The primary concern of this article is an issue of a hermeneutical nature: What is the appropriate way of interpreting Scripture? How do we approach and construe it? Do we “dismiss certain rigorous [moral] demands with the magic phrase of ‘time conditioned’”?1 But is it not that historically conditioned assertions of faith are precisely the concern of the whole historical-critical enterprise? Is it not the case that the historical-critical method is precisely concerned with the original historical circumstances surrounding the initial articulation of any theological statement?
{"title":"EXPLORING THE PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS IN TWO BIBLICALLY-BASED HOMILIES","authors":"Michael Demetrius H. Asis","doi":"10.13185/LA2015.29106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/LA2015.29106","url":null,"abstract":"The primary concern of this article is an issue of a hermeneutical nature: What is the appropriate way of interpreting Scripture? How do we approach and construe it? Do we “dismiss certain rigorous [moral] demands with the magic phrase of ‘time conditioned’”?1 But is it not that historically conditioned assertions of faith are precisely the concern of the whole historical-critical enterprise? Is it not the case that the historical-critical method is precisely concerned with the original historical circumstances surrounding the initial articulation of any theological statement?","PeriodicalId":127392,"journal":{"name":"Landas: Journal of Loyola School of Theology","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121719145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mary in Pope Francis’ Gospel of Mercy and Joy","authors":"S. Juliá","doi":"10.13185/LA2015.29104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/LA2015.29104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":127392,"journal":{"name":"Landas: Journal of Loyola School of Theology","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128062281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article will compare the treatment of the order of charity to neighbor in Saint Augustine of Hippo and Saint Thomas Aquinas. In particular, it will relate the similarities and the differences in their treatment of the subject, and will attempt to explain their differences in terms of their family environment and life experience, geographical and historical context, intellectual education and philosophical affiliation, and personality.
{"title":"The Order of Love in Saint Augustine of Hippo and Saint Thomas Aquinas","authors":"R. Terme","doi":"10.13185/LA2015.29102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/LA2015.29102","url":null,"abstract":"This article will compare the treatment of the order of charity to neighbor in Saint Augustine of Hippo and Saint Thomas Aquinas. In particular, it will relate the similarities and the differences in their treatment of the subject, and will attempt to explain their differences in terms of their family environment and life experience, geographical and historical context, intellectual education and philosophical affiliation, and personality.","PeriodicalId":127392,"journal":{"name":"Landas: Journal of Loyola School of Theology","volume":"210 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114973676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Music for the Solemnities and Feasts of the Lord in Ordinary Time","authors":"S. J. T. J. M. Ofrasio","doi":"10.13185/LA2015.29105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/LA2015.29105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":127392,"journal":{"name":"Landas: Journal of Loyola School of Theology","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117306515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines Pauline texts (1 Cor. 7; 11:2–16; the “household codes” in Col. 3:18–4:1; Eph. 5:21–6:9; 1 Tim. 2:8– 15; Titus 2:1–10) which may portray Paul as a misogynist. It also presents some Pauline texts (Acts 16:11–15, 40; 18:2, 18; Rom. 16:1–16; 1 Cor. 16:19; Phil. 4:2–3; Col. 4:15) which speak positively of women. Our aim is to understand the Pauline view on women and evaluate whether Paul’s thoughts are still of value to our present context.
{"title":"Paul: A Misogynist?","authors":"O. Alejandrino","doi":"10.13185/LA2014.28205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/LA2014.28205","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines Pauline texts (1 Cor. 7; 11:2–16; the “household codes” in Col. 3:18–4:1; Eph. 5:21–6:9; 1 Tim. 2:8– 15; Titus 2:1–10) which may portray Paul as a misogynist. It also presents some Pauline texts (Acts 16:11–15, 40; 18:2, 18; Rom. 16:1–16; 1 Cor. 16:19; Phil. 4:2–3; Col. 4:15) which speak positively of women. Our aim is to understand the Pauline view on women and evaluate whether Paul’s thoughts are still of value to our present context.","PeriodicalId":127392,"journal":{"name":"Landas: Journal of Loyola School of Theology","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115420918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A parable is a succinct didactic story narrated to illustrate a particular lesson or truth. Christian readers are mostly familiar with Jesus’ parables in the New Testament, but the Hebrew Bible (OT) has its own share of parables. They appear often as narrative prose: e.g., 2 Sam. 12:1–4 (Parable of the Ewe Lamb); 2 Sam. 14:5–7 (the Two Brothers Fighting); 1 Kgs. 20:39–40 (the Escaped Prisoner). Isaiah’s Vineyard Song (Isa. 5:1–2) is a good example of a parable in verse form (also the Lioness and Her Whelps in Ezk. 19:2–9 and the Parable of the Vine in Ezk. 19:10–14).
{"title":"The Parable of the Heifer in Hosea 10:11–13","authors":"S. Ramirez","doi":"10.13185/LA2014.28204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/LA2014.28204","url":null,"abstract":"A parable is a succinct didactic story narrated to illustrate a particular lesson or truth. Christian readers are mostly familiar with Jesus’ parables in the New Testament, but the Hebrew Bible (OT) has its own share of parables. They appear often as narrative prose: e.g., 2 Sam. 12:1–4 (Parable of the Ewe Lamb); 2 Sam. 14:5–7 (the Two Brothers Fighting); 1 Kgs. 20:39–40 (the Escaped Prisoner). Isaiah’s Vineyard Song (Isa. 5:1–2) is a good example of a parable in verse form (also the Lioness and Her Whelps in Ezk. 19:2–9 and the Parable of the Vine in Ezk. 19:10–14).","PeriodicalId":127392,"journal":{"name":"Landas: Journal of Loyola School of Theology","volume":"376 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133860465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Some contemporary authors make special mention of The Shepherd of Hermas (c. 90–140 AD) as one of the most significant works on the subject of discernment in the early Church. One recent writer even holds that as an early spiritual treatise, composed in Rome sometime during the middle of the second century, this work “formulated the essential rules for the discernment of spirits.”1 Another author says that in this opus of Hermas, we can see “the first Christian formulation of the rules for the discernment of spirits.”2
{"title":"Discernment of Spirits in The Shepherd of Hermas and Origen","authors":"S. L. Bautista","doi":"10.13185/LA2014.28201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/LA2014.28201","url":null,"abstract":"Some contemporary authors make special mention of The Shepherd of Hermas (c. 90–140 AD) as one of the most significant works on the subject of discernment in the early Church. One recent writer even holds that as an early spiritual treatise, composed in Rome sometime during the middle of the second century, this work “formulated the essential rules for the discernment of spirits.”1 Another author says that in this opus of Hermas, we can see “the first Christian formulation of the rules for the discernment of spirits.”2","PeriodicalId":127392,"journal":{"name":"Landas: Journal of Loyola School of Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114273633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Travelling in the Secular Waste Land: de Certeau and the Irruptions of the Mystical","authors":"Jefferson M. Chua","doi":"10.13185/LA2014.28202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/LA2014.28202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":127392,"journal":{"name":"Landas: Journal of Loyola School of Theology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134620820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A faithful Catholic couple I know who have been married for nine years but are unable to have children asked me recently about embryonic adoption. I was a bit caught in the dark about that one, but I understand that it involves the legal adoption of an “unused” embryo (a product of in vitro fertilization or some such process) which is then implanted in a woman. Please can you tell me about the situation regarding IVF and update me on the opinion of the Catholic Church on adopting frozen embryos?1
{"title":"A Pastoral Question on IVF and Embryo Adoption","authors":"F. McTavish","doi":"10.13185/LA2014.28206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/LA2014.28206","url":null,"abstract":"A faithful Catholic couple I know who have been married for nine years but are unable to have children asked me recently about embryonic adoption. I was a bit caught in the dark about that one, but I understand that it involves the legal adoption of an “unused” embryo (a product of in vitro fertilization or some such process) which is then implanted in a woman. Please can you tell me about the situation regarding IVF and update me on the opinion of the Catholic Church on adopting frozen embryos?1","PeriodicalId":127392,"journal":{"name":"Landas: Journal of Loyola School of Theology","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125168135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Paschal Mystery and Divine Compassion By Antonio V. Romualdez","authors":"Cory Villafania","doi":"10.13185/LA2014.28207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/LA2014.28207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":127392,"journal":{"name":"Landas: Journal of Loyola School of Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131124882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}