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Revelation and Interiority: The Contribution of Frederick E. Crowe S.J.

The article invites a reconsideration of our reflection on revelation in the light of both Frederick Crowe’s achievement in his Theology of the Christian Word ...

Strange Fruit: Black Suffering/White Revelation

Christian eschatology provides a compelling mystical-political framework both for unmasking the historical visage of racism and for calling White believers to conversion and racial solidarity. ...

Authority Lies and War: Democracy and the Just War Theory

The American government’s use of deception in making its case for the Iraq War to the American people, argues the author, revealed a deficit in ...

Response to Karl Becker S.J. on the Meaning of Subsistit in

In a recent issue of L’Osservatore Romano Karl Becker argued that, contrary to a common interpretation of the change made in the drafting of Lumen ...

Bioethics

Scholars and the public are well aware of the ethically controversial nature of euthanasia, artificial nutrition and hydration, and embryonic stem cell research. Moral theologians ...

Violence: Religion Terror War

The survey examines writings in three areas: (1) the causes and cures of the rise of religious violence and terrorism, with particular attention to how ...

Did John Paul II’s Allocution on Life-Sustaining Treatments Revise Tradition? A Response to Thomas A. Shannon and James J. Walter

In September 2005 this journal published an article by Thomas Shannon and James Walter on the Catholic tradition surrounding assisted nutrition and hydration (ANH) in ...

A Reply to Professors Paris Keenan and Himes

The authors suggest that their esteemed colleagues misunderstood the central argument of their Theological Studies article, which tried to make clear that, among a variety ...

Vatican II: Did Anything Happen?

Recent emphasis on the continuity of Vatican II with the Catholic tradition runs the danger of slighting the aspects of the council that were discontinuous. ...

Tradition and Doctrinal Development: Can Vincent of Lérins Still Teach the Church?

The article examines the thought of the fifth century theologian, Vincent of Lérins, particularly his claims that there is great progress and development in Christ’s ...

Loisy’s L’vangele et l’√âvangile et l’√âglise in Light of the Essais

In his epochal work, L‘Évangile et l’Église, Alfred Loisy claimed to offer a purely historical refutation of Adolf von Harnack’s Das Wesen des Christentums (1900). ...

Fundamental Moral Theology at the Beginning of the 21st Century

The author’s survey of the writings of moral theologians over the past five years shows a deep concern about both the nature of moral theology ...

Christian Salvation: Biblical and Theological Perspectives

[To provide order to the welter of metaphors employed in Christian soteriology, the authors study them within their underlying systems or “models.” The “prophetic” model, ...

Bodily Resurrection and the Dialectic of Spirit and Matter

[Christian belief in bodily resurrection is implicitly challenged by contemporary natural science with its empirical evidence for the interdependence of mental and bodily functions and ...

Valuing Earth Intrinsically and Instrumentally: A Theological Framework for Environmental Ethics

[Philosophers have struggled with value theory as one of the most recalcitrant problems for environmental ethics. Theologians can benefit from their efforts when retrieving and ...

A Dialectic Engagement with the Social Sciences in an Ecclesiological Context

[Ecclesiologists have long acknowledged a possible role for the social sciences in their discipline. The author examines the difficulties theologians face in utilizing the social ...

Ghislain Lafont and Contemporary Sacramental Theology

[The author demonstrates how Ghislain Lafont looks “through” the critiques of meta-narrative and ontotheology for an appropriate ground for theology. Lafont appeals to sacramental memorial ...

Genetic Anomaly or Genetic Diversity: Thinking in the Key of Disability on the Human Genome

[Thinking in the key of disability reconfigures scientific presumptions to accept identified genetic anomalies as instances of the great diversity possible in the human genome. ...

Bernard Lonergan at the Service of the Church

[Cardinal Martini, archbishop emeritus of Milan, and currently scholar in residence in Jerusalem, delivered this inaugural address on November 17, 2004, during a three-day international ...

Feminist Mariologies: Heteronomy/Subordination and the Scandal of Christology

[Cardinal Martini, archbishop emeritus of Milan, and currently scholar in residence in Jerusalem, delivered this inaugural address on November 17, 2004, during a three-day international ...
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