Evangelization for the Third Millennium

By Avery Dulles

2009

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Evangelization for the Third Millennium is a collection of ten essays based on lectures given by Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ, over the past decade. Targeting today’s critical issues in the field, the essays include “ New Testament through Vatican II,” “Paul VI, John Paul II, and the New Evangelization,” “Evangelization and Ecumenism,” “The Evangelization of Culture and the Catholic University,” and many others. As in his earlier groundbreaking books, Models of the Church and Models of Revelation, this work uses models as a basis for theological reflection to explore the continuity and development of thought of current trends in evangelization, catechesis, and apologetics. “Cardinal Dulles maintained that Pope Paul VI’s 1975 apostolic exhortation on evangelization, Evangelii nuntiandi, was one of his greatest and most important contributions to the life of the Church in our time. It was his hope that the present book would play a role in revitalizing this subject, and for this reason he devoted the last days of his life to working on it.” ―From the Preface Anne-Marie Kirmse, OP Assistant to Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ “Since 1988, Cardinal Dulles has been not only one of Fordham’s hardest-working scholars, but perhaps the most productive and respected American Catholic theologian of our time.” ―Patrick Carey William J. Kelly, SJ, Chair in Catholic Theology Marquette University Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ, was the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University from 1988 until his death on December 12, 2008. Over the past twenty years, he delivered thirty-eight McGinley lectures at Fordham, along with countless other talks across the United States and worldwide. A renowned theologian, academic, and author, Avery Dulles, SJ, was elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pope John Paul II on February 21, 2001, in recognition of his theological accomplishments. †

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Avery Dulles

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Avery Robert Dulles, S.J. (1918-2008) was a Jesuit priest, theologian, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and served as the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University from 1988 to 2008. He was an internationally known author and lecturer. Dulles was born in Auburn, New York, the son of future U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (for whom Washington Dulles International Airport is named) and Janet Pomeroy Avery Dulles. His uncle was Director of Central Intelligence Allen Welsh Dulles. Both his great-grandfather John W. Foster and great-uncle Robert Lansing also served as U.S. Secretary of State. He received his primary school education in New York City at the St. Bernard's School and attended secondary schools in Switzerland and The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut. Dulles was raised a Presbyterian but had become an agnostic by the time he began college at Harvard in 1936. His religious doubts were diminished during a personally profound moment when he stepped out into a rainy day and saw a tree beginning to flower along the Charles River; after that moment he never again "doubted the existence of an all-good and omnipotent God." He noted how his theism turned toward conversion to Catholicism: "The more I examined, the more I was impressed with the consistency and sublimity of Catholic doctrine." He converted to Catholicism in the fall of 1940. After graduating from Harvard College in 1940, he spent a year and a half in Harvard Law School, where he also founded the "St. Benedict Center" (which would become well-known due to the controversial Fr. Leonard Feeney S.J.), before serving in the United States Navy, emerging with the rank of Lieutenant. For his liaison work with the French Navy, he was awarded the French Croix de guerre.