La testimonianza fedele e verace

The true and faithful testimony Abstract The present paper tries to shed new light upon the idea of testimony. In so doing, the author outlines the fundamental points of the topics he addresses, though briefly. Its main features are illustrated through the analysis of Blondel, de Lubac, Tilliette, Kasper, Schockenhoff. These thinkers, whom he explicitly defines as closely interrelated by virtue of their intellectual paths and personal examples, embody a faith devoted to the unavoidable search for a rational intelligence behind its own elements. Moreover, their works are among those which share the merit to have actually embarked upon and enhanced endeavours to bridge the gap between theology and philosophy. The inclusion of those truths into anthropological discourse will turn to the benefit of theology itself, in order to avoid a regrettable rupture between theology and desired holiness and to recover a synthesis of doctrine and life.