Avery Cardinal Dulles

After a period of relative quiescence, the quest for the historical Jesus has again become a center of controversy. Two major contributions to the theme”John P. Meier’s A Marginal Jew and John Dominic Crossan’s The Historical Jesus ”appeared just before Christmas 1991 and . . . . Continue Reading »

The ideas of “tradition” and “creativity” seem at first glance to be opposed and incompatible. Tradition says continuity; creativity says innovation and hence discontinuity. With the proper distinctions, however, it may be possible to show that the two are not only compatible . . . . Continue Reading »

From a Christian point of view, the twentieth century might well be called the century of ecumenism. Several dates serve to mark the crucial stages of development. Among them are 1910, when the World Missionary Conference met at Edinburgh; 1925, the date of the Universal Christian Conference on . . . . Continue Reading »