Avery Dulles

America Magazine features two new books of Ignatian interest.  The January selection of the Catholic book club is Mother of God Similar to Fire, a collection of 50 icons of Mary by former Jesuit William Hart McNichols.  Also new is the biography Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ A Model Theologian by Patrick W. Carey.  A review [...]

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I wasn’t the only one blogging about Avery Dulles yesterday.  Here is a fine post about his conversion to Catholicism while an undergraduate at Harvard.

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Cardinal Avery Dulles, SJ, who died late last year, was one of the most readable theologians.  America magazine recently published a short essay of his on the nature of faith.  In it, Dulles challenges the notion that we don’t have to understand what we believe.  “Faith is not an empty sack that can equally well [...]

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