Raymund Schwager

University of Innsbruck, Austria
E-mail: raymund.schwager@uibk.ac.at
Homepage: http://systheol.uibk.ac.at/schwager/

Curriculum vitae

• Date of birth: 11.11.1935

• 1955 member of the Jesuit order

• 1957 – 1960 Studies in Philosophy at the “Berchmanskolleg” (Lizentiat), Pullach/München

• 1960 - 1963 pedagogical work in the college “Stella Matutina” Feldkirch/Austria

• 1963 - 1967 Studies in Theology in Lyon-Fourvière (Lizentiat)

• 1967 - 1969 Doctoral Studies in Fribourg (Switzerland) with a longer stay in Spain

• 1970 - 1977 Member of the editorial staff “Orientierung” Zurich, lectures in Switzerland

• 1973 Guest lecture in Amsterdam

• 1975 Guest lecture and Habilitation [postdoctoral lecturing qualification] in Innsbruck

• Since 1977 Professor of Dogmatics und Ecumenical Theology in Innsbruck

• 1991 Founding member of the international scientific community "Violence & Religion" (COV&R)

• 1991 - 1995 First president of COV&R

• 1992 - 1996 Head of the association of catholic professors for dogmatic and fundamental theology

• 1998 “Tiroler Landespreis” for science

• Since 1999 Honorary member of the COV&R Advisory Board (lifetime)

• Since 1999 Dean of the Catholic Faculty, University of Innsbruck

   

Selected Publications

• Must there be Scapegoats? Violence and Redemption in the Bible. Herefordshire: Gracewing and New York: Crossroad 2000. (Translation of „Brauchen wir einen Sündenbock?")

• Jesus in the Drama of Salvation : Toward a Biblical Doctrine of Redemption. New York: Crossroad 1999 (Translation of „Jesus im Heilsdrama").

• "Relativierung der Wahrheit. Kontextuelle Christologie auf dem Prüfstand" (Herausgeber). Freiburg i.Br.: Herder 1998.

• "Jesus of Nazareth. How does Jesus understand his life?" New York: Crossroad 1998 (Translation of „Dem Netz des Jägers entronnen).

• Erbsünde und Heilsdrama (Beiträge zur mimetischen Theorie 5), LIT: Münster 1997.

• Christus allein? Der Streit um die pluralistische Religionstheologie. Hg. von R. Schwager (Quaestiones disputatae 160), Herder: Freiburg i.Br.-Basel-Wien 1996.

• Brauchen wir einen Sündenbock? Gewalt und Erlösung in den biblischen Schriften. Thaur-Wien-Müchen: Kulturverlag 31994.

• Dem Netz des Jägers entronnen: Das Jesusdrama nacherzählt von Raymund Schwager, Kösel: München 1991.

• Jesus im Heilsdrama: Entwurf einer biblischen Erlösungslehre (Innsbrucker Theologische Studien 29), Tyrolia: Innsbruck-Wien 1990.