The true and faithful testimony
Abstract
The present paper tries to shed new light upon the idea of testimony. In so doing, the author outlines
the fundamental points of the topics he addresses, though briefly. Its main features are illustrated
through the analysis of Blondel, de Lubac, Tilliette, Kasper, Schockenhoff. These thinkers, whom he
explicitly defines as closely interrelated by virtue of their intellectual paths and personal examples,
embody a faith devoted to the unavoidable search for a rational intelligence behind its own elements.
Moreover, their works are among those which share the merit to have actually embarked upon and
enhanced endeavours to bridge the gap between theology and philosophy.
The inclusion of those truths into anthropological discourse will turn to the benefit of theology itself, in
order to avoid a regrettable rupture between theology and desired holiness and to recover a synthesis of
doctrine and life.
