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General Principles of Sacramental Theology addresses a current
lacuna in English-language theological literature. Bernard
Leeming's highly respected book Principles of Sacramental Theology
was published more than sixty years ago. Since that time, there has
been a noted decrease, especially in English-language sacramental
theology, in treatments of the basic topics and principles-such as
the nature of the sacraments of signs, sacramental grace,
sacramental character, sacramental causality, sacramental
intention, the necessity and number of the sacraments, sacramental
matter and form, inter alia-which apply to all of the sacraments.
Rather than deconstruct the Church's tradition, as many recent
books on the sacraments do, Roger Nutt offers a vibrant
presentation of these principles as a sound foundation for a
renewed appreciation of each of the seven sacraments in the
Christian life as the divinely willed means of communion and
friendship between God and humanity. The sacraments bestow and
nourish the personal communion with Jesus Christ that is the true
source of human happiness. Recourse to the patrimony of Catholic
wisdom, especially St. Thomas Aquinas, can help to highlight the
sacraments and their significance within the plan of salvation.
This book will be of use in seminary, graduate, and undergraduate
courses. It is further offered as a source of hope to all those
seeking deeper intimacy with God amidst the confusion, alienation,
and disappointment that accompanies life in a fallen world. The
sacraments play an irreplaceable role in pursuing a Universal Call
to Holiness that is so central to Vatican II's teaching.
St. Thomas Aquinas preaches in his sermon Puer Iesus, "Just as your
father begot you bodily, your teacher begot you spiritually." St.
Thomas himself has been blessed with prodigious fecundity through
the centuries for his teaching in the Holy Spirit. Always, he leads
us to think of the Blessed Trinity and all things from God's own
view. With new insights into St. Thomas's spiritual teaching in its
sources, context, breadth, wisdom, and influences, Thomas Aquinas
as Spiritual Teacher presents chapters inspired by an international
conference cosponsored by the Aquinas Center for Theological
Renewal at Ave Maria University and the Thomistic Institute of the
Dominican House of Studies. The volume, like its conference, honors
Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, OP, adjunct secretary of the
Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, for his dedication to the
spiritual teaching of St. Thomas in several decades of service to
the Church and the academy. Luis F. Cardinal Ladaria, SJ, prefect
of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, contributed the
volume's foreword.
In his highly-regarded Thomas Aquinas: A Historical and
Philosophical Profile, while grasping fully that by profession and
self-understanding Thomas Aquinas was formally a Christian
theologian for whom philosophy as such was a noble artifact of an
un-Christian past, Pasquale Porro demonstrates that nonetheless in
each of his writings Thomas turned decisively to the ancient
discipline, at the time embodied in the Arts faculty of the
university, not only to ground and guide his reform of theological
pedagogy but also, as a sage, to engage directly the complete
system of profane sciences. Reflecting the highest standards of
philological and textual scholarship (notably the decades-long
research of the Leonine Commission) accompanied by judicious
philosophic analysis, Porro lucidly exposes the salient
philosophical issues in each of Thomas's writings, which he
presents in chronological order and interprets within the
parameters of the temporal circumstances and institutional
imperatives of their composition and in respect of the
authoritative texts that Thomas encountered. The clear translation
of Porro's original Italian text by Joseph Trabbic and Roger Nutt
will make his masterful study readily accessible to
English-speaking students and enthusiasts of Thomas Aquinas, and
will serve to refine and elevate their discourse about the medieval
Dominican. - Kent Emery, Jr., University of Notre Dame
Scholars have often been quick to acknowledge Thomas Aquinas's
distinctive retrieval of Aristotle's Greek philosophical heritage.
Often lagging, however, has been a proper appreciation of both his
originality and indebtedness in appropriating the great theological
insights of the Greek Fathers of the Church. In a similar way to
his integration of the Aristotelian philosophical corpus, Aquinas
successfully interwove the often newly received and translated
Greek patristic sources into a thirteenth-century theological
framework, one dominated by the Latin Fathers. His use of the Greek
Fathers definitively shaped his exposition of sacra doctrina in the
fundamental areas of God and creation, Trinitarian theology, the
moral life, and Christ and the Sacraments. For the sake of filling
this lacuna and of piquing scholarly interest in Aquinas's relation
to the Fathers of the Christian East, the Aquinas Center for
Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University and the Thomistic
Institute of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at
the Dominican House of Studies co-sponsored an international
gathering of scholars that took place at Ave Maria University under
the title Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers. Sensitive to the
commonalities and the differences between Aquinas and the Greek
Fathers, the essays in this volume have sprung from the theme of
this conference and offer a harvest of some of the conference's
fruits. At long last, scholars have a rich volume of diverse,
penetrating essays that both underscore Aquinas's unique standing
among the Latin scholastics in relationship to the Greek Fathers
and point the way toward avenues of further study.
In light of the shock and confusion caused by the clerical scandals
of the summer of 2018, Ave Maria University organized a conference
offering a response to the crisis. Its aim would be to use Ave
Maria University's commitment to serving the Church through
faithful scholarship as a platform to offer helpful reflections on
what had taken place and how the Church might move forward. As a
mission-driven institution, Ave Maria University wanted to offer
its fidelity to truth as a Catholic university; its Marian identity
as ""Ave Maria"" University, and the learned wisdom of its own
professors and scholarly friends as a resource for the faithful and
Church leaders to turn to during this time of crisis. The
conference, ""Crisis in the Church: On the Faith of Mary as the
Pathway to Peace,"" took place on the Ave Maria University campus
on January 11-12, 2019. The quality of the papers and the
fellowship enjoyed by the participans and attendees exceeded
expectations. Sapienta Press of Ave Maria University hopes that by
disseminating these conference proceedings in book form, many
others will also benefit from the wisdom, fidelity, and learning
offered by each of the contributors.
But who do you say that I am?"" asks Jesus at the decisive turning
point in the Gospel. Simon Peter answers correctly at first but is
soon corrected when he protests the revelation of the Cross.
Christians in every age are called to confess the right faith in
Jesus, who suffered, died, and rose for our salvation. Our own
period is beset by a crisis of faith in Jesus, which has had
manifold deleterious effects on our lives, our Christian
communities, and our world. For the sake of addressing this crisis,
the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University
and the Thomistic Institute of the Pontifical Faculty at the
Dominican House of Studies cosponsored an international conference
that took place at Ave Maria University under the title Thomas
Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology. Beginning with a gripping
foreword by Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, OP, of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, this volume gathers
together several of the excellent conference presentations given by
scholars working in North America, South America, Europe, and
Western Asia. These studies consider both formulations of who
Christ is and of how we are under his judgement. With help from
Thomas Aquinas and the Thomistic tradition, this work engages
today's crisis of Christology as seen in multiple theological
topics and offers models of faith to answer Jesus' question for
ourselves, ""But who do you say that I am?
Mother Teresa was one of those rare figures in history who enjoyed
a wide and solid reputation of holiness during her lifetime. She
became-for Catholics, Christians, and those of other faiths or even
of none-a symbol of kindness, compassion, and tender care of the
poorest people throughout the world. Known as a joyful and generous
soul, Mother Teresa inspired countless persons to experience the
"joy of loving," as she liked to say, through their own acts of
love and compassion. It thus came as a total surprise to everyone,
including the members of her own religious family, the Missionaries
of Charity, that Mother Teresa experienced nearly fifty years of
what she called "the darkness." When a book of her private letters,
Come, be My Light, was published in 2007, it caused a sensation. It
received worldwide media attention, including as the cover story of
Time magazine. People struggled to understand it; many
misunderstood it, some entirely! As the president of Ave Maria
University, Jim Towey, tells us in the introduction, many questions
abound about Mother Teresa's darkness: "What are we to make of the
spiritual darkness that enshrouded Mother Teresa so tightly? Could
the words and experiences of this little Albanian woman with no
advanced formal education have anything to say to the challenges
the twenty-first century presents?" Ave Maria University gathered
theologians to begin answering these questions and others. The
resulting symposium provided the contents of this book. The first
such assembly of scholarly work on the topic, Mother Teresa and the
Mystics offers readers the opportunity to enter much more deeply
into the interior-even mystical-world of St. Teresa of Calcutta.
There is perhaps no aspect of traditional Thomistic thought so
contested in modern Catholic theology as the notion of
predestination as presented by the classical Thomist school. What
is that doctrine, and why is it so controversial? Has it been
rightly understood in the context of modern debates? At the same
time, the Church's traditional affirmation of a mystery of
predestination is largely ignored in modern Catholic theology more
generally. Why is this the case? Can a theology that emphasizes the
Augustinian notion of the primacy of salvation by grace alone also
forego a theology of predestination? Thomism and Predestination:
Principles and Disputations considers these topics from various
angles: the principles of the classical Thomistic treatment of
predestination, their contested interpretation among modern
theologians, examples of the doctrine as illustrated by the
spiritual writings of the saints, and the challenges to Catholic
theology that the Thomistic tradition continues to pose. This
volume initiates readers- especially future theologians and
Catholic intellectuals-to a central theme of theology that is
speculatively challenging and deeply interconnected to many other
elements of the faith.
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