"It is more than ever necessary to have a clear idea, global but precise and shaded at the same time, of what can be called the "contemporary theological movement." However, an objective, concrete, and accurate resume expressing profound reality is a very difficult thing to achieve in spite of the great number of writings that for years now have been devoted to the subject. On the other hand, hardly any analysis or any synthesis could claim pure objectivity, because there is often a general interior option of a spiritual, moral, or socio-historic nature that colors all the judgments and the criteria themselves. To give an example, one of the latest papers of synthesis on contemporary theology can be referred to, "Evaluation of the 20th Century Theology"; it is clear that a large part of this work follows the line of Karl Rahner. Neither does an objective synthesis depend on the extent of bibliographic information. That generally can be useful, but it doesn't always help minds to penetrate the reality of the movements of thought and life. Sometimes even the opposite hap- pens: fascinated by the perpetual effort toward external information, the guiding inner thread is lost; in other words, the major permanent references, which must determine, more than any other thing, the criterion through which we must see and judge facts, ideas, and things, are lost. The whole problem of pure objectivity consists in perceiving the fundamental references that revelation and sacred logic bring forth. If there is no fundamental, perceivable, and definable reference brought into understanding and human experience by revelation, and if there is not a logic that expresses in man an eternal order of the Creation, and that is thereby sacred, any problem of objectivity is annulled and all effort of knowledge is vain. That is why beyond or even within the various notions of pluralism concerning knowledge, language, or things, pluralism acceptable or rejected, there is a simple and absolute necessity not only to seek basic references but to perceive in a true way the basic references imposed by revelation. And to the degree that the will is free of every influence other than the unconditional love of truth, sacred and living logic rules in the intellect. It can easily be understood that these considerations can be part of an essential foundation of method"--