Rudolf Mosis

Rudolf Mosis (born January 16, 1933 in Mannheim ) is a German theologian and Old Testament scholar .

Life

After graduating from high school in Konstanz , he studied Catholic theology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg from 1952 . On the initiative of the Archbishop of Freiburg, Wendelin Rauch , he studied philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Pontificium Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum de Urbe in Rome from 1953 . There he was ordained a priest in 1958 . In 1961 he was at the Gregorian in Mauritius Flick and Friedrich Wulf with the dissertation The People and possessions by John of the Cross doctorate . He was then in pastoral care as a chaplain in his home diocese in Herbolzheim i. Br. And Karlsruhe-Beiertheim and worked as a repetitor for philosophy at the Archbishop's Convict in Freiburg (1963–1967) and head of a large student residence. In 1968 he was accepted as an honorary member of the KDStV Hercynia Freiburg im Breisgau . After completing his postgraduate studies in Oriental Studies and the Old Testament at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , he completed his habilitation in 1972 after intensive discussions with Alfons Deissler in Freiburg with a paper on the theology of chronological history.

In 1973, he received a call to the newly founded Catholic University . He was dean there from 1975 to 1977 and university president from 1978 to 1983.

In 1986 he switched to the chair for the Old Testament at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . From 1991 to 1992 he was Dean of the Department of Catholic Theology. In 1998 he retired .

Act

Rudolf Mosis published numerous pioneering writings in the area of ​​the Old Testament. He was significantly involved in the transition from the church comprehensive university to the Catholic University of Eichstätt and has significantly shaped today's university.

In 1987 he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his services by Richard von Weizsäcker . In 1992 the award was the Pontifical honorary title Prelate by Pope John Paul II.

Since 1968 he has been an honorary member of the Catholic student association KDStV Hercynia Freiburg im Breisgau im CV .

Fonts

• Man and things according to John of the Cross (1965)
• The Book of Ezekiel (1973)
• I put my word in your mouth. Spiritual impulses from Jeremiah (1979)
• Investigations into the theology of chronistic history (1973)
• Exile, diaspora, return. On the theological conversation between Jews and Christians (1978)
• The way to the people. On philosophical and theological anthropology (1989)
• The casual and the remote. Biblical impulses from three decades . Edited by Franz Sedlmeier (2014)

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Mosis in the catalog of the German National Library