Juan Martín Velasco

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Juan de Dios Martín Velasco (born March 8, 1934 in Santa Cruz del Valle , Ávila province , † April 5, 2020 in Madrid ) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest , philosopher and theologian . He was an expert on the phenomenology of religions and was considered one of the best Spanish theologians in recent decades.

Life

Martín Velasco studied theology in Madrid and was ordained a priest in 1956 . He graduated in philosophy in 1960 from the Belgian Catholic University of Leuven . He completed a doctorate at the Sorbonne Université in Paris, but defended his dissertation on the philosophy of religion by Henry Duméry in 1961 in Leuven . He then continued his studies in fundamental theology and religious studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

He was professor of phenomenology of religion at the Pontifical University of Salamanca and the Ecclesiastical University of San Damaso ( Universidad Eclesiástica San Damaso ) and the Institute of Religious Sciences at the Complutense University , the Master's degree in religion of the Pontifical University of Comillas and the University of Granada . He headed the Instituto Superior de Pastoral de Madrid for over 16 years . Martín Velasco was the author of numerous books, articles and collaborations on religious facts, religious experiences or mystical phenomena.

He died in April 2020 at the age of 86 as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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  1. ^ Rubens Krieg: Fenomenologia como método de leitura da pós-modernidade: como compreender a experiência espiritual (p. 221, pdf). In: Questões de Teologia. 2018, accessed April 7, 2020 (Spanish).
  2. ^ "Fallce Juan Martín Velasco, el gran maestro español en fenomenología de las religiones" on vidanuevadigital.com from April 6, 2020 (Spanish)
  3. Juan Luis Galiacho / José Manuel Lozano Gotor: Fallce a los 86 años por Covid-19 Juan Martín Velasco, gran teólogo español y maestro de sacerdotes. In: elcierredigital.com. April 7, 2020, accessed April 7, 2020 (Spanish).