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About the book.
‘Anthony (Tony) J Kelly CSsR wrote on many topics in his life as well as being a poet and having an interest in art. His writings cover many areas of theology: Christology, Eschatology, Pneumatology, Ecclesiology, Mariology, and touches on areas of science and faith, care for the environment, papal teaching and matters of interfaith dialogue. His years on the International Theological Commission brought him in touch with current theology and theologians. His participation at international meetings and conferences meant he had a wide range of friends and colleagues in his life to nurture, stimulate and challenge his writing as a theologian and as a teacher. Men, women, lay people, religious, priests, bishops, cardinals and pontiffs were all those with whom he engaged. These fellow travellers, along with the likes of Augustine, Aquinas, Lonergan, and Marion, to name a few, were his interlocutors and those who goaded his thinking, his testing, his probing in his work as a theologian. In all of his writing, there was a constant search, a constant desire to articulate, to rework and interpret the Catholic theological tradition and while always being faithful to that history, his aim was to put key theological terms, dogmas and doctrines in new wine skins which were to be toasted and celebrated.
Tony’s theology was one of hope, of learning from the past, building on it while addressing the needs of our time. There was a breadth and depth to his writing, which wove together his love of the use of words in a poetic manner to express complex theological concepts.
This volume of essays is devoted to issues in Christology and examines topics such as Christ’s Passion, Cross, Resurrection, Ascension and Heaven.’
From the Foreword by Hilary D Regan
About the author.
Reverend Professor Anthony (Tony) Kelly CSsR (1938– 2024) Author of over 20 books, a theologian and poet, Tony Kelly was President of Yarra Theological Union from 1980–1985 and 1994–1997, President of the Melbourne College of Divinity from 1984–1985, and Head of the Sub-Faculty of Philosophy and Theology at Australian Catholic University from 1999–2004. Tony undertook doctoral and post-doctoral studies in Rome, Toronto and Paris.
Formerly President of the Australian Catholic Theological Association and past Chair of the Australian Catholic Institutes of Theology. In 2004, Tony was
appointed by Pope John Pail II to the International Theological Commission and position he held till 2014
