Some students cannot accept that radical openness of histor… - Roger Haight

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Some students cannot accept that radical openness of history, and they lapse into some form of fundamentalism or traditionalism that simply clings to theological formulas of the past.

Roger Haight

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Roger Haight (April 30, 1936 – June 19, 2025) was an American Jesuit theologian. Haight was the president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. His views on Christology prompted the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to bar him from writing on theology and to forbid him from teaching.

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