1 Avery Dulles’s Journey of Faith: A Lifelong Adventure
Anne-Marie Kirmse, O.P. | 1

2 He Knew the One Whom He Loved
Patrick J. Ryan, S.J. | 6

3 Avery Dulles, Theology, and the Twentieth Century
Joseph T. Lienhard, S.J. | 14

4 Imaging the Church in the Age of Migration: The Legacy of Avery Dulles for Asian Christianities
Peter C. Phan | 22

5 Fluency of Interpretation: A Key to Avery Dulles’s Practice of Theology
Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J. | 41

6 Mutual Enrichment: A Remembrance of Avery Dulles
James Massa | 51

7 Avery Dulles on Luther and Lutheranism
H. Ashley Hall | 56

8 Divine Revelation, Academic Freedom, and the Catholic University: A Proposal after Avery Dulles
Terrence W. Tilley | 77

9 Hope and Despair in Today’s World: Avery Dulles and Filipino Youth
Stephanie Ann Y. Puen | 94

10 The Undomesticated Church: Inspiration and the Mission of the Family
Mary Beth Yount | 105

11 The Church and the Digital
Katherine G. Schmidt | 118

12 Evangelization in the Theology of Avery Dulles
Vincent L. Strand, S.J. | 130

Retrospective. Vir Probatus: Avery Dulles and the Forbearance of Things Not Seen
Michael M. Canaris | 147

Afterword: The Good Faith of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.
Michael C. McCarthy, S.J. | 153

Acknowledgments | 157

List of Contributors | 159

Index | 163

This collection, marking the centenary of Avery Dulles’s birth, makes an entirely distinctive contribution to contemporary theological discourse as we approach the second century of the cardinal’s influence, and the twenty-first of Christian witness in the world. Moving beyond a festschrift, the volume offers both historical analyses of Dulles’s contributions and applications of his insights and methodologies to current issues like immigration, exclusion, and digital culture. It includes essays by Dulles’s students, colleagues, and peers, as well as by emerging scholars who have been and continue to be indebted to his theological vision and encyclopedic fluency in the ecclesiological developments of the post-conciliar Church. Though focused more on Catholic and ecumenical affairs than interreligious ones, the volume is intentionally outward-facing and strives to make clear the diverse and pluralistic contours of the cardinal’s nearly unrivaled impact on the North American Church, which truly crossed ideological, denominational, and generational boundaries. While critically recognizing the limits and lacunae of his historical moment, it serves as one among a multitude of testaments to the notion that the ripples of Avery Dulles’s influence continue to widen toward intellectually distant shores.

James Massa is an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn and the Rector of St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, New York. He earned his Ph.D. at Fordham University in 1997, where he wrote his dissertation on communion ecclesiology under the late Cardinal Avery Dulles. He has taught at various seminaries in the Boston and New York City areas and is the past executive director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Bishop Massa has also written and lectured on various topics pertaining to ecumenism and the Catholic Church’s engagement with other religions.