Sunday, December 14, 2008

Avery Dulles, 90; Prominent Catholic Cardinal, Theologian


I think it was Dulles who said of Fletcher's Situation Ethics that the problem wasn't the situational aspect the problem was that the concept of "love" ran through the book like a greased pig. From the Washington Post. (That's Avery in the nifty hat along side the President of Fordham College.)

Cardinal Avery Dulles, 90, a former professor at Catholic University who was born into a family of elite Protestant diplomats and became one of the country's most prominent Catholic theologians, died Dec. 12 at an infirmary at Fordham University in New York. Stricken with polio when young, he had post-polio syndrome, which led to progressive muscular and pulmonary deterioration.

Cardinal Dulles, who was appointed to the College of Cardinals by Pope John Paul II in 2001, was the first academic to be named to the Catholic Church's highest advisory council, as well as the first who had never served as a bishop.

Cardinal Dulles, a very tall and thin figure, was known for his unusual spiritual journey and came to be considered a calm statesman of Catholicism during a time of great turmoil.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/13/AR2008121301911.html

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