Tiemo Rainer Peters

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Tiemo Rainer Peters OP (born October 17, 1938 in Hamburg ; † November 25, 2017 in Münster ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian , priest , Dominican and representative of the new political theology , which was founded by his teacher Johann Baptist Metz .

Life

Tiemo Rainer Peters entered the Dominican order in 1960 and initially studied at the Philosophical-Theological College of the Dominicans in Walberberg , among others with Paulus Engelhardt OP. In 1966 he was ordained a priest .

He finished his philosophical and theological studies in 1969 with editing, the internal thesis that he wrote on the ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer . In the same year he moved to the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Münster .

In 1974, he was with a study on the presence of the political in the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Johann Baptist Metz doctorate . As an assistant to Metz, he initially worked on the conception of the bi-denominational theological institute of Bielefeld University (which was ultimately not realized), and contributed to the further development and communication of the new political theology.

From 1979 until his retirement in 2004 he was an academic advisor at the Department of Fundamental Theology of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Münster. At the same time, he had been pastoral care workers in the Friedrichsburg nursing home in Münster from 1978. He was honored by the Dominican Order in January 2014 with the title of Magister in Sacra Theologia .

effect

As one of the closest students and confidante of Johann Baptist Metz, Tiemo Rainer Peters was one of the central protagonists of the new political theology, which in the 1960s and 1970s received impulses from Karl Rahner as well as from critical theory , especially from Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin , who influenced liberation theology and was also fundamental to post-Auschwitz theology in the 1980s . As Academic Councilor, Tiemo Rainer Peters was responsible for teaching and communicating the new political theology and thus its multiplier. In terms of content, he endeavored, among other things, to convey a new political theology with the thinking of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. For his teacher Johann Baptist Metz, he acted as the editor of several festival publications, to which Hartmut von Hentig , Axel Honneth , Christoph Türcke , Fulbert Steffensky , Franz-Xaver Kaufmann , Claus Leggewie , Jörn Rüsen , Ludwig Siep and Jürgen Werbick contributed, among others . Peters also supported the memorandum Church 2011: A Necessary Awakening and contributed an essay to the accompanying anthology published by Marianne Heimbach-Steins .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs
  • The presence of the political in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology. A historical investigation with a systematic intention , Munich / Mainz 1976.
  • There will be no more death , Zurich / Einsiedeln / Cologne 1978.
  • Get up and go. Incitements from the Gospel , Mainz 1984.
  • with Johann Baptist Metz : God's Passion. On the existence of the order today , Freiburg i. Br. 1991.
  • with Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt : Theologie nach Auschwitz , Cologne 1993.
  • Speaking of God after Auschwitz , Hamburg 1995.
  • Johann Baptist Metz. Theology of the Missing God , Mainz 1998.
  • More than the whole. Reflecting on God at the Limits of Modernity , Ostfildern 2008.
  • God is a verb. Secular scriptures , Ostfildern 2012.
  • Emptied secrets. The preciousness of the Christian faith , Ostfildern 2017.
Editorships
  • Theological-political protocols , Munich / Mainz 1981.
  • with Johann Baptist Metz and Jürgen Moltmann : Forum Politische Theologie .
  • with Thomas Pröpper and Hermann Steinkamp : remembering and recognizing. Food for thought from the theology of Johann Baptist Metz , Düsseldorf 1993.
  • with Claus Urban : End of time? The provocation of the speech of God , Mainz 1999.
  • with Claus Urban: About the consolation. For Johann Baptist Metz , Mainz 2008.
  • with Walter Senner : Preserve and Prove. Historical and political theology following Thomas von Aquin , Mainz 2015, ²2016.

In addition over 80 journal articles, articles in anthologies and lexicon articles.

literature

  • Bertil Langenohl, Christian Große Rüschkamp (Ed.): Why theology? Incitement from the practical fundamental theology by Tiemo Rainer Peters, Münster 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d University of Münster: Tiemo Rainer Peters
  2. ^ Institut M.-Dominique Chenu: Magister in Sacra Theologia
  3. ↑ cf. his dissertation, as well as Tiemo Rainer Peters: More than the whole. Reflecting on God at the Limits of Modernity, Ostfildern 2008
  4. ^ Tiemo Rainer Peters: Going and staying, in: Marianne Heimbach-Steins et al. (Ed.): Church 2011: A necessary awakening. Arguments for the memorandum, Freiburg 2011, pp. 135–145.
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Tiemo Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2017
Place of death Muenster