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Turning Theology: A Proposal

Drawing out Stephen Bevans’s thesis that Christian theologizing has never been an exclusively European project, this article proposes that theologians working within the context of ...

Between Ecclesiology and Ethics: Promoting a Culture of Protection and Care in Church and Society

How does political theology, with its eschatologically themed commitment to both critique and constructive transformation of the social, economic, and political in the light of ...

Beyond Scandal and Shame? Ecclesiology and the Longing for a Transformed Church

The need for reform of the Catholic Church’s structures features prominently in discussion of the clerical sexual abuse scandal. Less common has been reflection on ...

The Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis as a Theological Crisis: Emerging Issues

The sexual abuse crisis has long-term consequences: not only on the victims and survivors of abuse, but also on the theological standing and balance of ...

Rhetoric and Reality: Augustine and Pope Francis on Preaching Christ and the Poor

In an age when rhetoric about alleviating conditions of poverty is rightly suspect, this study offers a reassessment of the power of non-modern, christological rhetoric ...

The Possibilities of Grace amid Persistent Depression

Chronic and recurring depression presents challenges to theologians working on the doctrine of grace. First, its frequent misrepresentation inhibits accurate perceptions of God’s loving presence ...

Sex, Race, and Culture: Constructing Theological Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century

Pre-Vatican II theological anthropology focused attention on the exercise of human freedom as embodied in time and oriented to community. Post-Vatican II theology has deepened ...

Feminist Theology and the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis

The clergy sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is complex. While first and foremost a terrible violation of victims, it is not only about ...

The Child at the Center: What Can Theology Say in the Face of the Scandals of Abuse?

Approaching the subjects of child safeguarding and children through a theological lens, the author shows the devastating scale, impact, and ramifications of the Catholic Church’s ...

Towards a Theology of Childhood: Children’s Agency and the Reign of God

This article contributes to a theology of childhood in the context of recent research in the social sciences on children’s lives and the nature of ...

Eucharistic Sacrifice as Anti-Violent Pedagogy

The Council of Trent teaches that the sacrifice of the Mass is identical to the sacrifice of Calvary, but with the crucial difference that the ...

Anger, Forgiveness, and Restorative Justice in Light of Clerical Sexual Abuse and Its Cover-up

Catholic tradition provides resources for understanding morally legitimate anger as ordered to the good of survivors and their wider communities, a way of conceiving of ...

Relationality and Intersubjectivity within a Socially Oriented Metaphysics: A Note on Ecclesiology

Given increased attention to the themes of relationality and intersubjectivity in contemporary Christian systematic theology, the author argues that these terms are best understood within ...

Statistically Ordered: Gender, Sexual Identity, and the Metaphysics of “Normal”

The recent call by Pope Francis for the church to develop a “theology of women” raises more fundamental and prior questions about the very nature ...

An Alternative to Gender Complementarity: The Body as Existential Category in the Catholic Tradition

This article connects the work of M. Shawn Copeland to a dialogue between Bernard Lonergan and Emmanuel Levinas. Exploring these authors’ insights on intersubjectivity, alterity, ...

Church as Sacrament of Yin-yang Harmony: Toward a More Incisive Participation of Laity and Women in the Church

The author proposes a development of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conference’s theology of church as a sacrament of harmony, drawing in particular from the ...

Jacques Dupuis and Chalcedon

This article reexamines Jacques Dupuis’s distinction between the action of the Word as such and the action of the Word incarnate. Against recent critics, I ...

Theology before the Reformation: Renaissance Humanism and Vatican II

Histories of theology move seamlessly from late-medieval Scholasticism to the Reformation and bypass the important theological contribution of Renaissance humanists such as Lorenzo Valla and ...

The Nature and Operation of Structural Sin: Additional Insights from Theology and Moral Psychology

Recent work has improved the understanding of social structures in theological discourse, but ambiguity persists with respect to structures of sin. Here, a revised definition ...

From Magisterium to Magisteria: Recent Theologies of the Learning and Teaching Functions of the Church

In the aftermath of Vatican II, questions have been raised about the exercise of magisterium in the church. This study first examines the teaching authority ...
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