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Motivated For Action And Collaboration: The Abrahamic Religions And Climate Change, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Leaders of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have publicly advocated action to mitigate the adverse effects of human-forced climate change. Particularly prominent prior to, during, and after the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change were Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Pope Francis, and Patriarch Bartholomew. Also prominent was a group of Islamic clerics, leaders of organizations, and scholars who collaborated in issuing a declaration on climate change three months prior to COP 21. Informed by the Earth sciences, these leaders shared their faith-based rationales for acting locally to internationally as indicated in the documents explored …

Invisible Missions: The Grace That Heals Disjunctions, Robert Doran

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Philosophia Perennis Im Umfeld Kritischer Neuscholastik, Ulrich Lehner

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Hans Meyer (1884–1966) gehörte in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts zu den am meisten zitierten deutschen katholischen Philosophen. Er entfaltete eine immense Forschungsleistung für die Philosophiegeschichte, präsentierte aber auch eine beeindruckende systematische Summe des Denkens der abendländischen Philosophie. Politisch in der Zentrumspartei engagiert, gehörte er zur weltanschaulichen Opposition gegen den Nationalsozialismus. Sein 50. Todestag lädt zur Wiederentdeckung seines Werkes ein.

Hans Meyer (1884–1966) belonged in the first half of the 20th Century to the most frequently cited German Catholic philosophers. He produced an impressive body of works for the history of philosophy but also presented a marvelous systematic history …

Campaign Finance And Collective Egotism, Conor M. Kelly

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Currently, campaign finance law in the United States is governed by the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC, but the debate surrounding the case has grown tired. In order to reinvigorate public discourse on this consequential topic, this article proposes an interdisciplinary conversation between theology and law, relying on Reinhold Niebuhr’s notion of collective egotism to shed new light on the decision. The comparison with Niebuhr highlights the Court’s problematic reliance on unexamined empirical claims, pinpointing areas of the case in need of further critical assessment and suggesting viable alternatives. The result is a more precise …

Gravissimum Educationis And African Anthropological Poverty, Joseph Ogbonnaya

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Das Menschliche An Der Kirche Christi: Der Paderborner Domprobst Paul Simon (1882–1946) Zur Apologetik Gegen Den Nationalsozialismus, Ulrich Lehner

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

The Cathedral Vicar Paul Simon (1882–1962) published numerous books and pamphlets in defense of the Catholic faith against the attacks of Nazi ideology. His widely read book “The Human Element in the Church of Christ” (1936) was such a work of apologetics, which this article introduces in more detail.

The Veneration Motif In The Temptation Narrative Of The Gospel Of Matthew: Lessons From The Enochic Tradition, Andrei Orlov

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Catholic Moral Traditions And Energy Ethics For The Twenty-First Century, Erin Lothes Biviano, David Cloutier, Elaine Padilla, Christiana Z. Peppard, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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The Correlation Between Ecclesial Communion And The Recognition Of Ministry, Susan K. Wood

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Recognition of an imperfect communion between churches, the recognition of ecclesial communities as churches, and the mutual recognition of ministry are treated as separate and discrete topics in ecumenical conversations. Nevertheless, an ecclesiology of communion suggests that ecclesial recognition and recognition of ministry within a relationship of imperfect communion should be correlated with each other in such a way that an imperfect ecclesial communion contributes to an incremental recognition of ministry in ecumenical relationships. This essay explores this question with specific references to the concept of communion in Chapter II, part D and E of the World Council of Churches …

Augustine's Trinitarian Sacramental Sensibilities, Influence, And Significance For Our Imperiled Planet, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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The Prospect Of Humanising Development Discourse In Africa Through Christian Anthropology, Joseph Ogbonnaya

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

The invention of development as public discourse began with US President Truman’s 1949 speech that trumped up an illusion of global material prosperity based on a total restructuring of the ‘developing’ world on the model of development and material achievement of the West. Truman argued that this painful process was the only recipe for world prosperity. After decades of serious engagement on development discourse and multiple implementations of successive theories, the situation of the developing countries has not improved as rapidly as expected. At the same time, the developed countries are experiencing various forms of financial crises. This article acknowledges …

Authenticity, Accompaniment And Trust: Graces For A Discerning Church In An Age Of Secularity, Philip J. Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Vinculum Caritatis: Bond Of Love, Susan K. Wood

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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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

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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

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

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

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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The African Dream, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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

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

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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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 …

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

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Why Is Boko Haram Succeeding?, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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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

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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

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Sacraments In The Lutheran Reformation, Mickey L. Mattox

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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