. ISBN 978-3-451-02147-3
  • Theology of Religions. Problems, options, arguments , Neuried 1997, ISBN 978-3-89391-451-7 . (also university thesis, habil.)
  • Basic course in fundamental theology. An introduction to the basic questions of the Christian faith , Munich: Don Bosco Verlag 1999, ISBN 3-7698-1146-1 .
  • with Sami Nair, Andrea Riccardi : Espiritualidad y religious , Barcelona: Circulo de Lectores 2003, ISBN 84-226-9674-6
  • God without limits. A Christian and pluralistic theology of religions , Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus 2005, ISBN 3-579-05219-5 .
  • Understanding Buddhism , Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press 2006, ISBN 978-1-903765-18-0 .
  • with Joachim Chwaszcza, Karl-Dieter Fuchsberger: Götterdämmerung in the Himalaya. Encountering the Stranger , Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-9809862-3-6 .
  • Transformation by integration. How inter-faith encounter changes Christianity , London: SCM Press 2009, ISBN 978-0-334-04317-1 .
  • Religious Pluralism and Interreligious Theology. The Gifford Lectures - An Extended Edition , Maryknoll: Orbis 2017, ISBN 978-1-62698-230-7 .
  • Understand Buddhism. History and ideas of an unusual religion , Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus 2017, ISBN 978-3-579-08532-6 .
  • God Beyond Boundaries. A Christian and Pluralist Theology of Religions , Münster - New York: Waxmann 2017, ISBN 978-3-8309-3739-5 .
  • Tōng guò zhěng hé zoǔ xiàng zhuǎn huà (Transformation by Integration. How inter-faith encounter changes Christianity), Beijing: Religious Culture Publishing House 2017. ISBN 978-7-5188-0468-9 .
  • Truth in diversity. From religious pluralism to interreligious theology , Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus 2019, ISBN 978-3-579-08249-3 .
  • Buddha Mind - Christ Mind. A Christian Commentary on the Bodhicarayāvatāra , Leuven: Peeters 2019, ISBN 978-90-429-3848-9 .
  • 一 花 一 世界: 分 形 理论 视角 下 的 佛 耶 对话To See a World in a Flower: A Fractal Interpretation of the Relation between Buddhism and Christianity (bilingual edition: English / Chinese). Beijing: Zong jiao wen hua chu ban she (Religious Culture Publishing House) 2020, ISBN 978-7-5188-0791-8 .

Books (editor)

  • with Armin Kreiner: Religious experience and theological reflection (= FS Heinrich Döring), Paderborn 1993.
  • Justified hope. About the possibility of being sensible and at the same time Christian , Paderborn 1995.
  • The idea of ​​reincarnation in East and West , Munich 1996.
  • Peter Vardy: The riddle of God. Answers to the question about God , translated by Clemens Wilhelm, edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Munich 1997, (The puzzle of God, German), ISBN 3-7698-1057-0 .
  • Who is buddha A figure and its meaning for humanity (= series of publications by the Society for European-Asian Cultural Relations (GEAK). Philosophy and Religion), Munich 1998, ISBN 3-424-01418-4 .
  • Peter Vardy: The puzzle of evil , translated by Clemens Wilhelm, edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Munich 1998, (The puzzle of evil), ISBN 3-7698-1088-0 .
  • The religions and the food (= Diederichs yellow series, volume 163), Kreuzlingen, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7205-2115-X .
    • Las religiones y la comida , translated by Lluís Miralles de Imperial Llobet, Barcelona 2002, ISBN 84-344-1236-5 .
  • with Thomas Josef Götz, Gerhard Köberlin: Buddhist Perceptions of Jesus. Papers of the third conference of the European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies ,, St. Ottilien 2001, ISBN 3-8306-7069-9 .
  • War and Peace in World Religions , London 2004.
  • Buddhism and Christianity in Dialogue , London 2005.
  • with Reinhold Bernhardt : Criteria for interreligious judgment formation , Zurich 2005.
  • Buddhism, Christianity and the Question of Creation , Aldershot 2006. Ppb. edition: London - New York: Routledge 2016. ISBN 978-1-138-26494-6 .
  • with Lloyd Ridgeon: Islam and Inter-Faith Relations , London 2007.
  • with Reinhold Bernhardt: Multiple Religious Identity , Zurich 2008.
  • Buddhist Attitudes to Other Religions , St. Ottilien 2008, ISBN 978-3-8306-7351-4 .
  • Buddhism and Religious Diversity , 4 vols., New York 2013.
  • with Reinhold Bernhardt: Interreligious Theology: Chances and Problems . Zurich 2013.
  • with Joachim Gentz: Religious Diversity in Chinese Thought . New York - Basingstoke 2013.
  • with Andreas Nehring: Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology. Comparison Revisted. London - New York: Bloomsbury Academic 2016. ISBN 978-1-4742-8513-1 .
  • with Hans-Peter Grosshans and Samuel Ngun Ling: Buddhist and Christian Attitudes to Religious Diversity . Yangon: Ling's Family Publications 2017. ISBN 978-99971-0-269-0 .
  • Buddhist-Christian Relations in Asia . St. Ottilien: EOS-Editions 2017. ISBN 978-3-8306-7851-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evangelical-Theological Faculty, WWU Münster, Vita [1]
  2. ↑ Religions are similar to one another in their diversity , press release Uni Münster from October 5, 2015
  3. ↑ Norbert Copray: Theology and Church far ahead. In: Publik-Forum . July 18, 2019, accessed February 27, 2020 .
  4. ^ Catholic Press Association - Application Gallery. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Höffmann Science Prize 2019 for Prof. Dr. Perry Schmidt-Leukel. University of Vechta, February 6, 2020, accessed on February 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Leukel, Perry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian (Roman Catholic)
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn