Science Center for History since 1888
On the occasion of the 95th birthday of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI Study Library at Campo Santo Teutonico has exceeded the magic limit of 2,000 titles.
If you select FONDO PAPA BENEDETTO XVI on the library's catalogue page (KOHA), the line "La ricerca ha trovato ... risultati". On 1 May there were 2,027 hits (= book titles).
The Roman Institute of the Görres Society currently has over 230 members. In 1962 it had 45 members. The fact that the Institute has any membership at all beyond its close associates is an advantage over all other historical-scientific institutions of Rome. For it can thus look to a growing number of historically interested persons who are committed to the Institute in various ways and participate in its life.
Many guests know the lecture hall of the Campo Santo Teutonico from the Görres lectures. In the course of the new building in 1962, the present extremely unadorned hall was furnished, entirely in keeping with the taste of the time. In the files one finds its elementary furnishings: 1 podium with table and lectern; 1 table lamp; 10 wooden armchairs, 60 wooden chairs, 1 projection screen for light pictures, 2 electric radiators with 8 elements each.
In November 1962, a few weeks after the opening of the Second Vatican Council, at which he was present, the Swiss priest Hans Küng gave a Görres lecture at the Roman Institute on the subject: "Early Catholicism in the New Testament as a Controversial Theological Problem", which he published in the Tübinger Theologischen Quartalschrift (1962, 385-424).
Davide De Caprio (* 1985 in Terracina) (academia.edu; researchgate) holds a licentiate and a master's degree in philosophy from La Sapienza University in Rome. In 2022 he was awarded a PhD in Philosophy of Religion from the University of Strasbourg with a thesis on "Theology and Philosophy in the Thought of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI" (in press).
The strong internationality of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society has made it necessary to offer the website now also in English. The language change takes place at the top right of each page (flags). We ask all our friends to make this innovation known in their English-speaking circles. The establishment of the third language page is accompanied by a technical renewal of the website, which of course will not be noticeable to the user himself.
Margarete Jäger was born near Rosenheim and lived in Munich for many years. There she studied art history and modern history at the Ludwig Maximilian University. Even as a teenager, she was often drawn to Italy. In 1996, she decided to move to Rome for good. So far, I have led study tours in Italy in Tuscany, Marche, Puglia and Lazio and is also a certified Rome city guide.
Anna Maria Brunner from Ainau in Bavaria worked as a dental assistant in Munich. In 1986, she moved to Rome for the first time for a longer period. In 1988, she finally broke camp in Germany and found employment in the Eternal City at the "most beautiful square" in the world", the Piazza Navona, in the German dental practice of Prof. Zappe (until 2007).
Dr. Fernando López Arias (*1982 in Málaga, Spain) studied Liturgical Theology and Architecture in Madrid, Rome and Pamplona. Since 2020, he has been a professor at the Institute of Liturgy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. He is also a lecturer at the Pontifical Gregorian University. His areas of interest include the Sacrament of Penance, celebrative space and the Liturgical Reform of Vatican II. He recently published El Concilio Vaticano II y la arquitectura sagrada, a study on the reform of contemporary sacred architecture in the light of archival sources.
The Roman Institute of the Görres Society will be awarding the Martin Chemnitz Scholarship, newly established on the basis of a private foundation, in the next few years. The doctoral scholarship is intended for historical-dogmatic studies on the reception of the Council of Trent in contemporary Lutheranism.
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