Peter Schallenberg

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Peter Schallenberg (born August 25, 1963 in Oberhausen ) is a German Roman Catholic moral theologian and Christian social scientist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1982 at Laurentianum Arnsberg , Schallenberg studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Theological Faculty in Paderborn , from 1984 at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana and at the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum . With graduation in 1987 he was in Rome for the deacon ordained, ibid he received for the Archdiocese of Paderborn on 10 October 1988, the priestly ordination . 1991 Schallenberg was as a student at the Collegium Teutonicum at Campo Santo with the work The development of the theological natural law in the late neo-scholasticism of the German language area with Klaus Demmer doctorate .

From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a vicar in Schwerte . In 1994 Schallenberg became a diocesan youth pastor, and in 2000 a diocesan pastor for the Maltese in the Archdiocese of Paderborn. In 1995 he became a subsidiary in Clarholz. In 1997, following Reinhard Marx, Schallenberg was appointed director of the social institute Kommende Dortmund of the Archdiocese of Paderborn . During his activity in the Kommende, Msgr. Schallenberg was Subsidiar in the St. Ewaldi community in the Aplerbeck district of Dortmund .

In parallel to a teaching position for theological ethics at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , he completed his habilitation in moral theology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster in 2003 with the thesis Love and Subjectivity. The success of life in the shadow of “pure amour” as a program of theological ethics .

In May 2004 Schallenberg received a call on the Chair of Moral Theology and Christian Social Sciences at the Faculty of Theology Fulda . In the same year he became student chaplain of the Catholic University Community (KHG) in Fulda. Here he was appointed diocesan pastor of the Maltese in the diocese of Fulda in 2006; since 2007 he has been the magistral chaplain of the Sovereign Order of Malta .

Schallenberg has held the chair for moral theology and ethics at the Theological Faculty in Paderborn since 2008 . He was visiting professor at the Pontificio Istituto "Giovanni Paolo II" of the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, and at the Alba Iulia Theological College in Transylvania.

On April 1, 2010, Peter Schallenberg took over the directorate of the Catholic Social Science Center (KSZ) in Mönchengladbach and replaced Anton Rauscher SJ , who held the office for 46 years.

In 2018, Pope Francis appointed Schallenberg as consultor to the Dicastery for the holistic development of man in the Vatican , headed by Peter Cardinal Turkson .

Act

Schallenberg's main research areas are Christian social ethics , ethics of the social market economy and Christian social doctrine . To this end, he has published numerous writings and works. He is co-editor of Amos international magazine .

He has been a member of the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice (CAPP) Pontifical Foundation since 2006 and is committed to ethics in economic issues. He is also an advisor to the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs (BKU) . Since 2007 Schallenberg has been a member of the Association of German-speaking Moral Theologians and Social Ethicists and of the Societas Ethica. Since 2011 he has been a member of the Social Policy and Society Commission of the German Caritas Association . Since 2012 Spiritual Advisory Council of the Federal Association of Catholics in Economy and Administration (KKV) on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference. He is chairman of the ethics committee of the St. Vinzenz Hospital Society in Paderborn. He is the chairman of the social science working group of St. Klemens Kommende Dortmund (social institute of the Archdiocese of Paderborn).

Peter Schallenberg is committed to numerous initiatives in the Holy Land . In 1998, Cardinal Grand Master Carlo Cardinal Furno made Schallenberg Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and invested in the German Lieutenancy on May 9, 1998 in Mainz Cathedral by Archbishop Anton Schlembach , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . He is Commander of the Order.

In Rome, Schallenberg became a member of the Catholic student association KAV Capitolina Rom in the CV in 1984 , and in 2003 also the KDStV Bergland (Freiberg) Aachen, as well as the KDStV Sauerlandia Münster and the KDStV Guestfalo-Silesia Paderborn. He has been a Rotarian since 1994 .

honors and awards

Memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • You are the letter of Christ: being a priest in the testimony of Therese von Lisieux, Johannes XXIII. and Romano Guardini , Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 1999, ISBN 3897101025 , together with Reinhard Marx
  • Charitable action between the Bible and the balance sheet , Verlag Dr. Wilhelm Hopf 1999, ISBN 3825842711 , together with Josef Lüttig
  • Challenged to the mission? , Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 1999, ISBN 3897101076 , together with Thomas Schäfers, Udo Zelinka
  • Moral theology, Christian social doctrine , Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 2002, ISBN 3897101831
  • Love and subjectivity , Aschendorff, Münster 2003, ISBN 3402039672
  • Promises of happiness, Holy Scriptures and human history , Aschendorff Verlag 2004, ISBN 3402034395 , together with Alfred Bellebaum
  • Beyond Paradise - Ethical Impetus for Everyday Life , Aschendorff Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3402117866
  • Catholic social teaching in concrete terms - political fields of action and Christian word , dialogverlag, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3937961934 , together with Johannes Bernhard
  • From the happiness of faith , Sankt Ulrich Verlag Augsburg 2008, ISBN 3867440506
  • God, the good and man. Basics of Catholic moral theology , Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3897104501

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CV Peter Schallenberg (PDF, 192 KB). Retrieved April 26, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Professor Peter Schallenberg appointed consultor in the Vatican. Retrieved November 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schallenberg, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen