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German theologian, author and gay activist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Berger (born 8 March 1968 in Würzburg) is a German theologian, author and gay activist.
David Berger | |
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Berger in 2011 | |
| Born | 8 March 1968 Würzburg, Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Theologian, author |
| Known for | Gay activist |
From 1991 to 1998, Berger studied philosophy, Catholic theology and German language and literature in Würzburg, Cologne and Dortmund. Berger is a German neo-Thomist and took a critical stance to the work of Karl Rahner. Berger was a professor of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome[1] and also worked as a religious education teacher at a high school in Erftstadt, Germany. The Catholic Church has since revoked his licence to teach.[2]
In 2010, Berger's homosexuality was publicized. He then published his book Der heilige Schein: Als schwuler Theologe in der katholischen Kirche ("The holy appearance: Being a gay theologian in the Catholic church"), in which he claimed that 20 to 40 percent of the Catholic clergy were homosexual.[1][3]
He subsequently was the editor-in-chief of the gay periodical Männer (Berlin). He increasingly took a critical stance towards Islam and immigration, which in February 2015 led to him being dismissed from that position and to Berger distancing himself from the German LGBT movement.[4] Berger continues as an independent blogger and supports, among other things, the German anti-migration party AfD.
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