Jacques Dupuis Theologian
Jacques Dupuis, born on 5 December 1923 to Huppaye in Walloon Brabant ( Belgium ) and died on 28 December 2004 in Rome (Italy) was a Jesuit priest Belgian missionary and theologian of religions in India. He taught from 1949 to India and from 1984 to the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
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Education in Belgium
Born December 5, 1923 at Huppaye , Jacques Dupuis is the son of Fernand and Lucie Dupuis. He has two brothers and one sister.
After secondary schooling at the Sacred Heart of Charleroi he entered the novitiate of the Jesuits on 7 September 1941. Having an early interest be sent to mission in India , he sailed on 8 December 1948 in Naples on a ship bound for Bombay , where he arrived two months later. From there, he crossed the country by train to reach Kolkata.
Training in India and Rome
Dupuis taught for three years at St. Xavier College in Calcutta (1948-1951). This experience helped him discover how to Hinduism as the personality of young students, including those who are entrusted. The discovery of the diversity of religions is the source of what will be his research and thinking throughout his life: The revelation of God to men is she necessarily the person of Jesus Christ ?
In January 1952, he studied theology at St. Mary of theologate Kurseong , near the town of Darjeeling in the mountains of the Himalayas. He was ordained priest 21 November 1954. In 1955 he spent several months in a ward of Calcutta and made his Third Year at Hazaribag (1956-1957).
He studied theology in Rome, September 1957-February 1959, where he was admitted to the degree of doctor of theology from the Gregorian University. His thesis is entitled The spirit of man. Study of religious anthropology of Origen.
Theologian and Professor of Theology
In 1959 he returned to India, specifically in theologate of Kurseong where he was appointed professor of dogmatic theology. When, in 1971, theologate moved to New Delhi and changed its name to the College of Theology Vidyajyoti, Dupuis accompanies it. There is a professor until 1984.
Besides teaching Dupuis is very engaged in theological research. He has published numerous articles in various theological journals, particularly in the Vidyajyoti: Journal of Theological Reflection which is also the director from 1977 to 1984. In 1973 he published, with Josef Neuner The Christian Faith in the doctrinal documents of the Catholic church, an anthology of essential documents of the Magisterium Catholic learned councils and papal writings. This work of 1135 pages is extensively used in seminars and is a reference in the English-speaking Catholic world.
He is also adviser on theology of Catholic Bishops' Conference of India Rome
In May 1984 , after 36 years of teaching in India, it is called the Gregorian University in Rome, to teach Christology , a central subject of dogmatic theology. He also heads Gregorianum, the journal of the university for many years. From 1985 to 1995 , he is a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
A book published in 1989 Jesus Christ to the encounter of religions is the best known. Well received by his fellow theologians, the book was quickly translated into Italian, English and Spanish.
Indictment
Another major work, Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism, arrives in bookstores in 1997. In October 1998 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , then headed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger , the future Benedict XVI , is the book review. Dupuis is criticized a lack of clarity on the uniqueness of the role of Christ in the salvation of the world , and ambiguity about the presence of the action of the Holy Spirit in the non-Christian religions.
A 32-month long investigation leads to a notification published in the Osservatore Romano of 26 February 2001. Dupuis's book is neither prohibited nor changed, but the reviewers find that the book contains serious ambiguities and difficulties on important doctrinal points that can lead the reader to erroneous or harmful opinions. Cardinal Ratzinger wrote: "It is in conformity with Catholic teaching to write that the seeds of truth and goodness found in other religions are somehow the truths contained in the Revelation of Jesus and Christ. Moreover, it is wrong to assert that such elements of truth and goodness, or some of them do not derive essentially the same source-mediation of Christ " Works Bibliography
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