Heinrich Schlier
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Heinrich Schlier (Neuburg an der Donau on the Danube, 31 March 1900 – Bonn, 26 December 1978) was a theologian, initially with the protestant Church and later with the Catholic Church.
Biography
SchlierNazi regime to align the teaching and organisation of the Evangelical Church to Nazism. After the closing of the seminary in Wuppertal, he became pastor of the local community of the Confessing Church.
After the end of
Roman Catholicism.[2] Consequently, Schlier in 1952 took a sabbatical, and, a year later, he converted to Catholicism. Concurrently he converted his pupil Uta Ranke-Heinemann, and in 1954 obtained a degree in Catholic theology at Munich
.
Schlier was unable to obtain a professorship at the Faculty of Catholic Theology, since this was then reserved only for consecrated
priests. Instead he became an Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bonn and was an active theological writer. Pope Paul VI called him to be in the Pontifical Biblical Commission. Pope Benedict XVI knew him and admired the subject's blending of scholarship and spirituality.[3]
In addition, Schlier participated in the preparation of an official translation of the
Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner
as series Quaestiones sentences. Schlier is counted among the leading scholars of the New Testament of the 20th century.
References
- ^ Lorenzo Cappelletti (2008). "Being Homeless in the World: An interview with Veronika Kubina-Schlier, daughter of the great German exegete", 30 Days, no. 11.
- ^ Heinrich Schlier (1955). "A Brief Apologia", in Karl Hardt, S.J. (ed.), We Are Now Catholics. Cork: The Mercier Press, 1958, pp. 143–165.
- ISBN 9781586171902
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