Beschreibung
Giuseppe Dossetti is a name barely known outside Italy. Some may remember
his role within the Christian Democratic Party in the early years of the
Italian Republic. Readers familiar with the history of the Second Vatican
Council may have heard his name as one of its most important ghost writers
and theologians. However, to most, his biography remains more or less
unknown. One the purposes by the John XXIII Foundation – created by
Dossetti in 1953 – was to fill this gap with papers presented to the 2006 Bologna
conference, for the decennial of Dossetti’s death. Among them the most
important for
an international readership are gathered in this volume.
Alberto Melloni, Professor of history of Christianity at
the University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, is Secretary-General of the John
XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies.
He has founded with Professor Giuseppe Alberigo this internationl series
of the Bologna research institute now at its sixth volume.
