Heiner Wilmer

Positions In a June 2019 interview, Wilmer discussed the issue of priestly celibacy. He said that he himself is "a willingly passionate celibate religious," but the unmarried state of the clergy could be made to shine even brighter if it were not mandatory for all clerics. He voted for the text of the German Synodal Way in favor of reforming Catholic sexual teaching.

Selected works Mystik zwischen Tun und Denken: ein neuer Zugang zur Philosophie Maurice Blondels, Herder, Freiburg, 1992, Wer leben will, muss aufbrechen: spirituell lernen von Brasilien, Don Bosco, Munich, 2010, Johannes Duns Scotus "Tractatus de primo principio": wissenschaftstheoretische Überlegungen, Bonn, 2013, Gott ist nicht nett, Herder, Freiburg, 2013, Hunger nach Freiheit. Mose: Wüstenlektionen zum Aufbrechen, Herder, 2018. Co-author: Simon Biallowons. The book's nominal subject is Moses "as a model for modern existence", but it is a reflection on Wilmer's experiences, including encounters with Protestants and his conflict with older colleagues when working as headmaster in Handrup.