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Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. (born August 24, 1918) is currently the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University, a position he has held since 1988. He is an internationally known author and lecturer.He was born in Auburn, New York, the son of John Foster Dulles and Janet Pomeroy Avery Dulles. He received his primary school education in New York City, and attended secondary schools in Switzerland and New England. After graduating from Harvard College in 1940, he spent a year and a half in Harvard Law School before serving in the United States Navy, emerging with the rank of lieutenant.
Upon his discharge from the Navy in 1946, Avery Dulles entered the Jesuit Order, and was ordained to the priesthood in 19561956 is a leap year starting on Sunday. see link for calendar) Events January January 1 End of Anglo- Egyptian Condominium in Sudan. January 16 President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine January 26 1956 Winter Olympic Games open in. After a year in GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east, he studied at the Gregorian University in RomeRome ( Italian and Latin Roma is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. It is located on the lower Tiber river, near the Mediterranean Sea, at 41°50'N, 12°15'E. The Vatican City State, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat of the Roman, and was awarded the doctorate in Sacred Theology in 1960Events January-February January 1 Independence of Cameroon January 9 Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt January 11 Chad declares its independence. January 14 Ralph Chubb, the gay poet and printer, dies at Fair Oak Cottage in Hampshire. January 23.
He was created a CardinalA cardinal is an official of the second-highest rank of the Roman Catholic Church, inferior in rank only to the Pope. The cardinals serve a number of functions: they advise the Pope, they run the Vatican administration and the Roman Curia (the government of the Catholic Church in Rome on February 21, 2001 by Pope John Paul II. At the time of his elevation to Cardinal, he was not a bishop as is normally the case, but still only a priest. However, he successfully petitioned the Pope for a dispensation from episcopal consecration due to advanced age.
Cardinal Dulles served on the faculty of Woodstock College from 1960 to 1974 and that of The Catholic University of America from 1974 to 1988. He has been a visiting professor at: The Gregorian University (Rome), Weston School of Theology , Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.), Princeton Theological Seminary, Episcopal Seminary ( Alexandria, Virginia), Lutheran Theological Seminary ( Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), Boston College, Campion Hall ( Oxford University), the University of Notre Dame, the Catholic University at Leuven , Yale University, and St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie .
The author of over 700 articles on theological topics, Cardinal Dulles has published twenty-two books including Models of the Church ( 1974), Models of Revelation ( 1983), The Catholicity of the Church ( 1985), The Craft of Theology: From Symbol to System ( 1992), The Assurance of Things Hoped For: A Theology of Christian Faith ( 1994), The Splendor of Faith: The Theological Vision of Pope John Paul II ( 1999; revised in 2003 for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the papal election), The New World of Faith ( 2000), and his latest book, Newman ( 2002). The fiftieth anniversary edition of his book, A Testimonial to Grace, was republished in 1996 by the original publishers, Sheed and Ward, with an afterword containing his reflections on the past fifty years.
Past President of both the Catholic Theological Society of America and the American Theological Society and Professor Emeritus at The Catholic University of America, Cardinal Dulles has served on the International Theological Commission and as a member of the United States Lutheran/Roman Catholic Dialogue. He is presently a consultant to the Committee on Doctrine of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. He has an impressive collection of awards, including Phi Beta Kappa, the Croix de Guerre, the Cardinal Spellman Award for distinguished achievement in theology, the Boston College Presidential Bicentennial Award , the Christus Magister Medal from the University of Portland ( Oregon), the Religious Education Forum Award from the National Catholic Educational Association, America Magazine's Campion Award , the F. Sadlier Dinger Award for contributions to the catechetical ministry of the Church, the Cardinal Gibbons Award from The Catholic University of America, the John Carroll Society Medal , the Jerome Award from the Catholic Library Association of America, Fordhams Founders Award , Gaudium Award from the Breukelein Institute , and thirty-three honorary doctorates.
