Avery Dulles

Avery Robert Cardinal Dulles, SJ ( born August 24, 1918 in Auburn, New York, † 12 December 2008 in New York City ) was an American theologian.

Life

Avery Dulles was born as the son of Protestant politician and U.S. Secretary of State (1953-1959) John Foster Dulles. During his studies at Harvard University, he converted to Catholicism. After his military service, he entered the Society of Jesus and studied Catholic theology and philosophy. In 1956 he received the sacrament of Holy Orders at Fordham University by Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York. It was for the purpose of further studies sent to Rome, where he received his doctorate at the Pontifical Gregorian University as a Doctor of Theology.

In 1951 he became professor of philosophy at Fordham University and also taught from 1960 to 1974 at Woodstock College, and from 1974 to 1988 at the Catholic University of America. In 1988 he received the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion, and Social Sciences at Fordham University. In addition, he held 15 visiting professorships at various universities, has written several books and more than six hundred theological essays and articles. He acted as advisor of the Episcopal Commission for Dialogue between the American Lutherans and Catholics and served as President of the Catholic Theological Society of the United States. Despite his advanced age, he still took from 1988 to 2008 a lecturer at Fordham University in New York true. 38 semi-annual lectures appear in book form. In his farewell lecture on 1 April 2008, he confessed again that there is never an original, "new" was doing theology that guided him rather a concern to put his thinking in the service of the faith of the Church.

Pope John Paul II took Avery Dulles on 21 February 2001 as a cardinal deacon with the title Diakonia Nome di Gesu e Maria Holy Sacrament in Via Lata in the College of Cardinals to. Due to his advanced age at the time of Kreierung cardinal he was dispensed by the Pope from the obligation to receive compulsory for Cardinals episcopal ordination.

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Honorary doctorates

Bibliography (selection)

• Priest of Christ. Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-936484-26-0.
• The Holocaust, never to be forgotten. New York in 2001
• Magisterium: Teacher and Guardian of the Faith. Naples (Florida) 2007, ISBN 978-1-932589-38-2.
• God's covenant with Israel. In: Theology 38 (2008 ), pp. 139-152.