Peter Hünermann

Peter Hünermann (born March 8, 1929 in Berlin ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian. From 1982 until his retirement in 1997 he was Professor of Catholic Dogmatics at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . From 1971 to 1982 he taught dogmatics at the University of Münster .

Life

Hünermann began his studies in Rome in 1949 and returned after ordination (1955) and doctorate to become Dr. theol. 1958 returned to Germany. From 1958 to 1962 he worked as a chaplain and religion teacher in Mönchengladbach and Aachen. From 1961 to 1967 he completed his studies in Munich and Freiburg im Breisgau.

In autumn 1962, when the Second Vatican Council began, Hünermann was working at the theological faculty in Freiburg and preparing his habilitation thesis.

Hünermann taught from 1971 to 1982 as a professor of dogmatics in Münster, then until his retirement in Tübingen. In 1983 he was appointed honorary professor at the Universidad Católica Boliviana in Cochabamba , which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1997. Hünermann received further honorary doctorates in 2005 from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires, from the University of Freiburg and in 2008 from the University of Erfurt .

From 1985 to 2003 Hünermann held the presidency of the Catholic Academic Foreign Nationals Service (KAAD). From 1989 to 1995 he was the founding president of the European Society for Catholic Theology.

Hünermann lives in Rottenburg am Neckar .

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The great council decisions, the liturgical reform , the new version of the Revelation Constitution and the other great documents meant, according to his perception, a liberation. However, the theological processing of the council after three decades leaves a lot to be desired.

From 2004, 40 years after the Council, Hünermann and Bernd Jochen Hilberath published a new, five-volume theological commentary on the teaching documents of the Second Vatican Council, which was written to Pope Benedict XVI , who was also a professor of dogmatics in Tübingen . was presented in February 2006 on the sidelines of a general audience.

In connection with the withdrawal of the excommunication of the Society of St. Pius X. in 2009, he spoke of an "abuse of office" by the Pope.

With ecumenical intent, Hünermann advocates decentralized, synodal processes.

Works (selection)

Herder's Theological Commentary on the Second Vatican Council. 5 volumes. Edited by Bernd Jochen Hilberath / Peter Hünermann. Freiburg 2004/5, ISBN 3-451-28561-4 .
Revelation of God in time. Prolegomena to Christology. Munster 1989.
Translation or Belief in the power of God's word in our time. Sermons for the church year. Munster 1984.
God on the move. The provocation of Latin American theology. Edited with Gerd-Dieter Fischer, Freiburg - Basel - Vienna 1974.
Publication of the Enchiridion Symbolorum (Denzinger-Hünermann).

Web links

Literature by and about Peter Hünermann in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Peter Hünermann in the Index Theologicus
Prof. Dr. em. Peter Hünermann. Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen, August 15, 2018.; accessed on March 9, 2019
Agathe Lukassek: Hünermann: My letter was interpreted as an attack on the papacy. In: kathisch.de . March 8, 2019 .; accessed on March 9, 2019

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↑ Overview: 50 Years of KAAD - Historical Review. (pdf, 93 kB) In: kaad.de. December 30, 2009, p. 17 , archived from the original on March 8, 2012 ; Retrieved August 31, 2011 .
↑ Agathe Lukassek: Hünermann: My letter was interpreted as an attack on the papacy. In: kathisch.de . March 8, 2019, accessed March 9, 2019 .
↑ Erich Garhammer : A conversation with Peter Hünermann. (pdf, 43% kB) In: Lebendige Seelsorge 4/56. 2005, pp. 219-221 , accessed March 9, 2019 .
^ Council commentary. In: Website of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen. December 6, 2006, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on March 9, 2019 .
^ Peter Hünermann: Excommunicatio - Communicatio: Attempt to analyze layers of the current crisis. (pdf, 90 kB) In: Herder Korrespondenz 2 (2009). February 20, 2009, pp. 119–125 , accessed March 9, 2019 . Catholic theology professor accuses Pope of abuse of office. In: epd.de . Archived from the original on October 3, 2009 ; accessed on March 9, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hünermann, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	March 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[1] Overview: 50 Years of KAAD - Historical Review. (pdf, 93 kB) In: kaad.de. December 30, 2009, p. 17 , archived from the original on March 8, 2012 ; Retrieved August 31, 2011 .

[2] Agathe Lukassek: Hünermann: My letter was interpreted as an attack on the papacy. In: kathisch.de . March 8, 2019, accessed March 9, 2019 .

[3] Erich Garhammer : A conversation with Peter Hünermann. (pdf, 43% kB) In: Lebendige Seelsorge 4/56. 2005, pp. 219-221 , accessed March 9, 2019 .

[4] Council commentary. In: Website of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen. December 6, 2006, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on March 9, 2019 .

[5] Peter Hünermann: Excommunicatio - Communicatio: Attempt to analyze layers of the current crisis. (pdf, 90 kB) In: Herder Korrespondenz 2 (2009). February 20, 2009, pp. 119–125 , accessed March 9, 2019 . Catholic theology professor accuses Pope of abuse of office. In: epd.de . Archived from the original on October 3, 2009 ; accessed on March 9, 2019 .