Ulrich HJ Körtner

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Ulrich HJ Körtner (2013)

Ulrich Heinz Jürgen Körtner (born April 16, 1957 in Hameln ) is a German - Austrian Protestant theologian and medical ethicist .

Live and act

Körtner grew up as a pastor's child in Enger / Westphalia . His maternal grandfather was the last pastor in Fischbeck near Hessisch Oldendorf . Körtner studied in Bethel , Münster and Göttingen . Doctorate (1982) and habilitation (1987) took place at the Bethel Church University . Körtner wrote his dissertation on Papias von Hierapolis , his habilitation thesis on apocalyptic . From 1986 to 1990 he worked as a parish priest in Bielefeld, from 1990 to 1992 as a study director at the Evangelical Academy Iserlohn (now Evangelical Academy Villigst ). Since 1992 he has been full professor for systematic theology (reformed theology) at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna . In connection with his appointment to the chair, he was naturalized in Austria.

Körtner is director of the Institute for Ethics and Law in Medicine at the University of Vienna (IERM) and was director of the Institute for Public Theology and Ethics of Diakonia (IÖThE) of Diakonie Austria from 2014 to 2019 . In 2012, Körtner was appointed by the EKD Council to chair the board of trustees of the Evangelical Central Office for Worldview Issues in Berlin and held this position until the end of 2018.

Körtner is a legal knight of the Order of St. John and since 2012 parish priest of the Austrian Coming and Federal Pastor of the Johanniter Accident Aid Austria.

He is married and has two grown children.

Research priorities

A particular focus of Körtner's work is medical ethics . He is director of the Institute for Ethics and Law in Medicine at the University of Vienna and works on several committees, including the Scientific Committee for Gene Analysis and Gene Therapy in Humans. He was a member of the Austrian Bioethics Commission at the Federal Chancellery (2001–2013) and the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) (2006–2009).

Another focus is the areas of hermeneutics and ecumenical theology . Körtner is a co-founder of the Rudolf Bultmann Society for Hermeneutic Theology (chairman 1998–2008). He is co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik and the Theologische Rundschau .

Political positions

Körtner repeatedly takes a profiled position on current political issues from the point of view of theologically motivated political ethics.

In September 2019, for example, he reacted to media reports that the EKD wanted to send its own ship to the Mediterranean for sea rescue. In an article in the magazine Zeitzeichen , Körtner criticized the fact that the EKD Council Chairman Heinrich Bedford-Strohm had held a paper folding ship and a poster with the words “Kirche rettet” in the cameras of the media photographers: “So that's the level at which the EKD is In the meantime, complex political questions such as European migration and asylum policy have been discussed. ”In this context, Körtner complained that the EKD had abandoned the decades-long internal consensus not to make politics itself, but only to make politics possible through political statements. With the EKD Sea Rescue, the EKD becomes “an actor in a questionable migration policy”. Such a rescue at sea has nothing to do with the moral obligation in the sense of international maritime law, but amounts to a “policy of open borders”: “Civilian sea rescuers and their supporters by no means justify their actions with the will to save people from immediate mortal danger , but also with the fact that every person has the right to flee or migrate to a country of their choice. Since there is no such right legally, they justify it morally. In fact, rescue from distress at sea becomes a ticket to Europe, and not for the poorest of the poor, but for those who can afford the high costs of smugglers. ”If the EKD operates this form of refugee rescue, it supports, according to Körtner, that The breakup of the EU and the rise of separatist, right-wing populist tendencies in European countries.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Papias of Hierapolis . A contribution to the history of early Christianity (FRLANT 133), Göttingen 1983
  • World fear and end of the world. A theological interpretation of apocalyptic , Göttingen 1988
  • The inspired reader. Central aspects of biblical hermeneutics , Göttingen 1994
  • Protestant social ethics. Basics and subject areas , Göttingen 1999; 4. revised u. extended edition (UTB 2107), Göttingen 2019
  • The hidden god. On the doctrine of God , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2000
  • Theology of God's Word. Positions - Problems - Perspectives , Göttingen 2001
  • Religion and violence. On the vitality of religion in its ambivalence . In: Adel Theodor Khoury , Hans-Peter Müller (ed.): War and violence in the world religions. Facts and Backgrounds, Freiburg im Breisgau 2003, pp. 99–124.
  • Basic course in nursing ethics (UTB 2514), Vienna 2004; 2. revised u. exp. Vienna 2012 edition; 3rd edition 2017
  • Where is ecumenism headed? From consensus to difference model , Göttingen 2005
  • "Let's make people". Christian Anthropology in the Age of Biotechnology , Munich 2005
  • Introduction to theological hermeneutics , Darmstadt 2006
  • Ethics in the hospital. Diakonie - Pastoral Care - Medicine , Göttingen 2007
  • Hermeneutic Theology. Approaches to the interpretation of the Christian faith and its life practice , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2008
  • Risky belief. Practice in Christianity ; Vienna 2009
  • Body and life. Bioethical research on the physicality of humans (APTLH 61), Göttingen 2010
  • Freedom and responsibility. Studies on the Foundation of Theological Ethics (SThE 90), 2nd revised and expanded edition, Friborg / Freiburg i.Br. 2010
  • Reformation Theology in the 21st Century (ThSt NF 1), Zurich 2010
  • God's word in person. Aesthetic reception and theoretical metaphor approaches to Christology , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2011
  • Faith in God and Criticism of Religion (ThLZ.F 30), Leipzig 2014
  • The last things , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2014
  • Work on the canon. Studies on Biblical Hermeneutics , Leipzig 2015
  • Diakonia and Public Theology. Diaconal Studies , Göttingen 2017
  • The gospel of freedom. Potentials of the Reformation , Vienna 2017
  • For reason. Against moralization and emotionalization in politics and society , Leipzig 2017, 2nd edition 2017
  • Dogmatik (LETh 5), Leipzig 2018, study edition Leipzig 2020
  • Ecumenical Church Studies (LETh 9), Leipzig 2018
  • Luther's provocation for the present. Being a Christian - Bible - Politics , Leipzig 2018

As editor

  • Believe and Understand. Perspectives of Hermeneutic Theology , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2000
  • Jesus in the 21st century. Bultmann's Jesus book and current research on Jesus , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2002, 2nd edition 2006
  • with Marianne Popp: Creation and evolution - between being and design. New dispute about the theory of evolution , Vienna 2007
  • with Christian Kopetzki, Christiane Druml: Ethics and Law in Human Research (Series Ethics and Law in Medicine 5), Vienna / New York 2010
  • with Gregor Maria Hoff : Workbook Theology History , 2 volumes, Stuttgart 2012/2013
  • with Reiner Anselm : Protestant ethics compact. Basic knowledge in basic terms , Gütersloh 2015
  • with Christian Kopetzki, Maria Kletečka-Pulker, Sigrid Müller : Decision-making and decision-making aids at the beginning of life (series Ethics and Law in Medicine 13), Vienna 2018
  • with Martin Rothgangel , Henrik Simojoki: Theological key terms . Subject-oriented - biblical - systematic - didactic (TLL 1), Göttingen 2019
  • with Reiner Anselm , Christian Albrecht : Concepts and Spaces of Public Theology. Science - Church - Diakonie (Public Theology, Vol. 39), Leipzig 2020

Web links

Commons : Ulrich HJ Körtner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Holger Gohla: Ulrich HJ Körtner, Protestant theologian, medical ethicist , SWR2 contemporaries, April 3, 2014, accessed on April 10, 2015.
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ^ People , website of the Institute for Public Theology and Ethics of Diakonie, accessed on January 25, 2015.
  4. ↑ https://etf-ssc.univie.ac.at/galeriearchiv/2013/einzelansicht-2013/article/prof-koertner-neuer-kuratoriumsvorsitzender-der-evangelischen-zentralstelle-fuer-weltanschauungsfra/?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D= 156807 & cHash = 12a41702a059163b13c8f8024d1df632
  5. ↑ [2] .
  6. ↑ Ulrich HJ Körtner: Missed nave. When it comes to sea rescue, the EKD has lost its bearings, in: Zeitzeichen von Sept. 2019. URL: https://zeitzeichen.net/node/7822 (accessed September 18, 2019).
  7. ^ University of Vienna: French honorary doctorate for Ulrich Körtner. Press release of the University of Vienna, May 20, 2010, accessed on January 11, 2017.
  8. ^ University of Vienna: Hungarian honorary doctorate for Ulrich Körtner. ( Memento of May 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved November 22, 2013.
  9. ^ Austrian Society for Geriatrics and Gerontology: Prize for Humanistic Age Research of the City of Vienna 2015
  10. ^ University of Vienna: Decoration of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class for Ulrich HJ Körtner. ( Memento of December 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  11. ^ University of Vienna: Wilhelm Hartel Prize for Ulrich HJ Körtner. ( Memento of November 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved November 22, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Körtner, Ulrich HJ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Körtner, Ulrich Heinz Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian Protestant theologian and medical ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin