Michael Schmaus
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Michael Schmaus (17 July 1897 – 8 December 1993) was a German Roman Catholic theologian specializing in dogmatics. Schmaus was born in Oberbaar, Bavaria. He was ordained a priest in 1922 and got his doctorate in Catholic Dogmatic Theology under Martin Grabmann in 1924. After teaching at the Philosophisch-Theologischen Hochschule Freising, at the local seminary and at the University of Munich, he was a professor of dogmatic theology at the German-speaking part of the Charles University in Prague (1928-1933) and from 1933 on at the Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster. From 1946 until his retirement in 1965 he was professor of Catholic dogmatic theology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Among his students were Joseph Ratzinger - the future Pope Benedict XVI - with whom he associated with his habilitation for Fundamental Theology. He was Peritus (Theological expert) for part of the Second Vatican Council. On 12 November 1983, Pope John Paul II gave him the honorary title of protonotary apostolic. He was best as a synthesizer rather than an originator. His two works on Catholic dogma are still standard works. He died in Gauting, Upper Bavaria in 1993.
Books
Dogma 6
The series as a whole represents an attempt to present and interpret the faith of the Catholic Church in a way intelligible to modern man, and this volume begins (traditionally enough) with a study of God as known through relevation -- what the Schoolmen used to call de Deo revelante. The concepts studied -- revelation in its modes and significance, its importance, its effects upon man, etc. -- are quite orthodox. The context in which the author places his material, however, is quite original. Gone is the medieval framework of appeals to authority interspersed with insinuations that unless one ""believed,"" one was either a fool or a demon or both. Instead, the traditional concepts are viewed against a background of Marxism, existentialism, atheism, etc., and with ample regard for the contributions of the auxiliary disciplines. Protestant positions are discussed objectively and dispassionately.
Dogma 1
This is the first volume in the publisher's ""Dogma Series."" The series as a whole represents an attempt to present and interpret the faith of the Catholic Church in a way intelligible to modern man, and this volume begins (traditionally enough) with a study of God as known through relevation -- what the Schoolmen used to call de Deo revelante. The concepts studied -- revelation in its modes and significance, its importance, its effects upon man, etc. -- are quite orthodox. The context in which the author places his material, however, is quite original. Gone is the medieval framework of appeals to authority interspersed with insinuations that unless one ""believed,"" one was either a fool or a demon or both. Instead, the traditional concepts are viewed against a background of Marxism, existentialism, atheism, etc., and with ample regard for the contributions of the auxiliary disciplines. Protestant positions are discussed objectively and dispassionately. This first volume -- and the subsequent ones, if they are as good -- will be ideal as a text for seminaries and universities. It is, in effect, a summa for the twentieth century.
The essence of Christianity
Dogma
"A comic theological fantasy of epic proportion, Kevin Smith's Dogma is a film that will stand as one of the decade's most provocative, slyly profound metaphysical statements. Two fallen angels, sentenced to eternal exile in Wisconsin, are trying to get back into heaven. A renegade cardinal in New Jersey, as part of his "Catholicism Wow!" campaign, has opened a loophole in Catholic doctrine that would give them their opportunity - and, in proving God's judgment wrong, destroy the universe. An abortion clinic counselor who may or may not be of holy bloodlines is tapped as the very reluctant savior - and, accompanied by the thirteenth apostle, a wayward muse, and two very questionable prophets, aka Jay and Silent Bob, she sets off on a mission to save the world."--BOOK JACKET.