Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/tho.2023.a900229
D. Keating
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/rvm.2023.a899486
Thomas S. Hibbs
“yes” to God’s call in Christ and so to the reception of a new mission and a new identity. Franks is surely correct to show that Christ alone offers us the fullness of our personhood, mission, and identity. This reviewer wonders if there might also be a natural or philosophical level to the moral response to the world that needs to be recovered as well. Thomas Weinandy, O.F.M. Cap., in the final chapter, offers a penetrating analysis of the creed of Chalcedon and its connection to evangelization. In Weinandy’s brief yet erudite summary, Chalcedon teaches that “Jesus must be truly the Son of God who truly exists as truly man” (303). Weinandy goes on to show that this Christic and Trinitarian confession is what makes possible the new evangelization. The new evangelization is nothing other than calling for salvation in and through a personal relationship with Jesus and the resulting Eucharistic ordering and communion, our new home and destiny. The significance of this volume is that it shows the richness and fecundity of a theological vision that begins in the uniqueness and universality of the lordship of Jesus Christ. Fidelity to Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium does not stunt theological scholarship but instead gives it a center that renders it possible, and that center is Jesus Christ himself.
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{"title":"Habits and Holiness: Ethics, Theology, and Biopsychology by Ezra Sullivan, O.P (review)","authors":"Craig Steven Titus","doi":"10.1353/tho.2023.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127106208","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":"A Companion to the Spanish Scholastics ed. by Harald E. Braun, Erik de Bom, and Paolo Astorri (review)","authors":"Ulrich L. Lehner","doi":"10.1353/tho.2023.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125681426","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}
F CONFIRMATION IS, as the wag has it, a sacrament in search of a theology, even more so is synodality a movement in search of a theology. Not all movements deserve a theology; and movements that do are not always supported by theologies that make the grade. Given that synodality has been supported by many theologically dubious claims, is it a movement that does not deserve a theology? Or is it a sound movement that has not found a theology that makes the grade? I do not claim to have read comprehensively in the theology of synodality, so perhaps the ecclesiologically superficial accounts that I have encountered are not representative of its theology as a whole. Rather than pursue further that question, I will here propose my own response: Synodality can be a movement that deserves a theology. I will argue that synodality points to the Way who is Christ (syn-hodos as a meeting of the way) and can be conceived in terms of the dynamics of ecclesial communio, itself a theological transposition of the one-many question. Understood this way, synodality expresses a symphony of pneumatic charisms and missions discerned within the Church.
{"title":"Christ as the Way of Synodality","authors":"A. Franks","doi":"10.1353/tho.2023.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.0012","url":null,"abstract":"F CONFIRMATION IS, as the wag has it, a sacrament in search of a theology, even more so is synodality a movement in search of a theology. Not all movements deserve a theology; and movements that do are not always supported by theologies that make the grade. Given that synodality has been supported by many theologically dubious claims, is it a movement that does not deserve a theology? Or is it a sound movement that has not found a theology that makes the grade? I do not claim to have read comprehensively in the theology of synodality, so perhaps the ecclesiologically superficial accounts that I have encountered are not representative of its theology as a whole. Rather than pursue further that question, I will here propose my own response: Synodality can be a movement that deserves a theology. I will argue that synodality points to the Way who is Christ (syn-hodos as a meeting of the way) and can be conceived in terms of the dynamics of ecclesial communio, itself a theological transposition of the one-many question. Understood this way, synodality expresses a symphony of pneumatic charisms and missions discerned within the Church.","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126853095","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}
HE ANNOUNCEMENT OF a “synod on synodality” and the subsequent efforts of dioceses to engage great numbers of the faithful in the preparations give the topic an air of extreme moment. In the West, at least, there has been a temptation to equate synodality with a move toward democratization in the Church—a prospect regarded variously with enthusiasm or dismay. Whether this association is fair or not, it brings to mind a comment G. K. Chesterton made about democracy and tradition: “Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our father.” Chesterton’s maxim is a fitting thematic statement for this article. Synodality is, arguably, very much of a piece with Tradition within the Christian life. But at the same time, it stands in tension with Tradition—and the primacy of Tradition in its fullest sense must be acknowledged.
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{"title":"Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology ed. by Michael A. Dauphinais, Andrew Hofer, O.P., and Roger W. Nutt","authors":"Robert P. Imbelli","doi":"10.1353/tho.2023.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117144715","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}
OPE FRANCIS has elevated the concept of “synodality” to the status of a new ecclesiological guiding concept, comparable to a nota ecclesiae, which captures the essence of the Church as comprehensively as do the traditional characteristics of the Church, namely, unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity. Vatican documents since then have sought to concretize and differentiate the concept of synodality, beginning with interpreting it etymologically as syn-hodos, a path to be walked together. This emphasizes, on the one hand, the waycharacter of the Christian faith and its missionary commitment and, on the other hand, the community aspect of the Church, which finds its expression in ecclesial structures, the liturgy, and caritative life. In such explanations of synodality, reference is regularly made to the rich synodal tradition of the Church. Earlier theories concerning councils, however, are hardly taken
{"title":"Synodality and the Conciliar Tradition of the Church: Medieval and Early Modern Experiences of Synodality","authors":"Thomas Prügl","doi":"10.1353/tho.2023.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.0009","url":null,"abstract":"OPE FRANCIS has elevated the concept of “synodality” to the status of a new ecclesiological guiding concept, comparable to a nota ecclesiae, which captures the essence of the Church as comprehensively as do the traditional characteristics of the Church, namely, unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity. Vatican documents since then have sought to concretize and differentiate the concept of synodality, beginning with interpreting it etymologically as syn-hodos, a path to be walked together. This emphasizes, on the one hand, the waycharacter of the Christian faith and its missionary commitment and, on the other hand, the community aspect of the Church, which finds its expression in ecclesial structures, the liturgy, and caritative life. In such explanations of synodality, reference is regularly made to the rich synodal tradition of the Church. Earlier theories concerning councils, however, are hardly taken","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125415823","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":"Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas III by John F. Wippel (review)","authors":"C. Trifogli","doi":"10.1353/tho.2023.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124502807","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}
LTHOUGH THE Preparatory Document for the sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, and, even more, the Working Document for the Continental Stage of the “synodal journey” both feature the idea of “coresponsibility” in the Church, could it be the case that the notion of “synodality” as “the form, the style and the structure of the Church” (PD 2) tends in actuality to the erasure of “coresponsibility” as having any meaning independent of “synodality”? And, since the possibilities of genuine lay leadership in the Church derive from the idea of “co-responsibility,” could it be that “synodality,” though intending the contrary, actually tends towards the erasure of authentic lay leadership in the Church? That is the question that motivates this essay, which presents itself as an exercise in theology, that is, in “faith seeking understanding,” where the mystery of faith of which we are seeking deeper understanding is the mystery of the Church.
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