Thomas Peter Fößel

Thomas Peter Fößel (born July 29, 1968 in Wittlich ) is a German Roman Catholic fundamental theologian and university professor.

Life

After graduating from the old-language Regino-Gymnasium Prüm in 1988, Fößel did his basic military service and then began studying Catholic theology , which took him to the universities of Münster , Bonn and Vienna . During his studies he was a student or research assistant at the seminar for dogmatics and theological propaedeutics at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn. After completing his studies in Bonn, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Systematic Theology at RWTH Aachen University . In 1998 he switched to the Fundamental Theological Seminar at the University of Bonn, where he still works as a research assistant and academic senior counselor and academic advisor for Catholic theology . At the same time he is the deputy head of studies (honorary) and lecturer for fundamental theology at the supra-diocesan seminar for priest training St. Lambert in Lantershofen , is involved in the "Würzburger Fernkurs" and is a lively lecturer.

In 2004 he got a thesis on “God - Concept and Mystery. Hansjürgen Verweyen's fundamental theology and its inherent criticism of the philosophy and theology of Karl Rahner ”at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn for Dr. theol. PhD. In his doctoral thesis he critically examines a first philosophical justification of belief and profiles Rahner's transcendental theological approach to Verweyen's inquiries.

In 2015 he completed his habilitation with a thesis entitled “Revelatory Resurrection - A Study on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from a Revelatory Theological Perspective” at the Paris-Lodron University in Salzburg . Since 2016 he has had the “ venia docendi ” for fundamental theology at the University of Salzburg.

Thomas Fößel is married and has two children. He lives in Bad-Neuenahr and is the parish council chairman of the local rosary parish .

Scientific focus

His scientific and theological focus is on the resurrection theology after the "culture turn", the theology of revelation in post-Christian late modernism, a theological epistemology and language theory from an ecumenical perspective and a productive and critical continuation of Karl Rahner's theology . Most recently, he developed the draft of a Christian theological competence of faith within the horizon of cultural and interreligious plurality with the aim of demonstrating the individual and social relevance of a Christian understanding of reality in a performative manner. He also accompanies and supports the Synodal Process of the Diocese of Trier from a scientific perspective as well as the Pastoral Future Path of the Archdiocese of Cologne.

Monographs

• God - concept and mystery. Hansjürgen Verweyen's fundamental theology and its inherent criticism of the philosophy and theology of Karl Rahner (= Innsbruck theological studies 70). Innsbruck / Vienna 2004, 1024 pp.
• Apparent Resurrection - A Study of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from a revelatory theological perspective. Paderborn 2017, 659 pp.
• Faith in the resurrection: competence, performance, relevance and credibility - a fundamental theological attempt. Bonn 2017, 44 p. Link
• Jesus the Christ. Fundamental theological approaches to the origin and basis of the Christian faith. Bonn 2017, 395 p. Link
• Karl Rahner - Fundamental Aspects and Dimensions of a Great Theology. Introduction, presentation. Continuation. Part I: The theoanthropological foundation in revelation and self-communication. Bonn 2017, 157 p. Link
• Karl Rahner - Fundamental Aspects and Dimensions of a Great Theology. Introduction, presentation. Continuation. Part II: Responsibility for Faith in Today: the Transcendental Method. Bonn 2018, 101 p. Link

Editorial activity

• Heino Sonnenmans / Thomas Fößel, eds., Fascination God. Hans Waldenfels on his 70th birthday. Paderborn 2002.
• Thomas Fößel / Gregor Maria Hoff , eds., The forgotten questions. Theological patterns of memory. Munster 2007.

Web links

• Internet presence of the seminar for fundamental theology at the University of Bonn
• Articles available at the University of Bonn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas P. Fößel: Christian Faith as a Certain Dealing with Finitude - A Systematic Consideration from a Practical Perspective. In: www.ktf.uni-bonn.de. Retrieved January 15, 2018 .