Philipp Schmitz

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Philipp Schmitz SJ (born November 22, 1935 in Cologne ; † August 29, 2015 there ) was a German moral theologian.

Life

Philipp Schmitz first began studying law, but joined the Jesuit religious order in 1957 . He studied theology and philosophy at its own universities. In 1970 he was trained at the Roman Gregoriana with the moral theological work “Grasp Reality. For the inductive standardization of a 'new morality' ”to the Dr. theol. PhD . In 1975 he completed his habilitation in Sankt Georgen with the work “Freedom in the norm. Moral theological reflection on finding norms ".

From 1975 to 1996, Philipp Schmitz held the chair of moral theology at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main . From 1996 until his retirement in 2008 he taught moral theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome . He had his retirement home in the Jesuit community in Cologne .

He has held multiple guest residencies and professorships at the US universities in Yale, San Francisco and Berkeley as well as in Kyoto, Japan, and Manila, the Philippines, as well as in India.

Fonts

  • The Christian Contribution to Sexual Morality. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1972, ISBN 3-7867-0371-X .
  • Grasp reality. For the inductive standardization of a new morality. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-7820-0240-7 .
  • Poverty in the world as a question for Christian social ethics. Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-7820-0294-6 .
  • Ricerca “induttiva” della norma morale. Edizioni Dehoniane Bologna, Bologna 1977.
  • Human Being and Moral Action. Neglected terms in moral theology. Echter, Würzburg 1980, ISBN 3-429-00665-1 .
  • Does the earth subdue you? Faith in creation and the environmental crisis. Echter, Würzburg 1981, ISBN 3-429-00742-9 .
  • with Ursula Adams: Social sermons on contemporary issues. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 1982, ISBN 3-7022-1456-9 .
  • Can Creation Still Be Saved? Environmental crisis and Christian responsibility. Echter, Würzburg 1985, ISBN 3-429-00959-6 .
  • Where is politics headed? About the need for ethics. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, ISBN 3-451-02149-8 .
  • Progress without limits? Christian ethics and technical omnipotence. Herder, Freiburg 1997, ISBN 3-451-02164-1 .

literature

  • Paul-Chummar Chittilappilly (Ed.): Ethics of the fields of life. Festschrift for Philipp Schmitz SJ. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-34019-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice of Philipp Schmitz SJ , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 3, 2015
  2. ^ Obituary by Philipp Schmitz SJ. ( Memento from June 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen
personal data
SURNAME Schmitz, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitz SJ, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic Jesuit and moral theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 29th August 2015
Place of death Cologne