Javier Prades López

Bachelor of Laws from the Autonomous University of Madrid (1982) and Doctor of Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (1991). Priest of the Diocese of Madrid (1987), where he is a member of the College of Consultors and has served on the Presbytery Council and the Diocesan Pastoral Council. Member of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation. Member of the Oriol-Urquijo University Foundation and subsequently its Rector (1990–1998). Founding member of the ‘Asociación para la Investigación y la Docencia Universitas’. Professor of Systematic Theology I at the Faculty of Theology of the San Dámaso Ecclesiastical University (UESD) in Madrid since 1991. He served as Pro-Rector and Rector of the UESD (2009–2024), and as editor of the Revista Española de Teología. He is Head of the Department of Systematic Theology. Member of the International Theological Commission (2009–2026). Full Member of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain. Director of the “San Dámaso Chair” at the Francisco de Vitoria University (Madrid). He is or has been a member of the scientific committee or advisory board of various Spanish and international journals.

Author of the following books: “Deus specialiter est in sanctis per gratiam”. El misterio de la inhabitación de la Trinidad en los escritos de Santo Tomás (Rome 1993). Dios ha salvado la distancia (Madrid 2003) Communicatio Christi. Reflexiones de teología sistemática (Madrid 2004). “Is Reason the Enemy of Mystery?” (Madrid 2007). Nostalgia for the Resurrection: Reason and Faith in the West (Siena, 2007). The West: The Inevitable Encounter (Siena, 2008). Man, Beyond Himself (Madrid, 2012). Bearing Witness. The Presence of Christians in a Plural Society (Madrid 2016). “Love Is Worth Believing: Human Experience and the Event of Revelation. Three Episodes in the Intellectual Biography of Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988)”: Journal of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain (2022).
Co-author, with L. Giussani and S. Alberto, of Leaving a Mark on the History of the World (Milan, 1998), and, together with A. Scola and G. Marengo, of Manual of Theological Anthropology (Milan, 2006), both of which have been translated into several languages. Editor or co-editor of the following books: Human Sciences and Society: the Oriol Urquijo Foundation (1953–1993) (Madrid 1993). Man and God in Society at the End of the Century (Madrid 1994). “The Believing Reason”. Proceedings of the International Congress on the Encyclical “Fides et Ratio” (Madrid 2002). The Mystery through Forms (Madrid 2002). “In communione Ecclesiae” Miscellany in Honour of Cardinal Antonio Mª Rouco Varela (Madrid 2003). The Voice that Lies Beneath the Voices (Madrid 2003). Hope in a Globalised World (Madrid 2004). Nation and Nationalism: Contributions to a Dialogue (Madrid 2004). In Search of the Father (Madrid 2005) Educating in the Truth (Madrid 2006) God is Love (Madrid, 2009). The Challenges of Multiculturalism (Madrid, 2009). The Reason for Hope (Madrid, 2010). Sufficit Gratia Tua. Miscellany in honour of Cardinal Angelo Scola. (Venice, 2012). Text and commentary on the document of the International Theological Commission “Religious Freedom for the Good of All” (Madrid, 2021). Introduction and translation of the document of the International Theological Commission “Quo vadis Humanitas?” (2026).

He has written more than 90 contributions on theological topics, both as articles in national and international specialist journals (Revista Española de Teología, Salmanticensis, Scripta Theologica, International Catholic Review Communio, Revue Catholique Internationale Communio, Revista Católica Internacional Communio, Revue Théologique des Bernardins, Actualidad Catequética, Il nuovo Areopago, Oasis, Sacra Doctrina, Humanitas, Teología y Catequesis, Euresis, La Nuova Europa, Journal of Sociology and Theory of Religion, Almogaren, Scripta Fulgentina, Anthologica Annua, Josephinum Journal of Theology) or as chapters in edited volumes published by Spanish or foreign publishers (Ediciones San Dámaso, BAC, McGill, Burns & Oates, Eerdmans, Lateran University Press, Palabra, EOS Verlag, Cantagalli, Encuentro, Marietti, Librería Editrice Vaticana, Marcianum Press, Planeta, Eunsa, Eupress FTL, San Pablo, EDUS-ESC, Parole et Silence, San Esteban, PPC, Monte Carmelo, Guillermo Escolar).
He has written 135 prefaces, book introductions and press articles for publications such as El Mundo, ABC ,Alfa y Omega and L’Osservatore Romano.