Markus Enders

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Markus Enders
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Born	Markus Enders (1963-09-02) 2 September 1963 Fulda, Germany
💼 Occupation	Catholic Theologian Philosopher
👩 Spouse(s)	Hildegard Enders (m. 1993)
👶 Children	3

Markus Enders (born 2 September 1963) is a German philosopher and Catholic theologian. Since 2001, he has been the Professor of Christian Philosophy of Religion at the University of Freiburg.

Biography

Markus Enders was born on 2 September 1963 in Fulda, a city in the German state of Hesse.

From 1983 until 1989, Markus Enders studied philosophy, Catholic theology, religious studies, Gräzistik (philology of Ancient Greek) and German studies in Freiburg im Breisgau. During his studies, Enders was awarded a scholarship by Cusanuswerk. In 1988, Enders graduated in philosophy with a Magister Artium; a year later he received his Diplom in Catholic theology.

For his doctoral studies, Enders moved to Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, graduating summa cum laude in 1991 with a Doctor of Philosophy. His dissertation was titled "Das mystische Wissen bei Heinrich Seuse" (Mystical Knowledge in the Works of Henry Suso) and was supervised by Werner Beierwaltes. From 1992 until 1999, Enders held the position of wissenschaftlicher Assistent (postdoctoral researcher) at the Chair of Philosophy of Werner Beierwaltes. In 1997, he earned his Habilitation (Germany's highest university degree) with a work on Anselm of Canterbury's theory of Truth, taking into account Anselm's ancient sources: Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine and Boethius.

Enders married his wife Hildegard in 1993. They have three children.

In 1999, Enders graduated summa cum laude with a Doctor of Theology. In his second doctoral thesis, Enders investigated Martin Heidegger's conceptualization of transcendence and world within the context of the modern history of the concept of transcendence. He was supervised by Richard Heinzmann. From 1999 until 2001, Enders received the Heisenberg Scholarship from the German Research Foundation.

Enders declined an offer to become professor at the University of Fulda. Instead, he became full professor at the University of Freiburg in 2001, holding the same chair as Bernhard Casper, Klaus Hemmerle and Bernhard Welte. In 2009, the Memorial University of Newfoundland appointed Enders adjunct professor (areas of specialization: philosophy of religion, ancient and medieval philosophy and German Mysticism). In 2013, Enders declined an offer to become professor at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. In 2014/15, he was dean of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Freiburg.

In 2010, Enders, together with Rolf Kühn, founded the Forschungsstelle für jüngere französische Religionsphilosophie (Research Center for Contemporary French Philosophy of Religion), which received Drittmittel (external research funding). In 2012, Enders became chairman of the Bernhard-Welte-Gesellschaft e. V. (Bernhard Welte Society). In 2017, he was granted full membership at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. There, he has co-directed the research group responsible for the edition of the Karl-Jaspers-Gesamtausgabe (the collected works of Karl Jaspers) since 2020. Enders has held and still holds memberships in numerous other academic societies.

Research

Enders has conducted research in a number of areas, including:

• The doctrine of God, past and present, especially the history and systematic significance of the ontological concept of God and the ontological proof for the existence of God
• The history of the philosophical concept of Truth
• The philosophy of monotheism, especially in Medieval thought
• Christian mysticism, especially German Mysticism (Meister Eckhart, Henry Suso, Johannes Tauler)
• The philosophical concept of transcendence in systematic and historical perspective, especially in modern philosophy
• The philosophical study of human religiosity and an interreligiously usable concept of religion
• The Freiburg tradition of phenomenology of religion (Bernhard Welte, Klaus Hemmerle, Bernhard Casper)
• Phenomenological and metaphysical reflections on the concept of gift and the personal acts of giving, self-giving and forgiving
• Edition of the Karl-Jaspers-Gesamtausgabe

Teaching

Besides his teaching activities at the University of Freiburg, Enders has been invited to teach at a number of other universities as visiting professor:

• the Pontifical University of Salamanca (2002)
• Sophia University in Tokyo (2006)
• the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2007)
• the Memorial University of Newfoundland (2008)

Selected bibliography

Besides the monographs listed below, Enders has published numerous articles and edited volumes.

• Das mystische Wissen bei Heinrich Seuse [The mystical knowledge in Heinrich Seuse's works] (in Deutsch), Paderborn: Schöningh, 1993, ISBN 9783506794376
• Wahrheit und Notwendigkeit. Die Theorie der Wahrheit bei Anselm von Canterbury im Gesamtzusammenhang seines Denkens und unter besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner antiken Quellen (Aristoteles, Cicero, Augustinus, Boethius) [Truth and Necessity. Anselm von Canterbury's theory of truth in relation to his way of thinking and his antique sources (like Aristotele, Cicero, Augustinus and Boethius)] (in Deutsch), Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 1999, ISBN 978-9004112643
• Transzendenz und Welt. Das daseinshermeneutische Transzendenz- und Weltverständnis Martin Heideggers auf dem Hintergrund der neuzeitlichen Geschichte des Transzendenz-Begriffes (in Deutsch), Frankfurt: Lang, 1999, ISBN 9783631495940
• Natürliche Theologie im Denken der Griechen [Natural Theology in the Greeks' way of thinking] (in Deutsch), Frankfurt: Knecht, 2000, ISBN 9783782008440
• Gelassenheit und Abgeschiedenheit – Studien zur Deutschen Mystik [Serenity and Seclusion – Studies on German mysticism] (in Deutsch), Hamburg: Dr. Kovač, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8300-3636-4
• Zum Begriff der Unendlichkeit im abendländischen Denken. Unendlichkeit Gottes und Unendlichkeit der Welt (in Deutsch), Hamburg: Dr. Kovač, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8300-3961-7
• Postmoderne, Christentum und Neue Religiosität. Studien zum Verhältnis zwischen postmodernem, christlichem und neureligiösem Denken [Studies on the relation of Postmodernism, Christianity and New Religiousness in thought processes] (in Deutsch), Hamburg: Dr. Kovač, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8300-4790-2
• La teología natural en el pensamiento de los griegos [Natural Theology in the Greeks' way of thinking] (in español), Córdoba, Argentina: Eduvim, 2019, ISBN 978-9876995689

External links

• Homepage of the Chair of Christian Philosophy of Religion at the University of Freiburg
• Contact information of Professor Markus Enders
• Homepage of the Bernhard Welte Society
• Homepage of the research group editing the works of Karl Jaspers

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