Johann Nepomuk Oischinger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German philosopher and theologian
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Place of Birth: Gotteszell, Bavaria, Germany
About Johann Nepomuk Oischinger
- Johann Nepomuk Paul Oischinger (13 May 1817 – 11 December 1876) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher who was a native of Wittmannsberg, Bavaria. Oischinger studied theology and philosophy at the University of Munich, where he had as instructors Franz Xaver von Baader (1765-1841), Joseph Görres (1776-1848), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854), Ignaz von Döllinger (1799-1890), Heinrich Klee (1800-1840), Johann Adam Möhler (1796-1838) and Franz Xaver Reithmayr (1809-1872).
- In 1841 he received his ordination in Regensburg, and shortly afterwards returned to Munich, where he worked as a private scholar and journalist for the remainder of his career. His aim in theology was to create a new philosophical system and a scientific offering of Catholic doctrinal concepts, and with the new system he proposed the elimination of what he considered erroneous medieval scholastic features.
- A number of his writings were harsh criticisms of medieval scholastic theology, in particular the belief system of Thomas Aquinas.
- He was also the author of polemical writings aimed at contemporary movements that included Neo-Scholasticism and GĂĽntherianism.
- A few of his numerous publications are as follows: Grundriss zu einem neuen Systeme der Philosophie (Framework of a New System of Philosophy), 1843 Philosophie und Religion (1849) Grundriss zum systeme der christlichen Philosophie (Framework for a System of Christian Philosophy), 1852 Die Einheitslehre der göttlichen Trinität (Doctrine of the Anthropomorphic Trinity), 1869
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