Karl Adam (theologian)
Adam Charles Borromeo ( born October 22, 1876 in Pursruck, Upper Palatinate, † April 1, 1966 in Tübingen ) was a German Catholic theologian and dogmatists. In the Third Reich Adam belonged to the group of theologians who spoke out for a reconciliation of Catholicism and Nazism.
Life
Adam came on October 22, 1876 in the Upper Palatinate Pfarrsdorf Pursruck as one of eleven children of the teacher Clemens Adam and his wife Babette to the world. His twelve- years younger brother August (1888-1965) was also a priest and theologian. After he had passed his Abitur in 1895 in Amberg at the grammar school, he studied at the Philosophical- Theological Seminary in Regensburg. On 24 June 1900 he received in the Regensburg Cathedral by Bishop Ignatius of Senestrey the priesthood. He then spent two years in pastoral work Riekofen and Neustadt. From 1902 he continued his studies at the University of Munich, where he received his doctorate in 1904 with Joseph Schnitzer with a thesis on the concept of the Church Tertullian. In the following years he dealt with theological studies on the history of dogma and habilitated in 1908 of dogmatics and history of dogma. From 1908 onwards he taught religion at the Wilhelm Gymnasium in Munich and gave unto the sons of the Bavarian Crown Prince Rupprecht private lessons. From 1912 to 1917 he was teacher of religion at the Bavarian Cadet Corps in Munich.
In 1915 he became professor of theology in Munich, 1917, he took over the chair of moral theology in Strasbourg and in 1919 he moved to the University of Tübingen, where he was appointed to the Chair of dogmatics.
In the aftermath of the First World War, Karl Adam was one of the most respected theologians of Germany. Worldwide fame he achieved with the publication of his book The essence of Catholicism, which was released in 1924 and was later translated into ten languages.
During the period of National Socialism Adam was one of the most prominent Catholic theologians who spoke out for a reconciliation of Catholicism and Nazism. Since 1933 he was a member of the NSDAP. In an effort to contemporary theology, he represented the basic positions of the Nazi ideology and made with his racist, anti-Jewish religion understanding the Nazi regime feed. After 1945, Adam was able to remain on the unchallenged dogma Chair in Tübingen, where he became professor emeritus in 1949.
In a guest lecture in June 1976, the Bishop of Regensburg Rudolf Graber called the theologian Adam, to whom he was close to the content, as a " pioneer of the Second Vatican Council and its theology."
The town of Tübingen dedicated to him in 1966 the Karl -Adam - street. On 25 July 2011, the Tübingen council decided to rename the Karl- Adam - street in the St John Reuchlin Street. 2010 entwidmete the Diocese of Rottenburg- Stuttgart, the Karl -Adam House, a student residence in Stuttgart, and named it after Rupert Mayer. Regardless, Adam is referred to a attached to the church of his birthplace Pursruck plaque remains undifferentiated as a "great son of our community."
Works
- The essence of Catholicism. Haas & grave Lord, Augsburg 1924.
- Christ our brother. Habbel, Regensburg 1938 ( 5th edition ).
- Jesus Christ. Haas & grave Lord, Augsburg 1935 ( 4th edition ).