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Galilean Journey Revisited: Mestizaje, Anti-Judaism, and the Dynamics of Exclusion

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, ...

Jesus and the Samaritan Woman (Jn 4:1-42) in Africa

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 ...

The Galilean Jesus: Creating a Borderland at the Foot of the Cross (Jn 19:23-30)

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 ...

Jesus of Galilee from the Salvadoran Context: Compassion, Hope, and following the Light of the Cross

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 ...

The Holy Spirit and The Physical Universe: The Impact of Scientific Paradigm Shifts on Contemporary Pneumatology

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 ...

A Sense of the Tragic in a Christian Theology of Freedom

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 ...

Theologies of Guadalupe: From the Spanish Colonial Era to Pope John Paul II

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, ...

Like a Boat is Marriage: Aelred on Marriage as a Christian Way of Life

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 ...

Imagination Virtue and Human Rights: Lessons from Australian and U.S. Law

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 ...

Fundamental Moral Theology: Tradition

Theological ethicists around the world are turning toward history to comment on the method and arguments of earlier authoritative voices. The intent of this turn ...

Social and Economic Ethics

The Note surveys scholarship in social and economic ethics between 2004 and 2008, focusing on economic ethics and the financial crisis of 2008. The author ...

Catholics’ Ethical Interventions in Political Debates: The Situation in Germany

Church State and Catholic Ethics: The Kenyan Dilemma

Religion and Politics: U.S.A.

Politics and Church in Venezuela: Perspectives and Horizons

Time Judgment and Competitive Spirituality: A Reading of the Development of the Doctrine of Purgatory

Why has purgatory virtually disappeared from Catholic belief and practice since Vatican II? A competitive spirituality, gravitating around the religious vocation of ascetics from the ...

Doubt and the Resurrection of Jesus

Debate on the resurrection of Jesus tends to focus either on the likelihood of Jesus’ body rising physically from the tomb or on the form ...

God Creation and the Possibility of Philosophical Wisdom: Perspectives of Bonaventure and Aquinas

Contemporary debates about the relationship between philosophy and theology may be illuminated by comparing Aquinas’s doctrine of philosophical wisdom to Bonaventure’s. For both, philosophical wisdom ...

Maude Petre on Loisy’s Religious Significance: Spirituality and Critical History

Alfred Loisy’s enduring significance, in Maude Petre’s view, lay in his struggle to define the relationship between religious faith and facts accessible to historical critics. ...

A Trinitarian Response to Issues Raised by Peter Phan

The U.S. bishops and the Vatican have reacted critically to Peter Phan’s recent book, Being Religious Interreligiously. This article attempts to address the contended issues ...
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