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Alfons Auer (born February 12, 1915 in Schönebürg ( Schwendi ), † November 19, 2005 in Tübingen ) was a German moral theologian.

Auer was ordained a priest in Rottenburg in 1939. From 1951 to 1953 he was founding director of the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. From 1955 to 1966 Auer held the chair for moral theology at the University of Würzburg and then taught as a professor until his retirement in 1981 at the University of Tübingen. There he was involved in the dispute over the removal of Hans Küng from the Faculty of Theology, whereby he ultimately opposed him.

Dietmar Mieth writes about Auer on the website of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen: “In his work he understood reality as a process and as history. In it he saw experiences and learning processes that enable the remaining truths a new language of their exploration. In the renewal of Catholic moral theology after the Council, he has become a widely visible and revered figure ”.

His book Autonomous Morality and Christian Faith (1971) is considered the standard work of modern moral theology.

The pontifical requiem for Alfons Auer, led by Bishop Gebhard Fürst, took place on November 24, 2005 in St. Paulus in Tübingen. Auer was buried on November 26, 2005 in his hometown Schönebürg,  where the village square has been named Alfons-Auer-Platz since 2010.

Alfons-Auer Ethics price [ Edit | Edit source ]
The Catholic Theological Faculty in Tübingen awarded the Alfons Auer Ethics Prize, endowed with € 25,000 , to Charles Taylor for the first time in 2015. 2017 award winner is Heiner Bielefeldt.

Works [ Edit | Edit source ]

 * The perfect piety of the Christian: after the Enchiridion militis Christiani of the Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1954.
 * Cosmopolitan Christian, 1960.
 * Autonomous morality and Christian belief, 1971, 2nd edition 1984, new edition WBG, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 9783534268191 , with an introduction by Dietmar Mieth.
 * Environmental ethics, 1984.
 * Successful aging, 1995.

Literature [ Edit | Edit source ]

 * Karl-Wilhelm Merks : Autonomy, in: Jean-Pierre Wils , Dietmar Mieth (ed.), Basic Concepts of Christian Ethics , Munich-Vienna-Zurich 1992, 254–281.
 * Dietmar Mieth : Autonomous Morality in a Christian Context, in: Orientation 40 (1976), 31–34.
 * Dietmar Mieth, Helmut Weber (ed.): Reality claims and Christian faith. Problems and Ways of Theological Ethics Today . Commemorative for Alfons Auer's 65th birthday. Düsseldorf 1980.
 * Konrad Hilpert : Ethics and Rationality: Studies on the problem of autonomy and its importance for theological ethics, Düsseldorf 1980, passim.
 * Dietmar Mieth: Autonomous morality in the Christian faith, speeches on the 90th birthday of A. Auer (= Tübingen university speeches, NF. 42). Tuebingen 2005.
 * Dietmar Mieth: Open-minded Christianity. Alfons Auer's contribution to the renewal of moral theology . In: Herder Correspondence 60/1 (2006), 29-33.
 * Dietmar Mieth: Autonomous environmental ethics in the theological context. A design by A. Auer . In: Orientation 49 (1985), 17-19.
 * Wolfgang Nethöfel : Moral Theology after the Council: People, Programs, Positions, Göttingen 1987, 79–124 et passim.

Weblinks [ edit | Edit source ]

 * Literature by and about Alfons Auer in the catalog of the German National Library
 * Obituary on the homepage of the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
 * Is there an ethics without religiousness? ( Memento of September 28, 2007 on the Internet Archive ) (1975) - With a reply by Erich Fromm (PDF file; 66 kB)

Individual records [ edit | Edit source ]

 * 1) ↑ Hans Küng: Controversial Truth. Memories, Munich 2009, pp. 640–642
 * 2) ↑ Alfons Auer. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
 * 3) ↑ Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart : Alfons Auer died at the age of 90 ( memento dated September 27, 2007 on the Internet Archive ) November 21, 2005
 * 4) ↑ Alfons Auer Ethics Award. In: akademie-rs.de. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
 * 5) ↑ Karl G. Rijkhoek: Commitment to human rights: University of Tübingen honors Heiner Bielefeldt. Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, press release dated September 18, 2017 from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on September 18, 2017.