Andrés Torres Queiruga (born 1940 in Aguiño,

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) is a Galician theologian, writer and translator. He is known for some of heterodox beliefs, including the denial in the physical

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. He studied in

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and

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. He is a doctor in Theology and Philosophy. Queiruga lectures Theology at the ''Instituto Teolóxico compostelá'' and philosophy of religion at the

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. A member of the Real Academia Galega and the Consello da Cultura Galega, he was a founder of the magazine ''Encrucillada: Revista Galega de Pensamento Cristián'', nowadays he is director of the Asociación Encrucillada. He is a staff member of the magazines ''Iglesia Viva'', ''Sal Terrae'', ''Revista Portuguesa de Filosofía'' and ''Concilium''.

Thought

Torres Queiruga takes from

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the idea of the imaginative mediation of

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: faith imagines and idealises contents that have not historically occurred. In his book ''The Resurrection without the Risen One'', with

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and Hegel's ''

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'', denies that the

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is a miracle and a historically occurring fact:

Works

Some of his most important works are:Dolores Vilavedra (coord.), ''Diccionario da Literatura Galega'', Vol I, Vigo, 1995, p. 579
Biography of Andrés Torres Queiruga
* ''Teoloxía e sociedade'', Vigo, 1974 * ''Constitución y evolución del dogma: la teoría de Amor Ruibal y su aportación'', Madrid, 1977 * ''Recupera-la salvación'', Vigo, 1977 * ''Nova aproximación a unha filosofía da saudade'', Vigo, 1981 * ''A revelación como maieútica histórica'', Vigo, 1984 * ''Rolda de ideas'', 1984 * ''A revelación de Deus na realización do home'', Vigo, 1985 * ''Creo en Deus Pai. O Deus de Xesús e a autonomía humana'', Vigo, 1986 * ''Noción, religación, trascendencia. O coñecemento de Deus en Amor Ruibal e Xavier Zubiri'', A Coruña, 1990 * ''Recupera-la creación. Por unha relixión humanizadora'', Vigo, 1996 * ''Fin del cristianismo premoderno. Retos hacia un nuevo horizonte'', Santander, 2000 * ''Repensar a resurrección. A diferencia cristiá na continuidade das relixións e da cultura'', Vigo, 2002 * ''Para unha filosofía da saudade'', Ourense, 2003 * signator of the '' Church 2011 manifesto''

References

1940 births People from O Barbanza Spanish Christian theologians Liberation theologians Galician translators Translators to Galician Writers from Galicia (Spain) Galician-language writers Living people Comillas Pontifical University alumni Dissident Roman Catholic theologians {{Spain-theologian-stub