Ratzinger Foundation

The Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI Foundation was founded in 2007 on the initiative of former pupils of the former professor of dogmatic and fundamental theology of Joseph Ratzinger and later Pope Benedict XVI. founded. Your goal is for the public to open up his theological work to promote a theology in the spirit of Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI. , And to get people talking with these questions of the present. In addition to its headquarters in Munich, the Foundation has another office in Salzburg.

Purpose of the Foundation

With the purpose of promoting a theology in the spirit of Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI. The Foundation pursues particular, the following four objectives:

  • By awarding scholarships and the establishment of visiting professorships researching and realization of his work should be specifically encouraged.
  • As part of the International symposia, seminars or other events his theology and spirituality are researched and presented to the wider public
  • The establishment of documentation and study centers will help to maintain its heritage and make it accessible.
  • His theology and spirituality are V.A. the public also be demonstrated with the help of modern media.

To fulfill the foundation's purpose and achievement of individual goals by Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI Foundation works with similar organizations such as the Fondazione Vaticana Joseph Ratzinger Benedict XVI, the Institute Benedict XVI. and the Foundation 's birthplace, Pope Benedict XVI ..

Foundation

The establishment of the Foundation for the Promotion of the theology of Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI. goes back to the initiative of his circle of pupils. After years of preliminary, with the approval and financial support of Pope Benedict XVI. The Foundation was founded. She wears both his real name " Joseph Ratzinger " as the papal name of " Benedict XVI ".. The so-called "Premio Ratzinger " is awarded out of this foundation, but by the Fondazione Vaticana Joseph Ratzinger Benedict XVI.

The circle of students

The circle of students Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI. is made up of former doctoral students Joseph Ratzinger, who were allowed to meet him as a teacher at the places of his teaching, namely in Bonn, Münster, Tübingen and Regensburg. Early 1978, the Ratzinger students met for a first-time meeting to celebrate the consecration of their teacher as Archbishop of Munich and Freising and his elevation to cardinal. 1981 began the annual meetings in which Joseph Ratzinger usually attended. Since 2005, the year of the election of Joseph Ratzinger as pope, find the meeting place annually in Castel Gandolfo. In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI. for the first time not participate in discussions, but celebrated with his disciples the Eucharist and greeted them.

The circle of students currently comprises around 40 members with an evangelical theologians as permanent guest. Speaker of the circle of students is Prof. em. P. Stephan Otto Horn SDS.

Joseph Ratzinger does not create its own theological school.

Publications of the circle of students:

  • God's wisdom - wisdom of the world. Festschrift for Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger for his 60th birthday, 2 vols, ed. on behalf of the student circle of W. Baier, St. O. Horn, V. Pfnür, Chr Schoenborn, L. Weimer and S. Wiedenhofer, St. Ottilie 1987
  • Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, from retrieving the middle. Basic orientations. Texts from four decades, ed. from the circle of students, Ed St. O. Horn, V. Pfnür, V. Twomey, S. and J. Wiedenhofer Zöhrer, Freiburg -Basel -Wien 1997, 1998
  • Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, companionship of faith. Church as communion. Festschrift on his 75th birthday, ed. from the circle of students, Ed St. O. Horn and V. Pfnür, Augsburg 2002, translated into 7 languages
  • Creation and evolution. A meeting with Pope Benedict XVI. in Castel Gandolfo. Edited on behalf of the student circle of Pope Benedict XVI *. St. O. Horn and S. Wiedenhofer. Foreword by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Augsburg and Rome in 2007, translated into 6 languages.
  • Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI. , Factory. Biographical aids to develop the literary and theological work of Joseph Ratzinger to the papal election, ed. from the circle of students, Ed V. Pfnür, Augsburg 2009
  • Conversation about Jesus. Pope Benedict XVI. in dialogue with Martin Hengel and Peter Stuhlmacher and his students at Castel Gandolfo in 2008. Commissioned by Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI Foundation edited by P. Kuhn, Tübingen and Rome 2010

The New Student Circle

At the annual meeting of the circle of students is through the initiative of the student circle in 2008 at the invitation of Pope Benedict XVI. Added a group of younger theologians who explore his theology and know they are linked his spirituality. Currently includes the New Schülerkreis Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI. around 30 members, mainly belonging to the Catholic Church, but also Orthodox churches and come from Europe, Africa and America. Therefore, the new circle of students are way to full unity between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches of special concern. In close cooperation with the circle of students, members of the new circle of pupils promote in various ways the development and dissemination of the work of Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI.

Spokesperson for New Students circle are Dr. Michaela Christine Have Etter and Prof. Dr. Christoph Ohly.

Publications of the new circle of pupils:

  • Symphony of faith. Young Munich theologians in dialogue with the theology of Benedict XVI. Edited by Michaela Christine Have Etter, Christoph Ohly and Georgios Vlachonis, Georgios, St. Ottilie 2007.
  • Symphony of the word. Contributions to the Constitution on Revelation " Dei Verbum " in Catholic-Orthodox dialogue. Festgabe of new students circle the 85th birthday of Pope Benedict XVI. Edited by Michaela Christine Have Etter, Ioan Moga and Christoph Ohly in collaboration with Achim Buckmaier, St. Ottilie, 2012.
  • Maximilian Home / Justin Pech ( ed.), The middle of theology in the work of Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI. ( Ratzinger Studies 7), Regensburg 2013

Organs of the Foundation

The Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI is a foundation under civil law. The Managing Board consists Prof. em. P. Stephan Otto Horn SDS and his deputy OStR Wolfram Schmidt. The international panel trustees are also nine persons; Chairman is Prelate Dr. Michael Hofmann. A Board of Trustees, the Foundation promotes, but does not belong in a legal sense for their organs. Chairman of the Board of Trustees is Cardinal Christoph Schönborn.

Activities

Symposia

To study and dissemination of the theology and spirituality of Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI. found in recent years been following International symposiums in cooperation with the circle of students and the new circle of students of Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI. instead of:

  • Freiburg / Germany (September 2011 ): A listening heart. Introduction to the theology and spirituality of Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI.
  • Maynooth / Ireland (June 2013): The dynamism of Ratzinger 's Theology
  • Cotonou / Benin ( September 2013 ): Session Internationale de Théologie. Pour une réappropriation pastoral Pédagogique et de la trilogy ' Jésus de Nazareth ' (Joseph Ratzinger -Benoit XVI)
  • Morogoro / Tanzania ( March 2014 ): " Where did you come from? " (John 19:9). Person and message of Jesus in the trilogy ' Jesus of Nazareth ' (in preparation)

Publications:

  • A listening heart. Introduction to the theology and spirituality of Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI. Edited by Michaela Christine Have Etter and Helmut Hoping ( Ratzinger studies 5), Regensburg, 2012.

With the International Symposia theology of Joseph Ratzinger is both familiar in Europe, as are also promoted in non-European cultures.

Pope Benedict XVI visiting professor at the University of Regensburg

On 16 June 2010 signed the cooperation agreement to Pope Benedict XVI visiting professor at the University of Regensburg. Your goal is formulated in the preamble: " The annually to be awarded, internationally oriented visiting professor at the University of Regensburg, Faculty of Catholic Theology is designed to help promote the theology in the spirit of Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI, his scientific work as well as his. to tap into spiritual heritage and spread. " In the summer semester 2012, the visiting professorship was first occupied. The Freiburg sociologist Hans Joas gave a lecture series on " sacralization and secularization ." In the summer term 2013 had François Boespflug, a professor of religious history at the University of Strasbourg, held the visiting professor; the subject of his lecture series was The God of painters and sculptors. For the summer semester 2014 is invited as a guest professor at the Vienna Judaic scholar Günter Stemberger; planned topic of the lecture series is The Mosegestalt in rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity.

Publications:

  • Bernhard Laux (ed.): sanctity and dignity - Hans Joas ' new genealogy of human rights in the theological conversation, Freiburg 2013.
  • François Boespflug: The God of painters and sculptors. The incarnation of the invisible, Freiburg 2013.

Benedict Academy in Salzburg

Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Clemens Sedmak place annually since 2010, the so-called Benedict Academy in cooperation with the International Research Center ( IFZ ) and the formation of St. Virgil instead. In interdisciplinary discussions to the thought of Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI. be made fruitful especially for socially relevant issues.

Previous themes were: European Identity (September 2010), a culture of hope build (September 2011), Between Reason and Faith: from omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God to " stop gap "? ( September 2012 ) Economic and values. An economy of good and evil? ( September 2013 )

Publications:

  • Clemens Sedmak / O. Stephan Horn ( ed.), The Soul of Europe. Pope Benedict and the European identity, Regensburg, 2011 ..
  • Clemens Sedmak / Helmut P. Gaisbauer / Marina P. Teixeira ( ed.), A culture of hope build. Pope Benedict and the idea of good future, Regensburg 2013.

Scholarships

The Foundation awards small scale individual studies and doctoral scholarships. Here, studies were funded in the spirit of Joseph Ratzinger, but especially those that explore his work.

Logo of the Foundation

The logo of the foundation is designed as a coat of arms; it is similar in some elements of the coat of arms of Pope Benedict. The coat of arms is on a golden key; on the upper half of the shield is shown an open book - and the book are key to the interpretation of the Bible and world wisdom. The lower half of the shield bears the scallop - it is a legend of St. Augustine of Hippo, Augustine knows that God is so inexhaustible with the human mind, like the sea with a conch shell. The same shell is also found in the coat of arms of Pope Benedict.

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