Thomas Kremer (theologian)

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Thomas Kremer (born October 9, 1971 in Trier ) is a German diocesan priest, Catholic theologian (ancient church history and Eastern ecclesiastical studies) and university professor.

Life

After graduating from high school in Bitburg , Kremer entered the Episcopal Seminary in Trier and studied philosophy and theology at the Trier theological faculty , in the Jerusalem theological year and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He was ordained a priest in Trier in 1998 and worked as a chaplain in Waldbreitbach from 1998 to 2001 and as a vicar in Morbach from 2001 to 2004 .

Kremer then studied Syrian philology and theology with Peter Bruns in Bamberg and was awarded a doctorate in Trier in 2009 with a thesis on the Genesis Commentary Ephräms des Syrers. theol. PhD . As an assistant at the Philosophical-Theological University Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main, he lectured in Hebrew and Syriac and took teaching assignments in the subjects Biblical Introduction and Church History of Antiquity at the Philosophical-Theological University Sankt Georgen, the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Theological Faculty Trier true. From 2014 to 2016 he was Vice Rector of the Collegium Orientale in Eichstätt . In 2017 he was born in Frankfurt a. M. completed his habilitation with a thesis on the history of the reception of Psalms 120-134.

Since October 2018 he has been the holder of the newly established Prince Max of Saxony endowed professorship of the Eichstätt diocese for theology of the Christian East at the theological faculty of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

Memberships

Kremer is a member of the Christian Orient Research Center of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt , the Goerres Society (section “Christian Orient”), the German Syrologists' Day and the Society for the Study of the Christian East (GSCO), of which he was elected chairman in 2020. He is the sole editor of the series “Sophia - Sources of Eastern Theology”, which is published in Trier and is oriented towards the Eastern Church. As a member of the Patriarchal Order of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem , he is committed to social and charitable institutions of the Melkite Church in the Middle East. He is a member of the "Churches of the East" working group, a committee of the Ecumenical Commission of the German Bishops' Conference .

Honors

In 2011, Kremer received the Hieronymus Prize from the Trier Theological Faculty for his doctoral thesis. In 2015 he was in Essen by the Patriarch of Antioch Gregorios III. Laham consecrated " Archimandrite of the Patriarchate of Antioch". With this honorary title, Kremer is a representative of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Germany.

Works

  • Mundus primus. The history of the world and man from Adam to Noah in the Genesis Commentary Ephräms the Syrian (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium; 641), Leuven 2012, Peeters, ISBN 978-90-429-2566-3
  • Iso Baumer (Ed.)։ Nerses of Lambron - The Impatience of Love ; with the collaboration of Franz Mali, Abel Manoukian, Boghos Levon Zekiyan and Thomas Kremer, Trier 2013, Paulinus, ISBN 978-3-7902-1460-4
  • Peter Bruns / Thomas Kremer (eds.): Studia Syriaca. Contributions of the IX. German Syrologist Day in Eichstätt 2016 (Eichstätter Contributions to the Christian Orient; 6), Wiesbaden 2018, Harrassowitz; ISBN 978-3-447-11014-3 .
  • Thomas Kremer (Ed.): "Your face, Lord, I want to search!" Self-revelation of God and answer of man. Festschrift for Michael Schneider SJ on the occasion of his 70th birthday (Koinonia-Oriens; 55), Münster 2019, Aschendorff, ISBN 978-3-402-22520-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the homepage of the Collegium Orientale .
  2. ↑ http://www.ku.de/kommunikation/presse/pi/einzelansicht/article/neue-stiftungsprofessur-fuer-theologie-des-christlichen-ostens/
  3. ↑ See http://www.ku.de/thf/chr-or/team/dr-thomas-kremer/
  4. ↑ http://www.gsco.info/
  5. ^ Catholic University of Eichstätt- Ingolstadt: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kremer elected chairman of the GSCO. Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.paulinus-verlag.de
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-trier.de
  8. ↑ See the message on the homepage of the Collegium Orientale .
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SURNAME Kremer, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diocesan priest and Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH trier