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Vinculum Caritatis: Bond Of Love, Susan K. Wood Nov 2015

Vinculum Caritatis: Bond Of Love, Susan K. Wood

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Intertextual Reception: Re-Thinking The Concept Of Revelation In Light Of Divine Immanence And The Dignity Of The Person And The Cosmos, Thomas Hughson Oct 2015

Intertextual Reception: Re-Thinking The Concept Of Revelation In Light Of Divine Immanence And The Dignity Of The Person And The Cosmos, Thomas Hughson

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Peacemaking And Victory: Lessons From Kant’S Cosmopolitanism, Philip J. Rossi Sep 2015

Peacemaking And Victory: Lessons From Kant’S Cosmopolitanism, Philip J. Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

In the texts in which Immanuel Kant discusses the principles governing international relations—including texts explicitly dealing with the sources leading states to armed conflict and the circumstances enabling its cessation—he does not directly engage the question “What constitutes victory in war?” This should not be surprising, given that Kant’s treatment of war may be read as consonant with just war thinking for which victory seems an unproblematic concept Yet there are elements in the tone and the substance of his discussion that destabilize a placement of his views as unproblematically part of that tradition. The mordant tone of his dismissal …


Eve In Early Reformation Exegesis: The Case Of Iohannes Oecolampadius, Mickey L. Mattox Jul 2015

Eve In Early Reformation Exegesis: The Case Of Iohannes Oecolampadius, Mickey L. Mattox

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Iohannes Oecolampadius stood at the forefront of the Reformation in Basel. He not only worked tirelessly for the reform of the city's churches, but also authored pioneering evangelical works of theology and exegesis. The interpretation of Eve found in his late lectures on Genesis showcases both a new emphasis on Eve's goodness and original equality with Adam, as well as a parallel insistence on her subordination to her husband after the Fall. His conception of husband and wife as partners of equal dignity on the path toward salvation moves in the direction of companionate marriage, but it stops short of …


A New Project In Systematic Theology, Robert M. Doran Jun 2015

A New Project In Systematic Theology, Robert M. Doran

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

The article explores the possibility of a new collaborative venture in systematic theology based in the work of Bernard Lonergan and Robert Doran. A prospectus is offered of five volumes intended as texts to be used at the level of MA and MDiv students.


Review Of Accompanied By A Believing Wife: Ministry And Celibacy In The Earliest Christian Communities By Raymond F. Collins, Joseph Mueller Jun 2015

Review Of Accompanied By A Believing Wife: Ministry And Celibacy In The Earliest Christian Communities By Raymond F. Collins, Joseph Mueller

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


The African Dream, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator May 2015

The African Dream, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Hotter Than Fire: The Deaths Of Migrants In The Mediterranean, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator Apr 2015

Hotter Than Fire: The Deaths Of Migrants In The Mediterranean, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Je Suis Garissa – The Unheard Cry, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator Apr 2015

Je Suis Garissa – The Unheard Cry, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Is Baptism Complete Or Part Of A Larger Christian Initiation? A Dialogue With Lutheran Sacramental Theology, Susan Wood Apr 2015

Is Baptism Complete Or Part Of A Larger Christian Initiation? A Dialogue With Lutheran Sacramental Theology, Susan Wood

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Globalization And African Catholicism: Towards A New Era Of Evangelization, Joseph Ogbonnaya Apr 2015

Globalization And African Catholicism: Towards A New Era Of Evangelization, Joseph Ogbonnaya

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

This paper argues that evangelization takes place within the context of globalization, the phenomenon that integrates the economic, cultural, social, political and religious dimensions of human existence towards improved standard of living for humanity. While acknowledging the potential dangers of globalization, especially the expanding income disparity, marginalization, secularization, consumerism, the tendency towards monoculturalism and imperialism, the author advocates daily personal encounter with the person of Jesus as the springboard of Christian spirituality. This paper concentrates on the impact of globalization on African Catholicism’s appropriation of Pope Francis’s Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium for a new evangelization and recommends important changes in …


[Review Of] No Turning Back: The Future Of Ecumenism, Susan Wood Apr 2015

[Review Of] No Turning Back: The Future Of Ecumenism, Susan Wood

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Why Is Boko Haram Succeeding?, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator Mar 2015

Why Is Boko Haram Succeeding?, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


The Unholy Alliance Against Educated African Women, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator Mar 2015

The Unholy Alliance Against Educated African Women, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Book Review Of Charles Gore: Radical Anglican, By P. M. Waddell, Robert B. Slocum Jan 2015

Book Review Of Charles Gore: Radical Anglican, By P. M. Waddell, Robert B. Slocum

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Lectures On Psalm 51 1513-1515, Mickey L. Mattox Jan 2015

Lectures On Psalm 51 1513-1515, Mickey L. Mattox

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


"Return To Your Baptism Daily": Baptism And Christian Life, Susan K. Wood Jan 2015

"Return To Your Baptism Daily": Baptism And Christian Life, Susan K. Wood

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Profit Maximization And The Death Of God: Theology And Economics In Benedict Xvi's Charity In Truth, D. Stephen Long Jan 2015

Profit Maximization And The Death Of God: Theology And Economics In Benedict Xvi's Charity In Truth, D. Stephen Long

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Sacraments In The Lutheran Reformation, Mickey L. Mattox Jan 2015

Sacraments In The Lutheran Reformation, Mickey L. Mattox

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


African Liberative Theologies, Joseph Ogbonnaya Jan 2015

African Liberative Theologies, Joseph Ogbonnaya

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Lectures On Psalm 72: 1513-1515, Mickey Mattox Jan 2015

Lectures On Psalm 72: 1513-1515, Mickey Mattox

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Liturgy As Sacramental Mystery: Incarnating Grace In The Space Of Worldly Vulnerability, Philip J. Rossi Jan 2015

Liturgy As Sacramental Mystery: Incarnating Grace In The Space Of Worldly Vulnerability, Philip J. Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Are Aquinas And Whitehead Metaphorical And Analogical All The Way Down?, Robert Masson Jan 2015

Are Aquinas And Whitehead Metaphorical And Analogical All The Way Down?, Robert Masson

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

The paper argues from the perspective of a significant strand of interpretation of Aquinas and from insights in cognitive linguistics that a fruitful dialogue between Whitehead and Thomism needs to take into account that metaphysics and talk about God are metaphorical and analogical all the way down. Cognitive linguistics provides an explanatory scheme for explaining how Aquinas’s tectonic use of analogy shifts the ground of our conventional fields of meanings to create space to conceptualize what otherwise would be beyond grasp and to make inferences possible that otherwise would be unthinkable. The essay concludes with a question, admittedly from a …


Towards A More Indigenous African Catholicism: Insights From Lonergan's Notion Of Culture, Joseph Ogbonnaya Jan 2015

Towards A More Indigenous African Catholicism: Insights From Lonergan's Notion Of Culture, Joseph Ogbonnaya

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Expanding The Horizon Of Kant’S Ethics: Recent Interpretations Of The Foundations Of The Metaphysics Of Morals, Philip J. Rossi Jan 2015

Expanding The Horizon Of Kant’S Ethics: Recent Interpretations Of The Foundations Of The Metaphysics Of Morals, Philip J. Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Actual Grace And The Elevation Of The Secular, Robert M. Doran Jan 2015

Actual Grace And The Elevation Of The Secular, Robert M. Doran

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

This paper develops and integrates several strands of thought represented in recent contributions that the author has tried to make to the secularization-sacralization debate.1 That debate is both ecclesial and theological, and the two contexts are related. The theological debate will not be resolved short of discovering the key to discerning grace everywhere. Resolution of the ecclesial debate will take much longer, if not in the sensus fidelium at least in magisterial attitudes. This paper proposes a central element in the relevant discernment.


Catholic Theology And The Enlightenment (1670–1815), Ulrich Lehner Jan 2015

Catholic Theology And The Enlightenment (1670–1815), Ulrich Lehner

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

This chapter examines the Catholic Church’s engagement with the Enlightenment from 1670–1815. It considers Catholic philosophies of the Enlightenment and new conceptualizations of natural law. The chapter also explores Catholic exegetical discussions during the period, showing how Enlightenment concerns enabled new styles of attention to the Scriptural text, new Patristic scholarship, and the origins of the later liturgical movement. Jansenist and Gallican theologies stimulated reflection on eccelesiology and the papacy, and a variety of thinkers developed new theologies of the state, and of the economy. This period also saw the rise of the Catholic ultramontanism that was to mark Church …


The Sensus Fidelium: Discerning The Path Of Faith, Susan K. Wood Jan 2015

The Sensus Fidelium: Discerning The Path Of Faith, Susan K. Wood

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Social Grace And The Mission Of The Church, Robert M. Doran Jan 2015

Social Grace And The Mission Of The Church, Robert M. Doran

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.