When the others are our true journeys

Abstract

The objective of this report is to witness the inspiring role played by Lucio Gera in the gestation of the Permanent Interdisciplinary Seminar Literature, Aesthetics and Theology. Towards the end of 1997 we agreed to organize, within the framework of the Theological Research Institute, Faculty of Theology (UCA), of which he was the first director, a seminar in which theology began to establish a dialogue with academic literature. The multifaceted figure of Lucio Gera, guide and mentor of several generations, was also deployed in the search field of beauty. Seen from the recapitulating standpoint of his death, his life and his work –which overcomes every reductionist dualism–, show their real importance and the fecundity of the love which inspired them, and invite us to keep on exploring new paths.