Andrés Torres Queiruga


Andrés Torres Queiruga is a Galician theologian, writer and translator. He is known for some of heterodox beliefs, including the denial in the physical resurrection of Jesus.
He studied in Santiago de Compostela and Comillas Pontifical University. He is a doctor in Theology and Philosophy.
Queiruga lectures Theology at the Instituto Teolóxico compostelá and philosophy of religion at the University of Santiago de Compostela. 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 Kant the idea of the imaginative mediation of religious faith : faith imagines and idealises contents that have not historically occurred.
In his book The Resurrection without the Risen One, with Rudolph Bultmann and Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, denies that the Resurrection of Jesus is a miracle and a historically occurring fact:

Works

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