Pamela E. Hedrick
November 27, 2014
Volume 75 Number 4
William P. O’Brien
November 27, 2014
Thomas Worcester
November 27, 2014
Paul F. Knitter
November 27, 2014
Harvey D. Egan S.J.
November 27, 2014
Eduardo C. Fernández
November 27, 2014
From the Editor’s Desk: On the Feast of the Transfiguration
W. H. Auden’s eclogue, The Age of Anxiety (1947), depicts the cultural temper in the age of war and modernity. He identifies what much of the world has suffered since the Great War and continues to suffer today in the innumerable outbreaks of local wars streamed to our digital devices. Chronic anxiety is not new.
David G. Schultenover, S.J.
November 27, 2014
Jonathan Wright
November 27, 2014
The Thomistic Revival and the Relationship between the Jesuits and the Papacy, 1878–1914
The revival of Scholasticism by Pope Leo XIII with his encyclical Aeterni Patris (1879) had been in preparation for at least half a century. He hoped that Thomism would not only give the Church a complete program for revival of the sacred sciences but also enable the Church to effectively confront modernity. Leo’s chosen instrument
Oliver P. Rafferty, S.J.
November 27, 2014