Rudolf Hein

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Rudolf Branko Hein (born November 29, 1967 in Würzburg ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian , priest and canon of the Premonstratensian Order .

Life

After graduating from the Friedrich-Spee-Gymnasium in Geldern, Hein studied Catholic theology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and at Heythrop College of the University of London , where he obtained the Postgraduate Diploma in Pastoral Theology in 1990. In 1992 he finished his studies in Münster with a diploma in Catholic theology .

Already at the beginning of his studies in 1987 he entered the episcopal theological convict Collegium Borromaeum Münster. After completing his studies, he first became a novice with the Premonstratensians in Hamborn Abbey , Duisburg . The temporal vows took place in 1993. Hein was founded in 1999 by Bishop Hubert Luthe ordained a priest in the same year with a moral theological work on the conscience when Adrian of Utrecht , Erasmus and Thomas More to Doctor of theology doctorate. His academic teachers and supervisors for the dissertation were Antonio Autiero and Herbert Vorgrimler .

Pastoral activities followed in a parish in Duisburg-Hamborn and in the local St. Johannes Hospital. In 2005 he was appointed prior of Hamborn Abbey and, after teaching assignments at the Free University of Berlin , the University of Saarland and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , completed his habilitation in 2014 at the seminar for moral theology of the Catholic theological faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster with a virtue ethical work on thrift . Marianne Heimbach-Steins and Antonio Autiero acted as reviewers .

Until the summer semester of 2016, he represented the chair there at the seminar for moral theology . His inaugural lecture in May 2015 was entitled Veritatis Splendor. Aesthetic-ethical highlights on the textile hermeneutics of Benedict XVI. In the winter semester 2016/17 he taught moral theology at the University of Regensburg . He is currently professor of moral theology and head of the "Spirituality and Health" department at the Philosophical-Theological University of Münster .

His teaching and research interests include fundamental ethics , the history of Christian ethics , virtue ethics as well as savings, home and business ethics . He was seen in an interview on the TV channel Bibel TV about ethics of saving, the subject of his habilitation thesis.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs as an author
  • “Conscience” with Adrian von Utrecht (Hadrian VI.), Erasmus von Rotterdam and Thomas More. A contribution to the systematic analysis of the concept of conscience in the Catholic Northern European Renaissance (= Studies of Moral Theology, Vol. 10). Lit, Münster 1999, ISBN 978-3-8258-4235-2 .
  • Thrift. Virtue ethics in the economic spectrum . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-402-13141-1 .
Monographs as editor
  • with Stephan Goertz and Katharina Klöcker: Vanishing point fundamentalism? Present-day diagnoses of Catholic morality. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-34140-3 .
Articles (selection)
  • Weeping organic waste? Notes on the ethical position of the human corpse , in: Paul-Chummar Chittilappilly (Hrsg.): Horizons of contemporary ethics. FS Josef Schuster SJ , Freiburg i.Br. 2016, pp. 664-679. ISBN 978-3-451-34875-4 .
  • Conscience: Dictator or Guide - Meta-Ethical and Biographical Reflections in the Light of a Humanist Concept of Conscience , in: Julie Clague / Bernard Hoose u. a. (Ed.): Moral Theology for the Twenty-First Century. Essays in Celebration of Kevin Kelly , London / New York 2008, pp. 34–50. ISBN 978-0-567-62143-6 .
  • Individual conscience in the field of tension between the claim to loyalty and reference to transcendence - Thomas More and Heinrich VIII. In: Mariano Delgado / Volker Leppin / David Neuhold (eds.): Wrestling for truth. Conflicts of conscience in the history of Christianity (Studies on Christian religious and cultural history 15), Freiburg i. Üe. 2011, pp. 245-267. ISBN 978-3-17-021826-0 .
  • Complementing (Personal) Sustainability. Toward a Contemporary Virtue Ethics Approach to Frugality , in: Annali di studi religiosi 12 (2011), pp. 47-61.
  • Adrianus van Utrecht over gewetensvrijheid , in: Adelbert Denaux / Ton Meijers (ed.): Paus Adrianus VI (1459–1523) (Theologische Perspectieven 10) , Bergambacht 2012, pp. 67–93. ISBN 978-94-90393-27-4 .
  • John Colet's concept of conscience in the mirror of Origenic thought , in: Alfons Fürst , Christian Hengstermann (ed.): Autonomy and human dignity. Origen in the Philosophy of Modern Times (Adamantiana 2) , Münster 2012, pp. 81–138. ISBN 978-3-402-13711-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.pth-muenster.de/dozenten/pd-p-dr-rudolf-b-hein-o-praem/
  2. ↑ http://www.pth-muenster.de/dozenten/pd-p-dr-rudolf-b-hein-o-praem/
  3. ↑ http://www.catholicethics.com/network/rudolf-hein
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ http://www.pth-muenster.de/dozenten/pd-p-dr-rudolf-b-hein-o-praem/
  6. ↑ http://www.uni-muenster.de/FB2/haben/moraltheologie/hein.html
  7. ↑ http://www.uni-muenster.de/FB2/aktuelles/archiv_antrittsvorlesung.html
  8. ↑ http://www.catholicethics.com/network/rudolf-hein
  9. ↑ http://www.bibeltv.de/mediathek/video/kann-man-sich-das-sparen-sparen-804/
personal data
SURNAME Hein, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hein, Rudolf Branko (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian, priest and canon of the Premonstratensian Order
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg