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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 ...

U.S. Catholic Social Thought Gender and Economic Livelihood

[Feminist Mariologies are partly the reaction of a justified anger to centuries of discrimination against women enshrined in the very Scriptures, in the central theological ...

Family as Domestic Church

[The author analyzes U.S. Catholic perspectives on economic livelihood at the beginnings of the 20th and 21st centuries, giving particular attention to the influence of ...

Newman and Theological Liberalism

[The identity of the family as the domestic church is not self-evident yet it has sustained serious theological development since Vatican II. The question is ...

Searching for Josef Pieper

[The author’s point of departure is the fact that both “liberals” and “conservatives” appeal to John Henry Newman to support their positions. However, Newman’s attitude ...

Reconciling the Cross in the Theologies of Edward Schillebeeckx and Ivone Gebara

[In some recent prominent studies, Josef Pieper has merited only brief attention. He is presented as one who accommodated Roman Catholic theology and philosophy with ...

Assisted Nutrition and Hydration and the Catholic Tradition: The Case of Terri Schiavo

[The author explores areas of consonance and contrast in the backgrounds and methodologies of Edward Schillebeeckx and Ivone Gebara, especially as these are illumined in ...

The Ministerial Priesthood and Liturgical Anamnesis in the Thought of Edward J. Kilmartin, S.J.

[The article explores the possibilities for a constructive theology of priesthood drawn from the work of Edward J. Kilmartin, S.J. (1923–1994). Placing Kilmartin’s direct treatment ...

Is Creation Eternal?

[The author examines the integral relationship between the Trinity and creation based on the theology of St. Bonaventure. Divine action is considered not as episodic ...

Faith in Deaf Culture

[Deaf people often have been outsiders in a hearing Church. The message of the Church has not reached Deaf people because the language, symbols, culture ...
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