Spring 2025

Baptism

Being Born into the Body of Christ: Baptism and the Fruitful Form of the Church

José Granados

“In each baptized person, through his baptismal character, the entire order of the Church (which is a eucharistic order) is inscribed.”

The Theological Meaning of Water in the Old Testament

Joseph Atkinson

“With the insertion of the ‘new principle’ of Christ, the New Testament waters are the contact point between God and the world, where God himself is the living water which effects the eschatological purification.”

A Conversation on Baptism with Tibor Görföl

Erik Varden Tibor Görföl

“To embark on an initiation into the life of Christ, it is fundamental to begin existentially, humbly, step-by-step, to enter into an experience of and a participation in eternity.”

Baptism and the Mystical Life in Nicholas Cabasilas’s The Life in Christ

Michelina Tenace

“The quality of the mystical life is rooted in baptism; and that life is, in turn, a manifestation and fulfillment of the sacrament.”

The Senses of Scripture and the Church’s Life: Reading 2 Timothy with Henri de Lubac

William M. Wright , IV.

“The spiritual senses are the ways in which the realities presented in Scripture participate in the mystery of Christ, and the ways in which believers participate in the same mystery.”

Toward a New Philosohpy of Being (With a Gloss on Balthasar)

Roger B. Duncan

“The great ‘more’ of being lies then not only in the act of existence but in the miracle of essence and existence taken together. . . . The source gives both in a single act of love.”