List of Contributors
Kurt Appel
Born in Tulln in 1968, studied theology, philosophy, history and German between 1988 and 1999. He received his doctorate in philosophy in 2000, his doctorate in theology in 2002 and his habilitation in fundamental theology at the University of Vienna in 2005. Since 2010, Kurt Appel has been spokesman for the research centre „Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society“ and since 2011 professor for „Theologische Grundlagenforschung“ at the University of Vienna.
His research focuses on the question of God, the formulation of a theory of time or a theory of history, the interpretation of the philosophy of Hegel and German idealism in the light of postmodern thought and the elaboration of a new humanism in interdisciplinary dialogue. In addition, the question of the theological and philosophical significance of the European project is particularly important for Appel’s work.
Position of the author: Professor of Fundamental Theology
ORCID: 0000-0003-2040-6094
Email: kurt.appel@univie.ac.at
Address (Faculty):
Lehrstuhl für Theologische Grundlagenforschung
Institut für Systematische Theologie und Ethik
Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät
Universität Wien
Schenkenstraße 8–10
1010 Vienna
Austria
Elia D. Carbognani
Elia Dorindo Carbognani, born 1993, studied Catholic theology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. Since 2022 he is doing a dissertation on the philosophical theology of the Italian humanist Giovanni Pico della Mirandola at the Chair of Dogmatics, where he also works as research assistant.
Position of the author: Elia Dorindo Carbognani is a PhD Candidate in theology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. As a freelance artist he is also active in the fields of poetry, photography and calligraphy.
Email: elia.carbognani@theol.uni-freiburg.de
Address (Faculty):
Lehrstuhl für Dogmatik mit Quellenkunde der Theologie des Mittelalters
Theologische Fakultät
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Platz der Universität 3
79098 Freiburg
Germany
Anne-Kathrin Fischbach
Studied theology and philosophy in Jerusalem and Freiburg i.Br. There she is doing a doctorate on metaphysics and the image of God in the thought of the American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce at the Chair of Dogmatics, represented by Karlheinz Ruhstorfer. She has also been working as a research assistant at this chair since 2019.
Position of the author: PhD Candidate, Research Assistant
ORCID: 0000-0003-3691-4472
Email: anne-kathrin.fischbach@theol.uni-freiburg.de
Address (Faculty):
Lehrstuhl für Dogmatik mit Quellenkunde der Theologie des Mittelalters
Theologische Fakultät
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Platz der Universität 3
79098 Freiburg
Germany
Ulrike Irrgang
Dr. phil., studied Catholic theology, English and pedagogy at the Technical University of Dresden and received her doctorate with the study entitled „The reappearance of a blown trace. The religious heritage in the work of Gianni Vattimo and Hans Magnus Enzensberger“. Her doctoral adviser was Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Ruhstorfer. From 2004–2020 she was a research assistant at the Chair for Systematic Theology at the Institute for Catholic Theology at the TU Dresden. Since 2022 she has been a consultant for spiritual formation in the main department of pastoral care in the Diocese of Dresden-Meißen. She also is involved in a wide range of academic and cultural educational courses.
Position of the author: Consultant on Spiritual Formation (Referentin für spirituelle Bildung in der Hauptabteilung Pastoral und Verkündigung)
Email: ulrike.irrgang@bddmei.de
Address (Faculty):
Bischöfliches Ordinariat Dresden-Meißen
Hauptabteilung Pastoral und Verkündigung
Dr. Ulrike Irrgang
Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer 84
01309 Dresden
Germany
Thomas Jürgasch
Studied theology and philosophy in Freiburg and Oxford. He was awarded his doctorate at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg with the thesis „Theoria versus Praxis? On the Development of a Knowledge of Principles in the Field of Practice in Antiquity and Late Antiquity“. In 2020 he was habilitated with a work on Ps-Dionysius Areopagita’s Mystical Theology. Also since 2020, he has been a Junior Professor in Patristics at the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Tübingen.
Position of the author: Juniorprofessor of Patristics, Catholic Faculty of Theology, Tübingen
ORCID: 0000-0002-0949-9501
Email: thomas.juergasch@uni-tuebingen.de
Address (Faculty):
Lehrstuhl für Alte Kirchengeschichte und Patrologie
Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Liebermeisterstr. 12
72076 Tübingen
Germany
Martin Kirschner
Born in 1974, has four children and is permanent Deacon. He studied Catholic theology and political sciences in Trier and Tübingen. He received his doctorate 2005 in Tübingen with a study about the Church as Witness of God in Late Modern Society. He was a research assistant of Peter Hünermann (2001–2006), then assistant (2006–2012) and private lecturer (2012–2016) at the Chair of Dogmatics at the University of Tübingen. His habilitation in 2011 was on theological rationality in Anselm of Canterbury. 2016 he established the new Chair for Theology in Transformational Processes funded by the Heisenberg-Program of the „Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft“ (DFG) and founded the KU Center for Religion, Church and Society in Transformation, both at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
His main research interests include the doctrine of God and ecclesiology, theological rationality and epistemology, political and public theology, transformation and liberation theologies.
Position of the author: Professor of Theology in Contemporary Transformation Processes at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Director of the KU Centre Religion, Church, Society in Transformation (ZRKG)
ORCID: 0009-0004-3795-5983
Email: kirschner@ku.de
Address (Faculty):
Lehrstuhl für Theologie in Transformationsprozessen
Theologische Fakultät
Katholische Universität Eichstätt
Pater-Philipp-Jeningen-Platz 6
85072 Eichstätt
Germany
Bernhard Knorn
Bernhard Knorn (*1980) is a Jesuit priest and teaches systematic theology at Sankt Georgen Graduate School for Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt/Main. He studied theology in Munich and Rome, received a doctorate from the University of Mainz and pursued his habilitation with Karlheinz Ruhstorfer at the University of Freiburg. Bernhard Knorn worked at Boston College (USA); he taught courses at Mainz University and at the Newman Institute in Uppsala (Sweden). His research interests are in contemporary Christology, soteriology, ecclesiology and ecumenism; he studies Jesuit theologians of various centuries. For various stages of his Jesuit formation, he lived and engaged in pastoral activities in South Sudan and in Cuba.
Position of the author: Professor of Systematic Theology
ORCID: 0000-0003-3632-8123
Email: knorn@sankt-georgen.de
Address (Faculty):
Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen
Offenbacher Landstraße 224
60599 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Hildegard König
*1954, studies of German and Catholic theology at Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen; doctorate in Catholic theology (1990): dissertation on the commentary on the Song of Songs by Apponius; study visit in Rome; university lecturer for patristics in Lucerne, Tübingen, Frankfurt (1991–1996); university lecturer for church history at RWTH Aachen (1997–2003); habilitation 2006 with thesis on Clement of Alexandria; lecturer for church history at Institut für Katholische Theologie / TU Dresden (2004–2011); associate professor for church history at TU Dresden (2011–2020). Research interests: patristics, exegesis history, contemporary church history, gender issues in church history. Lyricist.
Position of the author: Professor retired
Email: hkoenig@gmx.com
Address:
Amselsteig 21
09130 Chemnitz
Germany
Piotr Kubasiak
Studied Catholic theology in Cracow and Regensburg. In 2019, he completed a PhD in fundamental theology at the University of Vienna on the philosopher Krzysztof Michalski and his understanding of Europe and history. Since 2019 he is working on a habilitation project on the concept of faith in credo formulas at the University of Freiburg. Since 2017 he is an research assistant at the „Theologische Kurse“ in Vienna and at the Chair of Liturgical Studies at the University of Regensburg.
Position of the author: Research Assistant (Post-Doc)
Email: piotr.kubasiak@ur.de
Address (Faculty):
Lehrstuhl für Liturgiewissenschaft
Fakultät für Katholische Theologie
Universität Regensburg
Universitätsstraße 31
93053 Regensburg
Germany
Wilhelm Metz
*1959. Magister artium at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität in Munich; topic of the master’s thesis: „Stufen des Bewusstseins in der Analyse Fichtes und Hegels“.
Doctor of philosophy in Siegen (14.7.1989); topic of the PhD.: „Kategoriendeduktion und produktive Einbildungskraft in der theoretischen Philosophie Kants und Fichtes“. Habilitation in Freiburg (9.6.1997); topic of the habilitation: „Die Architektonik der Summa Theologiae des Thomas von Aquin. Zur Gesamtsicht des thomasischen Gedankens“. Appointed APL-professor in Freiburg since 2004. Lecture tours in China, South Corea and Argentina.
Appointed visiting professor in Mendoza in 2007.
Publications and lectures on high medieval, modern and postmodern philosophy, including Luhmann’s system theory. Focus: practical and political philosophy.
Position of the author: APL-Professor of Philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Email: wilhelm.metz@philosophie.uni-freiburg.de
Address (Faculty):
Philosophisches Seminar
Philosophische Fakultät
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Platz der Universität
79085 Freiburg
Germany
Hilary Anne-Marie Mooney
Studied ancient Greek, philosophy, Latin (University College Dublin) and Catholic theology (The Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy) in Dublin, Ireland. Doctorate in Catholic theology in 1991 at Sankt Georgen College of Philosophy and Theology, Frankfurt/Main. Research assistant in the Department of Early Church History and Patrology at the University of Freiburg, Germany (1994–1996 and 2001–2005). Post-doctorate qualification (‚habilitation‘) at the University of Freiburg in 2003. Since 2009 tenured Professor of Catholic Theology/ Religious Education at the University of Education Weingarten Germany. Memberships: European Society of Women in Theological Research; European Society for Catholic Theology; Agenda Forum katholischer Theologinnen e.V.; die Arbeitsgemeinschaft katholische Dogmatik und Fundamentaltheologie des deutschen Sprachraums; Association Internationale d’Études Patristiques/International Association of Patristic Studies (AIEP-IAPS). Married; two adult children.
Position of the author: Professor, Head of Department of Catholic Theology/Religious Education, University of Education Weingarten
ORCID: 0000-0003-3632-8123
Email: mooney@ph-weingarten.de
Address (Faculty):
Fachbereich Katholische Theologie / Religionspädagogik
Pädagogische Hochschule Weingarten
Kirchplatz 2
88250 Weingarten
Germany
Peter Paul Morgalla
2008–2014 studies of Catholic theology at the University of Freiburg, since 2017 research assistant at the Chair of Dogmatics and Liturgical Studies, University of Freiburg.
Position of the author: PhD Candidate, Research Assistant
Email: peter.morgalla@theol.uni-freiburg.de
Address (Faculty):
Lehrstuhl für Dogmatik und Liturgiewissenschaft
Theologische Fakultät
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Platz der Universität 3
79085 Freiburg i.Br.
Germany
Daniel Remmel
Has studied Catholic theology in Fulda and Rome. He achieved his diploma in 2013. In 2019 he finished his doctoral studies (Doctor theologiae) at Sankt Georgen graduate school of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt. For his doctoral thesis concerning the theological reception of Michel Henry’s Phenomenology of Life he was honored with the „Karl-Rahner-Preis für Theologische Forschung“ in 2020 and the graduation award of the „Freundeskreises Sankt Georgen“ in 2022. Between 2013 and 2018 he worked as research assistant at the Chair of dogmatics and dogma history at Sankt Georgen graduate school of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt. Since 2017 he is research assistant for Systematic Theology at the Seminary for Catholic Theology in Marburg and at the Faculty of Theology in Fulda. Since 2020 he cooperates also in the management of the Seminary for Catholic Theology in Marburg. Currently he works on his habilitation thesis concerning the reformulation of the theology of inspiration at the Chair of Dogmatics at Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg.
Position of the author: Research Assistant (Post-Doc)
Email: daniel.remmel@uni-marburg.de
Address (Faculty):
Katholisch-Theologisches Seminar
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Deutschhausstraße 24
35037 Marburg
Germany
Ulli Roth
Prof. Dr. Ulli Roth (born 1966), studied Catholic theology, philosophy and mathematics at the Universities of Freiburg i.Br. and Copenhagen from 1986 to 1995. He obtained his Doctor theologiae in 1998 and his habilitation in 2010. From 2001 to 2016, he worked as a high school teacher. Since 2016, he has been professor for Systematic Theology at the University of Koblenz.
Position of the author: Professor for Systematic Theology at the University of Koblenz
Email: uroth@uni-koblenz.de
Address (Faculty):
Institut für Katholische Theologie
Universität Koblenz
Universitätsstr. 1
56070 Koblenz
Germany
Karlheinz Ruhstorfer
Born in 1963 in Simbach am Inn, studied philosophy, German language and literature and history at the universities of Munich and Freiburg from 1984 to 1987. He graduated in 1993 in Freiburg, received his doctorate in 1997 and habilitated in 2003 for the subjects dogmatics and philosophy of religion. From 2006 to 2013 Ruhstorfer was professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Landau, from 2013 to 2017 professor of Systematic Theology at the Technical University of Dresden. Since 2017, he holds a chair in dogmatics at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Freiburg. In 2015 Ruhstorfer was elected Chair of the German Section of the European Society for Catholic Theology. His research focuses on the philosophical foundation of theology, the theory of revelation, the doctrine of God, Christology, anthropology, theological diagnosis of time and the theology of history.
Position of the author: Professor for Dogmatics at the Faculty of Theology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Email: karlheinz.ruhstofer@theol.uni-freiburg.de
Address (Faculty):
Lehrstuhl für Dogmatik mit Quellenkunde der Theologie des Mittelalters
Theologische Fakultät
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
79085 Freiburg
Germany
Thomas Schärtl
Born in 1969, he studied theology and philosophy in Regensburg und Munich. He did his doctorate in Tübingen in 2001 with a philosophical study of language of the trinity theology (Theo-Grammatik). In 2007, he habilitated at the Munich School of Philosophy, presenting a draft to religious epistemology (Glaubens-Überzeugung). After being a research assistant in Regensburg, Paderborn and Münster, he worked as assistant professor, later also associate professor of systematic theology at the School of Theology of the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., from 2006 until 2009. From 2009 until 2015 he was Professor (W2) for Philosophy at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University in Augsburg, from 2015 until 2020 Professor (W3) for Philosophical Basic Questions of Theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University in Regensburg. Since October 2020, he is Professor for Fundamental Theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.
Position of the author: Professor for Fundamental Theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich
ORCID: 0000-0002-2160-1388
Email: thomas.schaertl@lmu.de
Address (Faculty):
Lehrstuhl für Fundamentaltheologie
Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 Munich
Germany
Stephan Tautz
Born in 1990, studied history, philosophy and Catholic theology in Dresden and Leuven. 2021 doctorate at the University of Freiburg i.Br. with a thesis on the politically-subversive character of sacramental representation. From 2017 to 2022 research assistant at the Chair of Dogmatics at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg (UFR), since 2023 research assistant at the Chair of Liturgical Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU).
Position of the author: Research Assistant (Post-Doc)
Email: stephan.tautz@lmu.de
Address (Faculty):
Lehrstuhl für Liturgiewissenschaft
Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 Munich
Germany