This metaphysical realism is fundamental to the preaching and teaching of the Catholic faith. This led Sala to criticize the writings of Hans Küng for their continual severing of the New Testament from the doctrinal teachings of the Church. Sala first criticized Küng's failure to understand the Church's teaching on infallibility.18 Later, when Küng published Christ sein, Sala published a book length set of criticisms, indicating the ways in which Küng was proposing a secularized Gnosticism that was contrary to the doctrinal and theoretical traditions so important when defending revealed truth and the realism of Jesus Christ as true man and true God.19 Sala anticipated a later controversy Küng has had with the Magisterium of the Church.20

The essays assembled by the editorial work of Ulrich Lehner and Fr. Ronald Tacelli illustrate Sala's concern to show the importance of a range of issues that exemplify the importance of recovering the scriptural, doctrinal, and theoretical depths of interiority for the truth of Catholic teaching and practice. Sala discusses pastoral and ecumenical controversies, as well as those centering on the importance of the ordinary Magisterium for Catholic theologians and the profession of Catholic faith,21 referencing Lonergan's insistence upon the foundational importance of the exercise of the intellectual excellences or virtues for anyone seeking to know the truth, as well as the importance of exercising the moral virtues to live a good life. Analogously, to open one's mind and heart to the revelation of the Triune God in Jesus Christ, a genuinely Catholic theologian must tend toward sanctity. As Sala writes:

Now when the Christian existence of the subject, the theologian, is undermined by inauthenticity, an adequate understanding of Revelation cannot be expected-indeed, not18 Sala, Infallibile? Una risposta. A proposito di una tesi di Hans Küng (Rome: Edizione Paoline, 1971). Sala responded to Küng's comments on his own earlier criticisms in "L'Infallibile? di Hans Küng, Risultati e Rilievi di un Dibattito in Corso," La Scuola Cattolica: Supplemento bibliographico 100 (1972): 83-125.19 Sala, Essere Cristiani e essere nella Chiesa, Teologia 10 (Alba, IT: Edizione Paoline, 1975).20 Sala, "La documentazione sulla controversia tra il magisterio e Hans Küng," La Rivista del Clero Italiano 59 (1978): 606-20, and “Hans Küng: Il problema di Dio nella cultura moderna," La Rivista del Clero Italiano 60 (1979): 75-87.21 See the many insightful essays in Sala, Kontroverse Theologie, 71-286.

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Fr. Giovanni Sala, S.J., Philosopher and Theologian

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