Thomas Heinrich Stark

Thomas Heinrich Stark (born July 22, 1960 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German philosopher .

Life

In 1980 he passed the Abitur at the upper secondary school in Frankfurt-Höchst with the examination subjects: History, English, Physics, Religious Studies. From 1980 to 1987 he studied philosophy and theology at the Jesuit University St. Georgen Frankfurt . He earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy with a thesis on the philosophical theory of the institution and the intermediate diploma in theology in 1982. In 1982 he was accepted into the Cusanuswerk's program to promote talented students . During his main course in theology, he was a research assistant at Jörg Splett's chair for philosophy for two semesters . He obtained his diploma in theology in 1987 with a thesis on Christianity and modern art with Friedhelm Mennekes . A ratio determination . From 1987 to 1989 he studied philosophy with the minor subjects Fundamentals of Social Sciences and Fundamentals of Systematic Theology at the University of Philosophy in Munich and Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1989 he obtained his master's degree in philosophy with a work at the border between cultural philosophy and epistemology under Jörg Splett's The Concept of 'Lifeworld' under Edmund Husserl . For his doctoral studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (1990–1991) and Catholic University Eichstätt (1991–1995), funded by the Cusanuswerk, he accessed the unpublished estate of Ernst Cassirer, which was then edited and edited in Düsseldorf .

After graduation in 1995 to doctor of philosophy , he was commercial at the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in the field Kreditorenaccounting (at the interface between control and central purchasing) 1996-1999 operates. Since 1998, parallel to his work at the bank, he prepared the establishment of the John Henry Newman Institute for Christian Worldview . Since April 2001 he has been a research fellow at the John Henry Newman Institute. Since March 2003 he has been prefect of training at the Episcopal Seminary Collegium Willibaldinum in Eichstätt . In October 2017 Abbot Maximilian Heim and University Rector Karl Wallner distanced themselves from the one at the Philosophical-Theological University Benedict XVI. Stark teaching as a visiting professor in Heiligenkreuz after he had accused Pope Francis of heresy by signing a statement .

His main research interests are philosophical anthropology and religious and cultural philosophy as well as general intellectual and cultural history.

Fonts (selection)

• Symbol, meaning, transcendence. The concept of religion in Ernst Cassirer's cultural philosophy (= religion in modern times. Volume 6). Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3-429-01814-5 , (also dissertation, Eichstätt 1995).
• as editor with Josef Kreiml and Michael Stickelbroeck : Path, Truth, Life. In the service of the preaching. Festschrift for Bishop Klaus Küng . Pustet, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7917-2296-2 .

Web links

• Philosophical-Theological University of St. Pölten

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heiligenkreuz distances itself from papal criticism. The press of October 20, 2017