Thomas Schüller

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Thomas Schüller (born July 28, 1961 in Cologne ) is a Roman Catholic German theologian and canon lawyer .

Life

Schüller studied Catholic theology from 1982 to 1987 at the Universities of Tübingen , Innsbruck and Bonn . From 1991 to 1993 Schüller was a research assistant at the canon law seminar at the University of Bonn. After receiving his doctorate in theology in 1992 with a work with Hubert Müller at the University of Bonn , he obtained a licentiate in canon law at the University of Münster in 1994 . From April 1, 1994 to 2009, he was head of the ecclesiastical law department in the Episcopal Ordinariate of the Limburg diocese and from 1997 to 2001 personal advisor to the then Limburg bishop Franz Kamphaus . From 2005 to 2009 Schüller was initially an honorary professor and later a full professor at the Philosophical-Theological University of Vallendar , before he was appointed full professor for Canon Law at the Institute for Canon Law at the University of Münster , of which he is director.

Schüller is a member of the German Society for Canon Law , the Working Group on Church Law and the Society of Catholic Publicists .

Monographs (selection)

  • Mercy as the principle of the application of law in the Church in the service of the salus animarum. A canonical contribution to method problems of the theory of canon law (=; 14, edited by Hubert Müller and Rudolf Weigand), Würzburg 1993.
  • together with Michael Böhnke, contemporary proximity. Evaluation of models of parish pastoral care according to c. 517 §2 CIC (= studies on theology and practice of pastoral care 84), Würzburg 2011.
  • together with Judith Hahn and Christian Wode, Canon Law in the Media, Konstanz 2013.
  • Commentary (processing and supplementation) of the right of association of the Codex Iuris Canonici , in: Münsterischer Commentary on the Codex Iuris Canonici, Essen since 1985

Editorships

  • Church law as an order of freedom. Commemorative publication for Hubert Müller , Würzburg 1997
  • Forced laborers and prisoners of war in the Diocese of Limburg , Limburg 2001
  • Catalog for the exhibition Forced Labor in the Church , Limburg 2002
  • together with Michael Böhnke: Community leadership by lay people? International experiences and findings , Regensburg 2011
  • together with Judith Könemann : The Memorandum. The positions in pros and cons , Freiburg 2011
  • together with Clemens Leonard: Dead in the church? Legal and liturgical aspects of the profanation of churches and their conversion to columbaria , Regensburg 2012
  • together with Martin Zumbält, Iustitia est constans et perpetua voluntas ius suum cuique tribuendi. Festschrift for Klaus Lüdicke on his 70th birthday (= BzMK 70), Essen 2014.
  • together with Marianne Heimbach-Steins and Judith Wolf, Catholic Hospitals - Challenged Identity, Paderborn 2017.
  • together with Michael Seewald, The Teaching Competence of the Bishops' Conference. Dogmatic and canonical perspectives, Regensburg 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Münster: Thomas Schüller
  2. ^ Website of the German Society for Canon Law ; List of members of the Working Group on Church Law (AGKR)
  3. ↑ Website of the Working Group on Church Law (AGKR)
personal data
SURNAME Schüller, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne