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10 great books on Theology recommended by Juan Luis Lorda

The twentieth century has been fertile in theological works. Professor and theologian Juan Luis Lorda has selected the ten most important ones, although he mentions some more. Romano Guardini, one of the authors, summarizes them with this phrase: "the essence of Christianity is Jesus Christ". See the sample here.

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The International Theological Commission at the service of commission and dialogue

The International Theological Commission, created by Paul VI in 1969, has played an important role of communion and dialogue between Catholic theologians and the Magisterium, and has contributed to calming the situation of Catholic theologians. theological and has given rise to a remarkable body of quality documents.

Juan Luis Lorda

24 May 2023

Personalism in theology

Perhaps personalism is the philosophical movement with the greatest impact on theology in the 20th century. A few but important ideas about the relational aspect of persons influenced almost all theological treatises.

Juan Luis Lorda

20 Apr 2023

Chesterton's "heretics" and ours

The survival, in various guises, of different philosophical and intellectual positions that Gilbert Keith Chesterton left without arguments, means that the thought of the brilliant English author continues to be, a century later, fully current.

Juan Luis Lorda

22 Mar 2023

Corrections to the Dutch Catechism

The affair of the Dutch Catechism (1966-1968) provoked one of the most significant crises of the post-conciliar period. On the 50th anniversary it was neither remembered nor celebrated, especially because the little Dutch Church that remained was not for triumphalism, but for selling empty temples.

Juan Luis Lorda

19 Jan 2023

The Hans Küng case

The figures of two almost contemporary German-speaking theologians will be linked in posterity: the Bavarian Joseph Ratzinger (1927-) and the Swiss Hans Küng (1928-2021).

Juan Luis Lorda

24 Nov 2022

Tradition and traditions

The post-conciliar crisis showed a dialectic between progressivism, which wanted another Council "at the height of the times", and traditionalism, hurt by the novelties of Vatican II or the post-conciliar period. Among the labels that require discernment is the Catholic notion of Tradition.

Juan Luis Lorda

24 Oct 2022

The Theology of the Second Vatican Council

At the Second Vatican Council, the following were taken up and did a lot of theology. It was three years of work of numerous experts and bishops to thinking about faith ("fides quaerens intellectum") with the objective proposed by John XXIII: better explain the Church's message to the world at large.derno.

Juan Luis Lorda

11 Oct 2022

Paul Evdokimov and The Art of the Icon

Evdokimov was a great Russian Orthodox lay theologian. Emigrated and trained in Paris; involved in refugee relief work and in the ecumenical movement, and author of a body of theological works of great spiritual breath, of which The art of the icon is the best known.

Juan Luis Lorda

16 Sep 2022

The Introduction to Christianity by Joseph Ratzinger

Conceived as a course for university students, the then theologian and later Pope, assuming the difficulties and weaknesses of the modern mind, wanted to show in the Introduction to Christianity Christian faith as the only way to the fullness of the human being.

Juan Luis Lorda

28 Jul 2022

True and False Reformation in the Church, by Yves Marie Congar

Congar's essay True and false reform in the Church is a classic of 20th century theology. No one had theologically studied this aspect of the life of the Church until then. He did it at a crucial moment.

Juan Luis Lorda

1 Jul 2022

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