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Celebrating Nicaea: The Idea of Creation in the Early Church and Its Relevance for a Recent Ecumenical Initiative Toward a Feast of Creation

This article argues that the idea of creation provided the early church with an integrative framework by which to contemplate nature. Rather than being understood ...

The Place of Nicaea in Buddhist-Christian Theology

Several themes are as fundamental in Buddhist thinking as they are in the ancient and modern debates about the teaching of the Council of Nicaea ...

Nicaea and Rethinking the “Thinkability” of the Presence of God

On the Council of Nicaea’s 1700th anniversary, can its creed still be confessed by contemporary Christians in a culture full of “buffered selves” (C. Taylor) ...

From Nicaea to Africa: Legacy, Inspiration, and Cultural Contextualization of Theology

This article explores the connection between the Council of Nicaea and the church in Africa through two main perspectives: geography and the contributions of African ...

The Role of Scripture at and Around the Council of Nicaea

This article argues that the Council of Nicaea, which has borne responsibility for moving the church away from a primarily scriptural mode of speaking, is, ...

The Council of Nicaea 325: Reassessing the Role of Eusebius of Caesarea

This article offers a comprehensive interpretation of the Council of Nicaea, in light of Eusebius of Caesarea’s role in the so-called Arian crisis. Given the ...

The 2024 Presidential Election

This Note recaps highlights of the 2024 US presidential election from a Catholic perspective. It is not this article’s aim to pronounce an authoritative postmortem ...

“Why All the Fuss About the Body?” Gender, Ecclesiology, and Mary Douglas’s Grid-Group Theory

This article asks why matters of sex and gender are the nexus of theological and ecclesiological battles to the point of being church-dividing issues. I ...

Confirmation, an Ecclesiological Anamnesis: History, Theology, and Praxis

Two theological models, which John Roberto has labeled the theological-maturity and the liturgical-initiation models, have dominated twentieth- and twenty-first-century interpretations of confirmation. Each is successful ...

The Ghost of Modernism: Evocations of Anti-Modernist Doctrinal Documents at Vatican II

This article argues that Modernism was the pivotal “ghost” at Vatican II. Evocations of Modernism and anti-Modernist doctrinal documents on the council floor were numerous ...

Daring After Hart: Lonergan, Blondel, and Balthasar on the Problem of Human Freedom

This article reconsiders the problem of human freedom in the wake of David Bentley Hart’s That All Shall Be Saved. It renews and reasserts the ...

Economic Sanctions

This note examines the extensive use of economic sanctions in US foreign policy, a development that has grown extensively in the last four decades without ...

The Theology, Ethics, and Spirituality of Parenting

This note provides an overview of emerging theological scholarship on parenting, focusing on publications from the last two decades. The first section maps the role ...

Grief as Epiphanous

Developments like COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter have exposed the distinctive challenges to grief in our contemporary context. This article invites readers to see grief ...

New Horizons for Justice in Theologies of Childhood and Children

Catholic theologians have called for a more robust theology of childhood and children in light of global clergy sexual abuse. While affirming the need to ...

El Cristo Roto: The Inverse Mutuality of the Presence of Christ in the Eucharist and in the Poor and Afflicted

Catholic Christian faith affirms that Christ is present both in the Eucharist and in the poor and afflicted. Yet theological reflection on the relation between ...

Theological Ethics and Moral Helplessness in the Anxious Present: Responsibility and Repair

Theological ethics has inadvertently contributed to the diminished autonomy many feel amid the anxieties of daily life. The shift from act-based ethics to totalizing ethics, ...

A Decided Vision of the World: Pope Francis and Ignatius of Loyola

This article serves as an often-overlooked reference point, containing, for example, rich concepts that are attested in Emmanuel Falque’s lesser-known works. However, this article is ...

Contra Silentium Obsequiosum: On the Roman Catholic Approach to Dissent and Tradition

Dissent, understood as a public rejection of the authoritatively pronounced rules, verdicts, and truth claims within a given community, although disruptive, can offer multiple benefits ...

Pope Francis, Dignitas Infinita, and an Evolving Catholic Anthropology: Doctrinal Implications

Dignitas Infinita highlights “the indispensable nature of the dignity of the human person in Christian anthropology” and warns of “ambivalent ways in which the concept ...
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