The Seminar on Theology Francisco Suárez resumes its activity in the 2025/2026 academic year under the direction of Juan Antonio Martínez Camino, Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid and President of the Theology Section of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain.
The Seminar promotes the study and dissemination of Theology in order to clarify the unprecedented challenge facing the Church today, namely: critical dialogue with a culture of Christian origin that has become pagan, credulous of Progress —the supreme idol of the modern myth— and tributary to its political customs.
The faith of Christ has generated theology as no other religion has: a “speaking of God” that is true philosophy, for it owes itself only to the truth of the Lógos, as free from the myths of poetic imagination as from the customs of political practices.
In the tradition of classical metaphysics —of which Francisco Suárez is an outstanding exponent— Christian theology asks about the true nature of the divine, that is, about the only Being that exists in and of itself; the cause and the future of all that is. It is guided by an open reason, aware of its own indebtedness to Being, and recognizing in Jesus Christ the Logos, that is, the reason of being and of the salvation of Humanity. Theology is theoretical and practical science at the same time.
Modern paganism, centered on a liberating praxis of self-salvation, claims to have overcome the Lógos. Yet the myth of an earthly paradise, which such praxis was supposed to bring about, lacks a theoretical foundation and has been refuted by the historical practice of the dramatic twentieth century. Theology can help free Modernity from its own demons and rescue its aspiration to a hope capable of generating equality and freedom. It is the eschatological hope awakened by the practice and the proposal of the Gospel of the God of Love.
The Seminar carries out its work under the inspiration of great contemporary theologians, in particular Henri de Lubac and Joseph Ratzinger.
Director
JAVIER PRADES LÓPEZ (Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso)
Scientific Advisory Board
MARIA BERNADETTE LANG (LMU München)
KATJA HESS (Catholic University of America, Washington DC)
AVELINO REVILLA CUÑADO (Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso)
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