Aloys Grillmeier

Alois Cardinal Grill Meier SJ ( born January 1, 1910 in Pechbrunn; † September 13, 1998 in Unterhaching near Munich) was a Roman Catholic theologian.

Life

Alois Grill Meier was born on 1 January 1910 at the Upper Palatinate Pechbrunn, a son of the farmer Josef Grill Meier ( born August 26, 1874 in Pechbrunn at Konnersreuth, † April 19, 1943 same place ) was and his wife Maria, nee Weidner (* August 5 1879 in Ödwalpersreuth at Windisch Eschenbach, † April 7, 1941 in Pechbrunn ), had eight siblings and was a grandson of Ludwig Muller's Grill Meier ( born August 19, 1843 in Pechbrunn ), which on April 24, 1866 Margerthe Lindner ( * July 29, 1847 in Kleinbüchlberg at Mitterteich ) married a daughter of the farmer Johann Lindner in Kleinbüchlberg and his wife Katharina nee Zintl.

Alois Grill Meier attended from 1920 to 1929 in Regensburg, a high school and joined the Jesuits on 11 April 1929, the Catholic religious order at. This was followed by periods of study at universities of the Order from 1931 to 1934 on Berchmanskolleg in Pullach near Munich, from 1934 to 1936 in Valkenburg in the Netherlands and by 1938 at the Philosophical - Theological College Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main. After a period of study in Rome followed 1942, the doctorate in theology. at the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg.

His ordination took place on 24 June 1937, a subsequent first Mass on August 8, 1937 in Pechbrunn at Konnersreuth. Military service began in 1942 during the Second World War ended in 1944 with the Order of the Jesuits because of his affiliation. From 1944 Grill Meier was a lecturer in fundamental theology and dogmatic theology at the university in Pullach near Munich, since 1948 professor of dogmatics and history of dogma at the Mauritius College of Buren. On the Philosophical- Theological College Sankt Georgen he was in 1950 until his retirement in 1978, Professor of Dogmatics and History of Economic Thought.

In the years 1962-1965 Grill Meier participated as an appointee of Bishop Wilhelm Kempf dogmatists on the 2nd Vatican Council, and from 1963 was a member of the Theological Commission. From 1963 to 1966 he made four trips to Zambia and Malawi to explain the decisions of the Council and spread.

Grill Meier was chief editor of the journal scholasticism (1964-1965) or theology and philosophy (1966-1977), Scientific Advisory Board (1972) and consultant to the Ecumenical Foundation Pro Oriente in Vienna (1979 ), Honorary Doctor of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (1977) and Otto- Friedrich University of Bamberg (1990) and a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (from 1993).

On November 26, 1994, he was taken in recognition of his theological merits of Pope John Paul II as a cardinal deacon with the title Diakonia San Nicola in Carcere in the College of Cardinals. Because of his at that time already advanced age of 84 years, John Paul II dispensed him from the obligation of a bishop's consecration. On June 25, 1995 Alois Grill Meier was a last visit to his birthplace Pechbrunn in the Upper Palatinate, died on September 13, 1998 in Unterhaching near Munich and was buried at the cemetery in Berchmanskollegs Pullach.

Works (selection)

  • With Heinrich Bacht (ed.), The Council of Chalcedon. History and Present, 3 vols; Würzburg 1951-54
  • The New Chalkedonismus. To the authorization of a new chapter in the history of dogma; In: FS Berthold Altaner ( = HistJ 77), 151-166; also in: with him and in him, 2nd edition, 1978, 371-385
  • Modern hermeneutics and patristic Christology. For discussion of the Chalcedonian Christology today; in: idem, ibid, 489-582
  • Jesus the Christ in the faith of the Church, 3 vols in 5 parts - vols. ; 2 verb. and supplemented edition, Freiburg, inter alia, 1982ff.
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