Thomas Brose

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Thomas Brose (born November 19, 1962 in Zeuthen ) is a German fundamental theologian and religious philosopher . Since 2018 he has been Professor of Philosophy at the Philosophical Affiliation of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Berlin.

Life

Thomas Brose was born as the fourth of five children in Zeuthen (Mark Brandenburg). He is the grandson of the teacher and local researcher Erich Brose .

After graduating from the Norbertinum in Magdeburg , Brose studied Catholic theology in Erfurt. With his mentor Konrad Feiereis he completed a special course in philosophy , wrote a prize thesis on the understanding of human rights in the GDR in 1989 and dealt with forms of atheism in his diploma thesis. Brose gave religious instruction, taught as a lecturer in church education and was involved in the political opposition to the SED regime . The State Security subjected him to an operational identity check .

Since 1987 Brose has headed the philosophy group of the Catholic student community in Berlin. In this function he came into conflict with the atheistic worldview of the GDR. The State Security identified him as a "leading organizer of Catholic youth work". As an “unofficial assistant” to the student community, his activities should be curbed by IM .

From 1989 Brose worked in the Catholic Student Community (KSG) in East Berlin and took part in the “Central Round Table of Young People” in the course of the peaceful revolution. As an educational advisor (until 2004), Brose was responsible for the KSG's lecture, semester and educational program at over 1,000 events, held lectures and was temporarily head of the conference for university pastoral care in East Germany.

In the fall of 1989 he campaigned with the Philosophy Circle in the foyer of the Humboldt University for an intellectual presence of Catholic theology and for the re-establishment of the Guardini Chair. With the support of Matthias Lutz-Bachmann and through contacts to the Guardini Chair in Munich, Brose's work at the Linden University aimed to re-establish Romano Guardini's chair, which was banned by the Nazi regime in 1939. For this purpose he developed the "Berlin Approach":

“Guardini's departure has become for me - mainly due to the confrontation with 'Eastern' atheism and 'Western' criticism of Christianity - the first occasion and trigger to think about the necessity of an independent Berlin approach, i.e. to develop a speaking of faith and God that aims to make itself audible in the highly complex religious field of the capital as a devout Catholic and to position itself as an approachable neighbor. "

- Thomas Brose : Between heaven and earth. Being a Christian in a Secular World , p. 74

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he received a Cusanus scholarship and studied philosophy and history at the Free University of Berlin and Oxford - partly in parallel with his work . At the Free University of Berlin, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann gave him a doctorate summa cum laude with a study on the philosophy of religion of the Enlightenment. phil. PhD.

Thomas Brose in 1990 with KSG in the foyer of the Humboldt University

In December 1989 he succeeded in resuming the work of the student community at Humboldt University , which had been banned since 1953 . He coordinated this task under the title Deutsches Neuland . With the help of contacts to the Munich Guardini chair ( Eugen Biser , Hans Maier), his work at the Linden University aimed to re-establish Romano Guardini's chair, which was banned by the Nazi regime in 1939 , and thus to bring theology and Catholic intellectuality into conversation from an East German perspective bring. To this end, he planned series of lectures and organized the Guardini Lectures in the course of the 1990s - together with the Catholic Academy in Berlin and supported by the Theological Faculty of the HU .

From 2004 to 2007 Brose worked at the interface between science, politics and religion as a coordinator at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . Since 2007 he has been concentrating on his scientific and journalistic work. He worked as a lecturer for fundamental theology, religious philosophy and ethics in Berlin, Potsdam and Dresden. From 2012 to 2018 he headed the research project Denomination, Education and Politics at the Chair for Fundamental Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt . He has been Professor of Philosophy since 2018. Brose writes essays and articles in magazines and newspapers, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In 2018 he became Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University .

Scientific work

In 2015 Thomas Brose presented his Berlin book to Pope Franziskus

Brose's main research interests are fundamental theology, philosophy of religion, anthropology and enlightenment research; Catholic intellectuality, theology and anthropology in the 20th / 21st centuries Century.

Brose's study of Hamann's religious philosophy from 2006 was noted . Among other things, their material strength was recognized.

The Luxemburger Wort wrote about Brose in 2008: “As the representative of a minority in a regime that was officially atheist until 1989 within a country that was originally shaped by Protestantism, the Catholic religious philosopher is always keen to enter into dialogue with those who think differently, without in the least renouncing for to straighten out one's own positions, even if they have to be constantly reconsidered. "

Brose advocates establishing a “theology of unbelief” at the former interface between East and West and in the area of ​​tension in the big city, which he describes in the volume Kein Himmel über Berlin? unfolds, which contains material-rich and thorough reflections on Christianity and the big city, especially in the metropolis of Berlin.

Brose founded the Berlin Library in 2014 . Religion - Culture - Science . The publications in the series are reviewed by an international scientific advisory board. The contributions collected by Thomas Brose and Philipp Hildmann provide an overview of the current conflicts over the individual right to religious freedom.

Publications

  • as ed. with Matthias Lutz-Bachmann: Controversial human dignity. Contributions to the ethical debate of the present , Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87065-795-2 .
  • as publisher: Deutsches Neuland. Contributions from religion and society , Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-7462-1182-4 .
  • as editor: Turn of time - turn of faith. Contributions from religion and society (German Neuland: Contributions from religion and society 2) , Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-7462-1287-1 .
  • as editor: Daring belief. Bringing God to Language in Secular Society , Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-87554-331-9 .
  • as Ed .: Daring Freedom. Wende - change - revolution (German Neuland: Articles from Religion and Society 3) , Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-7462-1317-7 .
  • as publisher: Philosophy of Religion. European thinkers between philosophical theology and criticism of religion , Würzburg 1998, 2 2001, ISBN 3-429-02060-3 .
  • as editor: Controversial Christianity. Faith - Truth - Tolerance , Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-87554-354-8 .
  • Johann Georg Hamann and David Hume. Metaphysics criticism and belief in the area of ​​tension of the Enlightenment. 2 volumes. Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2006, ISBN 3-631-54517-7 .
  • Between heaven and earth. To be a Christian in a secular world. Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-429-02887-9 .
  • as editor: Faith, Power and the Fall of the Wall. From the peaceful revolution into uncharted territory. Würzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-429-03154-1 .
  • as ed. with Gesine Palmer: Religion and Politics. Messianism in theologies, religious studies and philosophies of the 20th century. Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-16-151048-9 .
  • No sky over Berlin? Faith in the metropolis. Kevelaer 2014, ISBN 978-3-7666-1863-4 .
  • as publisher: Religion - Power - Freedom. New German territory: An interim balance sheet (= Berlin library. Religion - Culture - Science. Volume 1). Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-631-57921-3 .
  • as ed. with Philipp W. Hildmann: Controversial Religious Freedom. For the discussion about a human right (= Berlin library. Religion - Culture - Science. Volume 2). Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-66834-4 .
  • Big city belief. Catholic presence in Berlin , Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-631-67936-4 .
  • Not a hopeless case. God and man with Eugen Biser. An introduction , Berlin a. a. 2018, ISBN 978-3-631-75793-2 .
  • as ed. with Tomasz Żurawlew The Saints and the Holy. Linguistic, literary and cultural aspects of a phenomenon , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-631-75972-1 .
  • as publisher: Berlin library. Religion - Culture - Science. with an international scientific contribution of 17 people from Europe, the USA as well as China and South Korea with 6 volumes so far.
  • Embossed freedom. On the power of cultural education using the example of student communities in the GDR 1949–1989 , ISBN 978-3-00-058363-6 (CD with texts and interviews on Catholic and Protestant student communities).
  • as ed. with Susanna Schmidt: Berliner Guardini Lectures. Freiburg / Br. 2000-2005.
  • with Hans Maier: Katholisch in Berlin, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-00-065397-1 .
    Thomas Brose / Hans Maier, Catholic in Berlin, Berlin 2020.

Memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Brose . Herder publishing house. Retrieved February 1, 2019
  2. ↑ Thomas Brose, “Courageous Zeitgenossenschaft. Talking about God in a secular society ”[appreciation of the death of Konrad Feiereis] Herder Korrespondenz 66 (2012) Heft 10 , 527-530.
  3. ↑ Thomas Brose: Frankfurt anthology: Johannes Bobrowski: "Das Wort Mensch" . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 7, 2017
  4. ^ Till Kinzel: Informationsmittel (IFB) digital review organ for library and science
  5. ^ Andre Rudolph: Poetic-theological transcription of the philosophical enlightenment: Hamann reads Hume . IASLonline May 18, 2007
  6. ↑ Luxemburger Wort , November 15, 2008, 24.
  7. ↑ A place of remembrance of atheism. The Berlin Humboldt University calls for a "theology of unbelief" . Herder Korrespondenz 67 (2013) Heft 11, 557-581.
  8. ↑ Time signals. Evangelical Commentaries on Religion and Society 1 (2015), 19.
  9. ↑ See review of controversial religious freedom by Axel Bernd Kunze in: Voices of the Time , Issue 4 (2017) 286f.
personal data
SURNAME Brose, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious philosopher, theologian, science organizer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century