In our response to Fischer’s concerns, we clarify the metaphysical intuitions underlying the original article. We further contend that both classical metaphysics and framing of ...

In response to the essay by members of the KU Leuven project “Dissenting Church,” I argue that they overlook the metaphysics underlying much of the ...

This article draws upon the theology of Johann Baptist Metz, placing it into discussion with insights from theological aesthetics and political ecology. It does so ...

Classical accounts of beauty that emphasize harmony, unity, and radiance have come under sustained moral criticism in modern theology and philosophy, particularly in light of ...

That individual members of the faithful become a corporate worshiping subject in liturgical celebration is a mainstay of Catholic liturgical ecclesiology, but how corporate subjectivity ...

In the last two decades, marriage has become less central in Catholic family ethics. This recent development differs from the critical familism project led by ...

This article argues that De Trinitate’s often neglected soteriological arc contains resources for a constructive and pastorally fruitful retrieval of Augustine’s theology of original sin. ...

The idea of American exceptionalism has been present through much of American history. But the idea is often abstracted: The character and purpose of the ...

One prominent plank of the US national creed is American exceptionalism. The roots of this imprecise but influential notion lie in John Winthrop’s portrayal of ...

This article is a critical examination of the Second Vatican Council’s teaching on doctrinal development contained in Dei Verbum 8. Through a survey of preconciliar ...

This essay reassesses the life and legacy of the Salvadoran martyr and saint Óscar Romero, focusing on his relationship to liberation theology. Drawing on his ...

This essay challenges the claim that the practice of Mass intentions is a “Germanic” distortion, foreign to the biblical and patristic tradition. It frames the ...

In recent decades, prominent Christian theologians have described Jesus as the “Torah in person.” This article considers whether such a Torah-in-person Christology falls into a ...

This article gives an account of the legacy of Pope Francis particularly in his moral teachings and pastoral practices. From the beginning of his reign, ...

Given how moral subjectivity and action are constituted within networks of interpersonal and social relations as they negotiate emerging questions and insights, this moral note ...

The state of democracy is declining worldwide, and that includes the United States, the oldest constitutional democracy. Various scholars have proposed theories regarding the growth ...

The global rise of right-wing authoritarian populism poses a challenge to the Catholic theology of conscience. For decades, the church has emphasized the connection of ...

This article uses the work of Ignacio Ellacuría to articulate a concept of sin in light of the literature on how neoliberalism shapes us into ...

This article argues that friendship is not solely an analogy for eschatological life but can be an explicit object of eschatological hope. Responding to Gary ...

This article traces the development of a tension between the missionary theology of Ad Gentes and Nostra Aetate’s incipient theology of religions through a period ...