Thomas Riplinger Email & Phone Number

Tübingen, Germany

In addition to translating the Foundations statements into English, I write and lecture on Global Ethic themes.

Gomaringen

For a description of my research areas, see below under "Specialties".

Gomaringen

I translate between German and English, with a preference for German to English and edit English texts written or translated by non.native speakers. For the most part, the texts I translte come from the fields of theology or religious studies, but I have also translated medical and legal texts.

Tübingen

Working with Prof..Hans Küng, under whom I wrote my doctoral thesis, I was responsible for many years for maintaining the Institute's conventional card-catalog documentation project "Forschungskatalog über theologische Literatur sein 1945", for which I developed a new ordering system after a 1984. down-sizing revision .Later, after 1996, I worked with professors Bernd Jochen Hilberath and Urs Baumann as a translator and as a promotor of contacts with the Orthodox churches.

Tübingen

I entered the Tübingen University Library in 1978 as a documentalist for THEODOK project designed to provide comprehensive information, documentation and document delivery for the fields of theology and general religioujs studies. When three years later, the project was abruptly terminated for financial reasons, we published a final report, presenting in detail our unique system of subject cataloging combining the strengths of and avoiding the weaknesses of exclusively systematic or alphabetic approaches to subject cataloging. This report was published under the title: "Theologische und religionswissenschaftlicher Literaturinformation : Klassifikation zur Allgemeinen Religionswissenschaft und Systematischen Theologie als Arbeitsergebnis des Projekts THEODOK" / Gunther Franz; Dieter Ising; Thomas Riplinger '(Ges. für Information u. Dokumentation, Beiträge u. Berichte, Reihe A, 10Ö; Frankfurt a.M.: IDD Verlag, 1989), 319 pp.After the termination of the THEODOK project, I stayed on as a subject cataloger in the University Library, being responsible for maintaining the section for literature about individual persons and their work and the section for literature about geographical regions and localities, as well as the philosophy subsection of the Library's Epplesheimer subject catalog. When this was replaced by cooperative subject cataloging within the Südwest-Verbund using descriptors from the Schlagwortnormdatei, I assumed responsibility for systematic theology as well.

Tübingen Area, Germany

For Section B History of the TAVO, I prepared, in close cooperation with specialists for Caucasian and Islamic history, a series of 11 maps illustrating the territorial, administrative, and military history of the Byzantine Empire in the Middle East from 527 to 1337 CE. In addition, I cooperated with a church historian in the preparation of maps of the ecclesiastical history for this period .

D.Theol, Theology

Doctoral dissertation "The notion of the church in recent American Protestant Theology (1937-1967) written under the direction of Prof..

Ma Theol. Stlr., Theology

Dissertation: "The Psychology of natural and supernatural cognition according to St. Thomas Aquinas"

Ba, Ma Phil., Lic. Phil., Philosophy, Psychology, Education

Dissertation: "The notion of perfect society in Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas"

Liberal Arts, History

Activities and Societies: During my two years at Loras I lived in the pre-Dominican community of Smyth Hall.During my two years at Loras.

High School, Natural Science Program

Activities and Societies: Debating Team, actor in the senior-class play, contributor to the school newspaper, member of the Student.