Volker oath

Volker Eid (born May 10, 1940 in Kirchheimbolanden , Rheinpfalz ) is a German moral theologian .

After graduating from high school in 1960, he studied philosophy and Catholic theology as well as art history at the University of Munich . In 1966 he was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD. In 1968 he was ordained a priest by Cardinal Döpfner in Freising . From 1969 on he was a research assistant at the chair for theological ethics at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Munich. From 1972 to 2006 he taught as a professor of moral theology at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg .

In addition to theology, he is particularly interested in eastern Turkey .

Writings on Turkey

• Aizanoi in Phrygia . In: Ancient sites in Western Asia Minor, Die Karawane 23, 3/4 (1983) 3–46
• East Turkey. Peoples and cultures between Taurus and Ararat . DuMont, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7701-1455-8
• "Source of Living Water". To the spiritual program of the early Byzantine rock sanctuary at Midye-Salmydessos in Turkish Thrace . In: Nürnberger Blätter zur Archäologie 12 (1995–96) 121–140.
• Ezekiel Vision 37, 1-14. A relief representation from the 6th century in Dara-Anastasioupolis, Turkish northern Mesopotamia . In: Biblical Notes 83 (1996) 23-34.
• Saving Ark - Saving Church. An early Christian mosaic in the Cilician Mopsuhestia . In: Bible and Church 58.1 (2003) 43–45.
• Mithras victus - Christ victor. Mithras cult sites in ancient Doliche . In: Bibel und Kirche 58.4 (2003) 247–250.
• In the land of Ararat. Peoples and cultures in Eastern Anatolia . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-18206-5
• And it's true. In search of the truth of the New Testament , Weltbild, Augsburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86800-042-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Eid in the catalog of the German National Library