Wolfgang Beck (theologian)

Wolfgang Beck (born January 13, 1974 in Hildesheim ) is a Catholic priest and German pastoral theologian.

Life

After his school days at the Josephinum in Hildesheim, Wolfgang Beck studied Catholic theology at the PTH Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt a. M. and the LMU in Munich. In 1999 he finished his studies at the PTH Sankt Georgen with a diploma in catholic law. Theology and went to Israel Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem for ten months. In 2000 he entered the pastoral course of the Diocese of Hildesheim, he was ordained a deacon in 2001 and a priest in 2002. Afterwards he was chaplain for three years in the St. Aegidien provost in Braunschweig , before he was employed in Hanover in 2005 as a university chaplain , school chaplain ( St. Ursulaschule ) and chaplain ( provost St. Clemens ). In the same year he also took up a doctoral degree in pastoral theology in Graz with Rainer Bucher . His dissertation with the title “The unrecognized avant-garde in the rectory. He finished the perception of an abductive learning place of the church pastoral community ”in 2008. From 2008 to 2015 he was pastor of the Catholic parishes of St. Godehard and St. Benno in Hanover-Linden, and from 2010 also the parishes of Christkönig (Hanover-Badenstedt) and Maria Consolation (Hanover-Ahlem).

Since September 1, 2015, Wolfgang Beck has been a junior professor for pastoral theology and homiletics in Frankfurt a. M. He is currently doing his habilitation in pastoral theology. He has also been a member of the speaking team for the Word for Sunday since 2011.

activities

In addition to his teaching activities, Beck is a priest of the Hildesheim diocese and speaker of the Word for Sunday (ARD). Since 2017 he has been part of the editorial team of feinschwarz.net , a theological feature section. At the PTH Sankt Georgen he also heads the media study program.

bibliography

Books

• The Catholic Church and the media. Insight into a tense relationship. Wuerzburg 2018.
• The unrecognized avant-garde in the rectory. For the perception of an abductive learning place of the church pastoral community. Series: Werkstatt Theologie Vol. 12 (Diss.), Berlin 2008.
• with Christian Hennecke: Think about. Rediscover the sacrament of penance with children, young people and adults. Munich 2008.

Article (selection)

• Migration in the Sermon? An occasion for attentive (self) perception. In: Lebendige Seelsorge 69 (2018), pp. 129–133.
• Cool doers and soft losers? Images of men in the media and the theological learning field of biographical heterogeneity. In: ThPQ 166 (2018), pp. 141–149.
• The quick judgment. Or: homiletic learning effects in modern media. In: Hans Pock u. a. (Ed.): Where to preach today? Proclaim in familiar and unusual places. Graz 2018, pp. 251–263.
• The power of the couch. Homiletic learning effects arise in places of modern media. In: Communicatio Socialis 50 (2017), pp. 113–124.
• Church on the sidelines? The challenge of digitality that shapes society. In: www.futur2.org. Magazine for Strategy and Development in Society and Church 6 (2/2017).
• The chance of religious satire in a secular society. Ecclesial offenses and the longings behind the talk of the “Christian Occident” from a pastoral theological perspective. In: Dirk Ansorge (ed.): Pluralist identity. Observations on the origin and future of Europe. Darmstadt 2016, pp. 230–242.

Web links

• Dr. Wolfgang Beck at the Philosophical-Theological University of Sankt Georgen
• Dr. Wolfgang Beck on Das Wort zum Sonntag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dormition Abbey
2. ↑ Catholic university community
3. ^ Pastoral theology and homiletics at the PTH Sankt Georgen
4. ^ Teams of speakers for the Word for Sunday