Ulrich Engel (theologian)

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Ulrich Engel OP (born June 4, 1961 in Düsseldorf ) is a German theologian , priest and university professor .

Life

Ulrich Engel completed his school education with the Abitur in 1980 and then did two years of community service, after which he began studying Catholic theology at the University of Münster . After two years of study, he joined the Dominican Order in 1984 , and in 1985 he moved from Münster to the University of Bonn , where he completed his studies in 1988. In the following two years he took his religious vows and was ordained a priest .

In 1991, Engel took over the conceptual planning of the City Pastoral Project "Sankt Andreas - Open Church of the Dominicans" at the Andreas Church in Düsseldorf , on which he worked until 2000. From 1996 he was the student magister of the Dominican order province of Teutonia , which he headed from 2000 to 2008 as the Regens studiorum . He has been editor-in-chief of the Dominican magazine Wort und Antwort since 1996 .

In 1998, Engel received his doctorate from the University of Freiburg im Üechtland with the thesis Bordered Emptiness: on the practice of a political-theological aesthetic following Peter Weiss' trilogy of novels "The Aesthetics of Resistance" as a Doctor theologiae and received teaching positions in philosophy , fundamental theology and philosophical from that year -theological borderline questions at the Philosophical-Theological University of Münster . Since 2001 he has been director of the Dominican "Institut Marie-Dominique Chenu " in Berlin. In the following year he received further teaching positions for systematic theology at the Free University of Berlin , also from 2002 onwards he participates as a member of the German Bishops' Conference (since 2002 specialist committee of the journalistic commission, since 2006 working group “catechesis and mission” of the pastoral commission and from 2007 to 2010 Working Group “Institutes of Consecrated Life” of the Commission for Spiritual Professions and Church Services). Since 2003 he has also been a spiritual adviser to the Catholic Academic Foreigners Service , and from 2005 to 2006 he prepared the 96th German Catholic Day in the “Justice” working group of the Central Committee of German Catholics .

Engel received his habilitation at the Philosophical-Theological University of Benediktbeuern in 2006, where he became a private lecturer in fundamental theology in the same year . Further teaching positions followed at the University of Potsdam ( lifestyle, ethics and religious studies since 2007), the University of Münster (theology since 2008) and the Pontifical University of Salamanca (fundamental theology since 2008), and from 2009 to 2011 Engel was also a deputy chair for dogmatics and the history of dogma of the University of Münster. He is Vice-Rector at the Philosophical-Theological University (PTH) of the Capuchins in Münster, where he teaches philosophy in the field of philosophical-theological borderline questions.

Engel has been a member of the editorial board of the Freiburg Journal for Philosophy and Theology since 2006, a member of the Presidium of the Guardini Foundation since 2008 and advisory board member of the Sciencia Tomista magazine since 2010 . For the Ecumenical Church Congress 2010 he was a member of the project commission “How to live faith? What to argue about in faith? Where do you experience faith? "

Memberships

Fonts

Monographs (selection)

  • Bartolome de las Casas. Dominican - Bishop - Defender of the Indians. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-7867-1547-5 (with Thomas Eggensperger).
  • Women and men in the Dominican order. History - Spirituality - Current Projects. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1992, ISBN 3-7867-1660-9 (with Thomas Eggensperger).
  • City pastoral care. Perspectives for Church and City at the End of the 20th Century. Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-7462-1272-3 .
  • Defined emptiness: on the practice of a political-theological aesthetic following Peter Weiss' novel trilogy "The Aesthetics of Resistance". LIT, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-8258-3444-1 .
  • Dominican Spirituality (= Dominican Sources and Testimonials , Volume 1). Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 2000.
  • God of people. Landmarks of Dominican theology. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7867-2839-9 .
  • Europe as a promise: philosophical-theological contributions to the debate. Passagen-Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85165-962-7 .
  • Political theology "after" postmodernism. Ghost talks with Derrida & Co. Grünewald, Ostfildern 2016, ISBN 978-3-7867-3094-1 .

Editorships

  • Dominican sources and testimonials (DQZ) . Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 2000 ff. (With Thomas Eggensperger in connection with Barbara Hallensleben, Wolfram Hoyer, Franz Müller, Guido Vergauwen)
  • Sources and research on the history of the Dominican Order. New episode (QFD.NF) . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2001–2008. (Volumes 10–15, with Walter Senner , Kaspar Elm , Isnard Wilhelm Frank , Ulrich Horst .
  • Collection Chenu (CC) . Morus Verlag Berlin (volumes 1 & 2), Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Mainz / Ostfildern (from volume 3) 2001 ff. (With Christian Bauer, Thomas Eggensperger)
  • Culture and Religion in Europe (KuRiE) . LIT, Münster 2004 ff. (With Thomas Eggensperger, Frano Prcela)
  • Christianity in the Age of Interpretation . Passagen-Verlag, Vienna 2004. ISBN 3-85165-671-7 (with Gianni Vattimo , Richard Schröder , Thomas Eggensperger)

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personal data
SURNAME Engel, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, priest and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf