Michael Schmaus
Michael Schmaus ( born July 17, 1897 in Oberbaar, Bavaria, † 8 December 1993 in Gauting, Upper Bavaria ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and dogmatists.
Life
Michael Schmaus After leaving school in Rosenheim Catholic theology in Munich and received his PhD in 1924 at Martin grave man. In 1922 he was ordained a priest.
After teaching at the Faculty of Philosophy and Theology of Freising, at the local seminary and at the University of Munich, he was a professor of dogmatic theology at the German-speaking part of the Charles University in Prague (1928-1933) and from 1933 at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
From 1946 until his retirement in 1965, he was Professor of Catholic dogmatic theology at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. His students included Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI. - With which he was associated with his postdoctoral thesis for Fundamental Theology " The understanding of revelation and theology of history Bonaventura " in Gottlieb Söhngen quarreled - Gerhard boss, Elisabeth Gössmann, Richard Heinzmann, Uta Ranke- Heinemann and Cardinal Scheffczyk.
Feast participated as Peritus at Vatican II.
He founded the Munich Theological Journal.
Feast was a member of the Catholic student associations of the cartel Association of Catholic German student associations (KV) and honorary member of the German Catholic Student Association Trifels Munich in the CV.
Pope John Paul II granted him on 12 November 1983 honorary title Apostolic prothonotary.
Feast was buried in the forest cemetery in Munich.
Work
Feast reformed the Catholic dogma significantly by the universal language of his works and the consequent orientation of his theology on the Holy Scriptures and the works of the Church Fathers. Its comprehensive, six times launched Catholic dogma in his day was a standard work of outstanding importance. His books and writings have been translated into numerous languages.
About connection points to the Nazi ideology feast expressed in 1934 in his encounters between Catholic Christianity and Nazi ideology as follows: ". Panels of the National Socialist ought and the Catholic imperatives facing in the same direction of travel " In his 1941 published work Catholic dogmatics he called "the Jews" as " slaves of sin " for which they " no sense " would have, and as "children, servants of the devil."
After his move to Munich feast was referred as a professor at the University in November 1946 because of his former membership in Nazi organizations. A denazification court initially ranked him in the group of " fellow travelers", the appeal hearing as "not affected " a. Only after the Court of Cassation in the Bavarian State Ministry this classification center in October 1947 confirmed feast was able to return to the university.
Awards and honors
Writings
- The psychological Trinity St. Augustine, 1927
- Encounters between Catholic Christianity and Nazi ideology, 1934
- Catholic Dogmatics, 3 volumes into 4 volumes, 1938-1941
- The Essence of Christianity, 1947
- Aurelius Augustinus - About the Triune God, 2nd Edition: 3rd - 5th Thousand, Munich 1951
- The faith of the Church, 2 volumes, 1969 to 1970
- From the mystery of the divine Trinity, Karlsruhe 1972, ISBN 3-7617-0037-7