Peter Neuner

Peter Neuner (born March 23, 1941 in Munich ) is a Catholic priest and theologian .

Life

Neuner graduated from high school in 1960 and studied philosophy and theology in Munich and Freising . In 1966 he was ordained a priest and worked as a chaplain in Traunstein until 1968 . From 1972 to 1980 he was an assistant at the Institute for Ecumenical Theology at the University of Munich. As a student of Heinrich Fries doctorate he 1976 Dr. theol , the habilitation followed in 1978. From 1980 to 1985 Peter Neuner was professor for fundamental theology in Passau . In 1985 he was offered a professorship at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where he took the chair for dogmatics at the Catholic Theological Faculty . From the year 2000 the field of ecumenical theology was added. Until his retirement in 2006 he was also director of the Ecumenical Research Institute at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Munich.

Peter Neuner was head of the working group of dogmatists and fundamental theologians of the German-speaking area from 1998 to 2002 and chairman of the Catholic Theological Faculty Conference from 2002 to 2005. From 1999 to 2005 he was involved in a graduate college of the University of Philosophy in Munich on religious experience.

Act

Neuner's main theme is ecumenism . He has presented numerous publications on this and on the closely related ecclesiology . He is also a specialist in modernism , where he works out that theologians in the modernism controversy were wronged by representatives of the teaching profession.

He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts as well as a member of the scientific advisory board of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria, member of the German Ecumenical Study Committee and since 2000 its chairman, member of the China Center, Sankt Augustin near Bonn.

Works (in selection)

Monographs

• Martin Luther's Reformation. Freiburg 2017.
• Farewell to the Ständekirche, Freiburg 2015.
• The dispute over Catholic modernism, Frankfurt / M. 2005.
• Ecumenical Theology, Darmstadt 2005.
• The Holy Church of Sinful Christians, Regensburg 2002.
• The layman and the people of God, Leipzig 1990.
• Döllinger as the theologian of ecumenism, Paderborn 1979.
• Religious experience and historical revelation, Paderborn 1976.

Editorships

• Karl-Ernst Apfelbacher (Ed.), Peter Neuner (Ed.): Ernst Troeltsch . Letters to Friedrich von Hügel . 1901 - 1923. Paderborn 1974 (= denominational writings of the Johann Adam Möhler Institute , No. 11), ISBN 3-87088-114-3 .
• Peter Neuner, Birgitta Kleinschwärzer-Meister : Breve manuale dell 'Ecumene. Nuova edizione, Brescia 2001.
• Peter Neuner, Birgitta Kleinschwärzer-Meister: Small handbook of ecumenism. Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-70346-8 .
• Peter Neuner (Ed.), Birgitta Kleinschwärzer-Meister (Ed.): Ecumenism between postmodern arbitrariness and re-denominationalization. Münster 2006 (= contributions from the Center for Ecumenical Research Munich, Vol. 3).

items

• Heinrich Fries , Karl-Ernst Apfelbacher, Johannes Brosseder , Peter Neuner: Behind the Council? Statement on the working basis “The priestly office” for discussion in the Roman Synod of Bishops . In: Publik 1971, No. 26, p. 21.
• Karl-Ernst Apfelbacher, Peter Neuner: New Document for the Synod of Bishops. International theological commission presents discussion paper on the priestly question. In: Publik 1971, No. 30, p. 15.

Reviews

• Peter Neuner: Review of: Karl-Ernst Apfelbacher, Piety and Science. Ernst Troeltsch and his theological program (Contributions to Ecumenical Theology, Volume 18), Munich - Paderborn - Vienna 1978 . In: Ökumenische Rundschau , Volume 28, 1979, pp. 87f.
• Peter Neuner: A New Epoch in Modernism Research. To Otto Weiss , Modernism in Germany. (Review of: Modernism in Germany. A contribution to the history of theology. Regensburg 1995, ISBN 3-7917-1478-3 ). In: Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift , Volume 47, 1996, Issue 1.
• Peter Neuner: Review of: Karl-Ernst Apfelbacher, Selig die Mrauernden. Cultural-historical aspects of Christianity, Regensburg 2002. In: Voices of the time , year 220, 2002, p. 784f.

literature

• Christoph Böttigheimer , Hubert Filser (Ed.): Church unity and global responsibility. Festschrift for Peter Neuner. Pustet, Regensburg 2006, ISBN 3-7917-1998-X .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Neuner in the catalog of the German National Library
• LMU: Prof. em. Dr. Peter Neuner - curriculum vitae
• News from the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich on February 8, 2002