Olegario González de Cardedal

Olegario González de Cardedal
Born	October 2, 1934 (1934-10-02) (age 77) Lastra del Cano (Ávila), Spain
Occupation	Professor at the Pontifical University of Salamanca
Notable works	Salvador del mundo - historia y actualidad de Jesucristo, La teología en España, 1959-2009: memoria y prospectiva

Olegario González de Cardedal is a Spanish Catholic theologian and author. He was born in Lastra del Cano (Ávila), Spain, in 1934. He studied in Ávila, where he was ordained a priest in 1959, and at the University of Munich, Germany, where he graduated in theology in 1964. He also continued his studies in Oxford and Washington. As Chair of Theology at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain, a position he still holds, he took part in the third session of the Second Vatican Council and in the International Theological Conference. He is also an ordinary member of the Spanish Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas (Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences) in Madrid.^[1]

His many publications include: «Meditación teológica desde España», 1970; «Elogio de la encina. Existencia cristiana y fidelidad creadora», 1973; «La gloria del hombre», 1973; «Jesús de Nazaret. Aproximación a la cristología», 1975; «La gloria del hombre. Reto entre una cultura de la fe y una cultura de la increencia», 1985; «Raíz de la esperanza», 1995; «Cuatro poetas desde la otra ladera. Unamuno, Jean Paul, Machado, Oscar Wilde», 1996; «La entraña del cristianismo», 1997; «Cristología», 2001; «Sobre la muerte», 2002, «Dios», 2004. He has also written many essays on the current situation of the Church in Spain.

Awards

• Ratzinger Prize (issued by the Ratzinger Foundation), 2011, the ceremony took place in the Clementine Hall

References

1. ^ "Biografia de Olegario González de Cardedal". biografiasyvidas.com. http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/g/gonzalez_de_cardedal.htm. Retrieved 31 August 2010. 

Persondata
Name	Gonzalez de Cardedal, Olegario
Alternative names
Short description	Theologian
Date of birth	1934
Place of birth	Ávila), Spain
Date of death
Place of death