Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology

The Philosophical- Theological College of St. Georgen, short PTH Sankt Georgen, is a nationally recognized, private Catholic university in the Jesuit sponsorship in Frankfurt am Main. You are connected via the diocesan seminary Sankt Georgen and a Jesuit community. Rector of the Jesuit College since 2009, Wendelin Köster.

History

It was not until the dissolution of the Jesuit law enacted by Bismarck by the German government in 1917 had made the foundation possible. The Order and its training centers were able to return to Germany. The then Bishop of Limburg Augustine Kilian had great interest in the university. He wanted to expand the existing since 1829 Seminary of the Diocese to a full faculty. The initially planned incorporation into the Goethe University, founded in 1914, which did not have a Catholic theological faculty, did not succeed. So searched the Jesuits since the early 1920s private property. 1925 was the "Villa Grunelius " be purchased with the historic park of Sankt Georgen between Sachsenhausen and Oberrad at the Offenbacher Landstrasse, where the Order established the college with the seminary and a community. On October 25, 1926, the college under the name " Philosophy and College of Theology Sankt Georgen " was founded. It served only the training of diocesan priests of the Diocese of Limburg. Very soon came seminarians of Osnabrück and Hildesheim, partly also from Berlin and Aachen added, as well as of Hamburg since the ( re) establishment of the Archdiocese in 1995.

The project was funded primarily by the then Papal Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the thought of a center of scholastic theology in Germany. The theological faculty for the training of Jesuits remained until 1942 in Valkenburg Netherlands, was from 1945 to 1950 in Buren ( Westphalia ) and then moved to Frankfurt, where in 1951 the training of diocesan priests young and the young Jesuit two tracks side by side herlief until the two institutions were united in 1970. In Valkenburg, for example, the later resistance fighters Alfred Delp began his theological studies, which he continued in Sankt Georgen from 1936. In the air raid on the night of 18 and 19 March 1944 which also destroyed most of Oberrads, St. Georgen was destroyed. The university took in November 1946 the teaching again. The reconstruction of the destroyed building was 1949 abgeschlossen.Zunächst possessed the faculty ecclesiastical promotion law for members of the Society of Jesus, since 1974 also for other students. After the Sankt Georgen university had in 1980 received recognition as a research university, it was 1982 the right to award the doctoral degree in theology in 1983 to award the Licentiate and 2000 the right to award the degree of habilitated doctor of theology ( Habilitation ) with effect also awarded to the state law area.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, since March 13, 2013 Pope Francis, 1986 spent some months at the PTH Sankt Georgen, to consult with individual professors on a dissertation project; to a conclusion in Sankt Georgen, it is not come.

University

Support the university is the Munich-based German Province of the Jesuits. The university is funded in large part by the dioceses of Limburg, Osnabrück, Hildesheim and the Archdiocese of Hamburg, who send their seminarians to study theology in Frankfurt. Currently, about half of the professors and faculty members of the Jesuit order.

The Sankt Georgen college offers since the winter semester 2010/ 11 at a zehnsemestrigen Master's Degree in Theology, a six-semester bachelor's degree in philosophy and graduate studies, leading either to the licentiate or doctorate, as follows:

  • Bachelor in Philosophy ( B. A. )
  • MA in Theology (MA in theology. )
  • Licentiate in Theology ( Lic theol. )
  • Doctorate in Theology ( Dr. theol. )
  • Habilitation in Theology ( Dr. theol. Hab. )

By the summer semester of 2010, it was at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School possible in the program " Catholic Theology (Diploma) " to enroll. The introduction of the modularized masters program students study at diploma and master's degree in the years 2015 and approximately parallel to listen to part together courses.

The postgraduate postgraduate courses can be selected in the depression biblical, historical, systematic, and practical theology. It is also offered a postgraduate course in " Pastoral Psychology and Spirituality ."

The university is affiliated with the following institutions:

  • Hugo of St. Victor's Institute for source study of the Middle Ages
  • Institute of dogmas and liturgical history
  • Institute of Pastoral Psychology and Spirituality
  • Oswald von Nell- Breuning Institute for Economic and Social Ethics
  • Institute for World Church and Mission

Institute for World Church and Mission

The Institute for the World Church and Mission ( IWM ), which was founded on 29 June 2009, is a scientific institute of the German Bishops' Conference of the Philosophical- Theological College of St. Georgen. It is dedicated to research and teaching from a theological perspective the issues of church and world mission. Acting Director of IWM is Mark Luber SJ.

Tasks

Behalf of IWM is to dedicate themselves to teaching and research on various aspects of the mission science and the Catholic theology in an international context. The IWM aims to reflect on the missionary nature of the Church and its global spread theologically. The content emphasizes, inter alia,

  • Mission History
  • Contextual theology and inculturation
  • Mission and Health
  • Mission in Education
  • World Church in Germany.

As a scientific institution, the IWM is in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council that missiological questions more aware of theology, church, and public and that young researchers will be trained in this area.

Cooperations

The IWM cooperates with scientific institutions in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia. Membership in the International Association of Catholic Missiologists ( IACM ) provides a platform for global scientific exchange. Other partners in Germany are the missiological university chairs and institutes as well as the Catholic world church aid agencies, the German dioceses with their departments for World Church and Mission and the International Institute for scientific research mission ( IIMF ).

Well-known professors

  • Oswald von Nell- Breuning, social ethicist and doyen of Catholic Social Teaching
  • Alois Grill Meier, dogmatist and patristic scholar, Cardinal, Peritus at the Second Vatican Council
  • Heinrich Bacht, fundamental theologian
  • Gustav Gundlach, social ethics and social philosopher
  • Otto Roth bread, dogmatist, Peritus at the Second Vatican Council
  • Norbert Lohfink, exegete of the Old Testament
  • Rupert Lay, philosopher
  • John Beutler, exegete of the New Testament and fundamental theologian
  • Friedhelm Hengsbach, corporate and social ethicist
  • Medard Kehl, dogmatists
  • Bruno Schüller, moral theologian
  • Michael Sievernich, pastoral theologian
  • Jörg Splett, religious philosopher and anthropologist
  • Karl Josef Becker, dogmatist, Cardinal
  • Werner Bulst, theologian

Known graduates

  • Stephan Ackermann, Bishop of Trier
  • Karl Josef Becker, dogmatist, Cardinal
  • Bernhard Bendel, founder of Opus Spiritus Sancti
  • Franz -Josef Bormann, priest and professor of moral theology and theological ethics
  • Karl Borsch, Auxiliary Bishop of Aachen
  • Alfred Delp, a priest and a resistance fighter in the Third Reich
  • Peter Hofmann, priest and theologian fundamental and dogmatic
  • Jean -Claude Hollerech, Archbishop of Luxembourg
  • Wilhelm Kempf, Bishop of Limburg
  • Stefan Kiechle, Provincial of the German Province of the Jesuits since 2010
  • Wilfried Kopke, journalist and university teacher
  • Wendelin Köster, Rector of the College Sankt Georgen
  • Lothar Krappmann, educator and sociologist
  • Luis Ladaria, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith
  • Federico Lombardi, spokesman of the Pope
  • Juan Antonio Martínez Camino, Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid
  • Friedhelm Mennekes, German Catholic theologian and exhibition organizers
  • Klaus Mertes, formerly rector of the Jesuit High School Canisius College in Berlin and now the College of St. Blaise
  • Gerhard Poppe, priest and lecturer in Media Studies
  • John Prassek, priests, and resistance fighter in the Third Reich
  • Andreas Range, priest, abbot of the Cistercian abbey Marienstatt
  • Gert Scobel, television presenter
  • Jon Sobrino, liberation theologian
  • Thomas Stühlmeyer, pastoral theologian
  • Michael Desert Mountain, Bishop of Aliwal

Seminary St. Georgen

On campus Sankt Georgen is also located on diocesan seminary Sankt Georgen. The seminarians live and work on campus to faithfully scientiae ( " For religion and science " ) to consider the motto of the University pietati et whether the priesthood of the Catholic Church is living filling for them. The 30 candidates for the priesthood are mainly from the ( arch) dioceses of Hamburg, Hildesheim, Limburg and Osnabrück. In the same house also live about 20 construction students, mostly priests, who come from many countries around the world to graduate from the university postgraduate studies ( licentiate or doctorate) (as of 2013). Rector of the seminary since 2005, Stephan Kessler SJ Ch.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg Valkenburg aan de Geul Roman Catholic Diocese of Hildesheim Aloys Grillmeier Roman Catholic Diocese of Trier Jean-Claude Hollerich Kolleg St. Blasien Johannes Prassek Roman Catholic Diocese of Aliwal Fachhochschule Integrated Authority File
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