Avery Cardinal Dulles
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823228621
- eISBN:
- 9780823236619
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823228621.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The author of this book has written and lectured on a wide range of topics across his career, and for a wide range of audiences. Integrating faith and scholarship, he has created a ...
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The author of this book has written and lectured on a wide range of topics across his career, and for a wide range of audiences. Integrating faith and scholarship, he has created a rich body of work that, in the words of one observer, is “both faithful to Catholic tradition and fresh in its engagement with the contemporary world” Here are the talks the author has given twice each year since the Laurence J. McGinley Lectures were initiated in 1988, conceived broadly as a forum on Church and society. The result is a diverse collection that reflects the breadth of his thinking and engages with many of the most important—and difficult—religious issues of our day. Organized chronologically, the lectures are often responses to timely issues, such as the relationship between religion and politics, a topic he treated in the last weeks of the presidential campaign of 1992. Other lectures take up questions surrounding human rights, faith and evolution, forgiveness, the death penalty, the doctrine of religious freedom, the population of hell, and a whole array of theological subjects, many of which intersect with culture and politics. The life of the Church is a major and welcome focus of the lectures, whether they be a reflection on Cardinal Newman or an exploration of the difficulties of interfaith dialogue. The author responds frequently to initiatives of the Holy See, discussing gender and priesthood in the context of church teaching, and Pope Benedict's interpretation of Vatican II. He seeks to “render the wisdom of past ages applicable to the world in which we live”. For those seeking to share in this wisdom, this book will be a guide to what it means to be Catholic—indeed, to be a person of any faith—in a world of rapid, relentless change.Less
The author of this book has written and lectured on a wide range of topics across his career, and for a wide range of audiences. Integrating faith and scholarship, he has created a rich body of work that, in the words of one observer, is “both faithful to Catholic tradition and fresh in its engagement with the contemporary world” Here are the talks the author has given twice each year since the Laurence J. McGinley Lectures were initiated in 1988, conceived broadly as a forum on Church and society. The result is a diverse collection that reflects the breadth of his thinking and engages with many of the most important—and difficult—religious issues of our day. Organized chronologically, the lectures are often responses to timely issues, such as the relationship between religion and politics, a topic he treated in the last weeks of the presidential campaign of 1992. Other lectures take up questions surrounding human rights, faith and evolution, forgiveness, the death penalty, the doctrine of religious freedom, the population of hell, and a whole array of theological subjects, many of which intersect with culture and politics. The life of the Church is a major and welcome focus of the lectures, whether they be a reflection on Cardinal Newman or an exploration of the difficulties of interfaith dialogue. The author responds frequently to initiatives of the Holy See, discussing gender and priesthood in the context of church teaching, and Pope Benedict's interpretation of Vatican II. He seeks to “render the wisdom of past ages applicable to the world in which we live”. For those seeking to share in this wisdom, this book will be a guide to what it means to be Catholic—indeed, to be a person of any faith—in a world of rapid, relentless change.
Avery Cardinal Dulles S.J.
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823225255
- eISBN:
- 9780823236589
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823225255.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter discusses the relationship of faith and theology from the point of view of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S. J. It claims that the subject has considerable importance because many of the ...
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This chapter discusses the relationship of faith and theology from the point of view of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S. J. It claims that the subject has considerable importance because many of the difficulties people experience in Church and society are due to the impoverishment of faith or to theology that is not in harmony with faith. The chapter shows how theology in general, and Dulles' theology in particular, depends on faith and is in service to faith. It follows that theology is not only an exercise of faith; it is conducted in the service of faith—that of the individual and of the Church as the community of faith. The chapter concludes that faith is the presupposition and the animating principle of anything that claims to be theology and that faith is a gift that should be treasured.Less
This chapter discusses the relationship of faith and theology from the point of view of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S. J. It claims that the subject has considerable importance because many of the difficulties people experience in Church and society are due to the impoverishment of faith or to theology that is not in harmony with faith. The chapter shows how theology in general, and Dulles' theology in particular, depends on faith and is in service to faith. It follows that theology is not only an exercise of faith; it is conducted in the service of faith—that of the individual and of the Church as the community of faith. The chapter concludes that faith is the presupposition and the animating principle of anything that claims to be theology and that faith is a gift that should be treasured.
