Michel Steinmetz
Prof. Dr. Dr.
Professor
Department of Practical Theology
Av. de l'Europe 20
1700 Fribourg
Biography
Michel STEINMETZ was born in 1977 in Strasbourg (France). He studied theology both in Strasbourg and in Paris. He holds a master's degree in theology (licentia docendi) in sacred arts (ICP - Paris) with a study on the communal celebration of the liturgy of the hours. He is still working, in Strasbourg this time, on the question of the ritual roots of liturgical chant. He holds a doctorate in religious anthropology and history of religions from the Sorbonne and a doctorate in theology from the Institut Catholique de Paris. He has written a thesis on the "ministerial function of sacred music" (SC 112). Since 2011, he has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Strasbourg, where he has taught courses on the introduction to the theology of the liturgy and sacramental theology. As a member of the research team UR4377, he has taken part in the activities of the systematic theology section. He is also a member of the research team "Rites and Spirituality" (Pôle "Texts and Hermeneutics" of the Research Unit "Religion, Culture and Society" EA 7403), of the editorial board of the review La Maison-Dieu, as well as of the AKL (Arbeitsgemeinschaft katholischer Liturgiewissenschaftlerinnen und Liturgiewisschaftler im deutschen Sprachgebiet). His fields of research are the theology of liturgy, or how to establish a theology from the multiform action of the Ecclesia orans, the relationship between liturgy and ecclesiology, as well as liturgy as a resource for rooting oneself in a living Tradition. He is also sensitive to the relationship between liturgy and the arts. A priest in the diocese of Strasbourg, he has been both a parish priest and for twelve years director of the Diocesan Service for Liturgical and Sacramental Pastoral Care, Sacred Music and Sacred Art and president of the Union Sainte-Cécile. He was ceremonial secretary to the Archbishop of Strasbourg too.
Research and publications
Public commitments and mandates
- Commitments and responsibilities
Priest of the diocese of Strasourg (France)
Director of the Institute of Liturgical Sciences - University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
Member of the editorial board of the French-language liturgy journal La Maison-Dieu (Paris, Cerf)
Lecturer at the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society
Member of the research team "Rites and Spirituality" (Pole "Texts and Hermeneutics" of the Research Unit "Religion, Culture and Society" EA 7403)
Member of the AKL (Arbeitsgemeinschaft katholischer Liturgiewissenschaftlerinnen und Liturgiewissenschaftler im deutschen Sprachgebiet)
Associate member of the research team UR4377
Member of the Liturgy Commission of the Swiss Bishops' Conference
Member of the "Kuratorium des Liturgischen Instituts der deutschprachigen Schweiz