Sigrid Müller

Sigrid Müller (* 1964 in Salach , Baden-Württemberg ) is a Roman Catholic theologian and holds the chair for moral theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna .

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Sigrid Müller was involved in church youth work and studied Catholic theology , Latin and Italian philology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1984 to 1991 . She completed her doctoral studies from 1992 to 1998 in Tübingen and at St. John's College in Cambridge . In Seville , she trained as a systemic family counselor and gained practical experience in this field. Sigrid Müller received her doctorate in the field of theological ethics (moral theology) at the University of Tübingen for a doctorate in theology .

Since March 1, 2005, she has led a research project at the Institute for Moral Theology. In 2006 she completed her habilitation in moral theology at Eberhard Karls University. From autumn 2007 she has been head of the institute for moral theology of the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna and thus the first woman to hold a concordat chair for moral theology in the German-speaking area . Sigrid Müller was President of the Catholic European Theological Association (ET) from 2011 to 2013 . From 2011 to 2015 and again since 2018, she has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Agency of the Holy See for the Evaluation and Improvement of the Quality of Church Universities and Faculties ( AVEPRO ). She is married and has two kids.

Scientific fields of work

• 1987–1989 collaborator on the research project "Intercultural Ethics", Institute for Theological Ethics I (Moral Theology), University of Tübingen
• 1990–1991 member of the research project “Human Genetics and Embryo Research”, Institute for Theological Ethics I (Moral Theology), Tübingen
• 1992 collaborator on the publication project “Anthropological Foundations of Theological Ethics”, Institute for Theological Ethics I (Moral Theology), Tübingen
• 1993–1995 research and teaching activity at St. John's College, Cambridge, UK
• 1996–1997 Scientific coordinator of the Graduate School “Ars and Scientia in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Age”, University of Tübingen
• 1997–1999 postgraduate studies in family counseling (systemic family therapy) at the University of Salamanca, Institute for Family Studies, branch of the Dominicans of Seville
• 1999–2000 guest lecturer for interdisciplinary questions of family counseling, Catholic University of Salamanca, branch of the Dominicans of Seville
• 2001–2004 post-doc researcher on the research project “Thomism, Albertism, Nominalism. The Dynamics of Intellectual Traditions in the Late Middle Ages “of the Dutch Research Foundation (NWO) at the Institute for Literary-Historical Theology, Radboud University Nijmegen; Research focus "late medieval nominalism and theology of via moderna, especially theology and ethics at the University of Vienna in the 15th century"

Publications

In the field of medieval studies

Independent writings

• Acting in a contingent world. On the concept and meaning of the recta ratio in Wilhelm von Ockham, Tübingen / Basel: A. Francke 2000 (Tübingen Studies on Theology and Philosophy; 18). Reviewed by BV Johnstone C.Ss.R., in: Studia moralia 40 n. 2 (2002) 579-582 (p. 581/582).
• Wilhelm von Ockham: Texts on theology and ethics. Latin / German selected, translated and edited by Volker Leppin and Sigrid Müller, Stuttgart: Reclam 2000. Reviewed by Pietro Maranesi, in: Collectanea franciscana 72,3-4 (2002) 737-738 (p. 737).

Journal articles and book chapters

• Theology, language and reality in fifteenth century via moderna, in: Lodi Nauta (ed.), Language and the Conceptualization of Reality (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change), Leuven 2006, 1–22.
• The ethics of John Capreolus and the 'nominales', in: Verbum. Analecta Neolatina 6/2 (2004) 301-314.
• "Bonum est mel cum favo". Gerson and the necessity of logic for theology, in: D. Perler / U. Rudolph (ed.), Logic and Theology. The organon in the Arab and Latin Middle Ages, Leiden: Brill 2005, 469–497.
• Language, reality and omnipotence of God. The picture of via moderna by Johannes Capreolus (1380–1444) and its significance for school education in the 15th century, in: JA Aertsen / M. Pickavé (ed.), Autumn of the Middle Ages? Questions about evaluating the 14th and 15th centuries, Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter 2004 (Miscellanea Mediaevalia 31), 157–172.
• Theology and Applied Ethics - Historical References, in: Thomas Laubach (ed.), Applied Ethics and Religion, Tübingen / Basel: A. Francke 2003, 75–98.
• Interpretar a Santo Tomás. Principios hermeneúticos al comienzo de la via moderna, in: Communio (Sevilla) 36/2 (2003) 325–359.
• Recourse to the "antiqui" - or the importance of philosophical schools for medieval ethics and their research, in: C. Dietl / D. Helschinger (eds.), Ars and Scientia in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Age - results of interdisciplinary research , Tübingen / Basel: A. Francke 2002, 109–123.
• Nominalism in late medieval theology, in: MJFM Hoenen / PJJM Bakker (eds.), Philosophy and Theology of the Late Middle Ages. Marsilius von Inghen and the thinking of his time, Leiden / Boston / Cologne: Brill 2000, 47–65.
• The limits of a philosophical ethics in Wilhelm von Ockham, in: JAAertsen / A.Speer (eds.), What is philosophy in the Middle Ages ?, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 1998 (Miscellanea Mediaevalia 26), 1041-1047.

Areas of moral theology and the anthropological foundations of ethics

• Habilitation thesis: Theology and Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages. The beginnings of via moderna and its significance for the development of moral theology (1380–1450), Tübingen 2006 (accepted; published in 2007)
• Prenatal Diagnostics, ed. together with P. Morciniec, Vienna: Facultas 2017
• Exploring the boundaries of bodiliness, ed. together with D. Slawomir, G. Marschütz. Göttingen: V&R Unipress 2013.

Book contributions

• Norms. On the relationship between social requirements and individual freedom, in: GW Hunold / Th. Weißer (eds.), Theological Ethics. A work book, Tübingen / Basel: A. Francke 1999, 186–204.
• Social action orientations. On objective moral consciousness, in: GW Hunold / Th. Weißer (eds.), Theological Ethics. A work book, Tübingen / Basel: A. Francke 1999, 94–110.
• "Aesthetics" on the escalator. On the changed conditions of a Christian-ethical conception of identity, in: Th. Laubach (ed.), Ethics and Identity, Tübingen / Basel: A. Francke 1998, 41–52.

Lexicon article

• "Joannes de Ulloa, Theologia Scholastica, tomus tertius: De Tribus Virtutibus Theologicis atque de Justitia Prima Virtutum pure Moralium", in: Lexicon of theological main works, Stuttgart: Kröner 2003, 720.
• "Joseph Mausbach, Katholische Moraltheologie", in: Lexicon of theological main works, Stuttgart: Kröner 2003, 433.
• “Cosmetics”, in: W. Kasper (ed.), Lexicon for Theology and Church, vol. 6, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna: Herder 1998, 396/97.

Web links

• Sigrid Müller at the Institute for Moral Theology, University of Vienna
• Sigrid Müller in the AcademiaNet database of renowned women scientists

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1. ↑ Alexandra Frey: For the first time moral theology professorship for a woman. In: idw , November 22, 2007, accessed on May 22, 2020.
2. ↑ South Tyrolean becomes the new head of the theologians' association . Communication from the Diocese of Innsbruck dated September 3, 2013, accessed on May 23, 2020.
3. ↑ Organization on the agency's website, accessed May 2020.
4. ↑ Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sigrid Müller . Curriculum vitae on the website of the University of Vienna, accessed in May 2020.