The article explores the showdown between Pope Gregory I and Patriarch John IV of Constantinople over the ecumenical title. It argues that the promotion of ...

The ecological crisis today is due in great part to a widespread anthropocentric attitude toward nature characterized by (1) a dualism that sees humanity as ...

Examining theological reflection in an age of migration, the author focuses on four foundations of a theology of migration and refugees: (1) Imago Dei: Crossing ...

The article explores the African experience of Jesus in an objective and subjective sense. Under the rubrics of missionary, biblical, and independent experience, how Africans ...

Galilee must have had special salvific signification for the first Christians, as it played an important role in the post-Easter memory of the followers of ...

Current interest in the Galilean Jesus as a historical figure has obscured the christological claims of the New Testament with regard to his person and ...

The article explores the spirituality of undocumented immigrants along the U.S./Mexico border. It first examines the connection between the outer geography of the immigrant journey ...

The author argues that the preferential option for the poor (1) constitutes a part of following Jesus that gives ultimate meaning to human existence and ...

Historical imagination can open a powerful door to the world of Mary of Nazareth depicted in the Gospels and relate her to the quest for ...

The author argues that the Christian historical realism of Ignacio Ellacuría and the “saving history” Christology of Jon Sobrino form a post-Vatican II contextual theology ...

The article explores Virgilio Elizondo’s Galilean Journey and its critiques, particularly the claim that he uses anti-Jewish rhetoric. While acknowledging the legitimacy of some concerns, ...

The author reads the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman (Jn 4:1–42) in light of social ills afflicting African society today. She first highlights ...

Postcolonial theory allows a reading of John 19:23–30 from a perspective that is hopeful and empowering for dislocated persons such as Asian immigrant women. In ...

The article analyzes a threefold isomorphism between the realities of Galilee and El Salvador: (1) the two realities are subjugated by imperial powers (2) the ...

A methodological shift occurred in the sciences in the 20th century that has irreversible repercussions for a contemporary theology of the Holy Spirit. Newton and ...

For many Christian theologians and non-Christian theorists about Christianity, tragedy has no serious place in a Christian conception of the world; at best, tragedy is ...

Theologians writing on Our Lady of Guadalupe strive to articulate a Christian response to a momentous event: the conquest, evangelization, and struggles for life, dignity, ...

This study of Aelred of Rievaulx’s understanding of marriage as a Christian state of life first considers his work in the context of earlier written ...

The article attempts to bridge the gap between virtue theory and rights theory by asking what virtues are needed to recognize and protect human rights ...