Rainer Bucher

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Rainer Bucher (born October 2, 1956 in Nuremberg ) is a German Roman Catholic pastoral theologian .

Life

Raised in Herzogenaurach and Bayreuth , Bucher studied Roman Catholic theology and German at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Würzburg . In 1986 he received his doctorate with Elmar Klinger in Würzburg with a fundamental theological thesis on the late work of Friedrich Nietzsche .

From 1986 to 1990 he was an academic councilor at the chair for church history and patrology at the University of Bamberg . In 1990 he switched to the Cusanuswerk Episcopal Study Fund , where he was deputy director from 1994. In 1996 he received his habilitation in pastoral theology from Ottmar Fuchs in Bamberg . In 1999 he was a substitute professor for pastoral theology and kerygmatics at the University of Bamberg.

Since January 1, 2000 he has been a university professor and director of the Institute for Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Psychology at the University of Graz .

In 2015 he was one of the co-founders of the theological feuilleton feinschwarz.net.

Works

As an author:

  • The Christian as a person in public. On Herman Schell's concept of culture. Echter, Würzburg 1983.
  • Nietzsche's man and Nietzsche's god. The late work as a philosophical-theological program (= Würzburg Studies on Fundamental Theology. Vol. 1). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1986; 2nd, supplemented edition 1993.
  • Church education in the modern age (= practical theology today. Vol. 37). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1998.
  • The provocation of the crisis. Twelve Questions and Answers on the State of the Church. Echter, Würzburg 2004; 2nd, improved edition 2005.
  • Hitler's theology. Echter, Würzburg 2008 ( Hitler's Theology. Translated by Rebecca Pohl, with an Introduction by Michael Hoelzl, London / New York 2011).
  • I have always been interested in the extreme in theology. Elmar Klinger interviewed by Rainer Bucher. Echter, Würzburg 2009.
  • Nothing is lost. Ottmar Fuchs in conversation with Rainer Bucher and Rainer Krockauer . Echter, Würzburg 2010.
  • Theology at Risk in the Present. Studies on the kenotic existence of pastoral theology between university, church and society (= practical theology today. Vol. 105). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2010.
  • Priests of the People of God: Threats - Basics - Perspectives. Echter, Würzburg 2010.
  • When nothing stays as it was. On the precarious future of the Catholic Church. Echter, 3rd edition Würzburg 2017.
  • In new places. Studies on the current constitutional problems of the German and Austrian Catholic Church, Würzburg 2015
  • Christianity in capitalism. Against the profit-oriented administration of the world , Echter Verlag Würzburg 2019. ISBN 978-3-429-05028-3

As editor :

  • with Ottmar Fuchs, Joachim Kügler : Live with dignity. Interdisciplinary studies in honor of Ernst Ludwig Grasmück. Ed. Exodus, Lucerne 1998.
  • with Rainer Krockauer: Institution and Prophecy, Current Reflections on a Principle of Church Identity (= Werkstatt Theologie. Vol. 1). Lit, Münster 2004.
  • with Rainer Krockauer: power and grace. Investigations into a constitutive field of tension in pastoral care (= Werkstatt Theologie. Vol. 4). Lit, Münster 2005.
  • with Doris Nauer , Franz Weber : practical theology (= practical theology today. Vol. 74). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005.
  • with Rainer Krockauer: Pastoral and Politics. Exploring an unavoidable assignment (= workshop theology. Vol. 7). Lit, Münster 2006.
  • with Rainer Krockauer: God. A pastoral theological approach (= workshop theology. Vol. 10). Lit, Münster 2007.
  • with Johann Pock : Clergy and Pastoral (= workshop theology. Vol. 14). Lit, Vienna / Berlin 2010.
  • with Maria Elisabeth Aigner, Ingrid Hable, Hans-Walter Ruckenbauer: Rooms of sigh of relief. Pastoral Psychology at Risk of Recognition. Festschrift in honor of Karl Heinz Ladenhauf (= workshop theology. Vol. 17). Lit, Berlin 2010.
  • with Renate Oxenknecht-Witzsch: What is missing? Gaps in Catholic Theology in Late Modern Times: An Experiment. Echter, Würzburg 2014.

Web links

Individual references, comments

  1. ↑ Critique of Capitalism - Jesus meets Kevin. Retrieved on May 23, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Bucher, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg