International Theological Commission

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The Papal International Theological Commission and International Theological Commission ( Italian Commissione Teologica Internazionale , lat. : Commissio Theologica Internationalis , CTI) was at the suggestion of the first Synod of Bishops from 1967 in 1969 in Rome by Pope Paul VI. set up.

Composition and tasks

The Pope appoints the members of the commission for five years each and assigns them specific tasks. Up to 30 members can be appointed who must meet for a week at least once a year. The President of the CTI is always the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith . The French Dominican Serge-Thomas Bonino OP has been General Secretary since December 17, 2011 .

The main purpose of the commission is the theological accompaniment of the magisterial work of the Pope and the bishops, in particular to participate in the tasks of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The CTI currently has 30 members. Five of them are women.

1st Quinquennium (May 1, 1969 - August 1, 1974)

2nd quinquennium (August 1, 1974 - August 12, 1980)

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

3rd Quinquennium (August 12, 1980 - May 23, 1986)

4th Quinquennium (May 23, 1986 - July 3, 1992)

5th Quinquennium (July 3, 1992 - October 10, 1997)

Appointed November 19, 1992

6th Quinquennium (October 10, 1997 - February 9, 2004)

7th Quinquennium (February 9, 2004 - June 19, 2009)

8th Quinquennium (June 19, 2009 - September 23, 2014)

9th Quinquennium (September 23, 2014 - 2020)

President

General Secretaries

Assistant secretaries

Theological opinions

Since 1969 the commission has issued 28 opinions. The report on Limbo (2007) was perceived by broad circles of society and misinterpreted by the media as the "abolition of purgatory ".

Overview

1. Reflections on the Commission's objectives and methods (1969)
2. The Catholic Priesthood (1970)
3. Unity of Faith and Theological Pluralism (1972)
4. The Apostolicity of the Church and Apostolic Succession (1973)
5. Christian Morality and Its Norms (1974)
A) The "nine theses" by Hans Urs von Balthasar
B) The "four theses" by Heinz Schürmann
6. Teacher Training and Theology (1975)
7. Human well-being and Christian salvation (1976)
8. Catholic Doctrine on the Sacrament of Marriage (1977)
9. Selected questions on Christology (1979)
10. Theology, Christology, Anthropology (1981)
11. Reconciliation and Repentance (1982)
12. Dignity and Rights of the Human Person (1983)
13. Selected topics in ecclesiology on the 20th anniversary of the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council (1984)
14.Jesus Confidence and Mission (1985)
15. Faith and Inculturation (1988)
16. The Interpretation of Dogmas (1990)
17. Some Current Issues in Eschatology (1992)
18. God the Redeemer. On some selected questions (1995)
19. Christianity and Religions (1997)
20. Remembering and Reconciling: The Church and the Wrongs in Her Past (2000)
21. The diaconate. Development and Perspectives (2002)
22. Community and Service: The Human Person - Created in the Image of God (2004)
23. The Hope of Salvation for Infants who die unbaptized (2007)
24. In Search of a Universal Ethics: A New Look at Natural Moral Law (2009)
25. Theology Today. Perspectives and Criteria (2012)
26. The Triune God, Unity of Men. Christian monotheism against violence (2014)
27. Sensus fidei in the life of the Church (2014)
28. Synodality in the Life and Mission of the Church (2018)

Dealing with liberation theology

The theological commission has been grappling with liberation theology since 1974 , which was largely rejected by the commission members. In October 1976 the CTI dealt with its annual meeting in Rome, at which u. a. Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Lehmann participated with the topic. The subsequent declaration on the relationship between human well-being and Christian salvation , with which it went public in August 1977, caused a sensation and led to the hard line of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith towards this theological school in the 1980s. The declaration assumed that liberation theology relates material well-being and spiritual salvation to one another in a way that is always already established. In principle, however, the relationship must remain open and indefinite.

On the part of liberation theology it was critically noted that not a single liberation theologian belonged to the committee, but a declared opponent of liberation theology such as Bonaventure Kloppenburg . The brothers Leonardo and Clodovis Boff wrote on the statement that it remained "below the level that could legitimately have been expected from such a qualified body."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Goldstein : "Blessed you poor." Theology of liberation in Latin America ... and in Europe? Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1989, p. 214.
  2. ↑ a b Horst Goldstein: "Blessed you poor." Theology of liberation in Latin America ... and in Europe? Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1989, p. 125.
  3. ↑ Karl Lehmann (Ed.): Theology of Liberation. Johannes-Verlag, Einsiedeln 1977 ( Horizons Collection. New Series, Volume 10), pp. 173–195.
  4. ↑ Leonardo Boff, Clodovis Boff: How do you practice theology of liberation? Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1986, p. 93.