A Philosopher, a Mystic, and a Theologian Sound an Alarm for the Church

They are Romano Amerio, Divo Barsotti and Inos Biffi. Though widely different from each other, they agree in recalling the Church to its foundations – that it not disappear "in the fog of the faith.""

by Sandro Magister
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ROMA, February 7, 2005 – Almost during the very same days when the frailty of John Paul II filled the Church with apprehension, two books and a conference focused attention on three important Christian authors who have expressed, and still do, a radical critique of the weaknesses of today's Church, even though they love it and obey it wholeheartedly.

These three are Romano Amerio, a philosopher, Divo Barsotti, a mystic, and Inos Biffi, a theologian. The first is Swiss, the other two Italian.

A conference on Amerio, who died in 1997 at the age of 92, was held in Lugano on January 29, in the main hall of the University of Italian Switzerland, under the sponsorship of the local theological faculty and with the participation of the bishop, Pier Giacomo Grampa.

As for Divo Barsotti (in the photo), the community he founded, the Community of the Children of God, has published on the occasion of his 90th birthday a biographical profile composed in large part of his previously unpublished manuscripts.

Inos Biffi has seen the publication of a book with an eloquent title: "Christian Truths in the Fog of the Faith."

Here are some news on the conference, the two books, and the three personalities.