Univ.-Prof. MMMag. DDr. Kurt Appel
Univ.-Prof. MMMag. DDr. Kurt Appel
Speaker of the Research Centre RaT
Academic position:
Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Department of Systematic Theology and Ethics at the Faculty of Catholic Theology
Career:
2002-05: Habilitation studies in Vienna and Milan
2002: Ph.D. (Dr. theol.) in Theology
2000: Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) in Philosophy
1999: Mag. in Philosophy
1998: Mag. in Theology and Religious Education
1988-98: Studies of Theology, Philosophy, History and German language and literature studies
Employments:
since 1.10.2011: Professor of Fundamental Theology
2008: Vice-Decan of the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Vienna
2006: Vice curriculum director
2005: Assistent Professor of Fundamental Theology in Vienna
2005: Venia Legendi (Habilitation) in Fundamental Theology
2001-03: Lecturer in Fundamental Theology at the Faculty of Catholic Theology in St. Pölten
Other activities:
Since 2006: Member of the Advisory Board „ARGE Dogmatik und Fundamentaltheologie des deutschsprachigen Raums"
2006-07: Managing board of the doctorate programme „Concepts of God and their Ethical Implications"
2005-07: Managing board of the research cluster „Thesis" (Theology, Ethics and Scoial Sciences) of the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Vienna
Selective bibliography:
Monographs:
Apprezzare la morte. Cristianismo e nuovo umanesimo (PerConoscenza 5), Bologna: EDB 2015.
Zeit und Gott. Mythos und Logos der Zeit im Anschluss an Hegel und Schelling, Paderborn 2008.
Entsprechung im Wider-Spruch. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Offenbarungsbegriff der politischen Theologie des jungen Hegel, Münster 2003.
Editorial activities:
with Jakob Deibl, Barmherzigkeit und zärtliche Liebe. Das theologische Programm von Papst Franziskus, Freiburg: Herder 2016.
with Isabella Guanzini, Religious Fundamentalism (OA-Online Journal J-RaT 3), Göttingen: V&R 2016.
with Erwin Dirscherl, Das Testament der Zeit. Die Apokalyptik und ihre gegenwärtige Rezeption (Quaestiones disputatae), Freiburg: Herder 2016.
with Isabella Guanzini, Institutional responses to religious diversity (OA-Online Journal J-RaT 2), Göttingen: V&R 2016.
with Isabella Guanzini, Religion in a Postsecular World (OA-Online Journal J-RaT1), Göttingen: V&R 2015.
Preis der Sterblichkeit. Christentum und neuer Humanismus (QD 271), Freiburg: Herder 2015.
Articles:
Il dio aperto, in: Annali di studi religiosi 15 (2014), 5-18. Peer-reviewed. (DOI:10.14598)
Die Gabe des Gastes, Paderborn 2009.
Rationaler Glaube - gläubige Rationalität. Die Universalität des christlichen Logos, in: Dialog - Du siach, christlich-jüdische Informationen 70, Wien 2008.
Fede razionale - razionalità credente. Tentativo di un incontro tra fede e ragione nel segno di un'ospitalità universale, Tunis 2008.
Research projects in connection with RaT:
Main theme:
Christianity as a project for a new humanism
Disclosure of the meaning of history in the hospitable textures of the DIVINE
Five questions:
- APOCALYPSE or the question concerning the essence of time
- HEGEL or the question of the concealed humane
- GOD or the question concerning the ultimate question
- EUROPE or the question concerning the hospitable reception of plurality
- RESURRECTION or the question concerning the gift of mortality
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