Teologia e santità

Un cammino di progressiva integrazione

Abstract

The study reviews some of the characteristics of contemporary theology, namely the progressive approach of the critical reflection of the faith to the  phenomenon of holiness. After a brief description of the situation of the studies and of the statute of the theology in recent centuries, starting from the analysis of an historical study – the work «Theology and sanctity» of H.U. von Balthasar – the study indicates some great guidelines in which the contemporary reflection is moving now. Here rise some imperatives that can be considered assured: the need to place the theological act in a context «devotional»; the acquisition of a concept of reason that does not contradict the experience of faith, well aware of his richness, but also of its limits; the elaboration of a theology which takes always as its point of reference the Christian experience; the need to preserve the side objective and subjective of faith in a mutual link.