This article represents a first effort at characterizing the theological and interpretive functions of biblical annotations in modern Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles. It argues ...

The author examines how current textual-critical views and premodern attitudes toward the scriptural text offer today’s theologians helpful perspectives on the Scriptures. The Qumran and ...

After reflecting on the reluctance of modern theology to engage in eschatological speculation, the author argues that plenty of traditional Catholic beliefs warrant a rich ...

The question of right speech about the mystery of God in suffering has moved many to discuss theodicy and human freedom, and has persuaded many ...

The article systematically reflects on the Filipino People Power Revolution of 1986 under the illumination of theology. It contends that there can be no liberation ...

Moral theologians grant that intuitions cannot supply all that is needed for their craft. It may be, however, that intuitions can and do play a ...

This disputatio is an inquiry into the nature of the truly human sexual act. The authors first present and critique the types of complementarity—heterogenital, reproductive, ...

Responding to a recent article by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the author argues that evolution of the world and life, through random processes rightly understood, is ...

The foundational experience underlying Paul’s Christology is the call and conversion that led him to focus his Christology on the death and resurrection of Christ. ...

While Cyprian’s Epistula 72, sent to Stephen of Rome after the spring 256 synod of African bishops, is well known for its part in what ...

The author argues that in the present discussion over the meaning of Vatican II, considered from the historical vantage point of 40 years, the council ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...