SCRIPTURAL STUDIES Bauer, David R. An Annotated Guide to Biblical Resources for Ministry. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2003. Pp. viii + 327. $16.95. Berger, Klaus. Identity and Experience in the New Testament. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002. Pp....
ONE OF THE MOST serious challenges to the turn to the subject that has so influenced Catholic theology is found in postmodern thought or more specifically in poststructuralist theory. This challenge is most keenly experienced by those who have been...
By the time this September issue of Theological Studies reaches your mailbox, many of the North American colleges and universities will already be in the throes of another academic year. The time frame between the close of one school year and the opening...
VERY FEW DOCUMENTS from the early Church have inspired as much interest over the past 15 years as the so-called Apostolic Tradition attributed to Hippolytus who supposedly compiled this "church order" in Rome at the beginning of the third century....
In her book Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions, Martha Nussbaum presents a well argued philosophical theory of emotions. (1) The book offers extensive and noteworthy discussions with various ancient and contemporary theories of emotions...
A telling sign of the time is reflected in the response by a recent American college graduate who, when asked about her religious identity, answered with an easy laugh: "Methodist, Taoist, Native American, Quaker, Russian Orthodox, and Jew." (1) Whether...
THE SEXUAL ABUSE CRISIS in the Catholic Church in the United States has occasioned a host of commentaries and interpretations, many of which have used the events of the past year to reconfirm mutually polarized positions established in the broader...
SINCE THE PRECEDING ARTICLE deals in part with the interpretation of what I said in my book Creative Fidelity about the conditions and criteria for the infallible teaching of the ordinary universal magisterium, the editor has invited me to enter this...
IN A RECENT ARTICLE in this journal on the ordinary universal magisterium, (1) Richard Gaillardetz took issue with some of my observations and criticisms that I wrote on the same subject in an article published in the Heythrop Journal. (2) I suggested...
Early Syriac theology, greatly influenced by the thought patterns of Scripture, emphasized the role of the imagination in arriving at truth. An example of this approach is found in its sacramental theology. A reading of the works of St. Ephrem, James...