PhilosophyJosé Ángel García Cuadrado, Dean of the Ecclesiastical School , was the sponsor of the graduating class.
PHOTO: Manuel Castells

16 researchers have defended their thesis in the Schools Ecclesiastical of the University of Navarra from June 2012 until the doctoral inauguration ceremony of the 2012-2013 academic year, held on June 7, 2013.

Specifically, 9 correspond to the School of Theology, 5 a Ecclesiastical Theology of Philosophy and 2 to the Canon Law. They come from 10 countries: Spain, Kenya, Poland, Mexico, Uganda, USA, Italy, Benin, Brazil and Peru.

The godfather of this promotion of new doctors was the Dean of the Ecclesiastical School Philosophy , José Ángel García Cuadrado. In his speech, he said that "completing the doctorate is the crowning of a prolonged effort, not Exempt of difficulties from which one has finally emerged victorious. The doctorate means a certain triumph, a victory: this is the meaning of the 'Victor' with the name of the new doctor, which was formerly painted on the walls of the Universities, for the emulation and example of future generations".

Professor García Cuadrado reminded the new graduating class that their "triumph" is also the result of the support and work of other people. First of all, he mentioned the University's auxiliary staff -librarians, janitors, assistants at laboratory, cleaning ladies...- and the association de Amigos, which provides scholarships for the training of new researchers. He also recalled the teachers, "who always teach: in the masterly lesson and in the interview in which they correct with rigor, care and patience the chapters of the thesis that are taking shape as a well-made work ".

Finally, he referred to the "debt of gratitude" owed to your parents: "They have taught you the essentials of human life: to seek and speak the truth, to love the work well finished, the value of each person, the need to be grateful, to forgive and to ask for forgiveness. All this has made you more human and for this reason they too have earned, in a way, the degree scroll of Doctors of Humanity".

In total, 200 people from 22 countries have defended the thesis at the University during this period. They belong to 14 Schools, schools and institutes.

The new doctors of the Schools Ecclesiastics

School of Canon Law

Vicente Borja Dosdá (Spain): 'La desamortización eclesiástica del clero secular en la Diócesis de Segorbe-Castellón. Juridical-patrimonial consequences'.

Mark Kimani Muhoro (Kenya): 'From the offense against the sixth to Delicta Graviora: the evolution of the offense committed with a minor in light of the American experience'.

School of Theology

Enrique Alonso de Velasco Esteban (Spain): 'The Reception of the encyclical "Humanae Vitae" in the catholic environment of the Netherlands'.

Pawel Blazewicz (Poland): 'The spiritual ethos in the Adolescents of St. Basil of Caesarea. A philological approach'.

Alejandro Córdova Suárez (Mexico): 'La fundamentación teológica de la moral social en los manuales postconciliares' (The theological foundation of social morality in postconciliar manuals).

Ana Cristina Manso Rodríguez Rodríguez (Spain): 'Dei Verbum and the critical hermeneutic-pragmatic tradition'.

Baltasar Moros Claramunt (Spain): 'Las Cofradías de la Sangre en el Reino de Valencia'.

Kanyike Ivan Mukalazi (Uganda): 'The Theology of Faith of Avery Dulles'.

Jesús Nuñez Valero (Spain): 'The studiositas and its place in the Christian organism of virtues'.

Christopher Edward Smith (USA): 'Surnaturel Revisited: Henri de Lubac's theology of the supernatural in contemporary theology'.

Piero Vavassori (Italy): 'Bioetica aica e bioetica cattolica. Teologia morale e questioni bioetiche'.

School Ecclesiastical Philosophy

Mahougnon Janvier Gbenou (Benin): 'Tocqueville et la communauté internationale démocratique. Étude de l'idée d'humanité au travers deses écrits'.

Augusto Cesar Heluy Dantas (Brazil): 'The Philosophy of Arthur Peackocke'.

Rubén Herce Fernández (Spain): 'La proposal heurística e Roger Penrose. In search of the instructions of consciousness'.

Crispus Kinuthia Kinyanjui (Kenya): 'The Metaphysics of the Divine Creation. A consideration of the First Principles of Creation in Aquinas'.

Antonio Ñahuincopa Arango (Peru): 'The immortality of the soul in Aristotle according to baroque scholasticism: Domíngo Báñez, Francisco de Toledo and Francisco Suárez'.