JOHN XXIII FOUNDATION FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES VIA SAN
GIUSEPPE DOSSETTI LIBRARY GIUSEPPE ALBERIGO PHD SCHOOL
VITALE 114, I-40125 BOLOGNA (DPR 6/4/1990) - WWW.FSCIRE.IT INSTITUTE FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES
BENIAMINO ANDREATTA INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE UNESCO CHAIR FOR RELIGIOUS PLURALISM & PEACE
JOHN XXIII FOUNDATION FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES REGISTERED CHARITY BY DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF ITALIAN REPUBLIC 6/4/1990 VIA SAN VITALE 114, I-40125 BOLOGNA WWW.FSCIRE.IT
GIUSEPPE DOSSETTI LIBRARY INSTITUTE FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES EUROPEAN ADVANCED SCHOOL GIUSEPPE ALBERIGO BENIAMINO ANDREATTA INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE UNESCO CHAIR FOR RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND PEACE
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JOHN XXIII FOUNDATION FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES VIA SAN
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2 THE SECRETARY GENERAL PROF. DR. ALBERTO MELLONI TEL.
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JOHN XXIII FOUNDATION FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES VIA SAN
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BENIAMINO ANDREATTA INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE UNESCO CHAIR FOR RELIGIOUS PLURALISM & PEACE
WHO WE ARE With its seat in Bologna, Italy, the foundation is a research institute, with one of the largest libraries in Europe specializing in the field of Church History, a research staff of some 20 people and relations with the main centers in the field all over the world. The John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies has been founded in 1953 by Giuseppe Dossetti, one of the Italian constitutional fathers and widely known reform politician, and his work has been carried on under the lead of the great church historian Giuseppe Alberigo. It is now one of the most important research centers for religious studies in Europe and has been entrusted with the UNESCO Chair for Religious Pluralism and Peace by Bologna University. In the past the foundation has completed important projects: in the Seventies the German Episcopal Conference funded the concordances of the Second Vatican Council and in the Eighties the Menil Foundation of Houston, Texas, gave its financial support for the biographical research on Pope John and subsequently to all the research undertaken on the Second Vatican Council, published in five volumes and translated in seven languages. Recently, other international research projects received support from the Goethe Stiftung of Basel, the Adenauer Stiftung of Bonn, the Royal Institute of Amman and Yad Ha Nadiv of Jerusalem. In general, the funding of our research activities is guaranteed partially by international foundations and partially by the Italian state and foundations of Italian banks. Since 2000, we are working on a new critical edition of the decrees of the Great Councils of Christian Churches (Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta), published by Brepols in the prestigous series Corpus Christianorum, which aims to demonstrate the fundamental role of synods within the Christian tradition. Besides this edition an unique multialphabetic digital library with all proceedings and documents of all Christian Church Councils and Synods is under construction. As well the foundation participates as partner in research networks, such as “Totalitarian Truths between Conflict and Agreements: Political Ideology and the holy See in the Archives Pertaining to Pius XI”, “Teaching Religion in multicultural European Society”, “Cristiani di Italia” and others.
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HISTORY In 1953, Giuseppe Dossetti, after having left political life (in which he had entered by participating in the Resistance movement and where he covered important roles both as vice secretary of the DC and as founder of the association Vita Humana and as the soul of the journal Cronache Sociali), gave life to a common experience of intellectual and spiritual research. The initiative with a group of men and women all younger than him, the then forty year old Dossetti, settled in Bologna, because of the presence of Giacomo Lercaro. At via San Vitale 114 he placed his books and started to construct a specialized library, which could be an adequate instrument for the group. In a short time the library gained a size and quality rare in Italy, especially then: an international horizon of readings, a rigorous vision of research, the belief that through a free and strict condition of historical, theological, patristic, exegetical and philosophical study one could strengthen a season of renewal of Christianity. In 1956 the two dimensions – the more intellectual and the one which was more clearly monastic were separated – and the centre of documentation (a voluntarily neutral term) continued its activities in a different relation with Dossetti, which became again quite intense after the announcement of the opening of Vatican II. Dossetti participated in the council as an expert of Lercaro and that which had become the name of the Institute of Religious Studies worked as a sort of workshop offering the decisive materials for the debates (Paul VI expressed his gratitude to Giuseppe Alberigo for the volume on the doctrine of the powers of the universal church and the head of the Sant’ Uffizio mons. Parente quoted him in the discussion), but also weaving vast relations (the historians and theologians Marie Dominique Chenu or Yves Congar, the biblical scholar Jacques Du Pont, the patrologist Jean Gribomont, the philosopher Ivan Illich, the ecumenist Emmanuele Lanne, the medievalist Jean Leclerq, the theologian of religions Raimón Panikkar, the dogmatic theologian Joseph Ratzinger for example), beside those already consolidated with the historians, and receiving unequalled intellectual stimuli.
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The dramatic conclusion of the episcopate of Lercaro in Bologna and the departure of Dossetti for the Middle East did not terminate the experience of San Vitale: on the contrary, once the idea of becoming a part of the university was set aside, the research group of which Giuseppe Alberigo was the soul and motor became bigger, becoming at the beginning of the seventies a reference point for the formation of a generation of scholars in the most different disciplines of the historical and religious branches and the great masters of that epoch (Roger Aubert, Henri Chadwick, Eugenio Corecco, De Halleux, Georg Kretschmar, Alois Grillmeier, Rudolf Schnackenburg, Brian Tierney, Jean-Marie Tillard, Robert Trisco and others). Once it had passed from the form of an institute to that of an association recognized by law, of which the first signature was that of Benigno Zaccagnini and voted by the entire parliament, the reality of San Vitale 114 met with its last institutional metamorphosis in 1985, recommended by Beniamino Andreatta. For him the juridical form of the foundation was necessary in order to recognize that what had been established went beyond the life limits of the founders and protagonists. The association for the development of religious studies of which Enzo Bianchi was president, gave life to the John XXIII Foundation for Religious studies. Recognized by law, it was presided by Andreatta from 1985 to 2007. By the beginning of the 1980s and with a new recruitment of scholars the Institute returned to concentrate itself on grand collective projects – first that mainly Italian on Pope Roncalli, from whose works started the request of collaborating on the historical question of the beatification of John XXIII of September 2000, then the mainly international group from which five columns emerged of the History of the Second Vatican Council, translated into seven languages and the important monographs and acts of congresses emerged from the production of this work. In all these years the growth of the library – which has a shelving system designed by Dossetti himself at the beginning of the activities of the institute – has progressed without stopping making Via San Vitale a reference point for scholars and a laboratory of formation which, without ties to any religious authority which is none other than that of loyalty and contacts with the academic work which are none other than that of scientific research, which belongs to the great European heritage.
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LOCATION It was Angelo Saizzoni who in 1953 suggested the building complex in Via San Vitale 114 to Giuseppe Dossetti as adequate for a center of documentation. Since then – along with the juridical changes – these have remained the center of the present Foundation. The ancient hospital of Saint Gregory of the Incurables outside the medieval walls of the city, then hospital of the Poveri Vergognosi connected to Santa Maria della Pietà within the walls of modern Bologna, the complex of San Vitale was for many decades a religious foundation, which used it as an asylum and then for private renting, which have for a long time coexisted with the library and the research group of the institute. In the first anniversary of the death of Dossetti an agreement between the Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum University represented by its chancellor Fabio Alberto Roversi Monaco, the Region Emilia-Romagna presided by Antonio La Forgia, the Mayor of Bologna represented by the vice mayor Luigi Pedrazzi and the Foundation represented by Beniamino Andreatta, was announced in the presence of the then prime minister Romano Prodi. The entire building was acquired by the Bologna University and leased for free for fifty years to the foundation. A regional law, then the prime minister and then the university financed the complex restoration completed in 2003.
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GIUSEPPE DOSSETTI LIBRARY GIUSEPPE ALBERIGO PHD SCHOOL
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Thanks to a donation of 2007 by which the mayor Sergio Cofferati, has honored the agreement taken by the city council of Bologna and the financial support of the prime minster the works have begun for the residence complex, which will be at via San Vitale 116, and which will be named after Nino Andreatta. Currently at via San Vitale 114, there can be found an enormous library of 2100 square meters with 5323 m of shelves, as well as journals which occupy 900 square meters with 2759 metres of compact shelves. The areas for seminars and offices occupy 320 square meters and 330 square meters will be devoted to the residence unit. In Milan at piazza Duomo 2, one may find the Committee for the edition of the diaries of Roncalli.
WORK The work of the foundation, on the technical level, can be assimilated to the classical cooperative figure: members who although distinct in their functions, participate in a common enterprise, a series of structures which can only exist as independent entities, a socialization of income and a certain rigor in the use of methods determined by the urgency of the objectives which one wants to reach, of which the instrument is the working hours – of the day, of the weeks, of the year – which is the objective measure and the passion (or the dedication as has said His Excellency President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano about us) as a clear indicator. At the center of all one finds the research activity, which from Marc Bloch not only has learned the value of learning but also the distinction between historical and antiquarian: not everything ancient is worthy of research. Even though each method of research is intellectually worthy, the research of the foundation feels the need of a team work in which one may complete the profiles and abilities tied to the adoption of the historical method and of a diachronic perspective.
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The editorial activity which derives from such research is expressed in a journal, Cristianesimo nella Storia, founded in 1980 in the historical series Testi e Ricerche di Scienze Religiose, published since 1964 by Herder, Vallecchi, Marietti and now by the Mulino of Bologna. A series of works in other languages or with collaborators, Christianity and History, comes out since 2005 published by Lit in Germany. The History of the second Vatican council directed by Giuseppe Alberigo of which the global editor was Peeters of Leuven has come out in Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, English between 1996 and 2008. The edition of the decrees of the great councils, published for the first time in 1962 by Herder – has been reedited with the translations in English, French, German, Polish and Italian in the course of the Nineties: a new edition critically updated according to the progress of most recent research comes out with the title Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta with Brepols publishing house of Turnhout as a subseries of the Corpus Christianorum. The formation of young scholars occurs through the professional exercise of research as an exclusive commitment, with the listening to great masters, the visit of centers of study outside Italy and Europe, the participation of seminars of reading of the classics of historiography and seminars: each young scholar in four years should be to create a monograph which inserted in a broader horizon of research should bring a new contribution, developed in comparison with other young colleagues and with the staff of the more experienced scholars of the institute. In this work of research and formation to research the most important roles are covered by the books and journals of the library, both as an instrument of work of a rare completion and as an instrument of service to the system of research: a weekly reunion is needed to select on the basis of the reviews of works to acquire and in order to familiarize oneself with current production, the tendencies, the problems. Together with the library and the journals, the archives – partly constituted by originals as in the case of the Dossetti, Lercaro, Milani, Coari, Spadoni papers, and partly in copies from archives sometimes inaccessible such as the Roncalli papers and the archives of about eight hundred fathers of Vatican II – constitute an instrument and a service to the internal or external community, such as the audio and visual materials.
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BENIAMINO ANDREATTA INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE UNESCO CHAIR FOR RELIGIOUS PLURALISM & PEACE
In the team work of scholars the organization of collaboration networks has a central role: a sign are the committees and the commissions born for the history of Vatican II, for the renewed edition of the council decrees, the national edition of the Roncalli diaries, the project committees on the ascension of Isaiah, on the theology of eighteenth century bologna, on Christianity, on synodality and the balance of the historical religious knowledge of the twentieth century. The participation or the construction of network such as TRES (Teaching Religion in a Multicultural Europe) on a European scale is only one of the results of a practice of greeting scholars not only in the library reading room, in the sessions of discussion of the important volumes, but also of exchanges and hospitality which have seen present the important figures of research, monasteries, research centers, government institutes of different areas. Sometime it meant people very close (Giorgio Prodi or Mons. Enzo Lodi for example) who have had in San Vitale the centre of their work, other times it was the non brief presences and very significant (fr. Cipriano Vagaggini, Perikles Ioannou, later on Étienne Fouilloux or Andrej Zubov) often it meant study visits from different continents. The growth of the activities and the relations has meant that the centre developed real projects which have marked also the most intense collaboration with academic institutions: in 2003 the UNESCO John XXIII Chair on religious pluralism and peace with the university of Bologna since 2007 and a new course has started a doctoral course on religious pluralism and peace with the University of Modena Reggio Emilia and since 2005 the laboratory of video history which has created exhibitions and documentaries for the different cities of Italy and for the television.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE The scientific committee supervises and evaluates the scientific activity in its entirety and is composed of: Claus Arnold, J.W. Goethe-Univerity of Frankfurt a.M., professor of Church history in the Faculty of Catholic Theology; Paolo Bettiolo, University of Padova, is now presiding the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy. He is a scholar of Syriac christianity and oriental patristics, and has taught in Venice; Philippe Marie Berthe Raoul Denis, OP, teaches history of Christianity at the University KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He is directing since 1996 the Sinomlando Centre, School of Theology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and since 1999 he is joint editor of «Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae»; Hyacinthe Destivelle teaches at Saint Petersburg and is director of the Center Istina in Paris; Étienne Fouilloux, professor emeritus of the University of Lyon 2, student of René Remond, is one of the major scholars of contemporary catholicism, who has received the Doctor Honoris Causae from Louvain-la-Neuve; Jean-Pierre Jossua teaches at the Centre Sèvres and has been director of the Le Saulchoir, the position held by Chenu and Congar, he directed also la Vie Intellectuelle and Concilium; Peter Hünermann, University of Tübingen, is emerited from dogmatic theology of the Faculty of Catholic Theology. He has periodically teached in Latin America and in the United States of America and has linked his name to important works such as the commentary of the Second Vatican Council by Herder; Ermenegildo Manicardi is rector of the Almo Collegio Capranica in Roma and teaches exegesis of the new testament in the Pontifical Gregorian University, after having presided the Faculty of Theology of Emilia-Romagna at Bologna; Giovanni Miccoli, University of Trieste, is professor emeritus of the history of christianity. He has been a student of Delio Cantimori and has taught at Pisa, Florence and Venice. His critical works regard the Gregorian Church, Francesco, the Catholic Antisemitism, Pius XII and the Church in the era of Wojtyła; Denis Pelletier teaches contemporary history at Paris IV Sorbonne and is director of the Vth section of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes;
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Kenneth Pennington teaches canon law at the Catholic University of America, Washington DC. He has been a student of Tierney at Ithaca and taught for a long time at Syracuse; Paolo Pombeni, University of Bologna, teaches history of European political systems at the Faculty of Political Sciences. He has been student of Alberigo, studying Dossetti e De Gasperi, and he has founded the Centro studi per il progetto europeo with the Fondazione Carisbo. Adriano Prosperi, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, teaches history of the age of the reform and of the counterreform and is one the best scholars of the sixteenth century; Yan Li Ren, is an emeritus member of the Institute for the world religions of the Academy of Social Sciences of Peking and a scholar of the Catholic Church. Now he is directing the Far Eastern studies of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana; Joachim Stieber, of the Smith College of Northhampton MASS, is professor of History of the Late Middle Ages and of the renaissance and has studied the council of Basel; Cardinal Roberto Tucci SJ has been a director of La Civiltà Cattolica, then president of Vatican Radio.
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