Rudolf Schnackenburg

Rudolf Schnackenburg (born January 5, 1914 in Katowice , Upper Silesia , † August 28, 2002 in Würzburg ) was a German Catholic priest and New Testament scholar . It is of Joseph Ratzinger referred to as the "most significant German-speaking Catholic exegete the second half of the 20th century".

Life

Schnackenburg spent his childhood in Liegnitz and graduated from the Johanneum grammar school there in 1932 . He then studied philosophy and theology at the Universities of Breslau and Munich. At the beginning of his studies he joined the Catholic student association WkSt.V. Guestfalia-Unitas . In Breslau he was one of Friedrich Wilhelm Maier supervised and 1937 submitted dissertation on faith in the Gospel of John in Wroclaw doctorate . In the same year he received by Adolf Cardinal Bertram , the priesthood and then worked first as a pastor in Silesia. After he was expelled there in 1946, he completed his habilitation in 1947 with the work The Salvation Event at the Baptism of the Apostle Paul with Friedrich Wilhelm Maier at the University of Munich for New Testament exegesis and became a private lecturer there in 1948, from 1952 he was associate professor for New Testament exegesis of the Philosophical-Theological University of Dillingen , 1955 full professor in Bamberg. From 1957 to 1982 he taught as a professor for the New Testament at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . Josef Blank , Anton Dauer and Gerhard Lohfink were among his Würzburg assistants . After his retirement he worked as a pastor in a nursing home and as a spiritual guide for the community of Sant'Egidio .

Scientific activity

Schnackenburg was a member of the International Theological Commission and wrote numerous books, including a commentary on the Gospel of John, and contributed to the uniform translation of the Bible . He was a member of the Ecumenical Working Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians (ÖAK) for years and contributed to publications.

Works

Exegetical commentaries

• The Gospel according to Mark , 2 vol .; Spiritual scripture reading. New Testament explanations for spiritual reading; Düsseldorf: Patmos, Vol. 1: 1966, Vol. 2: 1971
• Gospel of Matthew , 2 vol .; The New Real Bible. Commentary on the New Testament with the standard translation; Würzburg: Real one
• The Gospel of John , 4 vol .; Herder's theological commentary on the New Testament 4; Freiburg (special edition 2000): Herder
• The Epistle to the Ephesians ; Evangelical-Catholic Commentary on the New Testament 10; Düsseldorf: Benziger, u. a. 2003 ² ; ISBN 3-545-23111-9

more publishments

• God's rule and kingdom; Herder Verlag, Freiburg i.Br., 1959
• The moral message of the New Testament ; Herder's Theological Commentary on the New Testament, Supplementbd. 2; Freiburg i.Br. u. a .: Herder, 1986–1988 (Vol. 1: From Jesus to the Urkirche , 1986, ISBN 3-451-20685-4 ; Part 2: The early Christian publishers , 1988 ISBN 3-451-20690-0 )
• The Jesus way. Meditations on the Lukan “travel report” ; Stuttgart pocket books 4; Stuttgart: Catholic Biblical Works, 1990; ISBN 3-460-11004-X
• God sent his son. The Christmas Secret ; Freiburg i.Br. u. a .: Herder, 1990; ISBN 3-451-22088-1
• The person of Jesus Christ in the mirror of the four Gospels ; Herder's Theological Commentary on the New Testament, Supplementbd. 4; Freiburg i.Br. u. a .: Herder, 1993; ISBN 3-451-23072-0 (new edition: Freiburg i.Br. 1998)
• Friendship with Jesus ; Freiburg i.Br. u. a .: Herder, 1995; ISBN 3-451-23606-0
• Sermon in the community of Sant'Egidio ; Würzburg: Community of Sant'Egidio (ed.), 2003; ISBN 3-429-02546-X
• The Sermon on the Mount. Utopian vision or instruction? ; Düsseldorf 1984; ISBN 978-3-491-77267-0
• Memorandum for the celibacy discussion , together with u. a. Walter Kasper , Karl Lehmann , Karl Rahner , Joseph Ratzinger from February 9, 1970
• Marriage according to the New Testament , in Theologie der Ehe , pp. 9 ff, publishers Friedrich Pustet Regensburg and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen, 1969

literature

• Biblical marginal notes, student festival publication for Rudolf Schnackenburg on his 60th birthday, ed. by Helmut Merklein and Joachim Lange . Würzburg: Echterverlag, 1974
• Joachim Gnilka: New Testament and Church: [Festschrift] for Rudolf Schnackenburg [z. 60th birthday on January 5th, 1974 of friends and family Dedicated to colleagues] ; Freiburg (im Breisgau), Basel, Vienna: Herder, 1974; ISBN 3-451-16628-3
• Joachim Gnilka : Article Schnackenburg, Rudolf ; in: LThK ³ 11, Sp. 232
• Helmut Merklein (ed.): New Testament and Ethics: [Festgabe] for Rudolf Schnackenburg ; Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna: Herder, 1989; ISBN 3-451-21008-8
• Thomas Söding :  Schnackenburg, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 277 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Schnackenburg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sermon on the Requiem for Rudolf Schnackenburg ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

swell

1. ↑ Joseph Ratzinger: Jesus von Nazareth , p. 11.
2. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 5 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 2005, ISBN 3-87710-502-5 , p. 265 .
3. ↑ Theology of Marriage . At the 29th conference with contributions from Rudolf Schnackenburg, Heinrich Greeven , Joseph Ratzinger , Heinz-Dietrich Wendland ; List of members of the working group, documents of the churches on marriage and marriage, publishers Friedrich Pustet Regensburg and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen, 1969
4. ^ Memorandum on Celibacy