The idea
of instituting the Law and Theology Days responds to the need to facilitate the
investigation about the truth by using a dynamic dialogue.
If it is
true that the truth that every man strongly wants to discover, clarify and
scrutinize is exclusively one, the interdisciplinary dialogue seems to be the
safest way to choose in order to discover the truth in all its complexity,
avoiding that each discipline focuses exclusively on the rigidity of its own
methodological rules and of its axioms, with the risk of becoming trapped in a
self-referentiality that has no way out. The Chair Innocent III, also through
this annual meeting, aims to free the knowledge from the sectorial bond, in
order to make it accessible for the various fields of the human knowledge. In
other words, we think that knowledge, in order to improve, requires to be
shared. And the university environment seems to be the natural place in which
this objective can and must be fulfilled.
During
the last years, the Church has had the possibility to significantly reflect
about the topic of the dialogue between the sacred sciences and the other
disciplines that compose the human knowledge. In the last regulatory actions of
Pope Francis and of the Roman Curia, whose aim was to reform the studies of the
sacred disciplines, the expression “outgoing Church” has been used not only
regarding the need to bring the knowledge to the most isolated places of the
Earth, but also in reference to the creation of a most assiduous meeting
between the knowledge that derives from the Revelation and the one that derives
from reason.
The
Chair accepts willingly this challenge and, during the Law and Theology Days,
it becomes a place of encounter and dialogue between the juridical knowledge
and the theological one.
