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Who's God? Who is man? What can man - willed by the Creator as his free interlocutor - believe, hope and love, responding with the openness of the heart to the saving words and gestures raised up by God in history? How does Jesus Christ, true God and true man, introduce us into the mystery of the Trinity and help us to face with humility and courage the challenges that life, with its paradoxes, continually proposes to us?
After the study of philosophy, which encourages the mind to seek "hidden wisdom" (cf. 1 Cor 2:7) in the world, theology proposes itself with the force of "reasonable audacity", and calls man to commit himself to the understanding of faith in a God who is the eternal Word, the fountain wisdom of truth unfolded in Creation and Revelation. Through the work of the Holy Spirit, this Word was incarnated in Jesus of Nazareth. He fulfills the Scriptures and invites all humanity to enter into the New and Eternal Covenant sealed by his own Blood.
With its courses and seminars, the formative offer of the First Cycle of Theology intends to present itself as a precious tool for learning to listen, through Scripture and the Tradition of the Church, to this God who speaks to us, questions us and calls us to dialogue with Him. Starting from the various courses of study - biblical, dogmatic, fundamental, moral, patristic, spiritual, pastoral, historical, ecumenical, interreligious, canonical - inherent to the articulation of a basic theological knowledge, the institutional cycle aims, in three years, to develop an organic and integral vision of Theological Science, and ends with the attainment of the Baccalaureate in Theology. In Rome, the living center of the Catholic Church, the Pontifical Gregorian University keeps alive the tradition of offering a privileged place to study and do theology in a university and universal context.
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