Arguments

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.

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.

Throughout the 20th century, a multitude of inspirations of various kinds transformed the content and importance of this treatise on the beyond and "the last things". It went from being more or less marginal to being inserted at the heart of theology. 

In the last two centuries, biblical exegesis has produced, with fantastic erudition, an enormous volume of material, although also quite scattered and not always coherent. For this reason, it is worth remembering that Jesus Christ himself made an explicit exegesis, which is the key to all believing exegesis.