David Berger (theologian)

David Berger photographed in 2011

David Berger (born March 8, 1968 in Würzburg) is a German theologian, author and gay activist.

Biography

From 1991 to 1998 Berger studied philosophy, Roman Catholic theology and German language and literature in Würzburg, Cologne and Dortmund. Berger is a German neo-Thomist and a former professor of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome,^[1] though the Catholic Church has since revoked his ability to teach religion.^[2] Before that time, he worked as a religious education teacher at a high school in Erftstadt, Germany. Until February 2015 he was the editor-in-chief of the gay periodical MÄNNER (Berlin).

In 2010, Berger wrote in his book Der heilige Schein: Als schwuler Theologe in der katholischen Kirche (“The holy sham: A gay theologian in the Catholic church”), that 20 to 40 percent of the Catholic clergy are homosexual.^[3]^[4]

Works by Berger

Natur und Gnade in systematischer Theologie und Religionspädagogik von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart. S. Roderer. Regensburg 1998. ISBN 3-89073-980-6.
Thomas von Aquin und die Liturgie. Ed. Thomisticae. Cologne 2000. ISBN 3-89811-286-1 (translation in English and French).
Thomismus. Große Leitmotive der thomistischen Synthese und ihre Aktualität für die Gegenwart. Ed. Thomisticae. Cologne 2001. ISBN 3-8311-1620-2.
Thomas von Aquins „Summa theologiae“. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Darmstadt 2004. ISBN 3-534-17456-9.
Was ist ein Sakrament? Der hl. Thomas von Aquin und die Sakramente im allgemeinen. Franz Schmitt. Siegburg 2004. ISBN 3-87710-278-6.
Thomas von Aquin begegnen. Sankt-Ulrich. Augsburg 2002. ISBN 3-929246-77-5 (translation in Hungarian: Budapest 2008).
In der Schule des hl. Thomas von Aquin. Studien zur Geschichte des Thomismus. nova et vetera. Bonn 2005. ISBN 3-936741-30-1.
Der heilige Schein: Als schwuler Theologe in der katholischen Kirche. 2010. ISBN 978-3-550-08855-1.
Editor:
- Karl Rahner - Kritische Annäherungen. Franz Schmitt. Siegburg 2004. ISBN 3-87710-280-8.
- together with Jörgen Vijgen: Thomistenlexikon. nova et vetera. Bonn 2006. ISBN 3-936741-37-9.

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References

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 30599865 LCCN: no2003058388 ISNI: 0000 0001 1470 1383 GND: 128832940 SUDOC: 150567200 BNF: cb16648493q (data)

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