The spirit of community and the spirituality of work: a note on Laborem Exercens

John R. Traffas

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Notes Toward the Definition of Memory
Three Rivers: Memory as Mediation and Mission in Purgatorio and Paradiso
Memores Domini: Living God’s Memory in a Post-Christian World
The Third Greatest Commandment: Memory as Imperative, Defense, and Supplication
On Art in Our Churches
Creativity and Tradition: A Framework for Sacred Music
On Reason and Hope: Plato, Pieper, and the Hopeful Structure of Reason

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Introduction: The Spirit of Unity
The Church as Temple of the Spirit: Is There Room for Magisterial Error?
Reflections on the Holy Spirit’s Role in Christ’s Sacrifice
The Holy Spirit and World Religions in Theology and in the Magisterium
The Sacramental Principle
Covenant Love: A Symbolic Reading of the Song of Songs
Delimiting Freedom: Aquinas between Brain Science and Choice Gone Wild
Current Trends in Religious Thought
Julian of Norwich’s Divine Autobiography
Twice-Told Tales on The Scarlet Letter: Assessing a Reassessment

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Introduction: The Unity and Mission of the Church: Communio at 50 Years
The Inexhaustible Reality: Joseph Ratzinger and the Sacred Liturgy
From Extrinsicism to a World That Denies Both Nature and Grace: A Polyphonic Analysis of Secularism
The Ever-Prior Act: Claudel and the Poetics of Communio
The Whole in the Fragment: The Vocations of Philosopher and Poet for the Salvation of the World
Poetic Communion: Literary Form and Divine Encounter
Covenantal Communion between God, Man, and Creation: Reflections on Joseph Ratzinger
“Only If We Do Not Lose Creation”: Communio and the Battle for the Meaning of the World
“O Christ, Ever Greater”: De Lubac on Teilhard and the Cosmic Scope of Jesus Christ’s Humanity
God’s Universal Salvific Will and the Mission of Communio
Divine Exuberance: Erich Przywara on the Metaphysics of Catholicity
Prayer in the Work of the Exegete

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David L. Schindler: In Memoriam
Introduction: The Flesh
An Apologetics of the Flesh: The Body as the Path to God
Hearts of Flesh: A Meditation on Human Nature and the Language That Gives Life
Matter as Revelation of God’s Love
“Riveted with Faith Unto Your Flesh”: Technology’s Flight from Actuality and the Word Made Flesh
Philosophical Incarnation and Theological Incarnation: A History That Has Happened to the Flesh
If 2 + 2 = 5
Sigrid Undset: Holiness and Culture
Animal Welfare and Human Dignity

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Introduction: Marriage and Family
What May We Expect from the Family?
The Natural Supernaturality of Marriage
Nexus indissolubilis: A Balthasarian-Augustinian Meditation on the Spousal Embrace
The Family as an Image of the Trinity in Aquinas
Carlo Caffarra: Teacher and Witness of Love’s Truth
The Crisis of Ethics in the West
Augustine and the Catholic “Form” of Scripture
Othello: Iago’s Dark Powers and the Empiricist Mindset
Jerome and the Lord’s Prayer: Some Philological Observations

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Introduction: Christ the Redeemer
Christ, Redeemer of the Body and Redeemer of Love: The Proposal of Karol Wojtyła
Christ in Preaching and Sacrament: A Rapprochement of Catholic and Protestant Views
Jesus, the Last Supper, and the Paschal Mystery: Rethinking the Date of the Last Supper in John
A Miracle of Grace: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Vision of Priestly Spirituality
A Catholic Spirituality of Nonaction: Rereading Hans Urs Von Balthasar with the Daodejing
Henri de Lubac and the Christian Mystery of Nature and Grace
Qualcosa di Dio: The Metaphysics of Desire and Paradox of the Real
Balthasar: Proponent and Beneficiary of the Thought of Ferdinand Ulrich

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Introduction: Synodality
Synodality, the Magisterium, and the Faith of the People of God
Communion, Sacramental Authority, and the Limits of Synodality
Synodality, Sociologism, and the Judgment of History
Synodality: Then and Now–in Rome and in Germany
“Paul in Every Letter Remembers You”: The Holy Spirit and the Unity of the Church
Catholic Politics and the Analogy of Authority
Why We Need Alexander Schmemann
Questions about the Structure and Duties of the Synod of Bishops

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Introduction: God and the Crisis of Meaning
The Almighty Father—Put to the Test of the Problem of Evil
American Revolution as Total Revolution: Del Noce and the American Experiment
“It Neither Picks My Pocket nor Breaks My Leg”: Rationalist Faith, Private Conscience
Liberalism, the Church, and the Unreality of God
A Philosophy of God in Man: Maurice Blondel’s Retrieval of Meaning through Fruitful Action
Thinking God through the Unity of Life and Thought: How De Grammatico Clarifies the Proslogion
Memory Eternal: Fruitful Death as the Form of Personal Mediation (Part II)

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Introduction: Faith and Culture
Restoring Faith in Culture
John Paul II’s Core Teaching on Culture (1979–1980)
Joseph Ratzinger’s Trinitarian Theology of Culture
The Priority of Peace and the Problem of Power
What is Music? On the Form and Performance of Beauty
Is There a Christian Art? Soundings in Catholic Art Theory since the Schlegels
Corporeal Memory: The Concrete Things of History as Living Reminders
The Art of the Fugue: Paralipomena to a Performance
On the Cultural Mission of the Church

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Introduction: Mediation
Mediation: The Distinguishing Mark of Christianity
The Annunciation of the Flesh: Bodily Mediation in the Work of Charles Péguy
Memory Eternal: Fruitful Death as the Form of Personal Mediation (Part I)
Conceived by the Power of the Holy Spirit: On the Son and Holy Spirit’s Coworking of the Incarnation
Arriving at Mediation through Maternity: Understanding “Maternal Mediation” in John Paul II
With the Eyes of an Eagle: Symbolism and the Proclamation of Faith in the Fourth Gospel
Charles Péguy, Poet of the Incarnation

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Introduction: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Karol Wojtyła
The Mission of the Christian Family According to St. John Paul II
John Paul II’s Theology of the Body: A Path toward the Source
I Can Only Be Understood From Within: Introducing The English Critical Edition of the Works of JPII
Person and Nature According to Wojtyła’s Person and Act
Reason, Value, and the Holy: An Introduction to Karol Wojtyła’s “The Lived-Experience of Value”
The Lived-Experience of Value in the Act of Faith
A Dialogue with Professor David L. Schindler on Conscience, Moral Theology, and Modernity
Conscience, Moral Theology, and Modernity: A Reply to Professors Salzman and Lawler
Ratzinger’s Reception of Newman on Conscience: Memory, History, Creation, and Christ
A Pontificate under the Banner of Mary
A Commentary on John Paul II’s Dominum et vivificantem

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Introduction: Love as a Form of Life
The Pandemic: A Sacramental Reading
Martha and Mary: The Double Hospitality
Without Beginning: Human Freedom and Divine Omnipotence
Et verbum caro factum est: An Intro-duction to the Philosophical Life
Of the Love That Is for Nothing: In Honor of Ferdinand Ulrich
Denis Farkasfalvy on the Theology of the Bible
Why We Need Julian of Norwich
Catechesis in the Patristic Tradition
Forgetting the Social Doctrine of the Church in the Epoch of the Coronavirus

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Introduction: Happiness, Love, and Friendship
Morality, Metaphysics, and the Romance of Friendship
The Body and Happiness: An Augustinian Synthesis
The Upward Pursuit of Happiness in Bonaventure’s Itinerarium mentis in Deum
Aquinas and Palamas on the Border between This Life and the Next: An Instance of Gestalt Theology
The Synthetic Transcendental: Love of the Beautiful as Integrating Intellect and Will
Does Goodness Require Another? On an Underappreciated Corner of Aquinas’s Trinitarian Theology
"In This Way the Love of God Was Revealed" (1 Jn 4:9): Atonement as a "Patrogenetic" Process. Part 2
In Memoriam: Abbot Denis Farkasfalvy

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“In This Way the Love of God Was Revealed” (1 Jn 4:9): Atonement as a “Patrogenetic” Process, Part 1
“And Lead Us Not into Temptation”—The Our Father as an Inquiry into Our Image of God
“And If They Fall as Lucifer Fell”: On the Lure of Anarchy
Hamartia, Evil, and Deity in Archaic and Classical Greek Thought
Sovereignty and Stewardship: Understanding Sin in the Old Testament
The Jewish Tradition of the Divine Presence, Sacrifice, and Substitutive Suffering
Unmasking the Pharaoh in the Garden of Eden: A Canonical Reading of Genesis 2–3
The Nature of Original Sin

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Introduction: Nature in Theology
The Descent of Man: On Evolution and the Devolution of Nature, History, and Truth
Physics without Physis: On Form and Teleology in Modern Science
“Biology Worthy of Life”: On the Work of Steven Talbott
“To Till It and Keep It”: Catholic Social Doctrine and Agroecology
“The Sparkling of the Holy Ghost”: The Metaphysics of Nature and Grace in Dante’s Paradiso
Augusto Del Noce on Marx’s Abolition of Human Nature
Fluidity: Man, the Triune God, and the Eucharistic Christ
The Emperor’s (New) New Clothes: The Logic of the New “Gender Ideology”
Pathei Mathos: Rereading Aeschylus’s Oresteia
On Henry B. Veatch and “Natural Law and the ‘Is’-‘Ought’ Question”: A Brief Introduction
Natural Law and the “Is”-“Ought” Question: Queries to Finnis and Grisez
Providence and Imitation: Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Aristotle’s Poetics

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Introduction: Mary, Motherhood, and the Church
“Fixed End of the Eternal Plan”: Rereading Cabasilas’s “Homily on the Annunciation”
The Exclusivity of Gender and the Gift of Motherhood
The Body and the Bride of Christ: The Church as One Unique Transcendent Subject
“He Is the Head of the Body, the Church” (Col 1:18): Salvation as Incorporation into Christ
When Peter and Paul Disagree: Living in Faithfulness and Charity Amid Public Controversy
Moral Theology and the Problem of Modernity
Homily on the Annunciation
From the Depths of Our Hearts (An Excerpt)

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Introduction: Being as an Image of Divine Love: A Symposium on Homo Abyssus
Receiving the Gift of Being: Ferdinand Ulrich and the Work of the John Paul II Institute
Freely to Give: Ferdinand Ulrich as Teacher and Spiritual Father
The Light of the Gift in Homo Abyssus
Ferdinand Ulrich’s “Metaphysics as Reenactment”
The Word as the Center of Man’s Onto-Dramatic Task
Being as Image of Divine Love: Between Ferdinand Ulrich and G. W. F. Hegel
The Analogia Entis in Erich Pryzwara and Ferdinand Ulrich: Toward a More Catholic Metaphysics
Plenitudo Fontalis: Love’s Groundless Yes and the Grateful Originality of Nature
Thinking the “Nothing” of Being: Ferdinand Ulrich on Transnihilation

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Introduction: Peace and Homo Viator
The Role and Dignity of the Christian Soldier
The End of Sovereignty: An Essay in Christian Postliberalism
“A Twice-Told Tale”: The Wars of Religion as Girardian Myth
Making Peace through the Blood of His Cross
Blessed is He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord: Jews and the Parousia of Jesus
Bound in Freedom: Odysseus at the Mast as Archetype of the Homo Viator
Homo Viator, Puer in Patria: On Ferdinand Ulrich’s Philosophical Anthropology of Childhood
The Indissoluble Nexus of Nature, Body, and Person: 50 Years after Humanae Vitae
Teleology and Transcendence: The Thought of Robert Spaemann
What Makes Persons Persons?
A Keyhole for Unbelievers? The Public Character of Cultus and the Broadcasting of the Mass on TV
The Many Homes of Anna Karenina
The Closing of Stores of Sunday: The Church’s Social Doctrine Says Yes

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Introduction: Priesthood, Consecration, Marriage: Is Love Possible?
Do Not Hold Me: Ascending the Ladder of Love
Friends of the Bridegroom: Reflections on Priestly Fatherhood in Light of Contemporary Challenges
The Contribution of St. John Paul II to the Integral Human Formation of Priests
Educating to Love
Marriage, Priesthood, and the Sincere Gift of Self
A Critical Introduction to Blondel’s “Letter to Fr. Bieil”
Letter to Fr. Bieil: The Discernment of a Philosophical Vocation

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Introduction: “Forgive Us Our Debts, as We Forgive Our Debtors”
Those Dear Words, Debt and Debtors: Biblical Journeys
Forgive Us Our Debts as We Forgive Our Debtors
Catholic Penance
Sacrifice and Freedom: On Mystagogy and the Way of Atonement
The Purification of Memory
The Mystery of Beauty: The Immaculate Conception as the Most Sublime Redemption
Literature in the Waste Land: Brideshead Revisited and Literary Education
Gift and Mediation at the Heart of Poetry
Foreword to Benedict XVI’s “Grace and Vocation without Remorse”
Grace and Vocation without Remorse: Comments on the Treatise De Iudaeis
The Lord’s Prayer: Sermon 5
Forgiveness: A Homily on the Unmerciful Servant
The Lady Left for Dragon’s Meat

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Introduction: Food
“Plenty of Food for Everyone”: A Balthasarian Look at Babette’s Feast
The Economy of a Small Farm
Sacro Speco—St. Benedict’s Cave: The Roots of Monastic Cheesemaking
Reason for Being: Festivity, Perfection, and the “Very Good”
Ordering All Things Well: The Role of Eating in the Old Testament
The Wine of the Wedding
Affirming Childhood: The Form of Familial Relations

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Introduction: “Joseph Ratzinger: In Honor of His 90th Birthday”
A Happening That Really Took Place: Ratzinger on Reason, Revelation, and the “Adventure of Thinking”
Ratzinger on the Timelessness of Truth
The 2015 Marriage Referendum in Ireland: A Ratzingerian Analysis
Ratzinger on the Augustinian Understanding of Religious Freedom
Augusto Del Noce on the “New Totalitarianism”
Love and Beauty, the “Forgotten Transcendental,” in Thomas Aquinas
The Ontological and Psychological Notion of “Person” in Trinitarian Theology and Christology
Sources Chrétiennes and the One Unique Source
The New Evangelization
In Memoriam: Kenneth L. Schmitz

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Introduction: “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread”
Effects of the Eucharistic Sacrifice: A Brief Commentary on Trent’s De Missae Sacrificio, Chapter 2
Panis Angelicus—Gift of Life: On the Poetic Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas’s Hymn “Sacris Solemniis”
What Bread Is This? What Bread This Is!
Asking God for What We Do: On an Aphorism of Ignatius of Loyola
Between a Criticism of Evolution and Atheism: A View on the Philosophy of Thomas Nagel
On Trivializing the Lives of “Ordinary People” in Liberal Societies
Why We Need Erich Przywara
Eucharist and Labor
Our Father
Hans Urs von Balthasar’s The Grain of Wheat: Reflections on Spirit and Truth

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Introduction: The City
City Stories of Nature and Grace: An Urban Pilgrim’s Progress
Political Life and the Horizon of the Human: Polis, Church and State, and Totalitarianism
The Creation of the City of Man
Flannery O’Connor and the City
The Conversation of Ascent: A Reading of St. Augustine’s Confessions, Book IX, Chapter 10
The City and Apostolic Solitude
We, the Ordinary People of the Streets
God in the City
Religion and the Life of Civilisation
Jane Jacobs: “Who Is This Crazy Dame?”
All the Talk About Silence

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Introduction: Time
Technology and Time
The Consummation of the World as a Re-capitulation
The Experience of the Unity of Time and Christian Faith in the Thought of Ferdinand Ulrich
Being, Gift, Self-Gift (Part Two)
Giving Time: The Trinitarian Origin of Created Spatio-Temporality
“Once upon a Time”: Preserving the Past in a Presence Open to the Future
The Mystery of the Liturgical Year: The Easter Liturgy
Pre-verberation of Eternity: Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps

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Introduction: Body and Gender
“The Flesh Is of No Avail”: Theology of the Body as Necessary to Understanding Life in the Spirit
Perfect Difference: Gender and the Analogy of Being
The Spirit of Christian Doctrine
Public Reason and the Anthropology of Orientation
Gender Ideology and the Humanum
Sexuality and the Forgetfulness of God: Unseasonal Thoughts about a Biblical Connection
Forbidden Difference
Claiming our Belovedness: Our Bodies Reveal the Truth to Us

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Introduction: “Hallowed Be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It Is in Heaven”
“Hallowed Be Thy Name”: Of God and Men and the Miracle of Language
Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It Is in Heaven
The Freedom of Christ: Notes on “Gnomie” in Maximus the Confessor
Maximus the Confessor on Christ’s Human Will
“Unless You Become a Philosopher . . . ”: On God, Being, and Reason’s Role in Faith
The Synergy of Doctrine and Life
John Paul II’s “Meditation on Givenness”
Eucharist: Gift of Love
Péguy and the Communion of Saints

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Introduction: Integral Ecology
Habits of Presence and the Generosity of Creation: Ecology in Light of Integral Human Development
Work as Contemplation: On the Platonic Notion of Technê
Ecology on One’s Knees: Reading Laudato Si’
Reading Natural Hierarchy in a Trinitarian Key
Economics, Ecology, and Our Common Home: The Limits of a Preference-based Approach to Human Behavior
Gospel of Creation and the Technocratic Paradigm: Reflections on a Central Teaching of Laudato Si'
Seeing with Christ in a Culture of Power
Created by God
The Coherences of Home: Life on Whiffletree Farm

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Introduction: Poverty and Kenosis
The Kenotic Decision of the Son and the Filial Obedience of the Christian
The Precarity of Love: Dorothy Day on Poverty
Vides Trinitatem Si Caritatem Vides: Persons in Communion
Love: Philosophy’s Blind Spot? Toward a Wisdom of Love
Most High Poverty: The Challenge of the Franciscan Experiment
The Franciscan Conundrum
Messianic Jews and the Catholic Church: Reflections on the Ecclesiology of Mark S. Kinzer
Searching Her Own Mystery Together: A Response to Roch Kereszty
Rejoinder to Mark S. Kinzer
Georges Bernanos: “Blessed the Poor in Spirit!”
The Personal Unity of Glory and Poverty in Freedom as Love
Eucharist and Kenosis

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Introduction: Saving the Differences
The Saving Difference
Totalitarian Tendencies and the Perversion of Language
“Political Correctness” as a Form of Humanism, and the Christian Mission
Being, Gift, Self-Gift: Reply to Waldstein on Relationality and John Paul II’s Theology of the Body
The Light of Glory: From Theosis to Sophiology
Authority Versus Power
The Logos and the Logoi
Faith and the Sacrament of Marriage: A Response to the Proposal of a New "Minimum Fidei" Requirement
Nature and Grace: The Sacramental Reality of Marriage
The Integrity of Moral Deliberation: On Paragraph 137 of the Instrumentum Laboris

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Introduction: “Our Father, Who Art in Heaven”
“The Father Without the Son Would Not Be the Father”: The Concept of God at the Council of Nicaea
“Further Up and Further In!” C.S. Lewis on Heaven
Vatican II and the Catholicity of Salvation: A Response to Ralph Martin
God and the Cross: The Doctrine of God in the Work of Hans Urs von Balthasar
The Church as the Sacrament of Creation: A Reading of Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs
The Christocentric Mystagogy of Joseph Ratzinger
Hope and History
The Music of Eternity
The Real World: A Metaphysical Reflection on The Great Divorce

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Introduction: Ecclesiam Unam
The Unity of the Church
Ecclesia de Trinitate
Conscience, the Emperor, and the Pope: The Witness of St. Maximus the Confessor
“In the Beginning Was the Word”: Mercy as a “Reality Illuminated by Reason”
Fruitfulness and the Rediscovery of Finitude
“The Mystery of Mysteries”: On Péguy’s Vision of Hope
Nature and Notes of the Church
A Meditation on Givenness

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Introduction: Health
On the Sacramental Nature of Health
Human Wellbeing, the Natural Family, and Natural Law
From Nature to Glory: The Grace of Illness
The Healthy and the Holy
Health and Disease: Aspects of Wellbeing and Human Flourishing
Reconceiving the Organism: Why American Catholic Bioethics Needs a Better Theory of Human Life
Health Between Science and Wisdom
Healing the “Healthy”
Satan Was the First Philanthropist

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Introduction: Apologetics
The Witness of the Martyrs in the Early Church
On Reason’s Authority
“Faith Is Obvious”: The Apologetics of Creation
“If Philosophy Begins in Wonder”: Aquinas, Creation, and Wonder
The Primacy of the Pope and the Unity of the People of God
The Dispute Between Maximus the Confessor and Theodosius
Why We Need Coventry Patmore
The Rod, The Root, and the Flower

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Introduction: Ecclesiam Sanctam
The Confession of the Casta Meretrix
"Sacrosancta Ecclesia": The Holy Church of Sinners
“Blessed Is She Who Believed”: Mary’s Faith and the Form of Christian Existence
The Communion of Saints and the Vocation to Holiness
Confirmation: A Sacrament of Christian Initiation
Political Ambition and the Christian Life
The Eclipse of the Good in the Modern Rights Tradition
Content and Form: From Linguistics to Abstract Art

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Introduction: Dignitatis Humanae and the Rediscovery of Religious Freedom
Freedom, Truth, and Human Dignity: An Interpretation of DH on the Right to Religious Liberty
The Nature and Scope of Religious Freedom in Our Contemporary Culture
Religious Liberty and the Church’s Voice in Transforming Our Culture: An American Perspective
America and Religious Freedom
Dignitatis humanae: Origins and Unexpected Consequences
Karol Wojtyła and DH: A Historical Perspective
Religious Freedom and Truth: The Contribution of Pope Benedict XVI
Is Religious Liberty Possible in a Liberal Culture?
The Pretention of Universality: Liberal Culture and Religious Freedom
The Right and the Good, and the Place of Freedom of Religion in Human Rights
Christian Culture and the Form of Human Existence
The Church in History: Status Viatoris
“All Things Counter, Original, Spare, Strange”: Liberal Society and Pluralism
Absolute Pluralism: How the Dictatorship of Relativism Dictates
Liberalism, Religious Freedom, and the Common Good: The Totalitarian Logic of Self-Limitation
Religious Liberty After Liberalism: Re-Thinking DH in an Age of Illiberal Liberalism

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Introduction: The Eucharist
The Unity and the Multiplicity of Aspects in the Eucharist
The Holy Church and the Eucharistic Sacrifice
“Do This in Remembrance of Me”: The Sacrifice of Christ and the Sacrifice of the Faithful
God’s Mystery in Christ: Reflections on Erich Przywara and Eberhard Jüngel
Ministry from Above and/or Ministry from Below…
Apostolicity According to Schillebeeckx: The Notion and its Import
Reflections on Post-Conciliar Shifts in Eucharistic Faith and Practice

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Introduction: Sin and Forgiveness
Education in the Sense of Forgiveness
Jesus and Forgiveness
Flannery O’Connor and the Christian Pharisee
Faith, Philosophy and Theology
The Catholic Concept of Social Justice: A Historical Perspective
Nuclear Weapons and the Sermon on the Mount
The Experiences of a Catholic Theologian
Toward a Christian Culture

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Introduction: Religious Education
The Catechism: A Means of Transmitting the Faith
Should Faith or Theology be the Basis of Catechesis?
Sources and Transmission of the Faith
The Birth of the Catechism
Christianity and Its Psychological Imitations
The Bond of the Word
Moral Education in the United States: An Overview
Contemporary Methods of Faith Transmission in Poland
“Much Progress and Some Deteriorization” - An NCEA Study of REOI and REKAP

Liturgy and Culture

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Introduction: Liturgy and Culture
The Liturgy: Presence of a New Body, Source of a Fulfilled Time
The Eucharist as the Form of Christian Life
The Sacraments as Actions of the Mystical Body
Apostolicity and Eucharist
Trinity Spermatiké: The Veiled Perception of a Pagan World (Part 1)
The Birth of Sources Chrétiennes and the Return to the Fathers
“The Christian Mystery is the Mystery of Creation”: An Introduction to Jean Daniélou
The Presence of God
Christian Culture
The Art of the Second Virtue: On the Unity of Freedom and Obedience in Translation

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Introduction: Catholicity and Education
“Your Reasonable Worship”: Catholic Communion as the True Life According to Reason
The Universality of the University
On the Universality of the University: A Response to Jean-Luc Marion
Athens – Jersualem – Rome
Becoming Catholic: John Henry Newman
The Courage to Educate
Trinity Spermatiké: The Veiled Perception of a Pagan World (Part 2)
The Absoluteness of Christianity and the Catholicity of the Church
Faith and the Multiversity

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Christian Faith as “the Way”: An Introduction to Veritatis Splendor
Moral Questions and Evangelization Today
Veritatis Splendor: An Overview of the Encyclical
The Relevance of Christ or the Sequela Christi?
The Integrity of Christian Moral Activity: The First Letter of John and Veritatis Splendor
Martyrdom and Christian Morality
Veritatis Splendor and the Family: The Future of Christianity in the Postmodern Era
Form in Tragedy: Balthasar as Correlational Theologian Veritatis Splendor
Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Continuing Youthfulness of the Exercises
The University as Community: Community of What?
Reflections on Veritatis Splendor
The One Truth of Freedom: Gift of Self
Christian Art, Christian Act

A Symposium on Pope John Paul II's Fides et Ratio

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The Future of the Philosophy of Being
Human Freedom and Truth According to the Encyclical Fides et Ratio
God and the End of Intelligence: Knowledge as Relationship
Reason’s “Rightful Autonomy” in Fides et Ratio and the Continuous Renewal of Catholic Higher Education in the United States
John Paul II: The Complementarity of Faith and Philosophy in the Search for Truth
Believing Thought as a Category in Russian Religious Philosophy
What the Angels See at Twilight
Faith and Reason: Then and Now
The One Who Went Unnamed: Maurice Blondel in the Encyclical Fides et Ratio
The Search for the Meaning of Life and Faith in the Revelation of Jesus Christ According to Fides et Ratio
The “Truth about the Good”: Practical Reason, Philosophical Ethics, and Moral Theology
Thinking Beyond the Reef: The Cross, Faith, and Reason in the Trinitarian Ontology of Klaus Hemmerle

Hope

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The Signification of Hope for the Present Time
Notes and Reflections on the Virtue of Hope
Communion, Universality, and Apocatastasis: Hope for All?
Christ: Alpha and Omega
Hope Does Not Disappoint
The Use of Scripture in the Catechism of the Catholic Church
Deepening the Theological Dimensions of Liturgical Studies
A Theological Meditation on the Liturgy of the Eucharist
Religious Vows and the Structure of Love
Eternal Damnation or Universal Salvation?
The Structure of Hope
The Sacrament of Iconography
The Oxford Declaration on Liturgy

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Vatican II’s Reception of the Dogmatic Teaching on the Roman Primacy
A Lutheran’s Reflections on the Petrine Ministry of the Bishop of Rome
A Catholic Response to W. Pannenberg Regarding the Petrine Ministry of the Bishop of Rome
The Nuptial Mystery at the Heart of the Church
The Religious Sense
“The Religious Sense” and American Culture
Theodicy Ex Nihilo
Augusto Del Noce: Between Thomism and Religious Existentialism
Thomism and the Critique of Rationalism: Gilson and Shestov
For a Philosophy That Stems from Christ
Digging for Buried Treasure: Origen’s Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture

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The Honor of Becoming Children: What It Means to Honor One’s Father and Mother
Honor Your Father and Your Mother
The Attitude of the Child in the Theology of Hans Urs Von Balthasar
“Unless You Become Like Children”: Ferdinand Ulrich’s Philosophical Anthropology of Childhood
John Paul II’s Letter to Families: Dead Letter or Good News?
The Holy Family as Icon and Model of the Civilization of Love
The Passage of Love: Wojtyła’s Radiation of Fatherhood
God in Pope John Paul II’s Crossing the Threshold of Hope
On Christic Polytheism and Christian Monotheism
Person: Substance and Pelation
Women Priests? A Marian Church in a Fatherless and Motherless Culture
The Blossoming of the Desert
A Meditation on Crossing the Threshold of Hope

The Catholic University (photocopy)

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Mary, Peter, John: Figures of the Church
The Community of St. John
The Encounter of Two Freedoms
Deconstructing the University
The Role of the Catholic University in the Church’s Mission of Re-Evangelization
Towards a Distinctively Catholic School
Marriage: A Personalist or an Institutional Understanding?
On D’Ambrosio and Ressourcement Theology

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Hatred of Theft, Love of the Thief
Charity and Justice: Christian Economy and the Just Ordering of the Commandments
Interreligious Dialogue and Jewish-Christian Relations
The Dignity and Mission of Women: The Anthropological and Theological Foundations
Homosexual Inclination as an “Objective Disorder”: Reflections of Theological Anthropology
Ascension, Parousia, and the Sacred Heart: Structural Correlations
Religious Awareness in Modern Man
Luigi Giussani on the “Religious Sense” and the Cultural Situation of Our Time
Ancient Culture and the Shape of Early Christian Discipleship
St. Matthew’s Spiritual Understanding of the Healing of the Centurion’s Boy
Lazarus and the Rich Man
From Galileo to Mount Cashel: Reflections on History, Myth and Truth

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God Enters into the Flesh, the Flesh Enters into God
“Resurrection of the Flesh” in the Faith of the Church
The Ripening of Salvation: Hope for Resurrection in the Early Church
The Crucified Christ and the World’s Evil
Jesus Christ Today
Henri de Lubac on Dei Verbum
Reflections on the First Beatitude
Natural Law and Private Ownership
On Interpreting Dogmas

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None Greater Born of a Woman: The Theological Figure of John the Baptist
Modernity, Postmodernity, and the Problem of Atheism
The Centrality of the Crucified Christ in the Work of William Congdon
Art and Forgiveness
The Birth of the Image
Thérèse
Sermon of an Agnostic on the Feast of St. Thérèse
Missionary Love
Anne Klejment’s and Nancy Roberts’ American Catholic Pacifism
John Hugo’s Weapons of the Spirit

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Editorial: Christianity and the Question of Postmodernity
Faith and the Postmodern Challenge
Modernity and Christianity
Postmodern or Modern-plus?
Philosophical Presuppositions of Postmodernity
Postmodern Dogmatics: Toward a Renewed Discussion of Foundations in North America
On Meaning and the Death of God in the Academy
Beyond Modernity and Postmodernity: The Thought of Henri de Lubac
Postmodernity and the Resources of the Christian East
Ineffable Speech: Carmelite Mysticism and Metaphysical Poetry
The Canon of Scripture in Postmodern Aesthetics
The End of the Modern World

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The Chastity of Jesus and the “Refusal to Grasp”
The Sacred History of Love
Eros and Agape: The Divine Passion of Love
The Chastity of Jesus
The Formation of Priests in the Pastoral Care of the Family
Beatrice, That Is, “On Fidelity”
Love of God, Human Love: Hugh of St. Victor and the Sacrament of Marriage
Max Scheler’s Principle of Moral and Religious Solidarity
Vladimir Solovyov and the Idea of the Papacy
Solovyov and the Papacy: A Catholic Evaluation
Select Questions on the Theology of God the Redeemer

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Henri de Lubac: The Legacy of a Theologian
The Sanctity of Intelligence
On Mystery in Philosophy
Henri de Lubac and the Critique of Scientific Exegesis
The Nature-Grace Problematic Within Henri de Lubac’s Christological Paradox
De Lubac’s Critique of the Postconciliar Church
Address to the Group Representing the Journal Communio
Communio: A Program
“Communio” in Henri de Lubac
Christian Philosophy and Charity
Catholicism in America
On Christian Philosophy
Communio: International Catholic Review, and The Mission of Communio

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The Mystery of Easter and the Culture of Death
Truth and Freedom
A Dangerous Reflection on the Fundamental Act of the Creature
Are We Really Serious When We Ask God to Deliver Us From War?
Sincere Gift: The Pope’s “New Feminism”
The Meaning of Suffering
The Family at the Heart of a Culture of Life
Martyrdom and the Following of Jesus
The Truth of Love, the Lie of Death
Only Christ Can Fulfill Man’s Hopes
The Theological Anthropology of Gaudium et Spes
The Relevance of the Message of Gaudium et Spes Today
Christology and the Imago Dei: Interpreting Gaudium et Spes
How Weighty is the Argument from “Uninterrupted Tradition” to Justify the Male Priesthood?
Mary-Church-Office
To the Editor

The Catechism of the Catholic Church (photocopy)

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The New Catechism: An Event of the Faith
The Catechism of the Catholic Church: Its Literary Form, Authority and Catechetical Implications
A Mystery to Share In: The Trinitarian Perspective of the New Catechism
The Call to Holiness in the Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Catechism of the Catholic Church: The Section on Sacred Scripture
‘Father, Give Me a Word’: Patristic Voices in the Catechism
Praying the Catechism
“They Shall All Be Taught by God’: The Event of Catechesis Today
On the Mystery of Hope
Only the Unique Really Dies: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Uniqueness of the Word
The Formation of an Attitude of Ecological Responsibility
On Dupré‘s Passage to Modernity

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Jesus Reveals the Father: The Center of New Testament Theology
God the Father
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“As the Father has Loved Me” (Jn 15:9): Batlhasar’s Theodramatic Approach to a Theology of God the Father
Authority: Philosophical Reflections on a Controversial Issue
Ignatius of Antioch, “Attaining the Father”
Confession as a Sacrament of the Father’s Mercy According to Adrienne von Speyr
“Existence Precedes Essence”: Fear of the Gift
Solitude, Communion, and Ecstasy
Episcopal Conferences: Theological Bases
The Mystery of the Holy Innocents
A Meditation on the Principle of the Moral Life
Hymns Ancient and Postmodern: Catherine Pickstock’s After Writing
Reflections on John Paul II’s “Letter to Artists”

Art and Christianity (photocopy)

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Twentieth-Century Church Music: An Elusive Modernity
On Building Churches
Eric Rohmer: The Cinema’s Spiritual Destiny
Is Alfred Hitchcock a “Catholic director”?
Dutch Catholicism in Historical Perspective, 1919-1977
A New Moral Theology Text
“Meaning” in Mental and Emotional Suffering

Hans Urs von Balthasar Symposium (photocopy)

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Catholicism and the Religions
Christian Prayer
Response to My Critics
Current Trends in Catholic Theology and the Responsibility of the Christian
Pistis and Gnosis
A Methodological Critique of von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics
Divine Initiative and Christian Praxis
A Question for Hans Urs von Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthasar on Non-Christian Religions and Meditation
Death of Father Van Ackeren
Humanae Vitae Symposium

Christian Belief (photocopy)

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From Catholic “Social Doctrine” to the “Kingdom of Christ on Earth”
On the Critical Study of Religion: Positivism, the First Amendment, and the Roemer Case
The Meaning of Celibacy
Christian Belief and Christian Life in a Secular Age
Wiseman’s Essene and Others: The U.S. Religious Film as an Aesthetic Problem
Spiritual Direction and Prayer
Eucharistic Congress in Bicentennial Year of American Revolution
The Woman in the Pew
A Reader’s Approach to the Holocaust

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Eternal Life and the Human Condition
Eternal Life in the Johannine Writings
An Empty Hell? The Restoration of All Things?: Balthasar’s Concept of Hope for Salvation
Time in Eternity, Eternity in Time: On the Contemplative-Active Life
The Anointed Imagination: The Character of Catholic Literature in the Twentieth Century
Toward Ecology as an Ecclesial Event: Orthodox Theology and Ecological Ethics
Hans Urs von Balthasar: Witness to the Integration of Faith and Culture
Eternity and the Triune God
The Promotion of Communio in Britain
Theology in an Eastern Catholic Monastery

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The Meaning of Sunday
The Fulfillment of the Sabbath: From the Holiness of the Seventh Day to God’s Resting in God
The Messianic Sabbatical Year and the Social Mission of the Church
Christian Faith and the Search for Happiness
The Playfulness of the Liturgy
Beauty and Hesychia in Athonite Life
Inculturation and Western Culture: The Dialogical Experience Between Gospel and Culture
Whatever You Did unto One of the Least, You Did unto Me
Divine and Creaturely “Receptivity”: The Search for a Middle Term
On Esse and Relation
Response to Long’s Comments
Response to Blair’s Comments
The Person: Philosophy, Theology, and Receptivity
Easter

Christian Existence, the Eucharist (photocopy)

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The Real Presence
The Eucharist as Eschatological Presence
The Eucharist in the Life of Cardinal Newman
Death Disguised in Life and Liturgy
Allegory, Typology, and Symbol: The Sensus Spiritalis
The Crisis of Episcopalianism
The Treatment of Homosexuality in the C.T.S.A. Report on Sexuality
Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
Summer Program of Catholic Studies

The Ministry of Christ: Laity and Clergy / The Centenary of the Birth of Henri de Lubac

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Laypersons, Deacons, and Priests: A Difference of Ministries
The Lay Vocation in the World According to Balthasar
Priestly Ministry at the Service of Ecclesial Communion
The Priesthood and the Evangelical Counsels
Thoughts on the Priesthood of Women
Henri de Lubac and Fundamental Theology
Nature and grace in Henri de Lubac: From Surnaturel to Le mystere du surnaturel
The Spiritual Sense of Scripture
De Lubac and the Theological Foundation of the Missions
The Eucharist, the Church and Evangelization
Henri de Lubac in Connecticut: Unpublished Conferences on Renewal in the Postconciliar Period
Nothing Human is Foreign to Us
Letter to Yourselves
Men, Stones, Faith
Editorial: On the Catholic Common Ground Project

Faith / Newman’s Conversion

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Faith as the Beginning of Salvation
Faith and Witness: Confessio and Martyrium
The Ecclesial Dimension of Faith
The Significance of Newman’s Conversion
Development: The Context and the Content (1839-1845)
The Development of Doctrine: “A Remarkable Philosophical Phenomenon”
Christopher Dawson on the Oxford Movement: The Relationship of Development to Authority
A Christological Interpretation of Psalm 1? The Psalter and Christian Prayer
The Development of Christian Doctrine
Christian Universalism: On Two Collections of Papers by Hans Urs von Balthasar
Peter’s Plaint and Petrine Claims: The Poetry of Robert Southwell (1561-1595)
A Cry of Alarm and a Message of Hope

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The Council’s Vision for a Renewal of the Church
The Universal Call to Holiness in the Church
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Integral Sex Complementarity and the Theology of Communion
Saint Augustine and Conjugal Sexuality
The Marian Orientation of Spirituality in the Thought of John Paul II
Bernard the Theologian: Forty Years of Research
The Council of Holy Spirit
The Total Meaning of Man and the World
Biblical Foundations of Priesthood
To the Editor: On the Distribution of Property

On Unceasing Prayer (photocopy)

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On Unceasing Prayer
Church, State, and Charles Curran
Pride in the Church
What Belonging to the Church Has Come to Mean
A New Editorial Board Member
Kueng’s Christianity
The Authenticity of Christian Ministry: A Reply
Views of Man Opposed to the Sacramental Understanding of Marriage

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The Ordination of Women
The Old Testament and Christian Priesthood
Faith in Religious Studies
Ministerial Leadership and Discernment
Religious Women and the Meaning of the Feminine
A note on the male-female relationship according to St. Paul
Boniface and Communio in the Eighth Century

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The Church Sings the Canticle of the Lamb
The Unfolding Presence of Christ in the Celebration of Mass
The Grandeur of the Liturgy
The Voices of Silence in the Liturgy
Toward an Aesthetic of Liturgical Music
The CTSA and the Ordination of Women
Mystique of Nature
Imminent Apocalyptic or Patient God? Toward an Eschatological Ecclesiology
Reflections on Some of Martin Marty’s Insights
Summer Program of Catholic Studies

Fall 1978 (photocopy)

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Eschatology and Utopia
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Nature and Praxis
Sexuality and Fidelity in Marriage
New Communio Chairman
Avvakum and the Raskol: Lessons for the Present Crisis
The Non-Scientific, Non-Ethics of Professor Scriven

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Problem of Evil, Mystery of Sin and Suffering
On the Scientific Eradication of Evil
The Problem of Evil in Perspective
Affectivity and spirituality: A second look at the “Blue Book” Institutional
Liturgy of, by, and for Poor People Today
Psyche, Evil, and Grace

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The Christian Experience of God
On the life, death, and transfiguration of martyrdom: the Jewish testimony to the divine image in our time
The Psychology of Religious Experience
Tracy’s “Blessed Rage” and the Language of Order
H. Richard Niebuhr: Critic of Political Theology
Attitudes of Some Couples Using Natural Family Planning

American Values and Theology (photocopy)

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American values and Roman Catholic promise
The Bicentennial and Other Milestones: Anniversary Assessments of American Catholicism
Is There an American Theology?
The Bicentennial and the Lively Experiment
Is the party over? - The present position of Catholics in America, if any
Reflections on ecclesial policy-making
The Roman Catholic Church: The true American counter-culture

On Technology (photocopy)

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Technology Outside Us and Inside Us
Technology and Spirituality: A Little More Than Nothing
Contemporary Technology and the Church
Psychological, Philosophical, and Moral Aspects of Biogenetic Engineering
More Than Integration: The CTSA Report on Human Sexuality
Stanislaw Lem’s Science Fiction: Some Religious Aspects

Fall 1977 (photocopy)

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On Understanding Human Sexuality: A Critique of the C.T.S.A. Study
The Language of Worship
Church and Priesthood: A Perspective on Ordained Ministry
Fidelity in the New Testament
Will the Real Teilhard Please Stand Up?
Catholic Education and the Family

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Existentialism and Theological Method
Hermeneutical Theology
The Method of Process Theology: An Evaluation
A Shift to the Human Subject in Roman Catholic Theology
Theology and the Historical-Critical Claims of Modernity: On the Need for Metaphysics
Theology and the Linguistic Turn
Theological Method: Praxis and Liberation
De Lubac on Teilhard

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The Death of the Laity and the Birth of the People of God
Contemporary American Lay Movements in Spirituality
Towards a Lay Spirituality
Some Difficulties of Modern Spirituality
Spirituality and Scholarly Intent
St. Paul on Human Sexuality
Summer Program of Catholic Studies

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On a theology and ethics of work
The changing nature of work in the world system
The object of the theology of work
Problems in Catechesis Today: An Interview with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
The nuptial meaning of body in light of Mary’s assumption
Bede Griffiths and the uniqueness of Christianity
Beyond Mechanism: Physics and Catholic Theology

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The heologian and the Magisterium: The Ancient and Medieval Background of a Contemporary Controversy
Foundations for Unity amid Pluralism
The Church and Scientific Theology
Authority in the Church: An Essay in the Theology of History
Authority in the Church Today: A Theological Reflection
Summer Program of Catholic Studies

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Earthly Beauty and Divine Glory
The Education of Young Women
The Place of Women as a Problem in the Theological Anthropology
Woman as Deprived of the Spirit: An Aspect of Luther’s Thought on Woman
Trends in American Youth Character Development
The Death of Charm and the Advent of Grace: Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
The Christian Between Worlds
The Imitation of Christ, Updated

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The Authority of Institutions: Meddling or Middling?
Life and Institution in the Church
Piety: The Debts Which Precede Our Rights
The Church’s Professions of Faith: On Drafting a New Catholic Catechism for Adults
On Hope
Commitment to the Poor and Discernment of the Truth: on the “Instruction on Certain Aspects
Technology, Ethics, and Biogenetic Art: Observations on the New Role of Man as Creator

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The Eastern Catholic Churches and the Millennium of Rus’-Ukraine
Reflections on a Millennium and the Christian Vocation of Rus’
Solzhenitsyn and the Art of the Soul
Suffering for Christ in the Eastern Church
The Theological Renewal of the Russian Startsi
Is America Bourgeois? A Response to David Schindler
Once Again: George Weigel, Catholicism and American Culture
The Marian Principle
Cardinal Fring’s Speeches During the Second Vatican Council
Dominum et vivificantem: The Conscience and the Heart

Winter 1981 (photocopy)

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The Anti-Roman Attitude
The Church in Czechoslovakia
Sacramental Sexuality I
Ordination in the Pastoral Epistles
Ordination of women in the Diaconate
Lead, kindly light
R.I.P. Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
From East to West: On Certain ICEL Translations

Gnosis / The Pontificate of John Paul II

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Gnosis and Gnosticism: A Renewed Challenge to the Church
Theologia in the Early Church
The Transfiguration of Gnosis in Late Enlightenment German Thought
John Paul II Theologian
Reorienting the Church on the Eve of the Millennium: John Paul II’s “New Evangelization”
Building the Civilization of Love: Recent Statements by John Paul II on Evangelizing Culture
Gaudium et spes, the Divine Image, and the Synthesis of Veritatis Splendor
Spirit and History: The Intelligence of Scripture
In Dominico Eloquio: Learning the Lord’s Style of Language
The Eucharist and Transubstantiation
Taking Time to Listen and Understand
The “Science So Falsely Called”: Seduction and Separation
“My Name is Sacrifice”: The Mission of Blessed Faustina

Summer 1986

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Church as “Communio”
The Being of Spirit and the Holy Spirit
The Meaning of the “Filioque”
Interpretation-Contemplation-Action
Understanding God and Discerning Spirits
An Artist, His Art and the Christian Community
Sculptural Creations

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Theological Dissent in the North American Church
The Foundations of Bultmann’s Work
Desire, Recollection and Thought: On Augustine’s Confessions I, 1
The Meaning of Christ’s Saying, “I Am the Truth”
The Spiritual Mission of the Laity
The German Bishops on the Role of the Laity in the Church and the World
What is Faith?

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Mystical Crosscurrents
The Infancy Narratives and Critical Biblical Method
Jung, Oriental Wisdom, and the West
The Meaning of American Political Thought and Practice
On the Withdrawal of Hans Küng's Authorization to Teach
Religious Harassment in Czechoslovakia
New Board Member

Person: Psychology and Spirituality (photocopy)

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The Mirror and the Spark: Some Paradoxes of Contemporary Education
On the Concept of Person
The Geography of the Human Person
Self-Actualization and the Sinful Creature
Image, Likeness, and Deification in the Human Person
Film and the Mystery of the Person

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The Church as a Place of Forgiveness
Guilt and Its Resolution outside the Christian Tradition
Christian Satisfaction and Sacramental Reconciliation
Man Between Reproduction and Creation
Pope John Paul II’s Letter on the Dignity and Vocation of Women
Theses on Christian Memory, Hope and Assent
What is anthropocentric and what is theocentric in Christian existence?
Louis Bouyer the Theologian
Bibliography 1938-1988, Books
Letter to Father Duployé
An Interview with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
Regarding the Motto on Cardinal Ratzinger’s Coat of Arms

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Ecumenism and Denominational Conversion: Reflections of a Roman Catholic
Evangelization in an Ecumenical Age
An Evangelical Views the New Catholicism
A New Phase in Ecumenical Expressions
The Pearl of Great Value
Where Do We Stand on the Road toward Church Unity?
The Authenticity of Christian Ministry: A Story of Failure
New Things and Old

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Democracy and Moral-righteous Neutrality: American and Catholic Perspectives
Pluralist Christendom and the Christian Civil Magistrate
The Moral Majority and Christian Politics
Our Pluralistic Society
Natural Law and the American Regime: Murray’s We Hold These Truths
Maritain on Church and State
Murray on Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Freedom
Opening Our Hearts to the Poor

Discernment and Renewal (photocopy)

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Volume 07.3

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Reflections on the Discernment of Spirits
Towards a Reevaluation of the Counter-Reformation
Contemporary Theologies of the Laity: An Overview since Vatican II
Freedom and the Moral Order
Morality and Interests: A Critique of Kohlberg’s Ethical Theory
Intimacy and Human Sexuality: A Challenge to the Consensus on Contraception
The Theologian as Catechist
The Foundation of Morality and the Function of Authority

The Miraculous (photocopy)

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A Reflection on the Ideals of Communio
The Multiplication of the Loaves in the Life of Jesus
Overwhelmed by Miracle: C.S. Lewis and Christian Liberation
In Search of the Miraculous
Peace and Justice in Crisis: The Task of Religion
In Response to Glenn W. Olsen and J. Brian Benestad
In Reply to Richard John Neuhaus
The Problem of the Future: Total Secularization or a Return to Christian Culture
Evangelization in Crisis
The Third World Churches are Becoming Missionary

Freedom and Liberation

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Volume 14.1

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The Church as Sacrament of Unity
An Introduction to von Balthasar’s The Glory of the Lord
Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Mystery of the Forty Days after Easter
Christian Experience in Hans Urs von Balthasar
Death is Swallowed up by Life
Freedom and Liberation: The Anthropological Vision of the Instruction Libertatis conscientia
The Whole Christ: On the Unity of the Church
The Artist and His Model

Sanctity, Crisis, Theological Renewal (photocopy)

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Sanctity, Crisis, Theological Renewal
Theology and Holiness
Blondel and Loisy in the Modernist Crisis
St. Thomas: Contemplative in the University
St. Ignatius and the Reformation
Newman: The Spiritual Man and the Theological Message
The Witness from Alexandria: Athanasius Contra Mundum
Catholicity and the State of Contemporary Theology: The Need for an Onto-logic of Holiness
Edith Stein, Woman of the Church

Participation in Community (photocopy)

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Volume 08.2

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The Polish Strike: “Maybe People Are Not Really Bad”
Participation in Community: Wojtyla’s Social Anthropology
The Gay Middle Ages: A Response to Professor Boswell
Biotechnology and Bodiliness
The Social Message of John Paul II to the People of Africa and Latin America
After the Synod: The Church in the Netherlands
For All Men and Women

The Political Vision of John Paul II (photocopy)

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The Political Vision of Pope John Paul II: Justice through Faith and Culture
A Crisis of Credibility: The Managerial Class before the Social-economic Teaching of the Church
Global Community and Subsidiarity
Human Rights: The “So-Called” Judaeo-Christian Tradition
Theology and Aesthetic
The Muddle: A Parable for Universities
Robert Lowell’s Catholicism
Thoughts on Contemporary Religious Experience
Pornography: Much Ado About Nothing
Christ in the Agora

Oriental Religious and Christianity (photocopy)

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Volume 15.4

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Editorial: Buddhism - An Approach to Dialogue
Buddhism and Christianity in Dialogue: Notes on the Intellectual Presuppositions
How Can We Bring the Ephhapax of the Historical Christ Closer to the Asiatic Patterns of Thought?
Dynamics of Hinduism and Hindu-Christian Dialogue
Understanding Non-Objective Meditation
A Résumé of My Thought
The Catholic Moment?
On Richard John Neuhaus’s The Catholic Moment
Buddhist Charity and Christian Charity
Telegram for the Funeral of Hans Urs von Balthasar
Homily at the Funeral Liturgy for Hans Urs von Balthasar
Humanae Vitae Revisited