Zur Lage des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses in der Katholischen Theologie

Abstract

In 2011 the German Bishops’ Conference entrusted the Nell-Breuning-Institute (Frankfurt/Main) with a survey of the staff and young academics of the 55 departments teaching Catholic Theology in Germany. In comparison with the results of the last enquiry five years ago there is a reduction of the number of doctoral (“Promotionen”) and postdoctoral lecture qualifications (“Habilitationen”) of nearly 20%. The faculty staff in public universities was also reduced extensively, whereas it remained almost stable in the other departments. There will be massive problems in Patrology concerning the number of postgraduate students and in Moral Theology concerning the number of young academics with a postdoctoral lecture qualification (“Habilitation”) .The decline of the number of young female academics in Theology is disproportionately high.