Wolfgang Gottfried Buchmüller

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Wolfgang Gottfried Buchmüller OCist (born March 26, 1964 in Konstanz ) is a German priest monk of the Cistercian monastery Heiligenkreuz , who was responsible for founding a monastery in Sri Lanka from 2001 to 2009, and a theologian . In 2019 he became the successor of Karl Wallner Rector of the Philosophical-Theological College Benedict XVI.

Life

The son of an anesthetist and a primary school teacher graduated from high school in Pfullendorf in 1983. After basic military service, he studied medium and modern art history, as well as early Christian and Byzantine art history and historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Munich from 1984 to 1989 , where he obtained the title Magister Artium. In 1989 he entered the seminary of the Archdiocese of Munich as a seminarist and began studying theology at the University of Munich. He entered the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz in 1991, where he continued to study theology. Christoph Schönborn ordained him on June 14, 1996 as a priest in Heiligenkreuz. He completed the chaplain year 1996/1997 in the Cistercian monastery Bochum-Stiepel . In 1997 he began a doctoral degree in Vienna , which he completed with a doctorate as Dr. theol. graduated from Josef Weismayer on January 16, 2001. In Grub was the church rector from 2000 to 2002. Since 2001 he has been a lecturer / professor for spiritual theology and religious history at the Hochschule Heiligenkreuz , where he also served as research dean from 2015-2019.

His scientific focus is the critical edition of the writings of Isaac von Stellas .

Publications (selection)

  • Joachim von Sandrart's doctrine of affect and its sources. A study of his literary and visual artistic work. Master's thesis in art history. Munich 1989.
  • William of Saint-Thierry as teacher of monastic and spiritual life. Master's thesis in theology. Vienna 1996.
  • The asceticism of love, Aelred von Rievaulx and the basics of his spirituality (= sources and studies on Cistercian literature , volume 4) Bernardus-Verl., Langwaden 2001, ISBN 3-934551-36-X (also dissertation, Vienna 2001).
  • as editor: On the joy of approaching God. Contributions to Cistercian spirituality . Be & Be, Heiligenkreuz 2010, ISBN 3902694114 .
  • as editor with Bernhardin Schellenberger : A song that cheers happily in the heart. Texts of the spiritual experience of the early Cistercians . Be & Be, Heiligenkreuz 2010, ISBN 3902694076 .
  • Karl Steiner (1902-1981), an artist as a visionary, from the avant-garde to prophetic modernity. Heiligenkreuz 2011 . Be & Be, Heiligenkreuz 2011, ISBN 3902694343 .
  • Guerric of Igny, words of fire, mystagogical speeches . EOS, St. Ottilien 2012, ISBN 978-3-8306-7551-8 .
  • with Bernhard Kohout-Berghammer : Isaak von Stella: Sermones = sermons. Latin / German (= Fontes Christiani. Bilingual new edition of Christian source texts from ancient times and the Middle Ages , Volume 52)
  • Resting in Mind: Charismatic Phenomena in Controversy. Danielis-Verl., Jestetten 2012, ISBN 978-3-936004-09-0 .
  • as editor: Christian mysticism in the field of tension between ancient and medieval philosophy. International conference at the Phil.-Theol. Benedict XVI University Heiligenkreuz on March 22nd and 23rd, 2013 . Be & Be, Heiligenkreuz 2015, ISBN 3-902694-63-7 .
  • Isaak von Étoile, Monastic Theology in Dialogue with Neo-Platonism of the 12th Century (= Contributions to the History of Philosophy and Theology of the Middle Ages. New Series , Volume 80). Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-402-10291-6 . (also habilitation thesis, Vienna 2015).
  • as editor with Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz : Giving Europe a soul (= Ambo. Yearbook of the University of Heiligenkreuz , Volume 1) Be & Be, Heiligenkreuz 2016, ISBN 978-3-903118-05-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Buchmüller new rector of the University of Heiligenkreuz . Article from January 30, 2019, accessed on January 31, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Buchmüller, Wolfgang Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchmüller, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German priest monk of the Cistercian monastery Heiligenkreuz and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy