Much discussed since Vatican II is the question whether, in making the change from saying that the church of Christ is the Catholic Church to ...

A bibliographical review of themes in fundamental moral theology over the past four years evidences an astonishingly frequent reference to crises—in identity and in the ...

The AIDS pandemic has focused renewed attention on the relationship between the promotion of health and the protection of human rights. Recent work by Paul ...

Catholicism, with other religions, continues the critical grounding of ecological concern within its tradition. Contemporary theologians offer varying approaches to environmental ethics, from ecologically sensitive ...

Pope John XXIII’s prayerful phrase “a new Pentecost” linked Vatican II with the Holy Spirit and has interpretative potential. It focuses the pneumatological dimensions of ...

The author argues against the view that the true ultimate end of human beings is only in God, attained by the beatific vision. The alternative ...

The drastic economy of biblical narrative style is not simply to be equated with an absence of style but rather represents a distinctive narrative poetics, ...

The 13th century, the age of universities and cathedrals, was a time when Europeans journeyed to unknown realms and encountered different religions. It was also ...

Early Modern theologians Francisco de Vitoria and Leonardus Lessius analyzed the nature and limits of the obligation to preserve one’s life through the use of ...

By reviewing the unique characteristics of the Byzantine feast of Mary’s Birth, the article articulates the feast’s significance as an integral contributor to the salvation ...

The author finds resonance between the hitherto largely unrelated discourses of spirituality and citizenship. Drawing on Rahner’s transcendental anthropology and Moltmann’s sacramental theology of history, ...

Scholars are currently giving serious thought to Thomas Aquinas’s theology of religions. This fact led the author to explore the connection between Aquinas’s thought on ...

The author argues that the Catholic Church’s social teaching is marked by a critical view of the ideology of Enlightenment Liberalism and of the concept ...

Christian reflection on the morality of anger must address Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:22: “whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment.” ...

The article argues for the development of Catholic social teaching on freedom of the press. After examining the press’s role in the recent sexual abuse ...

In an article in the September 2007 issue of this journal, Neil Ormerod had included David Coffey in his critique of Rahner, whose thought he ...

The condemnation of Roman Catholic Modernism in 1907 was a traumatic event—in the dual sense that it reflected the traumatic impact of intellectual and political ...

The current conflictual situation of theology can be understood from a sociological perspective using the work of Pierre Bourdieu on the relationships of power in ...

The application of George Lindbeck’s cultural-linguistic approach to interreligious dialogue calls into question our ability to communicate across the divide of different religious traditions. Examining ...

The author observes that, while pluralist theologians and philosophers of religion have made claims asserting an identical, transcendent reality referred to by world religions, they ...