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The high school of Anthropology and Ethics was commissioned to collect and edit the writings of the professor of the School of TheologyJutta Burggraf, which had appeared in various publications and were not easily accessible, in order to make them available to everyone. The bookdegree scroll "La transmisión de la fe en la sociedad postmoderna y otros escritos" (The transmission of faith in postmodern society and other writings), has been published by EUNSA. EUNSA and was presented on May 27 at Amigos Building of the University of Navarra.

The event took place in the form of roundtable, moderated by Manuel Martín Algarra, Full Professor de Public Communication de la School of Communication and Deputy Director of the high school of Anthropology and Ethics, who assured that the book is the result of a "powerful work edition".

Dolores Conesa, professor of the department of Theory and Methods of Educational and Psychological research in the School of Education and Psychologyspoke about dialogue and forgiveness. She appealed to a teaching by Professor Burggraf who postulated that it was necessary to dare to think on one's own. "The great thing about man is his freedom and every exercise of dialogue is a free act," he said. "Jutta was betting that truth is only possessed with freedom, and everyone shares in some of it; my opponent may come to be right about something, she said." But all dialogue, which is a meeting between freedoms, also implies forgiveness. "Forgiveness, Professor Burggraf teaches, does not mean relativizing evil; it consists of looking at the aggressor in his dignity as a person, of striving not to identify him with his work. Forgiveness makes man more human, because it deepens his capacity to give," concluded Professor Conesa.

For his part, Professor José Manuel Fidalgo, director of the high school Superior of Religious Sciences (ISCR) of the University of Navarra, commented on article "Secularity. Reflection on the scope of a word" which is included in the recently published book. Following some thesis of Professor Burggraf and in connection with the thinking of Romano GuardiniProfessor Fidalgo argued that "to consider the world apart from God is to think of a closed world, a world that is dying. It is necessary to look at it from the perspective of faith and learn to see it with the eyes of Christ: this is what the Christian training consists of, which should encourage a healthy secularity. True Christian secularity (which is opposed to modern secularism) consists in taking the world seriously from faith and taking faith seriously as the way to know the world in all its greatness. In this way a frank and open dialogue between the Christian faith and today's culture is fostered".

Tomás Trigo, professor of Systematic Theology at the School of Theology of the University of Navarra, closed the presentation and commented on the article "The transmission of faith in postmodern society", which responds to the degree scroll of a lecture that Professor Burggraf gave in Valencia in 2010, the same year she passed away. She recalled that with the publication of the pastoral constitution Gaudium et spes (1965) of the Second Vatican Council, "the Church wanted to know what problems her children have and help them to solve them. This same attitude should be adopted by all Christians. Gaudium et spes is addressed to the whole world and what it offers is the faith of Christ. Without reductionism. Because it knows that man can only be understood through Christ. Often, Professor Trigo continued, we can be tempted to speak of substituting the Christian faith with a Philosophy that satisfies everyone. It is not just a matter of changing language but of helping people to think like Christ. In the meantime, it cannot be said that there is a true transmission of the faith," he concluded.

In the subsequent colloquium with the audience, questions arose such as the importance of explaining faith from within one's own history, as something life-changing and fascinating; and the importance of friendship for Professor Jutta Burggraf, for whom core topic was the natural framework of meeting staff . In this sense, Professor Trigo noted that "the only way to understand what Christianity means is to receive love. To be in the world is to know that one is loved by God.