Theological quarterly
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| description | German theological journal |
| First edition | 1819 |
| Frequency of publication | quarterly |
| Web link | theologische-quartalschrift.de |
| ISSN (print) | 0342-1430 |
The Theological Quarterly ( ThQ ) published in Tübingen is a scientific journal for all areas of theology . Soon after it was founded in 1819, it became the driving force behind the new beginnings of the Catholic Church in Protestant Württemberg and also made the two schools in Tübingen famous .
history
The Theological Quarterly was published in 1819 by the “Viererbund” Peter Alois Gratz , Johann Sebastian von Drey , Johann Georg Herbst and Johann Baptist Hirscher as “Professors of Theology, Catholic Faculty, at the Königl. Universität Tübingen ”, two years after the establishment of the Catholic Theological Faculty at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. It has existed since then in an uninterrupted inventory (with restrictions during the two world wars) in 191 volumes (2011) and is therefore the oldest of the specialist theological journals in the world today.
The magazine appears annually in four issues. The editors appoint an honorary editor from their midst every year, alternating at regular intervals. In 2011, Max Seckler , Hermann Josef Vogt, Norbert Greinacher , Walter Groß, Richard Puza , Gerfried W. Hunold, Dietmar Mieth , Joachim Köhler, Peter Hünermann , Georg Wieland , Michael Theobald , Albert Biesinger , Bernd Jochen Hilberath , Herbert Niehr, Gabriele Winkler , Michael Eckert, Thomas Freyer , Ottmar Fuchs , Andreas Holzem , Hans Reinhard Seeliger , Johannes Brachtendorf, Andreas Odenthal and Franz-Josef Bormann as "professors of Catholic theology at the University of Tübingen". The ThQ is not formally an organ of the faculty, but the editorial board formed under private law currently actually includes the professors of this faculty, who are responsible for representing their subject in their journal according to the criteria of research and teaching.
The ThQ publishers are Laupp'sche Buchhandlung in Tübingen from 1819–1927, Filser Verlag 1928–1933 , Bader'sche Buchhandlung in Rottenburg 1933–1945, Schwabenverlag 1946–1968 , Wewel Verlag 1968–2005 and again since 2006 the Schwabenverlag in Ostfildern .
Content and principles
The ThQ was brought into being under the auspices of the awakening and new beginning of Catholic theology in Germany after the destruction of secularization by the main representatives of the first generation of the Catholic Tübingen School , whereby "the inner attitude and outer shaping" of the journal "for a long time" ( Stephan Lösch ) was determined by Johann Sebastian Drey as the founder and "Nestor" (Karl Werner) of their direction. As "the great organ of the blossoming Catholic Tübingen School" (Fritz Vigener) and as "the great and relentless German Areopagus" (Augustin Theiner) in the 19th century, it became the leading journal of scientific theology of international repute and a model many after it established periodicals at home and abroad.
The “announcement” of its publication in issue 1 provides information about the principles and programmatic guidelines of the ThQ. The editors are therefore obliged “to shed more light on the field of theology through their own scholarly research or other poignant representations, to bring the latest intellectual products in the same field to the knowledge of the inquisitive through advertisements and assessments, and in this way no less to stimulate the pursuit of science rather than to enliven the sense of the spirit of Christianity and its fruitful application to the minds ”. In doing so, they want “everywhere only to pay homage to the truth, and to get it the homage of their readers”. To this end, they claim the “freedom of opinion” for themselves as editors and for the authors, convinced “that, as in general, truth can only gain through a multifaceted illumination, so in the struggle of opinions and the fermentation of judgments only achieves thorough results when every opinion is free to come forward and cause their examination ”. They hope to be able to “prove the spirit of this magazine to the public [...] as an outspoken and modest one at the same time”. One of their constant characteristics in the public perception was “the happily balanced versatility with which the individual collaborators allowed the fresh influx of contemporary philosophical, theological and profane historical literature to enter, and no less their increasingly targeted direction of a moderate middle between rationalism and mysticism of their day, between speculation and history, between tradition and progress ”(Stephan Lösch). It was and is therefore the aim of the ThQ to advance philosophical and theological research, to take up current issues in ecumenical openness and interdisciplinary orientation and, as a fair forum for scientific dialogue "in the spirit of Christianity and Catholicism" (JS Drey), to open its columns for Open contributions from non-Catholic authors.
Register for the ThQ
- Register for the first twenty years of the Tübingen theological quarterly . Printed separately udT: Register for the theological quarterly . Years 1–18 [sic!]. 1819-1838. Tübingen 1839, 31 p. - This register was partly inserted with separate pagination in volume 20 of the ThQ from 1838.
- Register of persons, places and subjects for the Tübingen Theological Quarterly . Vol. I-LXVI. Edited and edited in conjunction with several friends by Dr. Joseph Schmid. Pastor. Tübingen 1895 (= born 1819–1894).
- Register for the theological quarterly Tübingen 1895–1970 . Edited by Max Seckler. Mainz 1975.
literature
- Paul Schanz: The Catholic Tübingen School . In: ThQ , 80, 1898, pp. 1-49.
- Stephan Lösch : The beginnings of the Tübingen Theological Quarterly (1819–1831). Commemorative gift for the 100th anniversary of Joh. Ad. Möhlers. Rottenburg in 1938.
- Josef Rief, Max Seckler: To the way of the theological quarterly . In: ThQ , 150, 1970, pp. 5-23.
Web links
- Page to the magazine
- Years 1819 to 2006 in the DigiTheo project at the University of Tübingen