Peter Walter (theologian)

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Peter August Walter (born April 4, 1950 in Bingen am Rhein ; † August 21, 2019 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Roman Catholic priest , theologian and dogmatist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Bingen, Peter Walter studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1968 to 1976 . In 1975 he was ordained a priest . In 1980 he was in Rome with a thesis on the First Vatican Council to Dr. theol. PhD. From 1980 to 1984 he worked in the pastoral care of the diocese of Mainz. He was u. a. Chaplain in Seligenstadt and episcopal chaplain of Bishop Hermann Cardinal Volk and first secretary of the new Bishop of Mainz Karl Lehmann . From 1984 to 1990 Walter worked as a research assistant at the Catholic theological faculty of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1989 he completed his habilitation on the interpretation of the Erasmus of Rotterdam .

In 1990 Peter Walter was offered a chair for dogmatics at the theological faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . As full professor of dogmatics, he was primarily responsible for the publication of the third edition of the Lexicon for Theology and Church in the years 1990–2001. He was also director of the dogmatics and source studies of medieval theology at the Raimundus Lullus Institute. In 2015 he retired.

Peter Walter had been a member of the Ecumenical Working Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians since 1991 . In 1993/94 he was Dean of the Theological Faculty of the University of Freiburg and from 2006 to 2012 Prefect of the University Church (Freiburg im Breisgau) . From 1994 to 2015 he was a liaison professor at the German National Academic Foundation .

Since 2001 he has been an advisor to the Commission for Religious Questions of the German Bishops' Conference , since 2002 representative of Roman Catholic theology in the Chamber for Theology of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and corresponding member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres in Barcelona . In 2005 he was elected President of the Society for Middle Rhine Church History in Mainz (until 2017) and took over the chairmanship of the large edition Corpus Catholicorum (series) . From 2015 to 2019 he was a member of the board of the Görres Society .

His main research interests were theological hermeneutics , the history of theology in the Middle Ages and modern times, and conversions.

Fonts (selection)

  • The question of the foundation of belief from inner experience at Vatican I. The position of the council against the background of contemporary Roman theology (= Tübingen Theological Studies. Vol. 16). Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1980, ISBN 3-7867-0824-X (Also: Rome, Pontifical University, dissertation, 1979/1980).
  • The essence and workings of evil (= answer of faith. Vol. 41, ZDB -ID 2135394-3 ). Information center for professions of the church, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1986.
  • Johann Baptist Franzelin (1816–1886). Jesuit, theologian, cardinal. A picture of life. Athesia Publishing House, Bozen 1987, ISBN 88-7014-438-0 .
  • Theology from the spirit of rhetoric. On the interpretation of the Erasmus of Rotterdam (= Tübingen Studies on Theology and Philosophy. Vol. 1). Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-7867-1554-8 (also: Tübingen, University, habilitation paper, 1990).
  • Syngrammata. Collected writings on systematic theology . Herder-Verlag Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-31285-4 .
  • Syngrammata. Collected writings on theology and the church on the Middle Rhine (= contributions to Mainz church history. Vol. 8). Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-429-03815-1 .
  • Syngrammata. Collected writings on humanism and Catholic reform (= Reformation historical studies and texts. Supplement 6). Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-402-11585-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freiburg dogmatist Peter Walter died. Catholic.de , August 22, 2019, accessed on August 22, 2019 . Peter Walter's obituary / obituary. Diocese of Mainz , August 22, 2019, accessed on August 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walter, Peter August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic priest, theologian and dogmatist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bingen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2019
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau