Article
Why Avery Dulles Matters
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
(2009)
Abstract
Therein resides the approach that suffuses Dulles' entire oeuvre: his relentless attempt to show how the Church's faith, ever ancient and ever new, ever creative and ever robust, can illumine the pressing issues of an epoch dominated by rapid societal and cultural change. In a passage of extraordinary significance, from the Decree on Ecumenism, the council declared, "While preserving unity in essentials, let all members of the Church . . . preserve a proper freedom in the various forms of spiritual life and discipline, in the variety of liturgical rites, and even in the dieological elaborations of revealed truth."
Keywords
- Theology,
- Presbyterian churches,
- Essays,
- Cultural change,
- Councils,
- Christianity,
- Charters
Disciplines
Publication Date
May, 2009
Citation Information
Thomas Guarino. "Why Avery Dulles Matters" First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Vol. 193 (2009) p. 40 - 46 ISSN: 1047-5141 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/thomas-guarino/3/