Pub Date : 2024-09-17DOI: 10.1177/00211400241279433
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 argue that this three-fold response could reframe the church’s approach to solidarity with women who have experienced reproductive loss, inclusive of abortion.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-17DOI: 10.1177/00211400241279432
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. We respond that Finegan’s critique misrepresents our argument and is mistaken biblically, anthropologically, and sacramentally, and suffers from scotosis.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-14DOI: 10.1177/00211400241281100
Salvador Ryan
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Pub Date : 2024-09-09DOI: 10.1177/00211400241279435
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 include: a wholistic and inclusive approach to experience; respect for the agency of all; seeking understanding through encounter, listening and dialogue; flexible and open-ended processes; the integration of spirituality at every stage; and the use of new language that communicates effectively with contemporary pluralist societies.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-03DOI: 10.1177/00211400241248840
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 with the more robust social ontology implied by the second. This social ontology can be found both in the work of contemporary analytic philosophers and, inchoately at least, in traditional Aristotelianism, and it allows us to give a more precise account of the metaphysics of structural sin than the alternatives. The paper concludes by suggesting that there is a way in which social groups, as social groups, might face judgment and then persist eschatologically.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-03DOI: 10.1177/00211400241248841
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 potential sources for its continued vitality. In the third part, theology’s future direction is generally indicated by asserting that successful theologians are going to be those who find ways to bridge the current cultural fault-line in the academic field. In the final parts, this general suggestion is made more specific by naming four developments in a future systematic theology (concerning the God–world relation, the interconnection of core doctrines, the anthropology of salvation, and the hermeneutic of scripture) that can meet the challenges and exploit the possibilities named in the first three parts.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-03DOI: 10.1177/00211400241248839
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 approach through the writings of Simone Weil and Maurice Blondel. In part two, I connect the approach of the Irish philosopher William Desmond to this intellectual project that holds open a vital dialogue between philosophy and theology.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-03DOI: 10.1177/00211400241249496
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 this principle within Newman’s historical context with attention to the primary sources. It then explains what a dogma is according to Newman. The final section critically engages with contemporary challenges and trends that in various ways undermine or reject Newman’s principle. The conclusion briefly considers how theology is conducted with and without Newman’s dogmatic principle.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-03DOI: 10.1177/00211400241248842
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 in Kierkegaard’s theological approach to free creation from nothing, human subjectivity, suffering, and freedom that mapped on to Fabro’s philosophical theology of participation. In doing so, Fabro recovered the missing metaphysical and soteriological elements of Kierkegaard’s theological emphasis on the task and goal of selfhood beyond the atheistic existentialist stereotypes of God-denial, acosmic individualism, and self-annihilation. Often construed as polar opposites, I claim that Thomistic philosophy and Kierkegaard’s existential approach can be juxtaposed fruitfully as sharing an important point of departure with free creation from nothing. In short, Fabro’s creative link between Kierkegaard and Thomas Aquinas affords a unique theological development in post-Kantian approaches to the topic of existential freedom.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-03DOI: 10.1177/00211400241249498
Joshua Furnal
This short introduction provides an overview of the various contributions to the special issue and introduces the arguments of each article.
这篇简短的导言概述了为特刊撰写的各种文章，并介绍了每篇文章的论点。
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