Thomas Ohm

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Thomas Ohm OSB (born Philip Ohm , * 18th October 1892 in Westerholt (Westphalia) ; † 25. September 1962 in Süchteln ) was a German Benedictine - Father , theologian and mission scientists .

Life

Philipp Ohm was born as one of six children of the blacksmith Philipp Bernhard Ohm and his wife Maria in Alt-Westerholt (Freiheit Westerholt). From 1903 he attended the Petrinum grammar school in Recklinghausen , where he graduated from high school in 1912.

He then entered the Archabbey of Sankt Ottilien as a novice . In 1913 he took the simple vows and took the religious name Thomas. In 1920 he was ordained a priest.

His study of philosophy and theology was interrupted by military service in the First World War. Formative teachers were Joseph Schmidlin , the founder of missiology, in Münster and Martin Grabmann in Munich . In 1924 he was at the University of Munich as a doctor of theology doctorate .

From 1926 Thomas Ohm worked as a private lecturer at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Salzburg . There habilitation he did in 1930. The mission studies he represented from 1932 at the University of Würzburg . On May 25, 1946, the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture offered him to take up his old position as a private lecturer, which he did not, however, since he was appointed to the professorship offered on September 2, 1946 by the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Münster who accepted missiology. Until 1961 he was editor and editor of the magazine for missions and religious studies (ZMR). On August 29, 1960, Pope John XXIII paid tribute to Ohms accomplishments by appointing him to the Pontificia Commissio de Missionibus Praeparatoria Concilii Vaticani II , one of the commissions preparing the Second Vatican Council .

Fonts

  • The position of the heathens towards nature and supernatural according to St. Thomas Aquinas. A mission-theoretical investigation . Aschendorff, Münster 1927.
  • Cultures, Religions, and Missions in Japan . B. Filser, Augsburg 1929.
  • South Africa and Catholic Mission Medical Care . Mission printing, St. Ottilien 1934.
  • The medical care of the Catholic missions. Idea and reality . Mission printing, St. Ottilien 1935.
  • Ways to believe. Short conversion stories from the missions . Missionsverlag, St. Ottilien 1940.
  • The Koreans worship the sky . Paulusdruckerei, Friborg in Switzerland 1941.
  • The prayer gestures of the peoples and Christianity . Brill, Leiden 1948.
  • Asia's Critique of Western Christianity . Kösel, Munich 1948.
    • 2., rework. Edition under the title: Asia's No and Yes to Western Christianity . Kösel, Munich 1960.
  • Christianity in New India. Environment, situation, tasks and prospects . Eos-Verlag, St. Ottilien 1949.
  • Christian theology from an Asian perspective (= publications by the Institute for Mission Studies of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster, Westphalia, vol. 4). Aschendorff, Münster 1949.
  • Tribal religions in the southern Tanganyika Territory . West German publishing house, Cologne 1952.
  • The love of God in non-Christian religions. The facts of religious history and Christian theology . Erich Wewel Verlag, Krailling in front of Munich 1950.
  • The religions in Asia . West German Publishing House, Cologne 1954.
  • Calm and piety . West German Publishing House, Cologne 1955.
  • Important dates in mission history. A time table (= publications of the Institute for Mission Studies of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Westphalia, Vol. 4). Aschendorff, Münster 1956; 2nd, enlarged and improved edition. 1961.
  • The love of God in non-Christian religions. The facts of religious history and Christian theology . Erich Wewel Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1957.
  • The Catechumenate in the Catholic Missions . Aschendorff, Münster 1959.
  • Muhammadans and Catholics . Kösel, Munich 1960.
  • Ex contemplatione loqui. Collected essays by Thomas Ohm . Aschendorff, Münster 1961.
  • Make disciples of all the peoples. Mission theory . Erich Wewel Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1962.

literature

  • Georg Evers: Mission, non-Christian religions, secular world . Aschendorff, Münster 1974, ISBN 3-402-03521-9 ; P. 91 ff: The Theology of Religions and Mission according to Thomas Ohm .
  • Ernst Pulsfort:  Thomas Ohm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 1164-1165.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Cosmas Hoffmann OSB: Paths to Salvation. The position of non-Christians and non-Christian religions in the work of Thomas Ohms . EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 2001, ISBN 3-8306-7088-5 .
  • Gianni Colzani: Missiologia contemporanea. Il cammino evangelico delle chiese: 1945-2007 . Edizioni San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo 2010; Pp. 57–59: La teologia della missione di Thomas Ohm .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Thomas Ohm: Ex contemplatione loqui. Collected essays . Aschendorff, Münster 1961, p. III.
  2. ↑ Cosmas Hoffmann: Paths to Salvation. The position of non-Christians and non-Christian religions in the work of Thomas Ohms . EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 2001, p. 44.
  3. ↑ a b c Cosmas Hoffmann: Paths to salvation. The position of non-Christians and non-Christian religions in the work of Thomas Ohms . EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 2001, p. 45.

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personal data
SURNAME Ohm, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictine priest, theologian and missiologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Westerholt
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1962
Place of death Addicts