"Death Does Not Destroy the Relationship, but Changes It": The Life and Theology of Guy Lafon

Guy Lafon, a French theologian, priest, a good man, proud Christian, and friend of Slovenians, died from Covid-19 at the age of 90 on April 16, 2020 in Paris A former student of the Ecole Normale Superieure, he worked as a professor of theology at the Catholic Institute of Paris The large number of books and articles that he has written, stands for his own theological thought based on an interpersonal relationship in which one can recognize a relationship to God The heart of relational theory is found in the book Le Dieu commun, published in 1981 In the center of his thinking is faith based on Gospel revelation In the last period of his research, he focused on interpreting the word of God under the perspective of the relational definition among human beings: to live means to be in a relationship;there is no life outside the relationship His students support and develop Lafon's way of thinking