Werner Krämer (theologian)

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Werner Krämer (born September 3, 1940 in Eich , Rheinhessen ) is a Catholic theologian .

Life

Werner Krämer works in the field of social ethics . His study “Consensus and Reception” attracted attention, in which he evaluates the handwritten tracts of the (until then hereditary) Basel Council theologians : His image of the church as a community of believers and its legitimation of every rule based on the consent of the subordinates is the theory of monarchy opposed to the papalists .

He presented a “history of work” in which he differentiates work doctrines and work reality of antiquity from those of Christianity , shows the course in Roman law and the theorists of modernity against externally determined work and the struggle of workers for their rights from work (Participation in prosperity and participation).

Scientific career

After graduating from high school in Worms , Krämer studied philosophy and theology in Mainz and Innsbruck as well as social sciences in Mainz. From 1965 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Cusanus Research at the theological faculty of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. He is co-editor of Sermones I, 1-2 by Nikolaus von Kues in the Heidelberg Academy edition.

In 1974 he received his doctorate. theol. with the work “Consensus and Reception. Constitutional principles of the church in the Basel conciliarism ”. Since 1977 he has been a research assistant for social ethics at the University of Dortmund, at the same time he had a teaching position at the University of Paderborn ; In 1986 he completed his habilitation in social ethics in Mainz, 1986/87 he was visiting professor at the University of Friborg (Switzerland), 1987 professor of theology and social ethics in Dortmund; In 1996/97 he was given a teaching position at the Ruhr University in Bochum , and in 2002 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Mainz. Krämer was co-editor of the series “Workers Movement and Church”, 10 volumes (Grünewald and Patmos) Mainz and Düsseldorf and the series “Studies on Christian Social Ethics”, 11 volumes (Lit-Verlag) Münster. He is the liaison officer of the Catholic Academic Foreigners Service (KAAD) .

Works (selection)

  • History and ethics of work, studies on Christian social ethics. Vol. 4, Münster 2014
  • Structural reform and social policy. Directions in German social Catholicism and their contributions to the development of the welfare state, in: Hermann-Josef Große Kracht / Christian Spieß (ed.), Christianity and Solidarity, FS Karl Gabriel, Paderborn 2008, pp. 251-272
  • Article work, social ethics, in: Peter Eicher (ed.), New Handbook of theological basic concepts, Munich 2005 pp. 51–67
  • Consensus and reception. Constitutional principles of the church in the Basel conciliarism, BGPhThMA 19, Münster 1980 to chap. 5 (Johanne von Segovia), chap. 6 (Nikolaus von Kues), chap. 7 (other council participants), chap. 8 (systematic presentation of the opposing positions)
  • Corporation theory versus monarchy theory. Der Basler Konziliarismus (1431–1448), in: Richard Faber (ed.), Katholizismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Würzburg 2005 pp. 65–78
  • Concordance and consensus in the Church and Respublica, in: International Symposium of the Cusanus Society 1993, MFCG 21, Trier 1994 pp. 231-265
  • Representation, consensus and reception among the Basel Council theologians, in: Erhard Mock / Georg Wieland (eds.), Legal and Social Philosophy of the Middle Ages, Salzburg Writings on Legal, State and Social Philosophy, Frankfurt 1990, pp. 169–178
  • The debate about true representation at the Basel Council, in: Albert Zimmermann (ed.), The Concept of Representation in the Middle Ages, MiscMed 8, Berlin 1971 pp. 202–237

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reviews of Yves Congar 1980, Heribert Müller 1980, Friedrich Merzbacher 1981, Remigius Bäumer 1982, Erich Meuthen 1982, Benigno Hernández 1982, Johannes Helmrath 1984, Morimichi Watanabe 1987 and others
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Eich (Rheinhessen)