Roland Faber

Roland Faber (born August 8, 1960 in Korneuburg ) is a theologian and university professor .

Life

Faber studied theology , philosophy , psychology and education . At the University of Vienna, he worked in 1981 as a study assistant and in 1988 as a university assistant at the Institute for Dogmatic Theology and History of Dogma. His thesis in 1985 was about The New Future of God ; his dissertation in 1992 dealt with God's self-commitment .

From 1995 to 1996 Faber stayed in Los Angeles to study Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy . He also worked at the Center for Process Studies at the School of Theology at Claremont on American process theology .

Faber completed his habilitation in 1997 on the subject of process, relativity and transcendence. For the criticism of process theological theory and in 1998 received an assistant professorship at the Vienna Institute for Dogmatic Theology. A year later he was appointed associate professor for Catholic dogmatics .

In 1986 Faber became a member of the Austrian Society for Philosophy of Religion. Since 1989 he has been a member of the International Society for New Music ( IGNM ), followed in 1993 by membership of the International Franz Schubert Institute ( IFSI ).

In 2001 Faber began teaching at Xavier University in Ohio . Together with Joseph Bracken, at the Institute for Systematic Theology, he devoted himself to the topic of Christian eschatology in American-European dialogue . In 2005 his life took him again to Los Angeles, where he was appointed Professor of Process Theology at the Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University, California, in 2007, where he studied theology, the philosophy of religion, post-structuralist philosophy and process thinking informed.

In 2007 he founded the Whitehead Research Project , which is dedicated to the study of Whitehead's philosophy.

Research priorities

Faber is currently working on five research projects:

• Time theology (creation and eschaton) ;
• Transreligious discourse ;
• Relationship between theology and quantum physics ;
• Relational theology as a further development of process theology;
• Post-structuralism, particularly Gilles Deleuze , Judith Butler and Georges Bataille, and mystical theology .

Services

Faber shows in his analysis of process theology how central Christian truths of faith can be completely reinterpreted, how there can be a connection between poststructuralism and process philosophy, which leads to the development of a poststructuralist process theology and an interpretation of Whitehead's philosophy in the light of Gilles Deleuze.

“Process theology is theopoetics, ie a theology of perichoresis (the interpenetration of everything) in which the universe represents the creative adventure of God and God the event of creative transformation of the world. In the web of interweaving - in the process - God appears as the 'poet of the world': its surprising creator (the reason for its novelty), its compassionate companion (the reason for its interweaving) and its saving shine (the reason for its harmony). "

- Roland Faber: God as Poet of the World , Darmstadt 2003, p. 18

Works

• Roland Faber: God's self-commitment. On the foundation of a theology of God's suffering and mutability . Echter, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-429-01689-4 (Zugl .: Wien, Univ., Diss., 1992).
• Roland Faber: Process theology: for their appreciation and critical renewal . Matthias-Grünewald-Verl., Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-7867-2238-2 (Zugl .: Vienna, Univ., Habil.Schr.).
• Roland Faber: God as the poet of the world: concerns and perspectives of process theology . Knowledge Buchges., Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-534-15864-4 .
• Roland Faber: God as poet of the world: exploring process theologies . Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, KY 2008, ISBN 978-0-664-23076-0 (German: God as Poet of the World .).
• Roland Faber: Bahá'u'lláh and the Luminous Mind: Bahá'í Gloss on a Buddhist Puzzle . In: Lights of Irfán vol. 18 . Irfán Colloquia, Evanston, IL 2017, ISBN 978-3-942426-32-9 , pp. 53-106 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Roland Faber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Herbert Frohnhofen on Roland Faber's book "God as the Poet of the World"
• Bibliography at the Whitehead Research Project