Model of the Church

Avery Dulles, SJ, the first American theologian to be named a cardinal of the Catholic Church, went home to the Lord on December 12, 2008, at age ninety. The author of more than twenty books and hundreds of articles, Cardinal Dulles was one of contemporary Catholicism’s finest and most influential theologians.

I first came to know Avery Dulles when I was still a graduate student in theology, and he was already a distinguished teacher and...

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