International Theological Commission

The papal International Theological Commission (Italian Commissione Teológica Internazionale, Latin: Commissio Internationalis Theologica, CTI) was at the suggestion of the first Synod of Bishops in 1967 in 1969 in Rome by Pope Paul VI. furnished.

• 2.1 dealing with liberation theology

Composition and duties

The Pope appoints the members of the Commission for five years, and shall provide it with certain tasks. It may be appointed up to 30 members who must meet at least once a year for a week. President of CTI is always the prefect of the Congregation. Secretary since 17 December 2011, the French Dominican Serge -Thomas Bonino OP.

The main purpose of the Commission is the theological support of the magisterial work of the Pope and the bishops, especially a collaboration on the tasks of the CDF. The CTI currently has 29 members. Among them are two women.

First quinquennium (1 May 1969-1. August 1974 )

• Barnabas Ahern, CP
• Hans Urs von Balthasar
• Louis Bouyer CO
• Walter Burghardt SJ
• Carlo Colombo
• Yves Congar OP
• Philippe Delhaye
• Johannes Feiner
• André Feuillet PSS
• Lucio Gera
• Olegario Gonzalez de Cardedal
• Ignace Abdo Khalife SJ
• Franz Lakner SJ
• Marie -Joseph Le Guillou OP
• Joseph Lescrauwaet MSC
• Bernard Lonergan, SJ
• Henri de Lubac, SJ
• Andreas H. Maltha OP
• Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez
• Peter Nemehegyi SJ
• Stanislaw Olejnik
• Gerard Philips
• Karl Rahner SJ
• Joseph Ratzinger
• Roberto Mascarenhas Roxo
• Janko Tomislav Sagi - Bunić OFM Cap
• Rudolf Schnakenburg
• Heinz Schürmann
• Tharcisse Tshibangu Tshishiku
• Cipriano Vagaggini OSB

Second quinquennium (1 August 1974-12. August 1980)

• Barnabas Ahern, CP
• Juan Alfaro SJ
• Catalino Arevalo SJ G.
• Hans Urs von Balthasar
• Louis Bouyer CO
• Walter Burghardt SJ
• Carlo Caffarra
• Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap
• Yves Congar OP
• Philippe Delhaye
• Edouard Dhanis SJ
• Wilhelm Ernst
• Olegario Gonzalez de Cardedal
• Edouard Hamel SJ
• Bogusław Inlender
• Boaventura Kloppenburg, OFM
• Marie -Joseph Le Guillou OP
• Karl Lehmann
• Joseph Lescrauwaet MSC
• John Mahoney SJ
• Gustave Martelet SJ
• Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez
• Vincent Mulago
• Joseph Ratzinger
• Georges Abi- Saber OLM
• Heinz Schürmann
• Otto bread Roth SJ
• Anton Strle
• Jean -Marie Tillard OP
• Cipriano Vagaggini OSB
• January Walgrave OP

Louis Bouyer did not accept the appointment for personal reasons and was replaced by Edouard Dhanis.

Third quinquennium (12 August 1980-23. May 1986)

• Barnabas Ahern, CP
• Juan Alfaro SJ
• Catalino Arevalo SJ G.
• Hans Urs von Balthasar
• Carlo Caffarra
• Giuseppe Colombo
• Yves Congar OP
• Philippe Delhaye
• Wilhelm Ernst
• Pierre Eyt
• Ivan Fuček SJ
• Ferenc Gál
• Edouard Hamel SJ
• Walter Kasper
• Elie Khalife - Hachem OLM
• Boaventura Kloppenburg, OFM
• Michael Ledwith
• Karl Lehmann
• Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez
• John Onaiyekan
• Carl Peter
• Cándido Pozo SJ
• Walter Principe CSB
• Ignacy Rozycki
• Christoph Schonborn OP
• Heinz Schürmann
• Bernard Sesboüé SJ
• John Thornhill SM
• Cipriano Vagaggini OSB
• January Walgrave OP

4 quinquennium (23 May 1986-3. July 1992 )

• Barthelemy Adoukonou
• January Ambaum
• Hans Urs von Balthasar
• Jean -Louis Bruguès OP
• Carlo Caffarra
• Jean Colbon
• Giuseppe Colombo
• Georges Cottier, OP
• Philippe Delhaye
• Wilhelm Ernst
• John Finnis
• Joachim Gnilka
• José Miguel Ibáñez Langlois
• Walter Kasper
• Boaventura Kloppenburg, OFM
• Gilles Langevin SJ
• Michael Ledwith
• William May
• Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez
• Peter Miyakawa
• Francis Moloney SDB
• Stanisław Nagy SCI
• Henrique de Noronha Galvão
• James Okoye CSSp
• Franc Perko
• Carl Peter
• Cándido Pozo SJ
• Christoph Schonborn OP
• January Walgrave OSB
• Felix Wilfred

5 quinquennium (3 July 1992-10. October 1997)

• Charles Acton
• Barthelemy Adoukonou
• January Ambaum
• Jean -Louis Bruguès OP
• Giuseppe Colombo
• Jean Corbon
• Georges Cottier, OP
• Joseph Doré PSS
• Avery Dulles, SJ
• Mario de França Miranda SJ
• Adolphe gift
• Joachim Gnilka
• Ivan Golub
• Tadahiko Iwashima SJ
• Sebastian Karotemprel SDB
• Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer SJ
• Gilles Langevin SJ
• Michael Ledwith
• William May
• Francis Moloney SDB
• Stanisław Nagy SCI
• Henrique de Noronha Galvão
• Joseph OWhen - Bonsu
• Servais OP Pinckaers
• Hermann Josef Pott Meyer
• Cándido Pozo SJ
• Christoph Schonborn OP
• Norbert Klemens Strotmann Hoppe MSC
• Andrzej Szostek MIC

Appointment on November 19, 1992

• Max Thurian
• László Vanyo

6 quinquennium (10 October 1997-9. February 2004)

• Charles Acton
• Christopher Begg
• Tanios Bou Mansour OLM
• Jean -Louis Bruguès OP
• Georges Marie Martin Cottier OP
• Santiago Del Cura Elena
• Joseph Augustine Di Noia OP
• Willem Jacobus Eijk
• Bruno Forte
• Mario de França Miranda SJ
• Pierre Gaudette
• Adolphe gift
• Gösta Hallonsten
• George Karakkunnel
• Sebastian Karotemprel SDB
• Luis F. Ladaria SJ
• Roland Minnerath
• Francis Moloney SDB
• Gerhard Ludwig Müller
• Henrique de Noronha Galvão
• Thomas Norris
• Adewale Ojo Anthony
• Hermann Josef Pott Meyer
• Rafael Cardenas Salazar MSPs
• Fadel Sidarouss SJ
• Anton Strukelj
• Luis Antonio Tagle Gokim
• Shun'ichi Takayanagi SJ
• László Vanyo
• Tomasz Węcławski
• Sergio Zañartu Undurraga SJ

7 quinquennium (9 February 2004-19. June 2009)

• Peter Damian Akpunonu
• Serge -Thomas Bonino OP
• Geraldo Luis Borges Hackmann
• Sara Butler MSBT
• Antonio Castellano SDB
• Basil Cho Kyu -Man
• Santiago Elena del Cura
• Adelbert Denaux
• Gilles Emery OP
• Ricardo Antonio Ferrara
• Bruno Forte
• Pierre Gaudette
• Barbara Hallensleben
• Savio Hon Tai - Fai SDB
• Tomislav Ivancic
• István Ivancsó
• Tony Kelly CSsR
• Luis F. Ladaria SJ
• Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Liesen
• John Michael McDermott, SJ
• Paul McPartlan
• Roland Minnerath
• Thomas Norris
• Johannes Reiter
• Paul Rouhana
• Ignazio Sanna
• Léonard Kinkupu Santedi
• Thomas Söding
• Jerzy Szymik
• Dominic Veliath SDB

8 quinquennium (19 June 2009-2013)

• Charles Morerod OP, Swiss theologian, rector of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas and since 2011 the Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg
• Savio Hon Tai - Fai, SDB, Archbishop Curia of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
• January Liesen, Dutch theologian, Bishop of Breda
• Peter Damian Akpunonu, Nigerian professor at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake ( Mundelein Seminary ), Chicago
• Serge -Thomas Bonino OP, French professor at the Catholic Institute of Toulouse
• Geraldo Luiz Borges Hackmann, Brazilian professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre
• Sara Butler MSBT, American professor at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake ( Mundelein Seminary ), Chicago
• Antonio Castellano SDB, Italian professor at the Pontifical Salesian University, Rome
• John Cavadini, American Catholic theologian and historian at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend (Indiana)
• Adelbert Denaux, Belgian professor at the Catholic University of Leuven and the Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Tilburg
• Marco Doldi, Italian moral theologian and professor at the Facoltà Teológica dell'Italia Settentrionale
• Gilles Emery OP, Swiss professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Fribourg
• Mario Ángel Flores Ramos, Mexican Professor of Systemic Theology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Messico
• Francis Gustilo SDB, Filipino theologian and director of Don Bosco Study Center in Paranaque, Philippines
• Barbara Hallensleben, German dogmatic theologian and professor at the Université de Fribourg
• Tomislav Ivancic, Croatian fundamental theologian and professor at the University of Zagreb
• Ivancsó István, Hungarian theologian and rector of the Hungarian Greek Catholic School in Nyíregyháza
• Anthony Kelly, C.Ss.R., Australian theologian and professor at the Australian Catholic University, Canberra
• Paul McPartlan, British Professor of Systematic Theology at the Catholic University of America
• Thomas Norris, Irish Professor of Systemic Theology at St Patrick 's College, Maynooth
• Javier Prades López, Spanish theologian at the Facultad de Teología " San Damaso " Madrid
• Johannes Reiter, German moral theologian at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
• Paul Rouhana OLM, Lebanese theologian at the Syriac Maronite University of St. Esprit, Kaslik / Beirut
• Léonard Santedi Kinkupu, Congolese Systemic theologian at the Catholic University of Kinshasa
• Pierangelo Sequeri, Italian professor of fundamental theology and vice president of Facoltà Teológica dell'Italia Settentrionale (Faculty of Theology northern Italy)
• Thomas Söding, German professor of New Testament exegesis at the Ruhr- University Bochum
• Jerzy Szymik, Polish theologian at the University of Silesia in Katowice
• Philippe Vallin, French theologian at the Faculté de théologie catholique de Strasbourg ( Strasbourg University )
• Dominic Veliath SDB, Indian Systemic theologian at Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore
• Guillermo Zuleta, Colombian Systemic theologian at the University of Medellín

President

Secretaries General

Deputy Secretaries

Theological opinions

Since 1969 the Commission has published 21 reports. The latest advice to the limbus (2007) was perceived by wide circles of society and misinterpreted by the media as " abolition of purgatory ."

Discussion of liberation theology

The Theological Commission have been working since 1974 with the liberation theology apart, which was largely rejected by the Commissioners. In October 1976, the CTI dealt at their annual meeting in Rome, attended by, inter alia, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Lehmann, with the topic. The subsequent explanation to the relationship of human welfare and Christian salvation with which they occurred in August 1977 to the public caused a sensation and led to the hard line of the CDF against this theological school in the 1980s. The declaration was assumed that liberation theology between material prosperity and spiritual healing to each other sit in a stationary manner always already in relationship. The ratio must remain in principle open and indeterminate.

From the side of liberation theology was critically noted that not a single liberation theologian belonged to the body, but rather a declared opponent of liberation theology as Bonaventura Kloppenburg. The Leonardo Boff and Clodovis brethren wrote to the statement that it remained " below the level that you legitimately from a qualified body as might have been expected. "