Students (and professors) of Fundamental Theology have been asked genuinely theological questions by non-believers: for example, non-believers want to know who Jesus Christ was and when he actually lived.

They know that he was not born on Christmas Day, and so they ask, “up to what point are the Gospels historically believable?” Are there other non-Christian sources about him? Others want to know what are the Church’s teachings on non-Christian religions: can we hope for salvation through these means? Some are still upset by the “Galileo case” and ask if and how Christianity can be reconcilable with modern science. Sometimes they ask the most serious question of all: why does suffering exist? How is it possible to believe in a caring God if we consider all the evil existing in the world? Others ask us about what the Catholic Church has to say about the amazing plurality of cultures. In short, there are more people than we thought who are interested to know how livable Christianity is, in a reasonable and fully human way, for both contemporary men and women.

When graduates are confronted with questions such as these, they are truly grateful to have studied Fundamental Theology!