Reinhard Körner

This article deals with the German Carmelite Father. For the epigraphist see Reinhard Koerner .

Reinhard Körner OCD (* 1951 in the Cottbus district ) is a German Carmelite , author, speaker and retreat leader .

biography

Reinhard Körner studied theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Erfurt from 1969 to 1975 . He was ordained a priest in 1977 and then worked as a chaplain in Görlitz for four years . He then entered Carmel in 1982 . In 1990, Körner received his doctorate in the department of theology of spirituality with a thesis on John of the Cross (on the relationship between rational thinking and mystical experience ) at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Erfurt . Since 1990, Körner has been head of the retreats of the Teresian Carmel in Germany as well as rector of the religious retreat in Birkenwerder near Berlin , where he works as a course leader. Reinhard Körner is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and is the editor of the quarterly spiritual journal KARMELimpulse.

Reinhard Körner is the author of publications on questions of spiritual theology , mysticism and spiritual life and the spirituality of Carmel.

Publications

• When man seeks God ... Faith orientation in the Mount Carmel sketch of St. Johannes vom Kreuz , Leipzig 2012, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-3-7462-1438-2 .
• 'I have called you friends'. Suggestions for the spiritual life, based on the farewell discourses of Jesus , Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-7283-0196-2 .
• I stay with you ... Becoming a Church in Jesus' Last Supper , Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-7462-3289-8 .
• Jesus remains a small farmer , Münsterschwarzach 2010, ISBN 978-3-89680-478-5 .
• Dare to start again. Paths to a New Christianity , Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-7462-2954-6 . (This title is an unchanged republication of his two books "Wisdom - the Spirituality of Man" (2004) and "The Time is Ripe" (2005).)
• With God on you and you. On the Christian way of being human , Münsterschwarzach 2010, ISBN 978-3-89680-457-0 .
• God is who too! , Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-7462-2841-9 .
• Jesus needs small farmers - and those who want to become one , Münsterschwarzach 2009, ISBN 978-3-89680-415-0 .
• Why I Believe in Eternal Life , Leipzig 2012; 3rd edition, ISBN 978-3-7462-3053-5 .
• Jesus for small farmers - and those who want to become one , Münsterschwarzach 2008, ISBN 978-3-89680-368-9 .
• (Ed.): Sources of living water. Core words of Christian mysticism for spirituality in everyday life , Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-7462-2334-6 .
• Creed. My Christian creed , Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-7462-2275-2 .
• My creed. With pictures by Sieger Köder , Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-7462-2593-7 .
• On the way with you, Jesus. Encouragement for succession , Leipzig: Benno 2007, ISBN 978-3-7462-2183-0 .
• Suffering. Why all this suffering? What do I do about it? Fairacres Publications, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-0-7283-0168-9 .
• Dark night. Mystical experience of God according to Johannes von Kreuz , Münsterschwarzach 2006, ISBN 978-3-87868-654-5 .
• YOU, GOD. Christian spirituality from the Teresian Carmel , Leipzig 2005, ISBN 978-3-7462-1965-3 .
• The Lord's Prayer. Spirituality from the prayer of Jesus , Leipzig 2011; 4th edition, ISBN 978-3-7462-2489-3 .
• What is Inner Prayer? , Münsterschwarzach 2006, 3rd, revised. Edition, ISBN 978-3-87868-616-3 .
• Wisdom - the spirituality of man , Leipzig 2004, ISBN 978-3-7462-1697-3 .
• The time is ripe: Five steps to a new Christianity , Leipzig 2005, ISBN 978-3-7462-1879-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhard Körner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Reinhard Körner's website ( Memento from December 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Official website of the Karmel in Birkenwerder
• Website of the magazine KARMELimpulse
• Author profile with publications at St. Benno-Verlag
• Author profile with publications at Vier-Türme-Verlag