Rudolf Voderholzer

Rudolf Voderholzer ( born October 9, 1959 in Munich) is a bishop of Regensburg.

Life

He grew up in Munich -Sendling ( Parish of St. Margaret ). In the early 1970s he published jointly with his mother, the teacher and children's book author Maria Voderholzer, autobiographical books, such as We are four siblings, or a fun family. After graduating from the Munich Dante -Gymnasium Voderholzer studied philosophy at Munich University (MA 1985) and Catholic Theology ( Dipl.- Theol. , 1986). In 1987 he received for the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising by Cardinal Friedrich Wetter in Freising Cathedral ordained priest and was then a chaplain in Traunreut, hair and Zorneding active. He was a research assistant at Gerhard Ludwig Müller from the Department of Dogmatics at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich in 1992. In 1997 he was in Munich after making a thesis entitled The unity of Scripture and their spiritual meaning. The contribution of Henri de Lubac for the study of history and systematics of Christian biblical hermeneutics to Dr. theol. doctorate. In 2004 he qualified as a professor at the Faculty of Catholic Theology Munich. In the same year he moved to the Department of religion and belief science and philosophy at the University of Fribourg; He was 2004-2005 president of the department.

From 2005 until the beginning of 2013 was Rudolf Voderholzer professor of dogmatics and history of dogma at the Theological Faculty of Trier. During this time he lived in Kasel Shockingly, where he at the same time as pastor of the parish of St. Nicholas and dedicated in June 2012 celebrated his Silver anniversary as a priest.

On December 6, 2012 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him. Bishop of Regensburg. The episcopal ordination by Cardinal Reinhard Marx took place in the Regensburg Cathedral on 26 January 2013 Co-consecrators were Curia Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller and František Radkovský, Bishop of Pilsen. His episcopal motto is Christ in vobis spes gloriae ( " Christ in you - the hope of glory "). On January 11, 2013 Voderholzer has passed the examination after the Bavarian concordat and Reichskonkordat previously be deposited oath in the presence of Prime Minister Horst Seehofer.

Work

Voderholzer considered an expert on Henri de Lubac. Through his translation of " L' ecriture dans la tradition" ( German: " The Holy Scripture in the Tradition of the Church " ) and other essays he has essential parts of the four -volume work, de Lubac's " exegesis médiévale " ( German: " exegesis of the Middle Ages " ) in German with the title " typology. Allegory. Spiritual sense. Studies in the History of the Christian interpretation of Scripture " (Freiburg, 2nd edition 2007 ) published.

He is a founding director of the company founded in 2008 " Institute Benedict XVI. " In Regensburg and editor of the collected theological writings of Pope Benedict XVI.

Since 30 October 2010 Voderholzer is a full member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts ( Humanities class).

Writings

  • The unity of Scripture and its spiritual sense, Johannes Freiburg in 1998, 3-89411-344-8
  • Henri de Lubac encounter, Saint Ulrich of Augsburg Publishing House 1999, ISBN 3-929246-44-9
  • Fundamental Theology, Ecumenical Theology, 2001, ISBN 3-89710-186-6
  • The Divine Revelation: Comment on Preface and the first chapter of the Dogmatic Constitution " Dei Verbum ," the Second Vatican Council, John Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-89411-369-3 ( Henri de Lubac From; transfer from French)
  • Hermeneutics: From Scripture to Schleiermacher (Handbook of the History of Economic Thought ), Herder Freiburg 2003, ISBN 3-451-00701-0
  • Incontro con Henri de Lubac, Eupress 2004, ISBN 88-88446-21-4 ( Italian)
  • ( Along with Ernst Koegler ) He brought me forth into a large place. Father Berndt Victricius OFM Cap ( 1915-2003 ). Life image of a Sudeten German priest. Records. Sermons. Memories ( = For church and ethnic group. Small number of Sudeten German priest work, Volume 11 ), Reimlingen 2006.
  • Christian Schaller, Michael Schulz, Rudolf Voderholzer ( Hersg. ): mediator and deliverer: The Christological dimension of theology, Herder Freiburg 2008, ISBN 3- 451-29804 -X ( Festschrift for Gerhard Ludwig Müller)
  • Meet Henri de Lubac, his life and work, Ignatius Press San Francisco 2008, ISBN 978-1-58617-128-5 ( translation by Michael J. Miller)
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