Thomas Eggensperger

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Thomas Eggensperger OP (born May 31, 1963 in Vienna ) is a German Catholic theologian and university professor.

Life

He grew up in Ludwigsburg . Eggensperger attended the Pestalozzi Primary School in Ludwigsburg from 1969 to 1973 and the Friedrich Schiller High School in Ludwigsburg from 1973 to 1982 . After graduating from high school in 1982, he entered the Dominican Order and completed the novitiate in Warburg from 1982 to 1983 . From 1983 to 1988 he studied theology at the University of Bonn , where he obtained his degree in theology. From 1991 to 2000 he developed and carried out the pastoral project Open Church of the Dominicans at Sankt Andreas - City-Seelsorge in Düsseldorf . From 1988 to 1991 he studied philosophy, Spanish and the Catholic religion at the University of Cologne , where he obtained his master's degree. Since 1996 he has been the chief editor of the theological journal Word and Answer . In 2000 he was at the Theological Faculty of the University of Friborg to Dr. theol. PhD . From 2000 to 2005 he was Directeur Général of the Institut Espaces - spiritualités, cultures et société en Europe in Brussels .

From 2000 to 2006 he was the study rain of the Dominicans of South Belgium. Since 2001 he has been director of the M.-Dominique Chenu Institute in Berlin. From 2002 to 2007 he taught at the Free University of Berlin as a lecturer (theology). Since 2003 he has been the clergyman of the Catholic Academic Foreigners Service . Since 2006 he has been a member of the Advisory Board of Forum 46 - Interdisciplinary Forum for Europe . Since 2007 he has been a lecturer at the University of Potsdam (religious studies, LER). From 2007 to 2009 he was the clergyman of the Gordian Kreis Leipzig in the Cartell Rupert Mayer . From 2008 to 2010 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Church, Management and Spirituality (IKMS) at the PTH Münster . In 2007 he was the delegate of the German Bishops' Conference for the 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly ( Sibiu ) . Since 2007 he has been teaching social ethics and social sciences at the PTH Münster . Since 2009 he has been a member of the advisory board of the magazine Ciencia Tomista . Since 2009 he has been director of the St. Albertus Magnus library at the Archbishop's Diocesan and Cathedral Library in Cologne . Since 2010 he has been a member of the Catholic Working Group for Leisure and Tourism (KAFT) of the German Bishops' Conference. In 2010 he represented the lectures at the Catholic Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (social ethics). Since 2013 he has been a member of the Assemblée Génerale des “Patrimoine de l'Institut International des Sciences Théoriques” (PIIST). He has been coordinating the Albertus Magnus research network since 2016 . Since 2018 he has also been teaching at the Catholic University of Eichstätt .

Fonts (selection)

  • as editor: Reconciliation. Try to their history and future. Festschrift for Paulus Engelhardt OP (= Walberberger Studies of the Albertus Magnus Academy. Philosophical Series. Volume 8). Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-7867-1539-4 .
  • with Ulrich Engel : Bartolomé de las Casas. Dominican - Bishop - Defender of the Indians (= Topos pocket books. Volume 207). Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-7867-1547-5 .
    • with Ulrich Engel: Bartolomé de las Casas. Dominican - Bishop - Defender of the Indians (= Topos pocket books. Volume 207). 2nd edition, Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1992, ISBN 3-7867-1547-5 .
    • as Carlo Spoor (translator) with Ulrich Engel: Bartolomé de las Casas. Bisschop, politicus, Dominicaan . Altiora / Kok, Kampen / Averbode 1992, ISBN 90-317-0964-6 .
  • with Ulrich Engel: women and men in the Dominican order. History - spirituality - current projects (= Topos pocket books. Volume 223). Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1992, ISBN 3-7867-1660-9 .
    • as Marija Matošić and Vjekoslav Lasić (translators) with Ulrich Engel: Dominikanci u svijetu i na hrvatskim prostorima. Povijest - duhovnost - Künstni projekti (= Biblioteka Dominikanska baština. Volume 2). Dominkanska Naklada Istina, Zagreb 2003, ISBN 953-6814-08-0 .
  • as editor with Ulrich Engel: Truth. Research between university and postmodernism (= Walberberger Studies of the Albertus Magnus Academy. Philosophical Series. Volume 9). Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1995, ISBN 3-7867-1834-2 .
  • as editor with Ulrich Engel: This should be a sign for you ... Advent and Christmas sermons from the Dominican monastery in Düsseldorf . Triltsch, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-7998-0082-4 .
    • as Marija Matošić and Vjekoslav Lasić (translator) as editors with Ulrich Engel: Po tem znamenju ga boste spoznali ... adventne in božične pridige iz dominikanskega samostana v Düsseldorfu . Društvo Znamenje, Petrovče 2004, ISBN 961-90220-7-6 .
  • as editor with Ulrich Engel: Community in dialogue. Encouragement to religious life. Timothy Radcliffe (= Dominican sources and testimonials. Volume 2). Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-7462-1450-5 .
  • The influence of Thomas Aquinas on the political thinking of Bartolomé de Las Casas in the treatise "De imperatoria vel regia potestate". A theological-political theory between the Middle Ages and modern times (= philosophy. Volume 42). Lit, Münster 2001, ISBN 978-0-8132-1438-2 (also dissertation, Friborg 2000).
  • as editor with Ulrich Engel and Ugo Perone : Italian Philosophy of the Present. An overview . Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2004, ISBN 3-495-48107-9 .
  • as editor with Ulrich Engel and Frano Prcela : Menschenrechte. Sociopolitical and theological reflections from a European perspective (= culture and religion in Europe. Volume 1). Lit, Berlin / Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6683-1 .
  • as editor with Gianni Vattimo and Richard Schröder : Christianity in the Age of Interpretation . Passagen-Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85165-671-7 .
  • as editor with Ulrich Engel: "Courageous into the future". Dominican contributions to Vatican II (= Dominican sources and testimonies. Volume 10). Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 3-7462-2285-0 .
  • as editor with Ulrich Engel: Church on the move. German-Dutch reflections on ecclesiology from a Dominican perspective. Kerk in Bewegungs (= culture and religion in Europe. Volume 6). Lit, Berlin / Münster 2007, ISBN 3-8258-0567-0 .
  • with Ulrich Engel: Dominicans. History and Spirituality (= Topos pocket books. Volume 709). Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-8367-0709-1 .
  • as editor with Ulrich Engel and Angel F. Méndez Montoya : Edward Schillebeeckx. Impulses for theologies in the 21st century . Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 3-7867-2935-2 .
  • as editor with Ulrich Engel: Dominican Sermon (= Dominican sources and testimonies. Volume 18). Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-7462-4188-3 .
  • Work, leisure and leisure. Between time sovereignty and deceleration (Church and Society Green Series No. 446, published by the Catholic Social Science Center) . JP Bachem Medien, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7616-3198-0 .
  • with Thomas Dienberg and Ulrich Engel: time without eternity. The feeling of life and burden of the harried person. Grünewald Verlag, Ostfildern 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Eggensperger, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna