Siegfried Wiedenhofer

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Siegfried Wiedenhofer (2011)

Siegfried Wiedenhofer (born December 7, 1941 in Fladnitz an der Teichalpe , Styria , † August 17, 2015 in Liederbach am Taunus ) was a Roman Catholic theologian . He was a professor of fundamental theology and dogmatics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and worked primarily in the areas of traditional theory and ecumenism .

Life

Siegfried Wiedenhofer studied Catholic theology in Graz , Bonn and Münster between 1960 and 1966 . He graduated from Graz in 1966 and deepened his studies between 1966 and 1969 in Tübingen , where he was assistant at the chair for dogmatics and the history of dogma from 1967. Since that time he was with Elke Wiedenhofer geb. Ludwig married.

From 1969 to 1981 Wiedenhofer was a research assistant at the chair for systematic theology ( dogmatics and dogma history ) at the University of Regensburg with Joseph Ratzinger . 1974 Wiedenhofer was the thesis of humanistic formal structures and Reformation theology at Philipp Melanchthon , for which he was awarded, for Dr. theol. PhD . In June 1980 he completed his habilitation in the subject “Dogmatics, the history of dogmas and ecumenical theology ”. In 1981 he became professor for systematic theology (dogmatics and fundamental theology) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Wiedenhofer had been retired since 2007. He was a member of the board of trustees of the Pope Benedict XVI Institute. and the Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI Foundation .

Main focus of work and research

  1. Wiedenhofer works on basic theological and methodological questions primarily in the area of ​​the concept of religion and the concept of revelation and the interdisciplinary cooperation between religious studies, religious philosophy and theology.
  2. Intercultural theology, interreligious communication and ecumenical theology.
  3. Political theology, theological anthropology, and especially ecclesiology.
  4. The central long-term interdisciplinary research project Logic , Hermeneutics and Pragmatics of Religious Traditions. A complex theory and theology of traditions assumes that religious traditions play an important role both in the context of modern societies and in the context of globalization. The basic approach is that in order to explain religious traditions, in addition to hermeneutics and pragmatics, they also need a specific logic that identifies their formal and material basic structures. Only after these theoretical preliminary clarifications can the practical significance of religious traditions be made visible.
  5. In connection with Wiedenhofer's complex theory of religious traditions, his last major work can also be seen, in which he presents a systematic overall presentation of the theology of his teacher Joseph Ratzinger. Wiedenhofer worked on it until shortly before his death. The work was published posthumously.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There is a particular proximity to Richard Schaeffler's approach : Thomas M. Schmidt , Siegfried Wiedenhofer (ed.): Religiöse Erlebnis. Richard Schaeffler's contribution to the philosophy of religion and theology. Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-495-48401-2 .
  2. ↑ Torsten Larbig, Siegfried Wiedenhofer (ed.): Cultural and religious traditions. Contributions to an interdisciplinary tradition theory and tradition analysis . LIT, Münster 2005, ISBN 978-3-8258-5182-8 .
  3. ^ Siegfried Wiedenhofer: Die Theologie Joseph Ratzinger / Benedikts XVI. A look at the whole . Pustet, Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7917-7128-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Wiedenhofer, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Fladnitz an der Teichalpe , Styria
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 2015
Place of death Liederbach am Taunus