Theological Faculty Paderborn

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Theological Faculty Paderborn
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founding September 10, 1614
Sponsorship ecclesiastical
place Paderborn
state North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia
country GermanyGermany Germany
Rector Stefan Kopp
Students 100 WS 2018/19
Professors 15th
Website www.thf-paderborn.de

The Paderborn Theological Faculty is a state-recognized university supported by the Archbishopric of Paderborn .

history

The Paderborn Theological Faculty is the oldest university in Westphalia. It was founded on September 10, 1614 by the Paderborn Prince-Bishop Dietrich IV von Fürstenberg (1585–1618) as a Jesuit university with a theological and philosophical faculty; In the same year the first lectures in both disciplines took place. Pope Paul V (1605–1621) confirmed the founding on April 2, 1615 with the breve “In supereminenti”, Emperor Matthias (1605–1619) with a diploma on December 14, 1615. In autumn 1616 these documents were proclaimed in Paderborn , Appointed deans for both faculties in 1617 and published the university's statutes. The Pope and Emperor had privileged the Jesuit University with all academic rights, in particular with the right to award doctorates for both faculties. One of the first generation professors was Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld (1591–1635), the important Baroque poet and fighter against the witch craze. He worked here from 1623 to 1626 as a professor of philosophy and from 1629 to 1631 as a professor of moral theology.

Even after the abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773 and the end of the Princes' Diocese of Paderborn by the main Reichsdeputation Hauptschluss of February 25, 1803, the university continued to exist. Although King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia (1797–1840) on October 18, 1818, their repeal, but this was not implemented and on April 16, 1836 by the highest decree expressly withdrawn. However, negotiations between the Paderborn bishop's seat and the Prussian government lasted until 1843, before the university received new statutes under Bishop Richard Dammers (1841–1844) as a "Philosophical-Theological Institute". During the Kulturkampf (1871-1887) it remained closed from 1873 to 1887 due to government restrictions, after which it experienced a new heyday. In 1909 there were eight chairs at her; its professors published the journal “Theologie und Glaube” for the first time this year. Since March 16, 1917, the college was called the "Philosophical-Theological Academy". Because their buildings were completely destroyed after the heavy air raids on Paderborn in March 1945, the study program was relocated to Bad Driburg after the Second World War (1939–1945) and could only be resumed in Paderborn in the winter semester 1949/50.

By a decree of June 11, 1966, Pope Paul VI recognized. (1963–1978) granted the university the legal status of a theological faculty and at the same time confirmed its right to award all academic degrees. This legal status was confirmed on October 14, 1966 in a document from the Ministry of Culture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and still exists today. According to the amended version of the Higher Education Act of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia of September 16, 2014, “the Paderborn Theological Faculty is a state-recognized university within the meaning of this Act” (Section 74, Paragraph 1). It has the same rank as the corresponding faculties or departments of the state universities of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The theological faculty, which has been publishing the academic book series “Paderborn Theological Studies” since 1974 (currently 56 volumes), is located in the historic city center of Paderborn . There are currently 15 professors, several lecturers and academic staff working at it. The academic profile of the university includes the ten-semester course in Catholic theology with the degree Magister Theologiae . In addition, the degrees of licentiate , doctorate and habilitation are possible.

There is an institutional cooperation with the University of Paderborn . It extends above all to the study of philosophy , in which the theological faculty with its two chairs of the history of philosophy and systematic philosophy is integrated. Therefore, under certain conditions, graduates of the theological faculty can also obtain a doctorate in philosophy.

From the winter semester 1999/2000 to the summer semester 2008 the graduate postgraduate course in Caritas Science was carried out at the Theological Faculty .

Chairs

The subject of Catholic theology is divided into the following subject groups at the Paderborn Theological Faculty and is currently represented in research and teaching by the named professors.

I. Philosophy

II. Biblical Theology

III. Historical theology

IV. Systematic theology

V. Practical theology

Institute and library

Johann Adam Möhler Institute for Ecumenics

The Johann Adam Möhler Institute for Ecumenism was founded in 1957 by Paderborn Archbishop Lorenz Jaeger and is affiliated with the Paderborn Theological Faculty. It is named after the Tübingen theologian Johann Adam Möhler (1796-1838), who with his "symbolism, or representation of the dogmatic contradictions of Catholics and Protestants according to their public confessions" (1832) as a Catholic pioneer of ecumenism and for scientific research into Christianity Denominations applies. The institute, which is internationally active in research, teaching and in the context of various ecumenical dialogues, has a special library with over 150,000 volumes and 200 periodicals. The institute publishes u. a. the scientific book series "Denominational and Controversial Theological Studies" and the ecumenical journal "Catholica".

Josef Pieper's job

The Josef Pieper Arbeitsstelle (JPA) has existed at the Faculty of Theology since 2008 in conjunction with the Chair of Systematic Philosophy . It is dedicated to the complete works of Josef Piepers (1904–1997), an internationally important philosopher of the 20th century, and would like to offer a forum for the growing interest in his work. The office provides comprehensive information on bibliography and the current state of research, contributes to the indexing of the literary estate, which is located in the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar, supervises academic qualification work and coordinates international research.

Archbishop's Academic Library

The Archbishop's Academic Library Paderborn with its around 340,000 volumes and around 500 regularly updated journals is the university library of the theological faculty and at the same time the diocesan library for the Archdiocese of Paderborn . Their historical holdings include a. around 750 incunabula (early prints up to 1500) and 130 medieval manuscripts. The library also includes the Bibliotheca Theodoriana, which was founded in 1614 by Prince-Bishop Dietrich IV von Fürstenberg as the library of the Jesuit University; after considerable losses towards the end of the Second World War, around 6,000 volumes are still available today. In the course of secularization , many printed works and manuscripts from abolished monasteries in the region were incorporated into the Bibliotheca Theodoriana, including those from the Abdinghof Benedictine monastery in Paderborn or the Augustinian canons of Böddeken ; A large part of the monastery library of the former Corvey Abbey (approx. 2,500 volumes) is now in the Archbishop's Academic Library.

Monday Academy

Since 1994/95 (initially under the name "Seniorenakademie", since 2007/08 under the name "Montagsakademie"), the Paderborn Theological Faculty has organized a series of lectures in the winter semester in which professors from the faculty and other lecturers comment on a wide range of theology topics .

So far the lecture series have been under the following headings:

  • 1994/95 - Stations on the way to salvation
  • 1995/96 - Theology in Transition
  • 1996/97 - Church of the future. Future of the church
  • 1997/98 - Jesus Christ. God's Son
  • 1998/99 - A spiritual year with the Church
  • 1999/2000 - Crisis of Belief in God? Departure!
  • 2000/01 - Theology now
  • 2001/02 - Church in transition
  • 2002/03 - Germany. Your values
  • 2003/04 - The year of the Bible
  • 2004/05 - 40 years of the Second Vatican Council. Large documents - remaining questions
  • 2005/06 - Lord, stay with us! The meaning of the Eucharist - asked from different perspectives
  • 2006/07 - The future begins here: marriage and family
  • 2007/08 - Jesus today. Approvals and certificates
  • 2008/09 - Paul. An uncomfortable apostle
  • 2009/10 - evolution theory and belief in creation
  • 2010/11 - Between joy and sorrow. The ambivalence of human sexuality
  • 2011/12 - Francis. A poor man makes history
  • 2012/13 - The Second Vatican Council. Crisis and Renewal of the Church
  • 2013/14 - Issues of Faith. The creed as a commitment and a challenge
  • 2014/15 - Challenges to theology in the past and future
  • 2015/16 - End of Life - Dying and Death Today
  • 2016/17 - Ecumenism 2017 - Foundations, Paths and Visions
  • 2017/18 - Meet God in holy places
  • 2018/19 - Church in times of change
  • 2019/20 - Power and Powerlessness in the Church

Personalities

Rectors (since 1998)

Well-known professors and graduates

Honorary doctorates

  • 1978: Heinz Schürmann (1913–1999), Professor of Exegesis of the New Testament in Erfurt ("Philosophical-Theological Studies Erfurt")
  • 2000: Avery Dulles (1918–2008), Professor at Fordham University and the Catholic University of America, President of the American Catholic Theological Society
  • 2000: Emil Stehle (1926–2017), Bishop of Santo Domingo de los Colorados
  • 2011: Fouad Twal (* 1940), em. Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

literature

  • Joseph Freisen: The University of Paderborn. First part: Sources and treatises from 1614-1808, Paderborn 1898.
  • Joseph Freisen: The register of the University of Paderborn. Matricula Universitatis Theodorianae Padibornae 1614-1844, 2 vols., Würzburg 1931-1932.
  • Karl Hengst: Jesuits at universities and Jesuit universities. On the history of the Jesuits in the Upper German and Rhenish Province of the Society of Jesus in the Age of Confessional Disputes (sources and research from the field of history, New Series, Volume 2), Paderborn a. a. 1981.
  • Karl Hengst: The Academia Theodoriana in Paderborn. Westphalia's oldest university, in: Theologie und Glaube 79 (1989), pp. 350–378.
  • Gerhard Friedrich Hohmann: Documents for the establishment of the Jesuit College and the University in Paderborn 1604–1615, Paderborn 1986.
  • Klemens Honselmann : The Philosophical-Theological Academy in Paderborn and its foundation assets, Paderborn 1954.
  • Josef Meyer zu Schlochtern (Ed.): The Academia Theodoriana . From the Jesuit University to the Theological Faculty Paderborn 1614–2014, Paderborn 2014.
  • Wilhelm Richter: The establishment of the episcopal philosophical-theological educational institution in Paderborn, in: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity 69 (1911), II, pp. 91-206.
  • Johannes Sander SJ (1596–1674): History of the Jesuit College in Paderborn 1580–1659, text edition and translation by Gerhard Ludwig Kneißler, annotated by Gerhard Friedrich Hohmann (Studies and sources on Westphalian history 64), Paderborn a. a. 2011.
  • Sven-Hinrich Siemers: The archaeological foundations of the theological faculty Paderborn. First results of the 2002 excavations at Kamp 6 in Paderborn, in: Theologie und Glaube 95 (2005), pp. 1–40.

Web links

Commons : Theological Faculty Paderborn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office: Students at universities. Winter semester 2018/2019 (= Fachserie 11, Reihe 4.1), October 18, 2019, p. 70.
  2. ^ Josef Meyer zu Schlochtern (ed.): The Academia Theodoriana. From the Jesuit University to the Faculty of Theology 1614-2014 , Paderborn 2014, pp. 560-563.
  3. ^ Carinthian priest new rector at Paderborn theology faculty. In: kathpress.at. October 2, 2019, accessed October 3, 2019 .
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