Wolfgang Gerold Esser

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Wolfgang Gerold Esser (born April 9, 1934 in Cologne ) is a German Roman Catholic religious educator .

Life

Esser studied Roman Catholic theology from 1956 to 1959 at the Franciscan religious colleges in Sigmaringen and Fulda . He then studied pedagogy at the Pedagogical Academy in Cologne from 1959 to 1961 . From 1981 to 1999 Esser was a full professor at the Ruhr University of Education / University of Dortmund .

Works (selection)

  • Mystical consciousness awakens in us . Via Nova, Petersberg 2010.
  • Free the soul . Kösel, Munich 2005.
  • Philosophical search for God . Kösel, Munich 2002.
  • God matures in us . Kösel, Munich 1991.
  • Studies on secularization and religiosity . Background analysis of an anthropologically based religious education. Pannos, Düsseldorf 1975.
  • Perspectives of future religious education . Pfeiffer, Munich 1970 (Volume 1 of the series On Religious Instruction Tomorrow ; also published by Jugenddienst-Verlag, Wuppertal).

literature

  • Prof. Dr. paed. Wolfgang G. Esser . In: Valentin Wehefritz (Hrsg.): CVs from your own hand . Biographical archive of Dortmund university professors. No. 8 . Dortmund 2002 ( tu-dortmund.de [PDF; accessed on April 26, 2011]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Prof. Dr. paed. Wolfgang G. Esser . In: Valentin Wehefritz (Hrsg.): CVs from your own hand . Biographical archive of Dortmund university professors. No.  8 . Dortmund 2002 ( tu-dortmund.de [PDF; accessed on April 26, 2011]).