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Interpreting Mk 5: 25–34 in Solidarity with Women Who Have Experienced Pregnancy Loss Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Emily Reimer-Barry
This essay offers an interpretation of Mk 5: 25–34 by drawing upon historical-critical, feminist, and postcolonial interpretive strategies. The ambiguity within the text opens up a range of possible meanings. In the Markan account, Jesus responds to the bleeding woman by bleeding power; creating space for her to tell her story without shame or blame; and blessing her so that she can go in peace. I
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Marrying Body and Theology: A Response to Thomas Finegan Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Michael G. Lawler, Todd A. Salzman
In a recent article in this journal, Thomas Finegan replies to our earlier article in this journal, which proposes a theological and ethical argument for the Catholic church to recognize same-sex civil unions as a lower-case sacrament. His critique focuses on the theological significance of embodiment as a one flesh union taught by Jesus, defended throughout Catholic tradition, and justified philosophically
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Book Review: Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Salvador Ryan
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Is Pope Francis’s Social Teaching Post-Cardijn? Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Sandie Cornish
Pope Francis’s two social encyclicals and his addresses to Cardijn movements reveal that he reinterprets and goes beyond the see-judge-act method. The pastoral spiral and the Ignatian pedagogical paradigm better describe the dynamics of his social teaching. Furthermore, reading Francis solely through a see-judge-act lens obscures important aspects of his teaching. Elements of his post-Cardijn approach
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The Judgment of the Nations: Structural Sin, Social Ontology, and Social Eschatology Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Ross McCullough
Can social groups, as social groups, sin? Can they be judged? There is an ambivalence in late 20th-century Catholicism in this regard, between a form of personalism on the one hand, in which only individuals are persons and hence moral subjects, and traditional Thomists along with revisionary liberation theologians on the other. This paper argues that we can accommodate the worries of the first group
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Newman and the Dogmatic Principle Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Andrew Meszaros
This article is an exposition and analysis of Newman’s so-called ‘dogmatic principle’ with a view to demonstrating what all is entailed in the principle and what is at stake in maintaining or rejecting it. The objective is to provide a detailed exposition of the dogmatic principle and then to outline a potential argumentation for its credibility and necessity for theology. The article first explains
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Introduction: The Future of Systematic Theology Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Joshua Furnal
This short introduction provides an overview of the various contributions to the special issue and introduces the arguments of each article.
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Toward Systematic Theology: Problems and Possibilities for Christian Theology in the Academy Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Paul J. DeHart
This article comprises a set of reflections on the future of systematic theology in academic institutions. It identifies three long term trends that have been shaping the current institutional context of the field, and the ways theology has (partially) responded. The article next identifies developments in some of Christian theology’s more important academic conversation partners that are promising
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Between Metaphysics and Phenomenology: Metaxology in Simone Weil, Maurice Blondel, and William Desmond Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Emmanuel Gabellieri
In this article, I argue that at the heart of the crisis of metaphysics and ecology is a separation of being and phenomenon, which invites the rediscovery of the analogical mediation of the natural and the supernatural. In part one, I survey the separated philosophy implied in a post-Husserlian methodological dilemma between prioritizing either phenomenology or metaphysics to suggest an alternative
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Being before God: Fabro’s Thomistic approach to Kierkegaard’s Theological Anthropology Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Joshua Furnal
In this article, I uncover a point of contact between Cornelio Fabro’s philosophical theology and Søren Kierkegaard’s theological anthropology. I survey how Fabro’s metaphysical account of the human person as a created ‘synthesis’ between the infinite and finite, also invites a soteriological account of the call of Christian discipleship. My wider argument is that Fabro unearthed a structural feature
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Book Review: From the Passion to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre: Memories of Jesus in Place, Pilgrimage, and Early Holy Sites Over the First Three Centuries Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Neil Xavier O’Donoghue
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Book Review: The New York Times. Changing Perspectives: Religious Freedom Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Neil Xavier O’Donoghue
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Book Review: Faith Stories: Sustaining Meaning and Community in Troubling Times Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Sean Corkery
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Book Review: Revealing Women: Feminine Imagery in Gnostic Christian Texts Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Susan Docherty
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Book Review: Newman on Doctrinal Corruption Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Andrew Meszaros
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Book Review: God’s Word to Israel Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Jeremy Corley
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Book Review: Thomas Shields & the Renewal of Catholic Education Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 John-Paul Sheridan
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Book Review: The Roman Mass: From Early Christian Origins to Tridentine Reform Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Neil Xavier O’Donoghue
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Book Review: Faith, Reason and Theosis Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Earl Collins
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The Emergence of ‘Dialogue’ as a Core Concept of Revelation in Magisterial Teaching Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Ryan K. McAleer
This article analyses key magisterial documents, investigating the emergence and development of the concept of dialogue in the teaching of the Church since the Second Vatican Council, demonstrating how this concept is central for an articulation of revelation and its dynamic outworking in salvation history. Beginning with Vatican II’s Dei verbum (1965), and its recognition that revelation is a dialogical
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Supersessionism and the Cult Attitude of Stephen and Hebrews Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Nicholas J. Moore
In the face of continued debates about Christian supersessionism with regard to Judaism, this article revisits two texts which have been thought to display the harshest anti-temple attitudes in the New Testament: Stephen’s speech in Acts 7, and the Letter to the Hebrews. Many scholars believe these two texts are connected, and a perceived anti-cultic attitude forms one of the key alleged similarities
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Herbert McCabe on the Development of Doctrine Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Taylor Payne
This article explores Herbert McCabe’s work on the development of doctrine. It contends that he provides a perspective that helps theologians move beyond the stale disputes that identify one’s position on this subject as either ‘conservative’ or ‘progressive.’ In light of his notion of the nature of tradition and use of the concept of a revolution, he is able to argue that the Church’s ongoing reception
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Contesting Chaosmos: (Re)Viewing Medieval Aesthetics Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Kristen Drahos
This article analyses the hermeneutic dispute of the contemporary value of medieval aesthetics within the writing of two giants in the 20th century—Umberto Eco and Hans Urs von Balthasar. I claim that Eco’s Joycean adaptation of medieval aesthetics uses religious language to insert a permanent, postmodern aesthetic dismantling of cosmic form. I argue that Balthasar’s reading of Dante challenges the
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Blood versus crystalloid cardioplegia during triple valve surgery: A single center experience Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Alexandro Hoyer, Thilo Noack, Philipp Kiefer, Jagdip Kang, Martin Misfeld, Michael Andrew Borger
BackgroundThe efficacy of different cardioplegia solutions on outcomes of complex cardiac operations such as triple valve surgery (TVS) is scarce. Here we compared the outcomes in TVS patients rece...
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Younger Than Ever? Subjective Age Is Becoming Younger and Remains More Stable in Middle-Age and Older Adults Today Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Markus Wettstein, Hans-Werner Wahl, Johanna Drewelies, Susanne Wurm, Oliver Huxhold, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf
Little is known about historical shifts in subjective age (i.e., how old individuals feel). Moving beyond the very few time-lagged cross-sectional cohort comparisons, we examined historical shifts ...
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Thinking About God Encourages Prosociality Toward Religious Outgroups: A Cross-Cultural Investigation Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Michael H. Pasek, John Michael Kelly, Crystal Shackleford, Cindel J. M. White, Allon Vishkin, Julia M. Smith, Ara Norenzayan, Azim Shariff, Jeremy Ginges
Most humans believe in a god or gods, a belief that may promote prosociality toward coreligionists. A critical question is whether such enhanced prosociality is primarily parochial and confined to ...
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‘Incarnational Theology’ Understandings and the Scriptural Witnesses to St Joseph in the Human Maturation of Jesus of Nazareth Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 P. A. McGavin
The author here reflects on textual witnesses of the role of Joseph of Nazareth in the human development of Jesus of Nazareth to build a culturally embodied theology that is intended to offer for u...
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Enhancing Catholic School Identity: A Response to Peter McGregor Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Robyn Horner
‘The Leuven Project: Enhancing Catholic School Identity?’ appeared in the May 2022 edition of ITQ.1 Motivated by concerns that the article misrepresents the Enhancing Catholic School Identity (ECSI...
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Pope Francis’s Integral Ecology Paradigm: An Exploration of Its Theological Foundations and Ethical Implications1 Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Celia Deane-Drummond
Integral ecology has arguably received more attention from theologians, ethicists and others compared with other ideas arising out of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’. In this article I explor...
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Growth of the Christian Idea: An Application of Bernard Lonergan’s Thought to Discourse on Doctrinal Development Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Vincent Birch
There are three aspects of the problem of development of doctrine with which approaches have had to contend: the historicity of doctrines, the role of reason in development, and the supernatural mo...
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Biblical Theodicy of Righteous Fulfillment: Divine Promise and Proximity Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Paul K. Moser
How, according to the best Biblical theodicy, does God justify God’s allowing extreme suffering and evil? According to this article, the Biblical God is Lord of the future as well as the present an...
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God and the Alone World Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Gaven Kerr
The recent aloneness argument against the classical conception of God seeks to undermine divine simplicity by showing that whatever way you cut it, there is some knowledge that God has contingently...
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The Trinitarian Theologies of Bonaventure and Balthasar and the Ontological Objection to the Ordination of Women Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Dave Norman
The article aims to show that the ontological objection to women’s ordination fails to convince when examined in light of the trinitarian theologies of Bonaventure and Hans Urs von Balthasar. The f...
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An Analogical Anthropology of Sex Difference: Erich Przywara, William Desmond, and the Imago Dei in Intersex Persons Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Kathleen Cavender-McCoy
This article argues that an analogical approach to the metaphysics of bodily sex difference, such as that found in Erich Przywara and William Desmond, offers a fruitful way forward in a fraught glo...
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Opus Dei, Opus Hominum: The Trinity, the Four-Point Hypothesis, and the Eucharist Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Eugene Schlesinger
This article draws upon the theology of Bernard Lonergan, particularly as expanded upon by Robert Doran in order to provide a theological basis for the claim that ‘the Eucharist makes the church.’ ...
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The Reasonableness of Theology: Recent Pontifical Approaches in Response to the Critique of Emmanuel Levinas Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Nigel Zimmermann
This article responds to Emmanuel Levinas and his critique of reason in the Western philosophical tradition, contrasting it with a continuity of approach taken by recent Bishops of Rome, including ...
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The Anatomy of Salvation: Robert Grosseteste on Christ’s Death, Passion, and Satisfaction Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 William Crozier
While Robert Grosseteste’s contribution to the 13th-century debate on the reason for the Incarnation is well known, his novel theory of what caused Christ’s death, and in particular the role which ...
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The Transcendental Unity of Apperception and Christian Apophaticism Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Harry Moore
This study provides an original theological interpretation of Immanuel Kant’s (1724–1804) Transcendental Unity of Apperception in light of Nicholas of Cusa’s (1401–1464) apophaticism. The study wil...
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‘Born from a Woman’: Unveiling the Marian Mystery beneath Paul’s Allegory in Galatians 4 Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-15 Kevin M. Clarke
Does Paul of Tarsus have a Mariology? Patristic exegetes and the liturgical tradition have latched onto his one obvious implication of Mary’s place in the Christian mystery, that is, ‘born from a w...
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Cultural Plurality and Inculturation: Foundations for Intercultural Dialogue Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 James Gerard McEvoy
This article investigates the significance of cultural plurality for social and ecclesial life in a post-imperial age. It argues for a view of culture that recognizes and accommodates the diversity...
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Fruit of the Earth and Work of Human Hands: Connecting the Eucharist and Regenerative Agriculture1 Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Lucas Briola
Engaging the writings of Bernard Lonergan, Charles Massy, and Pope Francis, this article offers a systematic exposition of the relationship between the Eucharist and regenerative agriculture. First...
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Reading the Love Commandments and Learning the Imitation of Christ in Aquinas Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Zane E. Chu
Aquinas’s exposition of the twofold commandment of charity embeds a pedagogy for learning the imitation of Christ. This pedagogy may be gathered from his commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew and ...
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Post-Conciliar Developments in the Catholic Doctrine of Charisms: Lumen Gentium and Iuvenescit Ecclesia Compared Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 John Stayne
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s letter Iuvenescit Ecclesia represents a considerable, and largely unnoticed, development in the Catholic doctrine of the charisms. Despite being wid...
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‘From Childhood’: A Markan Soteriology for Victims of Childhood Abuse Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Nathan O’Halloran, SJ
In this article I bring an analysis of the boy possessed ‘from childhood’ in Mark 9:14–29 to bear on the contemporary situation of victims abused as children. I suggest that at least some of the discomfort we may feel in comparing an abused child to a possessed child in the Gospels stems from a residual feeling that demoniacs are guilty. But the Gospel witness is that possessed people are innocent
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Variations in Bible Translations: Necessity or Impoverishment? Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Gerald O’Collins, SJ
The article agrees that meaning-for-meaning rather than word-for-word sums up the primary scope of translation from biblical texts. Yet Greek and Hebrew words may enjoy the same or at least very si...
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Book Review: A Companion to John Scottus Eriugena Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-09 William Woods
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Book Review: Going to Church in Medieval England Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-09 Colmán Ó Clabaigh
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Book Review: Nurturing Faith: A Practical Theology for Educating Christians Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-09 John Sullivan
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Book Review: Practical Sacramental Theology: At the Intersection of Liturgy and Ethics Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-09 Liam Tracey
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Book Review: God and Guns: The Bible against American Gun Culture Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-09 Tobias Winright
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Imaging Sin and the Passage to Holiness: René Girard, Ecclesial Vision, and the Spiritual Reshaping of Desires Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Brett McLaughlin
In his 2018 book, Stumbling in Holiness, Brian Flanagan presents the knotty ecclesiological dialogue over the purity of the Church-body. There is a continuing inducement to evade acknowledgment of a sinful dimension in the body of the Church. Sometimes Christians forswear that gravely sinful people are actually members. The converse, cynical perspective turns up as well. This present article advances
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The Fear of the Lord: The Beginning of Reconciliation Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Paul K. Moser
Some of the Biblical narratives seem inconsistent regarding human fear of God. For instance, according to Luke’s Gospel, Jesus commanded fear of God, but he also evidently commanded ‘Do not be afraid’ in relation to God. To block inconsistency, this article clarifies two kinds of motivational fear of God: conforming fear and nonconforming fear relative to God’s will. It explains why conforming, obedient
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The Leuven Project: Enhancing Catholic School Identity? Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Peter John McGregor
The stated aim of the Leuven Project is to help Catholic schools respond to the cultural and religious changes taking place in a pluralised and secularised society. In this new environment, the ideal Catholic school should be a ‘recontextualising’ school. This article examines the nature of the Project, and how it proposes to enhance Catholic school identity. It analyses the terminology that the Project
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Understanding the Church Eschatologically. A Pattern of Theological Reform in Texts and Sources of Vatican II Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Christian Stoll
The article shows from texts and sources of Vatican II that it is a major strategy of theological reform at the Council to understand the Church eschatologically. Leaving behind positions of traditional neo-scholastic ecclesiology, this strategy remodels the social, missionary, and ecumenical character of the Church. Moreover, it affects the understanding of time and eternity as well as the relationship
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Book Review: Counsels of the Holy Spirit: A Reading of St Ignatius’s Letters Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Ann Marie Guinee
from the Latin līmen, līmin ‘threshold.’ This entails the breaking of convention where we can find eating and drinking liberally acceptable, and in a celebratory fashion, or acting silly and out of character; where social order or norms can be inverted or disposed of. Finally, the third stage is ‘Reincorporation,’ where there is a return to the everyday through acceptance of one’s new role or stage
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Book Review: Thinking about Animals in Thirteenth-Century Paris: Theologians on the Boundaries Between Humans and Animals Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 OP Conor McDonough
in imitating divine perfections. Without outright dismissing the notion of created natures participating in divine exemplars, he presents evolving participation in divine perfections as a more primordial account. This foundational explanation turns upon a progressive, creative (filial) imitation of a family of divine perfections rather than participation in one or more essential ideas. Davison’s approach
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Book Review: Participation in God: A Study in Christian Doctrine and Metaphysics Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 SJ Gordon Rixon
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Book Review: Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Cristina Maria Cervone
why keep them. The prison-industrial complex in the US does not just hold men and women (and children) captive, but it actively profits from their labour (p. 188). In such a context, prison is clearly a topic of ‘central importance to CST’ (p. 190). The final sketch of merciful works is the task of welcoming the stranger. Neoliberalism has wholeheartedly endorsed the disassembly of borders to capital
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Book Review: Fifty Catholic Churches to See Before You Die Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Patrick Comerford
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Book Review: A History of the Church through its Buildings Irish Theological Quarterly (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Emma J. Wells
One of the most interesting points that came up in these texts concerns the relationship between the Fall and the boundary between humans and animals. For William of Auvergne, the Fall has made us more like animals, more brutish, less noble, and so on. On this view, as Wei notes, ‘a blurred boundary between humans and animals was a consequence of the Fall’ (p. 89). Bonaventure, however, takes a slightly