User:FrMaRePb/sandbox

= Faculty of Theology Paderborn =

The Faculty of Theology Paderborn is a state-recognised university under the auspices of the Archiepiscopal See of Paderborn.

History
The Paderborn Faculty of Theology is the oldest university in Westphalia. It was founded on 10 September 1614 by the Paderborn Prince-Bishop Dietrich IV of Fürstenberg (1585-1618) as a Jesuit university with a faculty of theology and philosophy; the first lectures in both disciplines were held in the same year. Pope Paul V (1605-1621) confirmed the foundation on 2 April 1615 with the breve “In supereminenti” and Emperor Matthias (1605-1619) with a diploma on 14 December 1615. In autumn 1616 these documents were proclaimed in Paderborn, deans were appointed for both faculties in 1617 and the statutes of the university were published. The Pope and Emperor had privileged the Jesuit university with all academic rights, in particular also with the right to award doctorates for both faculties. Among the professors of the first generation was Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld (1591-1635), the important baroque poet and fighter against the witch-hunt. He was professor of philosophy from 1623 to 1626 and professor of moral theology from 1629 to 1631.

Even after the abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773 and the end of the prince-bishopric of Paderborn through the Imperial Deputation of 25 February 1803, the university continued to exist. Although King Frederick William III of Prussia (1797-1840) decreed its abolition on 18 October 1818, this was not implemented and was expressly revoked on 16 April 1836 by a royal decree. Nevertheless, negotiations between the Paderborn bishopric and the Prussian government lasted until 1843, before the college received new statutes under Bishop Richard Dammers (1841-1844) as a “Philosophical-Theological Academy”. During the “Kulturkampf” (1871-1887), it remained closed from 1873 to 1887 due to state restrictions, after which it experienced a new period of prosperity. In 1909, it had eight chairs; their professors published the journal “Theologie und Glaube” (“Theology and Faith”) for the first time that year. From 16 March 1917, the university bore the name “Philosophical-Theological Academy”. Because its buildings were completely destroyed after the heavy air raids on Paderborn in March 1945, study activities were transferred to Bad Driburg after the Second World War (1939-1945) and could not be resumed in Paderborn until the winter semester of 1949/50.

By a decree of 11 June 1966, Pope Paul VI (1963-1978) granted the university the legal status of a Faculty of Theology and at the same time confirmed its right to confer all academic degrees. This legal status was confirmed on 14 October 1966 in a certificate from the Ministry of Culture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and still exists today. According to the amended version of the “Higher Education Act of the State” of North Rhine-Westphalia of 16 September 2014, “the Paderborn Faculty of Theology is a state-recognised higher education institution within the meaning of this Act” (Section 74, Paragraph 1). It thus has the same rank as the corresponding faculties or departments of state universities of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The Faculty of Theology, which has published the academic book series “Paderborner Theologische Studien” since 1974 (currently 60 volumes), is located in the historic city centre of Paderborn. It currently employs 15 professors, several lecturers and research assistants. The academic profile of the university includes the ten-semester course of study in Catholic theology leading to the degree of Magister/Magistra Theologiae. In addition, the degrees of licentiate, doctorate and habilitation are possible.

The Faculty of Theology maintains a institutional cooperation with the University of Paderborn. It extends above all to the study of philosophy, in which the Faculty of Theology is integrated with its two chairs of “History of Philosophy” and “Systematic Philosophy”. Therefore, graduates of the Faculty of Theology can also be awarded a doctorate in philosophy under certain conditions.

Chairs
The study program “Catholic Theology” is divided into the following subject groups and is currently represented in research and teaching by the professors listed by name.

I Philosophy
History of Philosophy and Introduction to Theology - Bernd Irlenborn

Systematic Philosophy - Andreas Koritensky

II Biblical Theology
Old Testament - Michael Konkel

New Testament - Daniel Lanzinger

III Historical Theology
Church History and Patrology - Hubertus R. Drobner

Diocesan history - Hermann-Josef Schmalor

IV Systematic Theology
Fundamental theology and comparative religious studies - Aaron Langenfeld

Dogmatics and History of Dogma - N.N.

Moral Theology - Peter Schallenberg

Christian Social Doctrine - Günter Wilhelms

Ecumenical theology - N.N.

V Practical Theology
Canon Law - Rüdiger Althaus

Liturgical Studies - Stephan Wahle (Chair representative)

Pastoral Theology and Homiletics, Religious Education and Catechetics - Herbert Haslinger

Pastoral Psychology and Pastoral Sociology - Christoph Jacobs

Institutes and Library
Johann-Adam-Möhler-Institute for Ecumenical Studies The Johann-Adam-Möhler-Institute for Ecumenical Studies was founded in 1957 by Archbishop Lorenz Jaeger of Paderborn and is affiliated with the Paderborn Faculty of Theology. It is named after the theologian Johann Adam Möhler (1796-1838), who with his work “Symbolik, oder Darstellung der dogmatischen Gegensätze der Katholiken und Protestanten nach ihren öffentlichen Bekenntnisschriften” (“Symbolism, or Depiction of Dogmatic Contrasts of Catholics and Protestants in their Public Confessional Writings”) (1832) is considered a Catholic pioneer of ecumenism and of scientific research into the Christian confessions. The Institute, which is internationally active in research, teaching and in the framework of various ecumenical dialogues, has a specialised library with over 150,000 volumes and 200 current periodicals. The Institute publishes, among other things, the academic book series “Konfessionskundliche und kontroverstheologische Studien” and the international ecumenical journal “Catholica”.

Josef Pieper Centre The “Josef Pieper Arbeitsstelle” (JPA) has existed at the Faculty of Theology since 2008 in conjunction with Berthold Wald, former professor of Systematic Philosophy. It is dedicated to the complete works of Josef Pieper (1904-1997), an internationally important philosopher of the 20th century, and aims to provide a forum for the growing interest in his work.

Archiepiscopal Academic Library The Archiepiscopal Academic Library (“Erzbischöflich-Akademische Bibliothek”) of Paderborn, with its approximately 340,000 volumes and about 500 current periodicals, is the main university library of the Faculty of Theology and also the diocesan library for the Archdiocese of Paderborn. Its historical holdings include around 750 incunabula (early prints up to the year 1500) and 130 medieval manuscripts. The library also includes the Bibliotheca Theodoriana, which was founded in 1614 by Prince-Bishop Dietrich IV of Fürstenberg as the library of the Jesuit University. After considerable losses towards the end of the Second World War, about 6,000 volumes are still available today. In the course of secularisation, many printed works and manuscripts from dissolved monasteries in the region were incorporated into the Bibliotheca Theodoriana, including those from the Benedictine Abdinghof Monastery in Paderborn or the Augustinian Canons’ Monastery of Böddeken; a large part of the monastic library of the former Imperial Abbey of Corvey (approx. 2,500 volumes) is also now in the Archiepiscopal Academic Library.

Rectors (since 1998)
1998-2000: Josef Meyer zu Schlochtern

2000-2002: Knut Backhaus

2002-2003: Josef Meyer zu Schlochtern

2003-2005: Wolfgang Thönissen

2005-2007: Günter Wilhelms

2007-2009: Bernd Irlenborn

2009-2011: Berthold Wald

2011-2013: Maria Neubrand

2013-2015: Josef Meyer zu Schlochtern

2015-2017: Rüdiger Althaus

2017-2019: Wolfgang Thönissen

2019-2022: Stefan Kopp

since 2022: Aaron Langenfeld

Notable Professors and Alumni
Friedrich Spee (1591-1635), Jesuit, moral theologian, author of the “Cautio Criminalis”

Bernhard Frick (c. 1600-1655), vicar general and auxiliary bishop in Paderborn and Hildesheim, received his doctorate from the Jesuit University in Paderborn in 1628

Johann Matthias Carrich (1735-1813), theologian, Jesuit and university teacher

Johann Püllenberg (1790-1856), philosopher and theologian, graduate and professor

Wilhelm Schneider (1847-1909), Bishop of Paderborn

Caspar Klein (1865-1941), Bishop and from 1930 first Archbishop of Paderborn

Hermann Müller (1868-1932), professor of moral theology and church musician

Johannes Linneborn (1867-1933), dean of the cathedral in Paderborn, deputy to the Prussian parliament

Karl Joseph Schulte (1871-1941), Cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne

Petrus Legge (1882-1951), Bishop of Meissen

Paul Simon (1882-1946), professor of philosophy and apologetics in Tübingen, dean of the cathedral in Paderborn

Joseph Pradel (1888-1967), politician of the Centre Party

Franz Rüsche (1888-1971), professor of philosophy

Wilhelm Weskamm (1891-1956), Bishop of Berlin

Lorenz Jaeger (1892-1975), Cardinal, Archbishop of Paderborn

Eduard Stakemeier (1904-1970), professor of Fundamental Theology, Comparative Religion and Denominations at the Theological Faculty of Paderborn, from 1957 first Director of the Johann-Adam-Möhler-Institute

Klemens Honselmann (1900-1991), librarian and church historian

Franz Stock (1904-1948), rector of the “seminary behind barbed wire” in Chartres

Franz Hengsbach (1910-1991), Cardinal, Bishop of Essen

Heinrich Moritz Dolch (1912-1984), physicist and fundamental theologian

Alois Andritzki (1914-1943), Sorbian priest of the diocese of Meissen, martyr in the Dachau concentration camp, beatified

Paul Nordhues (1915-2004), auxiliary bishop in Paderborn

Miroslaw Marusyn (1924-2009), Archbishop of the Curia

Johannes Joachim Degenhardt (1926-2002), Cardinal, Archbishop of Paderborn

Paul-Werner Scheele (1928-2019), Bishop of Würzburg

Paul Josef Cordes (* 1934), Cardinal of the Curia, President of the Pontifical Council “Cor unum” (1995-2010)

Luis Teodorico Stöckler (* 1936), Bishop emeritus of Quilmes

Eugen Drewermann (* 1940), lecturer from 1979 to 1991, teaching licence withdrawn in 1991

Heinz Josef Algermissen (* 1943), Bishop of Fulda

Hans-Josef Becker (* 1948), Archbishop of Paderborn

Franz-Josef Bode (* 1951), Bishop of Osnabrück

Reinhard Marx (* 1953), Cardinal, Professor of Christian Social Doctrine at the Theological Faculty of Paderborn, since 2008 Archbishop of Munich and Freising

Maria Neubrand (1955-2020), New Testament scholar

Karl-Heinz Wiesemann (* 1960), Bishop of Speyer

Josef Holtkotte (* 1963), auxiliary bishop in Paderborn

Bernd Irlenborn (* 1963), professor of philosophy

Peter Schallenberg (* 1963), professor of moral theology

Thomas Stühlmeyer (* 1964), pastoral theologian and pastor

Benjamin Dahlke (* 1982), professor of dogmatics

Josef Meyer zu Schlochtern (* 1950), professor of fundamental theology

Wolfgang Thönissen (* 1955), professor of ecumenical studies

Stefan Kopp (* 1985), professor of liturgical studies

Weblinks
Commons: Theologische Fakultät Paderborn

Offizielle Seite der Theologischen Fakultät Paderborn

Offizielle Seite des Johann-Adam-Möhler-Instituts für Ökumenik

Offizielle Seite der Josef Pieper Arbeitsstelle

Offizielle Seite der Erzbischöflichen Akademischen Bibliothek in Paderborn Category:Catholic universities and colleges Category:Pontifical universities