{"title":"Fiat Lux! Anchored in Glory—No Scandals to Dread","authors":"Maria of the Angels","doi":"10.1353/nov.2021.0053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nov.2021.0053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43446,"journal":{"name":"Nova et Vetera-English Edition","volume":"12 1","pages":"1237 - 1256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91386422","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}
Introduction: Object of is Study “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly,” said Jesus Christ ( John 10:10), who o>ers eternal life through union with him by divine grace. In the words of John Paul II, this is the “Gospel of Life” which proclaims the inherent dignity of each human life “from its very beginning to its end”—a dignity that every person sincerely open to truth and goodness can recognize. All are called to “a@rm the right of every human being to have this primary good respected to the highest degree,” for, the Pope explained, “upon the recognition of this right, every human community and the political community itself are founded.” In the past year (2020–2021), the biological and spiritual life of nearly the entire world has been negatively a>ected by the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus, whether directly or indirectly, sometimes in devastating ways. Media provided daily updates about infection rates and death-counts, about rising debt levels, about government-mandated measures including incarceration of citizens within their homes and, more recently, the di>u-
{"title":"Using Abortion-Derived Vaccines: A Moral Analysis","authors":"Ezra Sullivan, Leon Kuriakos Pereira","doi":"10.1353/nov.2021.0063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nov.2021.0063","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Object of is Study “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly,” said Jesus Christ ( John 10:10), who o>ers eternal life through union with him by divine grace. In the words of John Paul II, this is the “Gospel of Life” which proclaims the inherent dignity of each human life “from its very beginning to its end”—a dignity that every person sincerely open to truth and goodness can recognize. All are called to “a@rm the right of every human being to have this primary good respected to the highest degree,” for, the Pope explained, “upon the recognition of this right, every human community and the political community itself are founded.” In the past year (2020–2021), the biological and spiritual life of nearly the entire world has been negatively a>ected by the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus, whether directly or indirectly, sometimes in devastating ways. Media provided daily updates about infection rates and death-counts, about rising debt levels, about government-mandated measures including incarceration of citizens within their homes and, more recently, the di>u-","PeriodicalId":43446,"journal":{"name":"Nova et Vetera-English Edition","volume":"9 1","pages":"1011 - 1109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83091377","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}
In the Catholic tradition, the object of human hope is o;ered as bodily resurrection from death, and “the life of the world to come.” Implicit in that short phrase from the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed is that this “life” is understood to be life in communion with God, knowing and loving him without end, for “this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent” ( John 17:3). Pope Benedict XII’s encyclical Benedictus Deus (1336) states dogmatically that the souls of the saints enter immediately into beatitude—perfect beatitude—constituted essentially by the vision of God “face to face.”1 God, as the Source of all being, all truth, all goodness, all beauty, perfectly, more than satis@es every human longing.2 Such a conception of the object of our hope may leave one wondering: since God is, indeed, all that one could ever want—which we have no inten-
{"title":"The Consummation of the World: St. Thomas Aquinas on the Risen Saints’ Beatitude and the Corporeal Universe","authors":"Bryan Kromholtz","doi":"10.1353/nov.2021.0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nov.2021.0055","url":null,"abstract":"In the Catholic tradition, the object of human hope is o;ered as bodily resurrection from death, and “the life of the world to come.” Implicit in that short phrase from the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed is that this “life” is understood to be life in communion with God, knowing and loving him without end, for “this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent” ( John 17:3). Pope Benedict XII’s encyclical Benedictus Deus (1336) states dogmatically that the souls of the saints enter immediately into beatitude—perfect beatitude—constituted essentially by the vision of God “face to face.”1 God, as the Source of all being, all truth, all goodness, all beauty, perfectly, more than satis@es every human longing.2 Such a conception of the object of our hope may leave one wondering: since God is, indeed, all that one could ever want—which we have no inten-","PeriodicalId":43446,"journal":{"name":"Nova et Vetera-English Edition","volume":"81 1","pages":"1271 - 1287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77203518","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}
Religious life is referred to in the Catholic theological tradition as a state of perfection. 3e claim may seem relatively uncontroversial, and yet it is not immediately evident that the religious state is “perfect” and therefore “objectively higher” than other states of life. Certainly, in the years since the Second Vatican Council, greater emphasis has been placed on the complementary doctrine of the “universal call to holiness.” Lumen Gentium stresses that grace su6cient for sanctity is made available to all the Christian faithful
{"title":"Religious Life as a State of Perfection","authors":"Gregory Pine","doi":"10.1353/nov.2021.0066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nov.2021.0066","url":null,"abstract":"Religious life is referred to in the Catholic theological tradition as a state of perfection. 3e claim may seem relatively uncontroversial, and yet it is not immediately evident that the religious state is “perfect” and therefore “objectively higher” than other states of life. Certainly, in the years since the Second Vatican Council, greater emphasis has been placed on the complementary doctrine of the “universal call to holiness.” Lumen Gentium stresses that grace su6cient for sanctity is made available to all the Christian faithful","PeriodicalId":43446,"journal":{"name":"Nova et Vetera-English Edition","volume":"5 1","pages":"1181 - 1214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73960391","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}
Reinhard Hütter has authored an excellent and much-needed essay on the virtue of chastity, with a special focus on the unprecedented threat to this virtue posed by contemporary online pornography. His essay addresses the moral and spiritual aspects of the issue, as illuminated by both natural law and divine revelation. But there is also a crucial political dimension that the essay does not address, though it too is illuminated by Hütter’s insights. I propose in this essay to supplement Hütter’s account with some remarks on this dimension.
{"title":"The Politics of Chastity","authors":"E. Feser","doi":"10.1353/nov.2021.0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nov.2021.0054","url":null,"abstract":"Reinhard Hütter has authored an excellent and much-needed essay on the virtue of chastity, with a special focus on the unprecedented threat to this virtue posed by contemporary online pornography. His essay addresses the moral and spiritual aspects of the issue, as illuminated by both natural law and divine revelation. But there is also a crucial political dimension that the essay does not address, though it too is illuminated by Hütter’s insights. I propose in this essay to supplement Hütter’s account with some remarks on this dimension.","PeriodicalId":43446,"journal":{"name":"Nova et Vetera-English Edition","volume":"1 1","pages":"1257 - 1270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88935569","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}
The Book of Exodus contains a brief passage that expresses the unique intimacy that the Lord accorded to Moses during the people’s sojourn in the desert. “>e Lord spoke to Moses face to face” (Exod 33:11a). To explain this face-to-face colloquy, the text o@ers a comparison that employs the Hebrew word rēa . >e Lord spoke to Moses the way “a man speaks to his rēa ” (Exod 33:11b). What does this Hebrew word mean in this context? >e Drst to confront this question were the Jewish scholars in Alexandria who, in the third century BC, undertook the task of translating the Drst Dve books of the Old Testament into Greek, a project that became the foundation of the translation subsequently known as the Septuagint (LXX). >eir
{"title":"Friendship with God: The Christian Call to Divine Intimacy","authors":"Michael S. Sherwin","doi":"10.1353/nov.2021.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nov.2021.0057","url":null,"abstract":"The Book of Exodus contains a brief passage that expresses the unique intimacy that the Lord accorded to Moses during the people’s sojourn in the desert. “>e Lord spoke to Moses face to face” (Exod 33:11a). To explain this face-to-face colloquy, the text o@ers a comparison that employs the Hebrew word rēa . >e Lord spoke to Moses the way “a man speaks to his rēa ” (Exod 33:11b). What does this Hebrew word mean in this context? >e Drst to confront this question were the Jewish scholars in Alexandria who, in the third century BC, undertook the task of translating the Drst Dve books of the Old Testament into Greek, a project that became the foundation of the translation subsequently known as the Septuagint (LXX). >eir","PeriodicalId":43446,"journal":{"name":"Nova et Vetera-English Edition","volume":"108 1","pages":"1323 - 1343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89312028","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":"Jesus and the Last Supper by Brant Pitre (review)","authors":"Steven Smith","doi":"10.1353/nov.2021.0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nov.2021.0062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43446,"journal":{"name":"Nova et Vetera-English Edition","volume":"20 1","pages":"1412 - 1416"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82672530","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":"Catechisms, Communion, and Latin Scholastic Reception of Byzantine Thought: St. John Damascene’s De fide orthodoxa in St. Bonaventure’s Breviloquium","authors":"C. Stephan","doi":"10.1353/nov.2021.0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nov.2021.0052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43446,"journal":{"name":"Nova et Vetera-English Edition","volume":"38 1","pages":"1215 - 1235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88152193","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}
In a previous article, I defended why embryo adoption is illicit. More precisely, it is the act of arti;cially impregnating a woman that is contrary to the natural moral order and renders the practice an illicit one, and not the “praiseworthy” intention to save a human life. While I do not intend to repeat that argument in detail here, in sum, my reasoning proceeds from ;rst re-examining the underlying rationale that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) applies in its 2008 Dignitatis Personae and its 1987 Donum Vitae for other arti;cial reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), arti;cial insemination, surrogacy, and the transfer of embryos for infertile couples (an embryo adoption of some kind), all of which were condemned in these two documents as either formally “illicit” or “not ethically acceptable.” When moral theologians listen with care and renewed attention to the underlying rationale in these documents, a single common thread emerges: the reality of what I call “conjugal agency,” namely, that licit actions in reproductive bioethics must respect the role of the spouses in being agent causes of procreation and pregnancy and that this agency must be exercised through conjugal union. ?e determining criteria for what constitutes a licit clinical procedure versus an illicit one emerges very clearly in these documents once theologians grasp this logic at its root. When this logic is then applied to the question of embryo adoption, it becomes clear that it is illicit for an agent other than the spouse to impregnate his wife and that, in addition, it is illicit for such impregnation to take place outside of conjugal
{"title":"Frozen Embryos, Unwanted Pregnancies, and Artificial Wombs: Which Options Are Morally Licit?","authors":"I. Alexander","doi":"10.1353/nov.2021.0064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nov.2021.0064","url":null,"abstract":"In a previous article, I defended why embryo adoption is illicit. More precisely, it is the act of arti;cially impregnating a woman that is contrary to the natural moral order and renders the practice an illicit one, and not the “praiseworthy” intention to save a human life. While I do not intend to repeat that argument in detail here, in sum, my reasoning proceeds from ;rst re-examining the underlying rationale that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) applies in its 2008 Dignitatis Personae and its 1987 Donum Vitae for other arti;cial reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), arti;cial insemination, surrogacy, and the transfer of embryos for infertile couples (an embryo adoption of some kind), all of which were condemned in these two documents as either formally “illicit” or “not ethically acceptable.” When moral theologians listen with care and renewed attention to the underlying rationale in these documents, a single common thread emerges: the reality of what I call “conjugal agency,” namely, that licit actions in reproductive bioethics must respect the role of the spouses in being agent causes of procreation and pregnancy and that this agency must be exercised through conjugal union. ?e determining criteria for what constitutes a licit clinical procedure versus an illicit one emerges very clearly in these documents once theologians grasp this logic at its root. When this logic is then applied to the question of embryo adoption, it becomes clear that it is illicit for an agent other than the spouse to impregnate his wife and that, in addition, it is illicit for such impregnation to take place outside of conjugal","PeriodicalId":43446,"journal":{"name":"Nova et Vetera-English Edition","volume":"18 1","pages":"1111 - 1145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77465989","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 Achievement of Hans Urs von Balthasar: An Introduction to His Trilogy by Matthew Levering (review)","authors":"A. Franks","doi":"10.1353/nov.2021.0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nov.2021.0060","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43446,"journal":{"name":"Nova et Vetera-English Edition","volume":"32 1","pages":"1403 - 1407"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80299289","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}
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