Teologia em diálogo com a literatura: origem e tarefa poética da teologia

Literature has always offered raw material for theological reflection, from the Greco-Latin classics to the present, passing through centuries of literary production. However, this reflection has not reached the maturity of a method that offers a fluid relationship between literary art and theological work. Professor Alex Villas Boas's attempt in this work is precisely to articulate a perspective to dynamically interpret the relationship between artistic-literary representation and the theological horizon outlined in it. An attempt that undoubtedly means a consistent contribution to the long-awaited maturity of this method that hopes to establish a solid relationship between the vital literary experience and the no less vital experience of Christian revelation. ROSSANO ZAS FRIZ DE COL, sj, (Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome)