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Creation As An Ecumenical Problem: Renewed Belief Through Green Experience, Thomas Hughson

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Loss of a sense of creaturehood and of members has occurred across the lines of divided churches in a secular context. The author explores the question whether green experience of nature can be a path toward a renewed sense of creaturehood. Bernard Lonergan’s distinction between faith and belief allows for identifying a primordial faith that interprets the cosmos as numinous. Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises interprets primordial faith with the biblical word of God as Creator. Why not develop local ecumenical experiments in reevangelization that address green experience?

Review Of Restored To Earth: Christianity, Environmental Ethics, And Ecological Restoration By Gretel Van Wieren, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Remembering Those Who Have Gone Before Us, Bryan Massingale

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Africa: Marriage Cannot Be Reduced To A Legal Formula, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Toward A Catholic Malcolm X?, Bryan N. Massingale

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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The Anonymous Theology Of Modern Family, Conor M. Kelly

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

The popular television show Modern Family follows sitcom conventions and attempts to send a moral message about how relatives can live well together. An examination of the specific content of this message shows that it prioritizes self-giving love for the sake of forgiveness and reconciliation. This creates a recognizable parallel with the Christian conception of agape, and a discussion of this notion in the work of Karl Rahner in conjunction with his idea of the “anonymous Christian” allows for the identification of Modern Family’s moral vision as an anonymous theology of family ripe with theological significance and pedagogical potential.

My Church Loyalties, D. Stephen Long

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Kant's Apophaticism Of Finitude: A Grammar Of Hope For Speaking Humanly Of God, Philip J. Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Collaborating For A Shared Purpose, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Two Nations Under God, Bryan Massingale

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of The Cross And The Lynching Tree, Bryan Massingale

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Building Bridges And Crossing Boundaries: Philosophy, Theology, And The Interruptions Of Transcendence, Philip J. Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Discussions about theological realism within analytic philosophy of religion, and the larger conversation between analytic and continental styles in philosophy of religion have generated relatively little interest among Catholic philosophers and theologians; conversely, the work of major figures in recent Catholic theology seems to evoke little interest from analytic philosophers of religion. Using the 1998 papal encyclical on faith and reason, Fides et ratio, as a major point of reference, this essay offers a preliminary account of the bases for such seeming mutual indifference and offers some suggestions for future dialogue.

Eucharist And Society, Susan Wood

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Warrior Saints: Warfare And Violence In Martin Luther's Readings Of Some Old Testament Texts, Mickey Mattox

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of Deus In Machina: Religion, Technology, And The Things In Between, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of Reconciliation, Justice, And Peace: The Second African Synod, Joseph Ogbonnaya

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Has The Silence Been Broken? Catholic Theological Ethics And Racial Justice, Bryan Massingale

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

This survey discusses the emerging contours of a distinctive Catholic ethical approach to race, racism, and racial justice. Among its features are the adoption of a more structural and cultural understanding of human sinfulness, engaged intellectual reflection, concern about malformed white identity, an intentional dialogue with African American scholarship and culture, and the cultivation of spiritual practices and disciplines. The “Note” concludes with a discussion of the global challenges of racialization and the future challenges for Catholic ethical reflection on racism.

Faith, Autonomy, And The Limits Of Agency In A Secular Age, Philip J. Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of Trent: What Happened At The Council By John W. O'Malley, Mickey L. Mattox

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Religious Influences On Justice Theory, Daniel Maguire

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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African Catholicism: Intra-Ecclesial Challenges To Justice, Joseph Ogbonnaya

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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A Nation Called To Intergenerational Justice--Comments On Nuclear Generated Electricity, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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¿Atribuyó Sto. Tomás Una Doctrina De La Creación A Aristóteles?, Mark Johnson

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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The Hidden Faces Of Racism: Catholics Should Stand Firm On Affirmative Action, Bryan N. Massingale

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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The Experience Of A Pastoral Advocate And Implications For The Church, Bryan Massingale

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

This chapter presents a critique—based on the chapter’s author’s own experiences as a university teacher, parish minister, and pastoral advocate—of the deleterious effects of what he calls “the pervasive climate of fear” and reactivity that surrounds even modest attempts at open conversation among Catholics about sexual diversity and the church. It suggest that this climate of fear is debilitating and dangerous, especially within a faith community charged by Jesus to “be not afraid.” Left unaddressed, this fear has wide-ranging effects that threaten the well-being not only of LGBT Catholics but of all Catholics and indeed the very mission and identity …

The Theological Virtues And Participation In Active And Passive Spiration, Robert M. Doran

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Primordial Lights: The Logos And Adoil In The Johannine Prologue And 2 Enoch, Andrei Orlov

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of Religious Modernism In The Low Countries, David G. Schultenover S.J.

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Gaudim Et Spes And The Call To Justice: The Us Experience, Kristin Heyer, Bryan Massingale

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Religious Motivation For Mitigating Human-Forced Climate Change: Scientifically Informed, Politically Astute, And Collaborative, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose

– Religious organizations are among the non-government groups in the USA that are addressing climate change phenomena from their various faith perspectives and, despite the differences in their traditions and practices, are collaborating with one another to achieve their mutual goal – the establishment of policies that will mitigate the real and anticipated perils scientists are forecasting. If sufficiently motivated by their faith, informed by climate science, and politically astute, these groups may be reliable allies for climate change decision-makers to tap as they strive to achieve their mutual goal. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

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