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Editor’s Introduction Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Sandra M. Schneiders, Min-Ah Cho
After tracing the history of the term “spirituality” and the discipline of spirituality up to the mid-twentieth century, this article describes the contemporary understanding of spirituality as lived religious experience and of the academic discipline which studies this subject. This phenomenology of the discipline grounds a position on the relationship between lived spirituality and theology on the
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A Priest, a Ranch, and los Muchachos: A Study of Race and Clerical Abuse from New Mexico Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Kathleen Holscher
Father Ed Donelan came to New Mexico from Massachusetts. The priest worked as a chaplain at a facility for “juvenile delinquents,” and later ran a home for boys he called the Hacienda de los Muchachos. Donelan sexually abused youth at both facilities. This essay considers how Donelan leveraged New Mexico’s juvenile justice and habilitation systems, and racial inequities baked into them, to abuse young
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Christian History Meets Constitutional History: John Courtney Murray’s Augustinian Political Theology of the American Founding Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Dennis J. Wieboldt
Much has been written of John Courtney Murray’s reception of Thomas Aquinas. Although not totally misplaced, this near-exclusive attention to Aquinas’s role in Murray’s thought has obscured the contributions of an equally important figure—Augustine of Hippo—to Murray’s political theology. This article thus offers a novel survey of Murray’s seminal We Hold These Truths and reveals that Augustine’s theory
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“You Adore a God Who Makes You Gods”: Augustine’s Doctrine of Deification Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Michael M. C. Reardon
Twentieth-century theologians advanced a consensus position that the doctrine of deification was alien to Augustine’s theology—even impossible to square with his other commitments—and that even if traces of the doctrine could be detected, they were, at best, of marginal importance to his intellectual topography. This position, however, has been persuasively challenged by several investigations during
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A Reappropriation of the Joseph Story in Genesis 39 and Surah 12 for Contemporary Race-Discourse Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Cyril Orji
The death of George Floyd at the hands of law enforcement agents in 2020 and the racial tensions that followed it have again reignited the contentious debate about racism and society’s inability to find an enduring solution. This article is a novel effort to situate the debate in an interreligious context and contribute meaningfully to the search for a solution. Drawing from the Joseph and Potiphar’s
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The Extent and Impact of Racism and Eugenics in the Writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 John P. Slattery
The impact of eugenics on the early-twentieth-century scientific community was vast, including nearly all evolutionary scientists, paleontologists, and biologists. The Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French paleontologist, was no exception. This article analyzes the full extent and impact of racist and eugenic ideas in Teilhard’s writings between 1905 and 1955. It examines the underlying causes
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A Pied Theological Cosmology: Alejandro García-Rivera’s Gift to Science Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Matthew J. Gummess
The work of the late Alejandro García-Rivera has been overlooked as a contribution to theological engagement with science. A significant obstacle to appreciating it as such is the view that his theological cosmology marks a problematic shift from Latinx theological aesthetics to an uncritical engagement with the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. This article engages his oeuvre in response to that
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Theologians Minor: Embracing Our Vocation with Humility Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Brian P. Flanagan
Amid multiple crises in our world, academic theology is facing a crisis in Catholic higher education, leading to a smaller place for theology and religious studies in increasingly precarious Catholic institutions. Rather than succumbing to despair or continuing in denial, this address encourages theologians to embrace the virtue of humility and the smallness of the vocation of the theologian in the
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Encounter of Religions in Papua New Guinea—Toward a Relationship between Christianity and Original Traditions Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Dušan Lužný, Martin Soukup
The text introduces Papua New Guinea as a region where an encounter of various cultural and religious traditions occurred in the last several centuries and which still happens today. Christianization has posed a significant cultural change that has taken place recently and at the same time as modernization. Using examples from Papua New Guinea, the study demonstrates that although Christianity can
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Liturgical Animals in a Secular Age: On Charles Taylor and James K. A. Smith Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Anthony J. Scordino
Charles Taylor and James K. A. Smith occupy unique terrain among the many genealogists, cartographers, and mission-oriented Christian interpreters of secular modernity. By putting a methodological premium on philosophical(-theological) anthropology and on articulating the conditions—rather than simply the content—of belief in the West today, they approach and elucidate a well-trodden scholarly landscape
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Our New Galileo Affair Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Craig A. Ford
This essay argues that the current Roman Catholic ecclesial climate with respect to its teachings on gender identity and sexual orientation constitutes our own contemporary version of the Galileo Affair. After a consideration of the historical circumstances of the Galileo Affair of the 17th century, I argue not only that the institutional risk factors for a subsequent Galileo Affair have not been adequately
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Real Presence Amid the Shallows: Eucharist and Friendship in a Digital Age Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Lucas Briola
This article contends that Christ’s eucharistic offer of friendship, and the habits of attentiveness such real presence demands, must shape the church’s mission in a digital milieu that tends to shallow attention and relationships. It makes this argument in dialogue principally with the theology of Bernard Lonergan and the pontificate of Pope Francis, while aided by the cultural commentary of Nicholas
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Editor's Introduction Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-19
The College Theology Society was founded in 1954 and launched Horizons as its journal twenty years later. What journal of Catholic theology grounded in the spirit of aggiornamento of the Second Vatican Council, dedicated to cutting-edge scholarship, and passionate about pedagogy would not want its first issue to feature a contribution from someone whose work seamlessly embodies all three of these commitments
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I. “But Who Do YOU Say I Am?” (Mk 8:29a): Raymond Brown and New Testament Christology Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Pheme Perkins
Fifty years ago, Raymond Brown had already established his position as one of the world's leading Catholic New Testament scholars. His magisterial two-volume commentary on John's gospel remains an invaluable reference for scholars. At a time when American Catholics were still “minor leaguers” in contrast to British, German, and French exegetes, biblical theologians, Fr. Brown along with Joseph A. Fitzmyer
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II. New Methods, New Voices: Biblical Interpretation for Gospel Christology Today Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Gilberto A. Ruiz
My sincere thanks to Dr. Elena Procario-Foley and the editorial staff of Horizons for the invitation to participate in the golden jubilee of this magnificent journal. Congratulations on fifty years!
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I. Theological Reflection on White Women's Misery Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Jessica Coblentz
Following 2020, which has been called “the Year of Karen,” 2021 saw several highly anticipated, book-length indictments of white womanhood. Among them was sociologist Jessie Daniels's Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It. There, Daniels weaves stories from her life as a white queer woman and academic with multi-disciplinary research and
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II. Family Welfare and Pernicious Property: White Womanhood and Catholic Social Thought in the United States Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Kate Ward
A significant literature presents the Catholic social thought tradition (CST) as a resource for combating racism and white supremacy, and an equally important body of work critiques the documentary tradition for the ways it fails to adequately address these pernicious social sins. This essay will combine elements of both approaches to address a topic relatively modest in scope: showing how attention
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III. Rethinking Feminist Theologies of Sin in Light of White Women's Racist Violence Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Megan K. McCabe
In 1960, Valerie Saiving published a groundbreaking essay, “The Human Situation: a Feminine View,” in which she pointed to the failures of classical sin-talk to account for the ways that women sin. As an early work of feminist theology, the article pointed to the androcentrism of theology: classical notions of sin were rooted in the failures and temptations of men. It also set the stage for feminist
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You Are the Now of God: Christus Vivit and the Need for a Theological Anthropology of Youth Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Cynthia L. Cameron
Adolescents and young adults are generally missing from Catholic theological reflection on what it means to be a human person. However, Pope Francis's 2019 Apostolic Exhortation, Christus Vivit, reveals an operative theological anthropology of young people as inherently good and of adolescence and young adulthood as a life stage that is good in its own right. This, then, can serve as a foundation for
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Imago Dei in Eastern Orthodox Statements and Implications for Inclusion of People with Disabilities in the Church: A Dissonant Relationship Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Emily A. Ibrahim
In the past two decades, official entities of the Eastern Orthodox Church have released two documents with implications for the inclusion of people with disabilities in the life and educational pursuits of the church. In 2008, the Russian Orthodox Church released a statement whose ambiguous treatment of the doctrine of the imago Dei runs the risk of having an alienating effect upon people with disabilities
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Caught in the Act: Karl Rahner, Brian Flanagan, and the Problem of Liturgical Failure Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Layla A. Karst
This article explores the limitations of theological reasoning that have attempted to reconcile the claim of faith that the church is holy with the experience of a broken and sinful church. A recent case study from an Easter Vigil celebration shows how attention to liturgical practice can challenge assumptions that scholars have made about the church's liturgies and reframe the fundamental theological
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Rethinking the Work of Theologians in the Pandemic's Wake Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Kathryn Lilla Cox, Jason King
This article focuses on what the pandemic reveals about theological work in the academy and imagines a way forward. Too often, theologians are ground down, isolated workers, overworked, and strapped for time. They constantly must choose between progress in the guild and their familial and communal relationships. This false choice starves theologians of meaning and purpose, and, in such scarcity, inflames
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The Aesthetics of Solidarity: Our Lady of Guadalupe and American Democracy Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Nancy Pineda-Madrid
“What moves the human heart?”1 is a question the late Alejandro García-Rivera spent his life examining through his many works on theological aesthetics. In The Aesthetics of Solidarity, Nichole Flores furthers this work by framing her important contribution to the field in a new direction: “What often remains unexamined … is the role the very structures of liberal democracy itself plays in hindering
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Confessing Faith: Freedom of Conscience, Actualized Confession of Faith, and Confessional Allegiance Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Ximian Xu
This paper draws on the Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck's (1854–1921) views of conscience and confession of faith to articulate a dynamic view of confessing faith with a free conscience. It will argue that a genuine ecclesial confession must be coupled with the believer's free conscience in the actualized confession of faith in Christ in obedience to the word of God. This dynamic view of actualized
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From Latin American Problems to World Problems: Similarities in the Analysis of the Reality between the Texts of the Latin American Magisterium and the Pontifical Documents of Pope Francis Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Santiago Andrés Sierra González, Leonardo Bermúdez Romero, Segundo Henry Guerrero Sotelo, Libardo Alirio Hoyos Pedraza, Mary Betty Rodríguez Moreno, Wilmar Esteve Roldán Solano, Carlos Eduardo Román Hernández
Catholic Social Teaching in Latin America—portrayed in the documents of the Conference of Latin American Episcopal Conferences (Río, Medellín, Puebla, Santo Domingo, and Aparecida)—seeks to provide pastoral orientations to the social problems of the subcontinent, analyzing reality from a concrete theological perspective: the perspective of the poor. This article analyzes how Latin American problems
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“O That My Words Were Written Down!”: Contested Bodies and Unwelcome Words in the Book of Job and Modern Poetry of Disability Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Janice A. Thompson
Contributing to modern theology's attention to diverse embodiments and particular histories, this paper brings the poetry of the book of Job into dialogue with new voices: modern poets of disability, especially women. Traditional theological reflections on suffering and disability often turn to Job, although Job's words and the text itself resist easy conclusions. Modern poets of disability reveal
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The Violated Body of Christ and the Voices of Young Catholic Women: A Call to Ecclesial Action Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Elizabeth T. Groppe, Julia Feder
In the United States, there is growing awareness of violence against women in the aftermath of media coverage of numerous cases of high-profile men implicated in sexual harassment or assault and the viral spread of the “#MeToo” movement. There has not been, however, a corresponding degree of ecclesial attention to the child abuse, sexual harassment, domestic violence, and rape prevalent in our society
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The End of Loneliness: Guardini, Rilke, and the Communion of Saints Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Leonard J. DeLorenzo
Romano Guardini read Rilke's Duino Elegies as a compelling eschatological vision for the modern world, but one that must be rejected. I argue that in Rilke's writing, Guardini detected the secular analogue to the substantial image at the end of the Christian eschatological imagination—that is, the communion of saints. Rilke's vision is coherent in that the end he perceives follows from the beginning
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Between the Mystical Savage and the Angelic Doctor: Jacques Maritain's Mystical Theology Revisited Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Anthony Richard Haynes
De la vie d'oraison is an early and neglected work by Jacques Maritain. Exploring its major themes and biographical context reveals a tension in Maritain between his commitment to orthodox Catholic mystical theology and his belief in his godfather Léon Bloy's unique, tripartite vocation of lay mystic, prophet, and artist. This tension, I argue, has been overlooked due to Maritain's public image as
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I. History and Horizons of Lay Ecclesial Ministry in the US Catholic Church Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Mary Beth Yount
This theological roundtable has stand-alone articles that are complementary and together trace a flow toward ecclesial participation, of movements of bodies and voices, toward full inclusion in the Catholic Church. These works, taken together, can shed light on the dynamism and development of the church when it responds to pressing social and cultural needs—from official development of structures within
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II. Toward a Participatory Ecclesiology: Catholic Students and the Quest for Ecclesial Adulthood Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Kevin Ahern
In his 2019 post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Christus Vivit, Pope Francis identifies an important challenge for the church today. “Youth ministry,” he writes, “has to be synodal; it should involve a ‘journeying together’ … through a process of co-responsibility … Motivated by this spirit, we can move towards a participatory and co-responsible Church.”
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III. Pre-Conciliar Specialized Catholic Action and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in the United States Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Nicholas Rademacher
Eileen Fagan's and Janice Thompson's thoughtful and provocative call for papers in the Mysticism and Politics section of the 2021 College Theology Society (CTS) Annual Meeting prompted me to think anew about the complex legacy of the Friendship House (FH) movement in the United States. Fagan and Thompson invited papers that would help CTS members reflect on how we might “approach our world with a ‘mysticism
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IV. LGBTQ+ Lay Catholics Co-Creating the Church Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Brian P. Flanagan
As the other articles in this roundtable suggest, Catholics in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century were able to draw upon a long tradition of lay involvement in various lay apostolates, the renewed teaching on the role of the laity proclaimed at the Second Vatican Council, and the worldwide presence of forms of international lay organizations, including Pax Romana and Catholic
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The Potential of Ecclesial Metaphors in Systematic Ecclesiology Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Elyse J. Raby
In recent decades, the use of metaphor in ecclesiology has been broadly critiqued on the ground that metaphors are too abstract and idealized to advance our understanding of the concrete church in history; consequently, ecclesiology has embraced an “empirical turn,” incorporating fields like ethnography and social sciences. In this article, the author argues for a positive function of metaphor in ecclesiology
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“Is a Cushite Made in the Image of God?”: Christian Visions of Race in Late Antiquity Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Vince L. Bantu
There has been an increasing interest in classical and late antique studies on the existence of something approximating the modern concept of race in the ancient Greco-Roman world. Scholars of early Christianity have also debated the presence of prejudice based on skin color. The following study seeks to broaden this conversation by including late antique contexts outside of the Roman Empire as well
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Vatican II and the Genesis of a Community of Missionary Disciples: A Vision Waylaid Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Georgia Keightley
In “its deepest intuitions,” Vatican II was a missionary council whose stated purpose was to renew the church spiritually and institutionally and so prepare the Catholic community to evangelize a changed, more complex world. Church leaders’ subsequent failure to correctly understand the council's biblically sourced, trinitarian view of mission's object, its method and agency, led to a failure to implement
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A Eucharistic Pedagogy: Gospel Parables and Teachings in Simone Weil's “On the Right Use of School Studies” Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Christy Lang Hearlson
This article examines biblical allusions in Simone Weil's “On the Right Use of School Studies,” in which she argues that study can train our attention to God and neighbor. Focusing on Weil's use of Jesus' teachings that mention bread, meals, and table service, this article reveals an underlying theme of Eucharist (communion) in Weil's essay on study. Together with Weil's comment that studies are “like
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Crossing the Visible or Crossing it Out? Jean-Luc Marion's Icon as Window into Heaven Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Stephanie Rumpza
Jean-Luc Marion is often interpreted as a thinker of the purely invisible and apophatic, in tension with the rich forms of mediation found in Christian practice. I will challenge these assumptions through a close reading of one of Marion's rare concrete examples, the “icon”— not his philosophical use of the term, but the holy image that initially inspired it. Marion defines the sacred image by its
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Magisterial Authority and Theological Authorship: The Harm of Plagiarism in the Practice of Theology Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 M. V. Dougherty, Joshua P. Hochschild
The disclosure of serial plagiarism in the extensive theological and journalistic publications of Thomas Rosica, CSB, former Vatican spokesperson and sometime media attaché of the Holy See Press Office, attracted significant media attention in early 2019. This article examines a selection of Rosica's hidden sources, focusing on how passages from magisterial church documents appear without attribution
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On Studying and Teaching Religion in Dark Times Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Mary Doak
In the midst of a pandemic, an ongoing global climate emergency, violent white supremacy, economic inequality, and fraying democratic institutions, the work of theologians and religious studies scholars offers a much-needed illumination by attending both to the religious roots of these disfunctions and to religious sources of alternative possibilities. This article argues especially for the importance
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Rational Theology within Postmetaphysical Thinking? A Catholic Assessment of Habermas’ View of Religious Belief Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Martin Breul
Jürgen Habermas’ assessment of the rationality of religious convictions is ambivalent, as it oscillates between a postsecular appropriation of their semantic potentials and a fideistic insistence on their “discursive extraterritoriality.” In this article, I argue that Habermas’ fideistic portrayal of religious convictions is neither compatible with the overall argumentative architecture of his postsecular
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What's the Plan? Deciphering the Shifts and Ambiguities in Recent Papal Teachings on Creation's Eschatological Destiny and Its Temporal Care Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Christopher Steck
Ethical deliberations about care for creation require more theological clarity about God's eschatological plan for creation than presently found in church teaching. Nonetheless, we can identify in the writings of recent popes a trajectory toward what I describe as a “covenantal communion” approach. This approach holds that God's eschatological plan is to draw all creatures together in Christ and attributes
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Undoing and Unsaying Islamophobia: Toward a Restorative and Praxis-Oriented Catholic Theology with Islam Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Axel Marc Oaks Takacs
This article explores how Christian theology has historically contributed to the modern ideology of Islamophobia. After arguing that contemporary popular and political Islamophobia has its sources in replacement theology, theological supersessionism, anti-Judaism, antisemitism, Christian-Islamic polemics, Orientalism, and modern racism, it seeks to reorient Catholic theology by undoing and unsaying
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Pastoral Criticism, Structural Collaboration: The Role of Ecclesial Power Structures in Modernization and Economic Individualization Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Daniel Minch
This article analyzes the complex processes of modernization and individualization, as well as how the church has structurally fostered individualization despite its public criticism. First, the article demonstrates how modernization and individualization have gradually restructured human self-understanding into an economic image of humanity: the human person as homo oeconomicus. Second, this article
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The Meaning of Freedom and the Kingdom of God: A Struggle against the Fetishization of Our Present World Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Joseph Drexler-Dreis
In their respective contexts of Roman empire and global neoliberal capitalism, the Jesus movement and the Zapatistas announce that another world is possible and that this world has irrupted in the struggle for that other possible world. This article argues that the practical and theoretical work of the Zapatistas offers to theologians a way to articulate the meaning of the kingdom of God as a world
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Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality. By Andrea R. Jain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. x + 214 pages. $24.95 (paper). Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Glenn Young
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The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies. Edited by Mustafa Shah and Muhammad Abdel Haleem. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xxiv + 912 pages. $145.00. Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Abdessamad Belhaj
Pannenberg, and these scholars, as well as the thematic chapters, give us a window into a dialogue between certain theological perspectives and lived expressions of Christianity, it in no way covers Christian theology as a whole. A book should not be expected to do so, however, the title implies a breadth not found in its pages. This book is steeped in disciplinary conversations and would most likely
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Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes). Wisdom Commentary 24. By Lisa Michele Wolfe. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2020. lxxii + 203 pages. $39.95. Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Matthew S. Rindge
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On the Way: Religious Experience and Common Life in the Gospels and Letters of Paul. By Kevin B. McCruden. Winona, MN: Anselm Academic, 2020. 210 pages. $19.95 (paper). Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Laurie Brink
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Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life. By Joel Robbins. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xv + 189 pages. $35.00. Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Michelle A. Gonzalez
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Reading Revelation at Easter Time. By Francis J. Moloney SDB. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2020. xix + 197 pages. $24.95 (paper). Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 James Donohue
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Catholicity and Emerging Personhood: A Contemporary Theological Anthropology. By Daniel P. Horan OFM. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2019. xi + 260 pages. $25.00 (paper). Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Michael G. Lawler
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Scribes and Scribalism. Edited by Mark Leuchter. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2021. 183 pages. $39.95 (paper). Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Dale Launderville
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Justice & Peace: A Christian Primer. 3rd edition. By J. Milburn Thompson. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2019. xvi + 351 pages. $35.00 (paper). Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Patrick T. McCormick
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Science in Theology: Encounters between Science and the Christian Tradition. By Neil Messer. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2020. xii + 191 pages. $22.95 (paper). Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Noreen Herzfeld
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Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence. By Joanna Brooks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 240 pages. $34.95. Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Benjamin E. Park
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Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism: From Thanksgiving to Communion. By Kimberly Hope Belcher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xv + 238 pages. $99.99. Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Virginia Miller
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The Christology and Mystical Theology of Karl Rahner. By Joseph H. Wong and Harvey D. Egan. New York: Crossroad/Herder & Herder, 2020. xiv + 219 pages. $39.95 (paper). Horizons (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Peter Joseph Fritz
threaten to overshadow the carpe diem passages” (). For Qoheleth, however, the latter emerge from the former; six of the seven recommendations to enjoy are a direct consequence of Qoheleth’s reflections on death. Enjoyment is Qoheleth’s hermeneutic of recovery because it is the only fitting response to death’s inevitability. Six of the seven recommendations to enjoy include a claim that enjoyment