The advocacy of Patristic theology on the part of the nouvelle théologie was motivated, to a large extent, by an admiration for Patristic ways of reading Scripture and of inscribing Scriptural language into theological exposition. The retrieval of these Patristic approaches to Scripture was championed as a remedy for both
All that John Chrysostom teaches about the Eucharist and holy communion circles back to the liturgy. It is the liturgy that calls the Christian away from the busyness and boredom of everyday life, and yet profitable participation in the liturgy can be marred by what the Christian brings to the
Unlike spontaneous healing miracles, which really do occur with some frequency and are acknowledged by skeptics and believers alike, including medical professionals who are atheists, levitations and bilocations are extremely rare events that are seldom taken seriously outside certain belief systems. Levitation and bilocation are but two of several physical
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this academic year. This occasion calls for something of a retrospective mode, a contemplative reflection upon the Center’s very fundaments: “ethics,” “culture,” and—perhaps most importantly—the ampersand or coordinating conjunction between them.
Pope Francis calls politics “a lofty vocation and one of the highest forms of charity, inasmuch as it seeks the common good” (Evangelii Gaudium, §205). Indeed, it is “the field of charity at its most vast” (Fratelli Tutti,§180, quoting Pius XI). “If someone helps an elderly person cross a river,
For the first-time reader of In Search of Lost Time, Proust’s sinuous sentences can feel convoluted and even taxing, demanding—without due cause—such a sustained attention that editions of Proust’s masterpiece released “for the modern reader” should be equipped with a medicinal preface that contains a filled prescription for Ritalin. This is
One of the ways to gain clarity about a given thing is to explore not simply what that thing is, but rather to investigate precisely what it is not. When a scientist, for example, wonders what is behind a given effect, it can be an incredibly fruitful exercise to begin