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The twentieth century will forever be marked by the horrific event
of the Shoah. As a young man, the future John Paul II witnessed
this horror during the Nazi occupation of Poland. His pontificate
achieved a number of groundbreaking steps in the Catholic Church's
relationship with the Jewish people. This book both reflects upon
John Paul II's achievements, and seeks to continue the theological
and philosophical dialogue that he cherished. By examining together
the words and deeds of John Paul II, eminent Jewish and Catholic
scholars exemplify in this volume the dialogue that John Paul
fostered. Together, Jews and Catholics can encourage each other in
the tasks of knowing the Creator, living a life worthy of the
created dignity that human beings possess, and defending the
vulnerable among us. As Dostoevsky warned before the horrors of the
twentieth century, without God, anything is permitted. Following in
the footsteps of John Paul II, we discover that our search for
meaning and truth is one that needs to be undertaken arm-in-arm.
Contributors include Hadley Arkes, David G. Dalin, Robert P.
George, Matthew Levering, Bruce Marshall, David Novak, Michael
Novak, Gregory Vall, and George Weigel.
The twentieth century will forever be marked by the horrific event
of the Shoah. As a young man, the future John Paul II witnessed
this horror during the Nazi occupation of Poland. His pontificate
achieved a number of groundbreaking steps in the Catholic Church's
relationship with the Jewish people. This book both reflects upon
John Paul II's achievements, and seeks to continue the theological
and philosophical dialogue that he cherished. By examining together
the words and deeds of John Paul II, eminent Jewish and Catholic
scholars exemplify in this volume the dialogue that John Paul
fostered. Together, Jews and Catholics can encourage each other in
the tasks of knowing the Creator, living a life worthy of the
created dignity that human beings possess, and defending the
vulnerable among us. As Dostoevsky warned before the horrors of the
twentieth century, without God, anything is permitted. Following in
the footsteps of John Paul II, we discover that our search for
meaning and truth is one that needs to be undertaken arm-in-arm.
Contributors include Hadley Arkes, David G. Dalin, Robert P.
George, Matthew Levering, Bruce Marshall, David Novak, Michael
Novak, Gregory Vall, and George Weigel.
This short volume, finished just before Denis Farkasfalvy's death
in 2020, serves effectively as his last theological testament. In A
Biblical Path to the Triune God, the Cistercian abbot identifies
the earliest biblical witnesses to the Church's teaching about God,
formulated at the Council of Nicaea, as Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit. Jesus' famous praise of the Father, found almost
word-for-word in Matthew 11:25-27 and Luke 10:21-22, is
Farkasfalvy's point of departure for his bold assertion that in the
earliest sources, we find abundant evidence that "it was not Jesus
who revealed his own divine sonship; rather, the Father revealed it
to those whom Jesus had chosen and were open to respond in faith."
Farkasfalvy demonstrates that Jesus reveals his relationship to the
Father in terms of intimate and experiential knowledge,
transforming the procreative metaphor of filiation from the
physical (as in the Psalms and 2 Samuel 7) to the epistemological
realm of knowledge, what he calls "love within cognitive
dimensions." Just decades after Jesus' ministry, numerous
independent apostolic witnesses, from the Synoptic Gospels and John
to Paul (especially Romans 1:1-4 and Galatians 1:15-16), indicate a
robust and widespread understanding of the Father's self-disclosure
in Jesus the Son. Farkasfalvy concludes his brief but intense
reflection by outlining how a single organic process of revelation
binds together the Father and the Son, and then extends that loving
communion to believers in the Spirit, a communion made possible
only by the incarnate Son's crucifixion and subsequent
glorification. This book accomplishes the admirable feat of showing
that far from being the invention of later centuries, the
Trinitarian doctrine of the Church is firmly rooted in the very
first reflections on Jesus' ministry and mystery by the biblical
authors.
Jan-Heiner Tuck presents a work that explores the sacramental
theology, lived spirituality, and Eucharistic poetry of the
Church's doctor communis, St. Thomas Aquinas. Although Aquinas'
Eucharistic poetry has long occupied an important place in the
Church's liturgical prayer and her repertoire of sacred music, the
depth of these poems remains hidden until one grasps the rich
sacramental theology underlying it. Consequently, Tuck first offers
a detailed but approachable primer of Aquinas' theology of the
sacraments, before diving deeply into the Angelic Doctor's theology
and poetry of the Eucharist. The Scriptural accounts stand at the
heart of the systematic framework developed by Aquinas, and thus
significant attention is devoted to showing the harmony between the
accounts of Christ's passion and the detailed exposition of the
Summa theologiae. Moreover, the Eucharistic controversies of the
ninth and eleventh centuries provide the contrapuntal context in
which Aquinas did his thinking, praying, and writing. Not
surprisingly, therefore, the response he crafts to these
controversies draws upon both speculative powers and contemplative
prayer, brought together in the unity of Aquinas' theology and
spirituality. The net result is a twofold treasure for the Church:
a careful systematic presentation of Eucharistic theology and the
lived devotional expression of the same in the carefully
constructed-and now much beloved-stanzas of Pange lingua gloriosi,
Lauda Sion, Adoro te devote, etc. By revealing the lively interplay
of the saint's powerful speculative intellect and a heart steeped
in love for the Eucharistic Lord, Tuck offers a sophisticated
exposition of Aquinas' Eucharistic poetry and the roots it sinks
into a wider theological framework. Finally, the contemporary
significance and power of Aquinas' work is drawn out, not only in
the rarefied realm of intellectual inquiry but also in the everyday
expanse of ordinary life.
At the time of his death in the autumn of 2017, Robert W. Jenson
was arguably America's foremost theologian. Over the course of a
career spanning more than five decades, much of Jenson's thought
was dedicated to the theological description of how Scripture
should be read-what has come to be called theological
interpretation. In this rapidly expanding field of scholarship,
Jenson has had an inordinate impact. Despite its importance, study
of Jenson's theology of scriptural interpretation has lagged, due
in large part to the longevity of his career and volume of his
output. In this book, all of Jenson's writings on Scripture and its
interpretation have been collected for the first time. Here readers
will be able to see the evolution of Jenson's thought on this
topic, as well as the scope and intensity of his late-period
engagement with it. Where other twentieth-century thinkers rely on
non-theological, secular methods of scriptural investigation,
Jenson is willing to let go of "respectability" for the sake of a
truly Christian theological interpretation. The result is a
genuinely free, intellectually invigorating exercise in reading and
theory from one of the greatest theologians in the last century.
Two closely related questions receive distinctively theological
answers in this study: What is truth? and How can we tell whether
what we have said is true? Bruce Marshall proposes that the
Christian community's identification of God as the Trinity serves
as the key to a theologically adequate treatment of these
questions. Professor Marshall argues on trinitarian grounds that
the Christian way of identifying God ought to have unrestricted
primacy when it comes to the justification of belief, and he
proposes a trinitarian way of reshaping the concept of truth.
Direct engagement with the current philosophical debate about
truth, meaning and belief (in Quine and others) suggests that a
trinitarian account of epistemic justification and truth is also
more philosophically compelling than the approaches generally
favoured in modern theology, as exemplified by Schleiermacher,
Ritschl, Rahner and others. Marshall offers a contemporary way of
conceiving of the Christian God as 'the truth'.
This book is about the problem of truth: what truth is, and how we can tell whether what we have said is true. Bruce Marshall approaches this problem from the standpoint of Christian theology, and especially that of the doctrine of the Trinity. The book offers a full-scale theological account of what truth is and whether Christians have adequate grounds for regarding their beliefs as true. Unlike most theological discussions of these issues, the book is also extensively engaged with the modern philosophical debate about truth and belief.
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