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List of habilitation theses since 1994

The list of habilitations since 1994 is organised by the name of the candidate, the title, the date of completion, and the supervisor of the thesis.

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Dr theol. Michael Sommer
Widows, Law and Justice – Discourses on Widows in Early Christianity Read as Contexts for the Reception of Prophetic and Wisdom-Literary Criticism of Religious Practice
13 May 2020
Prof. Dr Tobias Nicklas

Dr. theol. Dietmar Schon
Orthodoxy in Interreligious Dialogue with Islam
14 June 2017
Prof. Dr Klaus Unterburger

Dr theol. Jürgen Kroth
Thy Kingdom Come. Studies in a Political Theology of Sacramental Theory and Practice
25 January 2017
Prof. Dr Heinz-Günther Schöttler

Dr theol. Mattias Ederer
Tamid. Israel’s Regular Worship Service and its Theological Interpretation in the Texts of the Torah
7 December 2016
Prof. Dr Christoph Dohmen

Dr theol. Gabriele Zieroff
Encountering God in sacred signs. The rites of initiation into the Church: sacramental liturgy as symbolic action in the context of liturgical formation
12 November 2014
Prof. Dr Jürgen Bärsch (Eichstätt)

Dr theol. Kerstin Schlögl-Flierl
Moral Theology for Everyday Life – The Theology of Penance of Archbishop Antoninus of Florence OP (1389–1459). A historical study with a systematic aim
7 May 2014
Prof. Dr Herbert Schlögel

Dr. theol. Wolfgang Vogl
The Bavarian Bishops’ Conferences 1850–1918
24 October 2012
Prof. Dr Karl Hausberger

Dr. theol. Korinna Zamfir
Men and Women in the Household of God: A Contextual Approach to Roles and Ministries in the Pastoral Epistles
23 May 2012
Prof. Dr Tobias Nicklas

Dr. theol. August Laumer
‘Karl Rahner and practical theology’
2 December 2009
Prof. Dr Konrad Baumgartner

Dr. theol. Martin Mark
“My presence shall go before you” (Ex 33:14) – God’s promise of personal guidance on the Day of Intercession
18 December 2008
Prof. Dr Christoph Dohmen

Dr. theol. Barbara Schmitz
Prophetic Constellations – Political Confrontations. The Concept of a Historical Narratology Developed on the Basis of 1 Kings 13 and 22.
28 November 2007
Prof. Dr Christoph Dohmen

Dr theol. Hermann Riedl
Anamnesis and Apostolicity. The Second Epistle of Peter and the theological problem of New Testament pseudepigraphy
3 February 2005
Prof. Dr Hubert Ritt

Dr. theol. Sr. Mirjam (Anna Maria) Schambeck
Mystagogical Learning – Towards a Perspective on Religious Education
30 June 2005
Prof. Dr Georg Hilger

Dr. theol. Andreas-Pazifikus Alkofer
What are you doing if you only greet your own…? Courtesy – Traces of an ethical-theological framework
16 December 2004
Prof. Dr Herbert Schlögel

Dr. theol. Ulrich Kropac
Religious Pedagogy and Revelation. The Beginnings of an Academic Approach to Religious Pedagogy at the Intersection of Pedagogical Innovation and Theology of Revelation
16 December 2004
Prof. Dr Georg Hilger

Dr. theol. Tobias Nicklas
Reading the Christian Apocrypha: Definition – a hermeneutical and methodological programme. With an interpretation of the ‘unknown Gospel’ on P. Egerton 2
15 July 2004
Prof. Dr Hubert Ritt

Dr. theol. Gunter M. Prüller-Jagenteufel
Man caught between ‘iustus’ and ‘peccator’ in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ethics. A contribution from moral theology to an ecumenical understanding of repentance, penance and reconciliation
2 July 2003
Prof. Dr Herbert Schlögel

Dr. theol. Peter Scheuchenpflug
Catechesis in the Context of Modernisation and Evangelisation. Pastoral-sociological and pastoral-theological analyses of its transformation in Germany from the end of the Second World War to the present day
5 June 2003
Prof. Dr Konrad Baumgartner

Dr. theol. Thomas Hieke
The Genealogies of Genesis. Form, Context, Function
8 May 2003
Prof. Dr Christoph Dohmen

Dr. theol. Regina Radlbeck-Ossmann
From the Papacy to the Ministry of Peter. Towards a re-formulation of a ministry to the unity of the Church that is faithful to its origins and sustainable for the future.
7 May 2003
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Beinert

Dr. theol. Thomas Schmelzer
Fear, Death and Religion. Towards the Foundations of a Therapeutic Theology and Pastoral Care
30 January 2003
Prof. Dr Konrad Baumgartner

Dr theol. Knut Wenzel
The Sacramental Self. Human Beings as Signs of Salvation
26 September 2001
Prof. Dr Adam Seigfried

Dr. theol. Matthias Fritsch
Natural Law or the Lesser of Two Evils? Protestant and Catholic Justifications for Religious Tolerance in the Age of the German Enlightenment
17 May 2001
Prof. Dr Dr Ulrich G. Leinsle

Dr. theol. Franz Dünzl
Pneuma. Functions of the theological concept in early Christian literature
29 April 1998
Prof. Dr Norbert Brox

Dr. theol. Alfons Fürst
Augustine’s correspondence with Jerome
22 July 1997
Prof. Dr Norbert Brox

Dr theol. Manfred Eder
Helping others does not make you poorer. From the Church’s care for the poor to modern Caritas in Bavaria
17 March 1997
Prof. Dr Karl Hausberger

Dr theol. Ferdinand Rupert Prostmeier
The Epistle to Barnabas. Translation and commentary
6 January 1997
Prof. Dr Norbert Brox

Reinhold Zwick
The Reception of the Gospels in the Jesus Film. A Contribution to the Intermedial Reception History of the New Testament
31 January 1996
Prof. Dr Georg Schmuttermayr

Dr theol. Bertram Stubenrauch
The Kenosis of God and the Pleroma of Man. On the dogmatic justification of interreligious dialogue
27 June 1994
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Beinert

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