Alexandre Ganoczy

Alexandre Ganoczy (actually: Sándor Gánóczy; born December 12, 1928 in Budapest) is a Hungarian Catholic theologian and dogmatists, who worked as a university teacher in Germany and France. He lives in Dauphin, Alpes -de -Haute -Provence.

• 3.1 Calvin

Life

Sándor Gánóczy studied theology in Budapest, Paris and Rome, and in 1953 he became his priestly ordination in the diocese of Esztergom and worked there then nine years as workers and chaplains. He received his doctorate in 1963 at the Pontifical Gregorian University. From 1967 he taught at the University of Münster at the Chair of dogmatics. In 1969 he received his doctorate in philosophy at the Sorbonne. In 1972 he was appointed Professor of Dogmatic Theology in Würzburg, where he remained until his retirement in 1996, he also was a professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris.

From 1978 to 1990 Ganoczy was a member of the Ecumenical Working Group of Protestant and Catholic theologians in Germany and served as a consultant in the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

In his theology of creation, he seeks a dialogue with the natural sciences, and incorporates insights from the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, evolutionary theory and the chaos theory in his considerations a.

Ganoczy became first known for his work on John Calvin.

In Germany, France, Hungary, and also in the English- speaking world, a large number of books, journal articles and reviews of it have been published. He was dedicated to two Commemorative at different Commemorative he was invited to participate, as well as to the colleagues for the Regensburg Ratzinger Sixtieth.

In Hungary, he was awarded the 2009 donated by Szent István Társulat " Stephen Price ".

Awards

• Honorary Doctor of the University of Geneva in 1982
• Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Budapest in 1994

Commemorative

• Creatio ex amore: contributions to a theology of love; Festschrift for Alexandre Ganoczy 60th birthday ed. Thomas Franke ..., Würzburg 1988
• Border Crossings of Theology: Professor Alexandre Ganoczy 75th birthday, Otmar Meuffels; Jürgen Bruendl (ed.), Münster 2004

Works

• See German National Library

Calvin

• Hermeneutics Calvin: geistesgeschichtl. Conditions and basic principles / by Alexandre Ganoczy and Stefan Scheld, Wiesbaden: Steiner 1983
• Calvin's handwritten annotations to Chrysostom: e Beitr to hermeneutics Calvin by Alexandre Ganoczy and Klaus Müller, Wiesbaden: Steiner 1981
• Le jeune Calvin: Genčse et évolution de sa vocation réformatrice With e introd by Joseph Lortz, Wiesbaden: F. Steiner, 1966