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The Timeliness of Speaking of God
Freedom and Communion as Basic Concepts of Theology
by Walter Cardinal Kasper

"I am happy to be once again in the United States and to have once again the opportunity to exercise my very own craftsmanship, that is, to give lectures at universities, as I had done for almost thirty years, for some time also in this wonderful country. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for the invitation to come to this renowned and distinguished university, which I consider an honour, and I thank you for the warm welcome you have given to me.

"Before I came here I was told that in the US you have to speak about the real problems, not about the mystery of God but about the mysteries of the Vatican. But there is no shortage of speakers on such kinds of problems, and I do not want to carry coals to Newcastle. So I have chosen another issue, which I think is the most central and fundamental question of theology and perhaps also the most challenging problem for theology today: not the Church question (as important it may be) but the God question..." read more

Lecture given at Emory University for the Inaugural Major Catholic Speakers Series of the Aquinas Center of Theology at Emory.

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