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Christian Doctrines Ethical Issues and Human Genetics

[The basis of Christian ethics is a balance of the doctrines of creation, sin, redemption, and fulfillment which are at the heart of all human ...

Rethinking Morality’s Relationship to Salvation: Josef Fuchs S.J. on Moral Goodness

[The author explains Fuchs’s two distinct notions of moral goodness and their relationship to salvation. By linking moral goodness with the performance of right actions, ...

Augustine’s De Trinitate and Lonergan’s Realms of Meaning

[After reviewing various proposals concerning the structure of Augustine’s De Trinitate, the author presents a structural analysis of that work using the notion of “realms ...

Guadalupe at Calvary: Patristic Theology in Miguel S√°nchez’s Imagen de la Virgen Mar√≠a (1648)

[Readers of Miguel Sanchez’s Imagen de la Virgen María, which contained the first published account of Our Lady of Guadalupe’s acclaimed apparitions to the indigenous ...

The Convergence of Forgiveness and Justice: Lessons from El Salvador

[Forgiveness and justice need not be understood as diametrically opposite moral responses to human evil. The murder of the Jesuits in El Salvador indicates ways ...

Reception of Vatican II in the United States

[The Second Vatican Council has been received in stages in the United States. Pope John XXIII’s opening address and the council’s awareness of the interplay ...

Multiple Religious Belonging: Opportunities and Challenges for Theology and Church

[The author first examines the growing phenomenon of multiple religious belonging by outlining the theology of religions known as “inclusive pluralism” which serves as its ...

Hippolytus and the Apostolic Tradition: Recent Research and Commentary

[One of the most important sources for reconstructing early Christian liturgy has been the Apostolic Tradition attributed to Hippolytus, a Roman presbyter, anti-pope, and martyr ...

The Typological Approach of Syriac Sacramental Theology

[For the early Syriac writers, the universe, having been created by the Word, is by nature symbolic and finds completion in the Incarnation. Salvation history ...

Martha Nussbaum and Thomas Aquinas on the Emotions

[Martha Nussbaum in her Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions presents a philosophical theory of emotions that interacts with contemporary research in other sciences. ...

Challenges to the Role of Theological Anthropology in Feminist Theologies

[Convictions about human personhood, rooted in an analysis of women’s experience, are often foundational to Catholic feminist theologians. Drawing on the work of Mary McClintock ...

Reply to Richard Gaillardetz on the Ordinary Universal Magisterium and to Francis Sullivan

[The author replies to criticisms of his work on the ordinary universal magisterium and to his interpretation of the work of Francis A. Sullivan. He ...

Reply to Lawrence J. Welch

[In the course of his critique of Richard Gaillardetz’s views on the ordinary universal magisterium, Professor Welch also called into question certain formulations on that ...

Divine Grace and Human Nature as Sources for the Universal Magisterium of Bishops

[Theologians have discussed for a century and a half the ecclesial institution of the ordinary universal magisterium of bishops when it functions apart from an ...

The Catholic Church and the Other Religious Paths: Rejecting Nothing That Is True and Holy

[Catholic thinking about other religious traditions has continued to develop rapidly since the Second Vatican Council. The author discusses the impact of conciliar texts, the ...

Jewish Understandings of the Religious Other

[That Judaism is specifically the religion of one people, Israel, shapes its entire discourse about the religious other. Halakhah (Jewish law) defines permitted interactions between ...

Knowledge of Allah and the Islamic View of Other Religions

[One way to submit oneself to the will of the divine is to contemplate the revelations of the Qur’ân. For Muslims, it is God manifested ...

Hindu Views of Religious Others: Implications for Christian Theology

[Classical Hindu thinkers perfected their orthodoxy and orthopraxis in part by critiquing alternatives. Relying on hierarchies in knowledge, education, morality, and even human nature, they ...

Buddhist Perspectives on Truth in Other Religions: Past and Present

[Recent Vatican documents affirm a unique salvific efficacy for the Catholic Church by establishing its representations of the Absolute as uniquely close to the Absolute. ...

Japanse Buddhist Perspectives and Comparative Theology: Supreme Ways in Intersection

[Adherents of a particular religion consider their own tradition as absolutely authoritative for them in regard to ultimate destiny and norms for human living. The ...
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