BURNING QUESTIONS OF FAITH

Catholic Theology is a book in a series called 'Doing Theology', which introduces the major Christian traditions and their way of theological reflection. Professor Rowland's book is in the latest in the series and follows earlier volumes on Lutheran, Methodist, Anglican, Baptist Theology. It is obviously a good thing that the English-speaking world now has an up-to-date survey of Catholic theology.

Teologia i Moralność, 1970

First, let me say that I appreciate Professor Blanco-Sarto's efforts to summarize Christianity in just 13 carefully considered words. This is not an easy task. Indeed, each descriptor offers a potent and meaningful counterpoint that begs further elaboration and hermeneutics beyond what is capable in what I understand to be a brief introduction to his course. Ultimately, I would expect that each descriptor would warrant at least an entire class of dialogue for his students to even begin to comprehend its import, particular understanding within the tenets of the Christian Faith, and its interrelationship and interconnectedness with each of the other descriptors, which together provide a more fulsome understanding of the Christian faith.

The foundation of the Catholic Church is God’s love that excludes nobody but includes everybody. On that standpoint of the all-inclusive love of God we develop in the present paper some critical arguments against traditional prejudices of the Catholic Church on sexual minority. And we add also some Lacanian discussion on this subject.

Reading Religion, 2020

Catholicism: The Story of Catholic Christianity begins at the inception of the Catholic Church and deals with the election of the present Pope, and thus is contemporary yet rooted in history. Histories of religious traditions need not be unwieldy. They could be pointers to all the important references to literature on the subject. This book is a classic example of such writing. The authors place the beginning of Catholic Christianity “with the resurrection of the crucified Jesus” (3) and thus have a view that is biased towards the Catholic Church. The authors describe the history of Catholic Christianity in the first two chapters, taking care not to miss any important event from this period. Relying heavily on documents from the Vatican, this book recounts various crucial points in Catholic history.

Seat of Wisdom: A Theological and Pastoral Journal 6: 1-14, 2013

Even in a general overview of the question of Catholic identity, which is my task today, a choice of focus is necessary. The literature and material on the rather vague word “identity” in combination with the equally broad adjective “Catholic” are immense and concern more or less all aspects of Catholic religious life. The first restriction of the theme I intend to make is to situate this question in a particular context. As you all are very well aware of, we now enter the Year of Faith, an initiative of Benedict XVI, beginning October 11, 2012. The natural thing is thus to connect the notion of Catholic identity to the concerns of the special year lying before us. However, in the same way, we must ask: faith in what meaning and why right now? It is not the year of the liturgy that is commencing, neither the year of ecumenism, nor that of tolerance or the Bible. Why is the question of faith so pressing in the second decade of the third millennium? The foundational text for the Year of Faith is Porta Fidei, the apostolic letter establishing the year, to which a note of a more practical nature from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is connected. A special website has also been launched for the year, which is hosted by the Pontifical Council for New Evangelization.3 We thus have three main sources (Porta Fidei, the Annusfidei website and the Pontifical Council for New Evangelization) to mine for clues, connecting the theme of Catholic identity to the present concerns of the Church. Furthermore, there is also the instrumentis laboris for the synod of bishops, “The New Evangelization for The Transmission of The Christian Faith,” which is a more elaborate document. At the time of finalizing this article (October, 2012), the synod is still going on and each day new texts are published in the form of bulletins. My thoughts and comments collected in the article were in the main written before the synod, but have been reinforced by the texts so far published on the web. The synod seems to mark a new phase in the understanding and critique of modernity offered by the Catholic Church. However, for the final position we have to wait for the apostolic exhortation of Pope Benedict.

The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review, 2013

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Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS), 1997

suggested by B. Zuckerman (422-435) with brief commentary on the "certainty" of scholarship. Section VII on the "New Testament" includes an article by C. R. Koester (436-448) on the theology of the Gospel of John. It is followed by the hypothesis of J. Marcus (449-466) that much in the Gospel of Mark is dependent on Isaiah. J. P. Meier (467-477) examines the tradition, message, and authenticity of Luke 10:23-24 and reconstructs the text as it may have appeared in Q (Quelle).