Vatican
City, 16 January 2014
(VIS) - The International Theological Commission, following studies
carried out over the past five-year period (2009–2014), has drawn
up a new document entitled: “God, the Trinity, and the Unity of
Humanity: Christian Monotheism and its Opposition to Violence”. The
text will appear in “La Civilta Cattolica”, no. 3926 (18 January
2014), the journal that traditionally publishes the Italian versions
of the Commission’s documents. It will also be available, from
today, on “La Civilta Cattolica’s” website
(www.laciviltacattolica.it) as well as on the International
Theological Commission’s webpage on the Vatican website
(www.vatican.va). Awaiting its translation into the various
languages, the Italian text is currently offered along with an
introduction to the text in a few other languages.
As
is evident from the document’s Preliminary Note, the text is the
result of study regarding certain aspects of Christian discourse on
God, particularly in response to theories that claim that a necessary
relationship exists between monotheism and violence. The text was
prepared by a subcommission composed of: Fr. Peter Damian Akpunonu,
Fr. Gilles Emery, O.P., Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai, S.D.B., Bishop
Charles Morerod, O.P., Fr. Thomas Norris, Fr. Javier Prades Lopez,
Bishop Paul Rouhana, Fr. Pierangelo Sequeri, Fr. Guillermo Zuleta
Salas, and the subcommission’s president, Fr. Philippe Vallin.
Between
2009 and 2013, the subcommission met to discuss the issue, which was
also treated during the Commission’s plenary sessions. The present
text was approved by the Commission “in forma specifica” on 6
December 2013, and was then submitted to the Commission’s
president, Archbishop Gerhard L. Muller, Prefect of the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith, who authorised its publication.
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