Dissertations
COMPLETED (initial care)
Univ.-Prof. DDr. Kurt Appel
2022
ACHATHALER Lisa
From Trust in God to an Ethics of Hope: Biblical Narratives, Grenzsituationen, and the Productive Role of Welte's Mitvollzug
Supervisor: Kurt Appel and Jakob Deibl (University of Vienna)
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ERULO Jonas Francesco
... from the truth of a completely different whole. Investigations following Theodor W. Adorno on the possibility of a non-sacrificial communication of reality and its subject with fundamental theological intentions
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna) and Bernhard Nitsche (University of Münster)
Place of the dissertation: University of Münster
KURAN Daniel
Text and appearance. How the question of God could be articulated in the understanding of Hegel and Derrida
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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2021
BOLORON Cirilo
The Concept of Inclusive Pluralism: Exploring Jacques Dupuis' Theology of Religions and its Implication contemporary Interreligious Dialogue
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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Publication published by V&R unipress Verlag 2022 [more information / to the publisher's page]
BUZINGO Sylvère
Church of Awakening. The ecclesiological mysticism of joy in Evangelii Gaudium
Supervisor: Kurt Appel and Jakob Deibl (University of Vienna)
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DEIBL Marlene
New use. Agamben as a reader of philosophical and theological tradition
Supervisor: Kurt Appel and Jakob Deibl (University of Vienna)
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NWAIWU Savior Chidobere
Ejim Ofo na Ogu. A Mystic Approach to the God - Question of the African Igbos of Nigeria
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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JUDGE Michaela
Succession as participation in the divine - the mystagogical path of Christian existence using the example of Christian de Chergés, Prior of Tibhirine ( 1996)
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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FOURTH BAUER Klaus
Religion and way of life - Religious epistemology following Jürgen Habermas
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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Publication published by Verlag Friedrich Puste 2022 [more information / to the publisher's page]
2020
CASADEI Marco
"... Tentare la crepa dell'essere: soglia e dis-chiusura" Ricognizioni teologiche intorno a Gv 19,34 in unconfronto with Giorgio Agamben e Jean-Luc Nancy / Trying the crack of being! Opening and threshold. Explorations on John 19:34 based on Giorgio Agamben and Jean-Luc Nancy
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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Publication published by Pazzini Editore 2022 [more information / to the publisher's website]
ROSSI Maurizio
How to love: The sublime of Christianity in the thought of Pier Angelo Sequeri
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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2018
KUBASIAK Piotr
Between existentialism and politics. Europe and History in the Thought of Krzysztof Michalski
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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Publication published by Verlag Grünewald 2020 [more information / to the publisher's website]
2017
WILLIAMS
Learn questions from Karl Rahner. The missing questions in the secularized society of Slovakia
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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DEIBL Stefan
The question of the phenomenon of life - methodological approaches in Schrödinger, Monod, Pross and Hegel
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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GLIGORIC Peaceful
Person-Truth-Being. An examination of the ontological and epistemological concepts in the thought of Christos Yannaras
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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Publication published by Herder Verlag 2020 [more information / to the publisher's website]
KAISER Rudolph
The guest's narrative. God's speech at the exit from Europe. A theological discussion of Hans-Dieter Bahr's philosophical draft of a 'language of the guest'
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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[Report from Kurt Appel]
KERSCHBAUM Gerhard Franz
Evidence of the existence of God from the experience of nothingness. Bernhard Welte's phenomenological draft of a 'Theologia negativa' under a closed sky
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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[Abstract Deutsch]
Publication published by Literareon 2021 [more information / to the publisher's website]
2016
PITTL Sebastian
History and Cross. A systematic reconstruction of the place of theology in Ignacio Ellacuría's thought
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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[Opinion by Kurt Appel]
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Publication published by Verlag Friedrich Puste 2018 [more information / to the publisher's website]
SIMBRUNER Georg
Beginning of human existence. Biological-medical contributions to a philosophical-theological anthropology of the prenatal, perinatal and postnatal periods
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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Publication published by Südwestdeutscher Verlag 2016 [more information / to the publisher's website]
2015
MORAVCIK Karol
Church as a space of freedom. Karl Rahner's vision of the church against the background of post-communist Slovak society
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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2013
GATTERBAUER Seriously
Peter Sloterdijk: the scenery pusher on stage, looking for the saint - Simone Weil: the attentive border crosser, behind the scenes
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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PFEIFFER Hubert
Closeness and withdrawal of God in the clearing of being. YHWH's pre-transition (Ex 32-34) and the God of infinite relationships in Heidegger's word about the square
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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[Report from Kurt Appel]
Publication published by Verlag Königshausen & Neumann 2019 [more information / to the publisher's website]
WAGNSONNER Christian
If God could not be known, he would no longer be God. The late Schelling and the end of knowledge
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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2012
GUANZINI Isabella
The origin and the beginning. Hans Urs von Balthasar and Massimo Cacciari
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna) and Pierangelo Sequeri (Italy)
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IBEANU Joseph Chudi
The Mission of the Church in a Continent Torn Apart by Wars, Conflicts, Violence and Opression - Towards an African Political Theology of Reconciliaton
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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MICKOVIC Branislav
The relevance of the question of suffering in Dorothee Sölle and JB Metz
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
[Abstract Deutsch]
[Report from Kurt Appel]
2011
IGREC Marie-Theres
Let God be God and man be man. The talk of mystery in the theologies of Karl Rahner and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
Second report by G. Prüller-Jagenteufel (University of Vienna)
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OKAFOR IKENNA
"He heard the brother's spear and ran away". A theology of fraternal solidarity: An Igbo perspective to liberation theology
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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2010
MEILLER Christoph
About non-conformist life. Political-religious motifs in Kierkegaard
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
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2009
DEIBL Helmut Jakob
Incarnation and weakening. Approaching a conversation with Gianni Vattimo
Supervisor: Kurt Appel (University of Vienna)
Report by Johann Reikerstorfer and Kurt Appel
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