Rolf Decot

Rolf Decot CSsR (* 1942 in Essen ) is a German Catholic theologian .

Life

Decot comes from a Berlin Huguenot family. He passed his Abitur at the Collegium Josephinum Bonn and then joined the Redemptorists . He studied theology first in Trier, then from 1965 at the Philosophical-Theological University in Hennef. After being ordained priest in 1970, he also studied history and education at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. The subsequent theological doctorate was supervised by Anton Philipp Brück . This work about the "Elector and Archbishop Sebastian von Heusenstamm 1545-1555" was awarded the prize of the University of Mainz. Before and after his habilitationin Middle and Modern Church History (“Reform and Reich Policy”) in Mainz he developed an intensive teaching activity. From 1984 to 1996 he was Professor of Church History at Phil.-Theol. Hennef University and since 1996 at the Philosophical-Theological University SVD St. Augustin , at the same time he is an adjunct professor at the University of Mainz . From 1977 to 2007 Decot was a research assistant at the Institute for European History in Mainz. He sits on the scientific advisory board of the journal Theologie der Gegenwart (University of Erfurt).

His research focuses on the question of religion on the diets of the 16th century, Reformation and ecumenism, the Archbishopric of Mainz in the early modern period, religion and the church at the end of the Old Kingdom and in secularization and the history of orders (Redemptorists).

Publications (selection)

• Religious Peace and Church Reform. The Mainz Elector Sebastian von Heusenstamm 1545–1555 (= publications of the Institute for European History Mainz , Volume 100). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-515-03307-6 (also dissertation, Mainz 1979).
• as editor: Peter Manns . Father in faith. Studies on the theology of Martin Luther. Ceremony for the 65th birthday (= publications of the Institute for European History Mainz , Volume 131). Steiner, Wiesbaden a. a. 1988, ISBN 3-515-05055-8 .
• as editor: attempts at mediation at the Augsburg Reichstag 1530 (= publications of the Institute for European History Mainz , supplement 26). Steiner, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-515-05263-1 .
• as editor with Rainer Vinke : In memory of Joseph Lortz (1887–1975). Contributions to the history of the Reformation and ecumenism (= publications by the Institute for European History Mainz , supplement 30). Steiner, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-515-05159-7 .
• as editor with Gerhard May : Heinz Scheible , Melanchthon and the Reformation. Research contributions (= publications of the Institute for European History Mainz , supplement 41). von Zabern, Mainz 1996, ISBN 3-8053-1935-5 .
• as editor: Leif Grane , Reformation Studies. Contributions to Luther and the Danish Reformation (= publications of the Institute for European History Mainz , Supplement 49). von Zabern, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2599-1 .
• as editor with Matthieu Arnold : Piety and Spirituality. Effects of the Reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries (= publications by the Institute for European History Mainz , supplement 54). von Zabern, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-8053-2939-3 .
• as editor: Secularization of the Reichskirche 1803. Aspects of ecclesiastical upheaval (= publications of the Institute for European History Mainz , Supplement 55). von Zabern, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-8053-2940-7 .
• as editor: expansion and endangerment. American mission and European crisis of the Jesuits in the 18th century (= publications of the Institute for European History Mainz , Supplement 63). von Zabern, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-8053-3432-X .
• A short history of the Reformation in Germany Herder, Freiburg a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-451-28613-0 .
  • Breve storia della riforma protestante Ed. Queriniana, Brescia 2007, ISBN 978-88-399-2793-4 .
  • Mała historia reformacji w Niemczech Wydawn. WAM, Kraków 2007, ISBN 978-83-7318-743-6 .
• as editor: Continuity and innovation around 1803. Secularization as a transformation process. Church - Theology - State - Society (= publications of the Institute for European History Mainz , supplement 65). von Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3524-5 .
• as editor with Matthieu Arnold: Christians and Jews in the Reformation Age (= publications of the Institute for European History Mainz , supplement 72). von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 978-3-8053-3709-0 .
• as editor: denominational conflict, church structure, cultural change. The Jesuits in the empire after 1556 (= publications of the Institute for European History Mainz , supplement 77). von Zabern, Mainz 2007, ISBN 3-8053-3820-1 .
• History of the Reformation in Germany . Herder, Freiburg a. a. 2015, ISBN 3-451-31190-9 .

literature

• Hans Josef Schmitz : Rolf Decot, Luther's Reformation between theology and imperial politics . Lembeck, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 3-87476-539-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rolf Decot in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Rolf Decot  in the German Digital Library
• Rolf Decot in the German biography
• Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
• Philosophical-Theological University SVD St. Augustin
• List of publications
• Redemptorist Province of St. Clement