Call for papers

Estudios Eclesiásticos

Faculty of Theology

Universidad Pontificia Comillas

(Monographic)

Magnifica humanitas

PROGRAM

Coordinator of the monograph: Gabino Uríbarri Bilbao, SJ (guribarri@comillas.edu)
Language: Articles Spanish and English
Author guidelines: Maximum length ten thousand words (abstract, keywords, notes and bibliography included). For other details (how to cite, etc.) consult the authors guidelines before writing your article.
Maximum number of articles to be published: A maximum of eight of the best submissions will be selected, according to the criteria of the Editorial Board.
Deadline for receipt of articles: August 30, 2026.
Publication date: October 2026.

Topic description

The journal Estudios Eclesiásticos announces a call for papers on the first Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica humanitas.

Contributors are invited to analyze the Encyclical Letter, explore its key insights and contributions, and situate it within the context of the Church’s social doctrine, to foster a deeper understanding of its foundations in Christian revelation, as well as its depth, relevance, originality, and significance.

Any topic directly related to the Encyclical Letter will be considered. These may include:

•    Christian anthropology.
•    Citizenship and the common good.
•    The principles of the Church’s social doctrine in the face of AI.
•    The novelties of Magnifica humanitas.
•    Applications of Magnifica humanitas to work, education, and communication.
•    Truth, freedom, and the good in times of AI.
•    The biblical, patristic, and theological foundations of Magnifica humanitas.
•    Christian anthropology in the face of transhumanism and posthumanism.
•    Building the city.
•    Theology of history and AI.

Estudios Eclesiásticos is a journal that specializes in the area of theological research and information, understanding research as all work that, by contributing something new and properly grounded, can contribute to the scientific progress of Theology. It does not have, therefore, as its direct object the divulgation or the teaching of theology to a merely educated public that is not specially initiated in this discipline or interested in it in a particular way. With genuine research, it deals with current issues. Legitimate theological pluralism will be respected in communion with the ecclesiastical magisterium. Every theological tendency that has the right to exist in the Church may be expressed in the journal.

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