Abstract
Abstract The faculty of Catholic theology in Tübingen has long been recognized as one of the leading engines of theological creativity in Christian theology over the past 200 years. Yet there is some question about whether it is appropriate to call it a ‘school’. This chapter examines that debate before outlining the key figures and arguments who shaped the essence of the Catholic theology done in Tübingen. It also charts a decisive turn in the School’s direction, precipitated by an internal debate about mandatory celibacy in the Catholic Church. This turn was important not only to the development of the School, but to debate about how to understand or qualify the relationship between the empirical reality of a faculty of Catholic theology in Tübingen, and the more abstract question over the existence of School.
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