Verdad, racionalidad, universidad. Perspectivas sobre la universidad y la teología en la actualidad

Abstract

The university teaching of theology, which was historically considered as the highest discipline, is often times deemed a problem. It seems that one of the principal causes of this state of affairs is the conflict, conceived by some thinkers, between reason and authority. Pope Benedict XVI offers both a diagnosis and a remedy to the «crisis of university» by developing the idea of «extended rationality». Through this idea, secular universities could, without compromising its demand of rationality, provide room for theology, even though it does not adopt the way theology is imparted in confessional universities.