Ulrich L. Lehner

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Ulrich L. Lehner (* 1976 ) is a Roman Catholic theologian and historian .

Life

After graduating from the Johannes-Turmair-Gymnasium in Straubing in 1996 , he obtained his BA phil. at the University of Philosophy in Munich , the intermediate diploma in theology in 1999 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the diploma in theology in 2003 in Munich , Dr. theol. at the University of Regensburg in 2006 (with Ulrich G. Leinsle with an examination of Kant's doctrine of providence) and the habilitation in history in 2015 at the Central European University . From 2004 to 2006 he taught at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich as assistant to Armin Kreiner , and from 2006 to 2019 as tenured professor of historical theology at Marquette University . Since July 2019, he has been the successor to the exegete John Meier as the holder of the William K. Warren Foundation Chair ( Professor ) for Theology at the University of Notre Dame . His main areas of research are the history of churches, theology and religion in the early modern period, as well as research into the 18th century. His works have been translated into several foreign languages.

Honors and calls

In 2011, his book Enlightened Monks won the Gilmary Shea Prize of American Church Historians as the best book of the year. In 2014 he was elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and in 2018 to the Accademia Ambrosiana . He declined calls for the Warren Chair at Duke University, Divinity School (2019) and a professorship for the history of literature during Goethe's time at the University of Kansas in Lawrence (2013).

Lehner is a member and former Herodotus Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, was twice a Distinguished Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, twice a Fellow of the Earhart Foundation and a Senior Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation .

Publications (selection)

  • Historia Magistra. On the archive history of the old Bavarian college SS. Jakobus and Tiburtius in Straubing . Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-118-9 .
  • Kant's concept of providence on the background of German school philosophy and theology . Leiden 2007, ISBN 90-04-15607-0 .
  • Enlightened Monks. The German Benedictines 1740-1803 . Oxford 2011, ISBN 0-19-959512-7 . 2011 Gilmary-Shea Award from American Church Historians for the best book on church history
  • Monks and nuns in the monastery dungeon. A suppressed chapter of church history . Kevelaer 2015, ISBN 978-3-8367-1004-6 . Much expanded edition of the American edition from 2013.
  • On the Road to Vatican II. German Catholic Enlightenment and Reform of the Church . Fortress Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-5064-0898-9
  • The Catholic Enlightenment. The Forgotten History of a Global Movement. Oxford University Press 2016, ISBN 978-0-19-091228-4 .
    • The Catholic Enlightenment. World history of a reform movement . Paderborn 2017, ISBN 3-506-78695-4 . German translation.
    • Katalikų Apšvieta. Pamiršta pasaulinio judėjimo istorija . Vox Altera, Vilnius 2018, ISBN 978-6-09808828-1 . Lithuanian translation.
  • God is not nice. Rejecting Pop Culture Theology and Discovering the God Worth Living For. Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame 2017, ISBN 978-1-59471-748-2 .
    • Dios No Mola. Homo Legens, 2019. ISBN 978-8417407582 . Spanish translation.
    • God is uncomfortable. A challenge . Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2019. ISBN 978-3-451-03165-6 . German translation.
As editor
  • Martin Knutzen-Proof of the Truth of the Christian Religion (1747) . Bautz 2006, ISBN 978-3-88309-335-2 .
  • Johann Poiger - Theology without witches and magicians (1780). Religious history of the early modern period, Vol. 4. Bautz. 2006. ISBN 978-3883093680 .
  • Religion according to Kant. Texts from the work of the Kantian Johann Heinrich Tieftrunk. Religious history in the early modern period, Vol. 3. Bautz, 2007. ISBN 978-3883093949 .
  • Scholastic theology in the age of grace disputes I: New texts by Diego Paez († 1582), Diego del Mármol († 1664) and Gregory of Valencia († 1603). Religious history of the early modern period, Vol. 2. Bautz, 2007. ISBN 978-3883093659
  • Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim: Justinus Febronius - De Statu Ecclesiae. Abbreviatus et Emendatus (1777). Religious history of the early modern times, Vol. 5. Bautz, 2008. ISBN 978-3883094458
  • Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim: Justinus Febronius - Commentarius in Suam Retractationem. Religious history in the early modern period, Vol. 6. Bautz, 2008. ISBN 978-3883094465
  • Beda Mayr - Defense of the Catholic Religion (1789). Brill, 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-17318-7 .
  • Monastery court and dungeon. The "Franciscan Criminal Trial" (1769). Religious history in the early modern period, Vol. 14. Nordhausen: Bautz, 2012. ISBN 978-3883097862
  • Paul Simon - The Human Element in the Church of Christ (1936). With an Introduction by Ulrich L. Lehner. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2016. ISBN 978-1498293099 .
  • Otto Michael Knab's Fox Fables . Wipe and Stock, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5326-3293-8 .
  • Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism. Routledge, 2017, ISBN 978-1138687639 .
  • with R. Tacelli: Controversial Theology. Nova et Vetera, 2005, out of print.
  • with R. Tacelli: Kant, Lonergan and the Christian faith. Bautz, 2005, ISBN 978-3-88309-236-2 .
  • with Michael Printy: Brill's Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment. Brill, 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-18351-3 .
  • with Jeff Burson: Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe . University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-268-02240-2 .
  • with G. Roeber, R. Muller: Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1500–1800. Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-19-993794-3 .
  • with R. Tacelli among others: Word and Truth. Epistemological questions. Festschrift for Harald Schöndorf. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-17-034986-5 .
As a series editor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oxford UP: Enlightened Monks. 2011, accessed on July 18, 2019 .
  2. ^ Ulrich L. Lehner | University of Notre Dame - Academia.edu. Retrieved February 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ John Gilmary Shea Prize , on achahistory.org
personal data
SURNAME Lehner, Ulrich L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1976