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Zur Bedeutung des Schrifttums von Herbert Doms (1890–1977) für die katholische Theologie

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Herbert Doms belongs to the circle of German theologians that in the first half of the twentieth Century contributed to the discussions on the teaching of the purpose of marriage. His book About the meaning and the purpose of marriage published 1935 in Breslau became an important work that proposed the distinction between the meaning and purpose of marriage and on this way opened new ways in Catholic theology towards an understanding of marriage. Doms worked out his understanding of marriage on the basis of his studies, research and publications in the field of natural sciences and his theological studies especially amongst scholastic thinkers. The present paper talks about the publications of Herbert Doms and shows their importance for Catholic theology. There are four themes amongst the works of Doms. The first theme concerns the relation between the natural sciences and theology. The next one concerns the works on the history of dogmatics which is connected to the studies, doctorate and habilitation of Doms in dogmatics. The most important area with which his Name is connected to in theology is the understanding of marriage. The author talks about his main work and other books and papers on this theme and its significance for theology. The last theme concerns the question of the existence of the Catholic priests on which Doms published some of his works. The works of Herbert Doms contributed not only to working out a modern personalist depiction of marriage but to confirm that for the research of theological questions the knowledge of other sciences is not only auxiliary but important, and can lead to mature, revealing and well justified ideas.