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Teachers’ seminar: The role of philosophical knowledge in preparing for the faith: an approach to the preambles of faith from the perspective of contemporary Fundamental Theology. Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti Pamplona, 19 October 2015. Professor Giuseppe Tanzella-Niti is Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. He has been a researcher in radio astronomy at the CNR in Bologna and an astronomer at the Turin Observatory. He is editor of the Interdisciplinary Dictionary of Science and Faith (DISF: http://www.disf.org/dizionario). Full details of his curriculum are available at: http://www.tanzella-nitti.it/en Summary: The progressive affirmation of the theological dimension of Fundamental Theology as an emancipation from Catholic Apologetics before the Second Vatican Council. The contemporary situation in the face of the new evangelization. The need for preparation for faith (that is, for listening responsibly to a Revelation whose content is recognized as significant for man), a preparation based on shared philosophical knowledge. The preambles of faith and the understanding of the apostolic kerygma.