The article supplements the one by Ernesto Valiente published in the December 2012 issue of this journal. It adds information not covered by him, as ...

The author asks whether the criteria for Catholic theology presented by the International Theological Commission’s Theology Today (2011) are meant to constitute “walls” that seal ...

Conventional wisdom sometimes holds that selfishness pays off and is even necessary for survival in a competitive world. Joseph Bracken here challenges that view, arguing ...

At the Second Vatican Council the bishops expressed their “earnest desire” that provincial councils should again flourish with renewed strength. This article describes the role ...

Racism/white supremacy is seemingly ineradicable, despite its contradictions to the gospel and American ideals. James Baldwin perceived the reason: whites’ fears of their own mortality. ...

The article proposes a Catholic ethical method for the 21st century. To that end, the authors first address the magisterium’s concerns with relativism and distinguish ...

Quantum anthropology looks to the image of particle/wave complementarity within the field of quantum mechanics as an analogy for body/spirit in Christian anthropology. Drawing on ...

The article was prompted by considerations such as those proposed by Heidi Ann Russell in the previous article. Ormerod argues that to recover a proper ...

Vatican II has more than a simple historical interest. What truly counts is comprehending its contemporary relevance and bearing its heritage within ourselves today. If ...

This article relates the itinerary of Vatican II’s exhortation to Catholics to practice prayerful Scripture reading. In 1961 the Preparatory Theological Commission treated Bible reading ...

The article investigates religious experience in relation to the hermeneutics of desire and interreligious dialogue. After summarizing Schleiermacher’s thought on religious experience, the article presents ...

Since the promulgation of Vatican II’s Dei verbum, exegetes and theologians have paid scant attention to the subject of biblical inspiration and the theology of ...

Theologians disagree on whether Christians can know what in particular God wills. Appropriate decisions often conflict with decisions God seems to want us humans to ...

The article evaluates what seven authors (from Terrence Merrigan in 2005 to Keith Johnson in 2011) have written about Jacques Dupuis’s theology of religions. Dupuis ...

Building on the theology of Jon Sobrino, the author constructs a Christian spirituality of reconciliation that empowers the human person to confront the challenges of ...

The author argues that a closer and fresh reading of the Vatican II documents with an eye to the theme of mission might suggest that ...

The article examines critical factors that determined the impact, reception, and implementation of Vatican II in Africa. Drawing on historical accounts, the author identifies and ...