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Preface F ordham University stands as the bookends surrounding the beginning and the end of the long and influential academic career of Avery Dulles. He came to Fordham as Mr. Avery Dulles, S.J., a Jesuit regent, to teach philosophy in the fall of 1951. He ended that career as the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society when he died in 2008. In the intervening years he taught at Woodstock College and The Catholic University of America, from which he took mandatory retirement in 1988 when he turned seventy, and retained the title of professor emeritus of that university. He also served as visiting professor in colleges and universities at home and abroad and received thirty-nine honorary degrees. Many of his lectures were published in periodicals and as chapters in books. In fact, he himself published several books containing various essays based on his lectures. The amount of his publications is staggering. He wrote twenty-five books, coauthored four more, published more than eight hundred articles, book reviews, forewords, introductions, and letters to the editor. To date his writings have been translated into Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Greek, Polish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Hungarian, and Czech and are available in hardcover, paperback, and in digital versions, including online and even on Kindle. And he wasn’t finished! He had plans of writing at least one more book and had asked us to begin compiling his homilies. Hopefully, these projects will one day come to fruition. It is our hope that this work will serve—for theologians, scholars, contemporary believers, and all men and women of goodwill—as a research guide, a sort of liminal passageway, into the splendid mansion of Dulles’s thought. We have made every effort to be careful, thorough, and exhaustive in our diligent attempt to check by hand each entry for content, spelling, and accuracy. However, in Part I, some of the entries in ‘‘Articles xv xvi 兩 Preface and Essays’’ and ‘‘Reviews and Letters to the Editor’’ do not include a date of publication or volume number, because this information wasn’t included in the periodical in which the article was published. This is especially true with some of the foreign material. A project of this kind can never be definitively pronounced complete. The cardinal’s writings are constantly being translated, disseminated, republished , and commented upon. If any major lacunae or bibliographical citation errors are discovered, we would welcome the correction, as we too are pilgrims traversing with the reader and with Dulles toward ‘‘Him in whom we have believed.’’ Our goal in publishing this bibliography is to extend, not to speak the final word on, the web of influence of our beloved cardinal. The structure of the present work is as follows. We are blessed to have Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., pen the foreword. The then-Mr. Dulles worked with young Ted in the sodality here at Fordham five decades before they were raised to the cardinalate together on February 21, 2001. The first section presents Dulles’s comprehensive bibliography in a series of chapters: books; articles and essays; book reviews and letters to the editor; and translations, forewords, and introductions to other authors ’ writings. The poems and essays he had published while he was a student at Choate Preparatory School in Connecticut are listed separately. While these are not specifically academic writings, they show what interested him as a young teenager. Every entry in the bibliography represents an original publication. Therefore, all reprints, translations, excerpts, adaptations , and new editions are listed under the entry for the original publication. The second section contains numerous elements that we hope will shed light upon the inspiring twilight of Dulles’s life. But we begin with the first of Avery Dulles’s lectures of which there is a written copy in existence. It was given to the sodality alumni at Fordham in September 1952. It is appropriate to include it here, just before the last of his lectures. We then present the ‘‘Farewell Address as McGinley Professor,’’ his last lecture, which was given on April 1, 2008, just after the publication of Church and Society: The Laurence J. McGinley Lectures, – by Fordham University Press. The response to that lecture was given by Rev. Robert P. Imbelli of Boston College and is included in this present volume. Dr. Anne-Marie Kirmse, O.P., has written a reflection on our daily life with [3.238...