For Hope, Of Hope: Prayers of the Community
Ms. Falkowski has prayed continuously with the community of Hope Community Presbyterian Church in Virginia, MN, since her baptism as an infant. This prayer was featured in a Lenten worship service...
View ArticleOn the Symbolic Nature of Evangelization
Still often viewed as an action belonging solely to missionary societies, Catholic understanding of evangelization is lacking. Refusal to evangelize is refusal to act as a symbolic reality of Christ...
View ArticleEucharist: A Sign and Means of Unity?
Per the Second Vatican Council, the Eucharist is to be a sign of unity and a means of grace. However, it often serves as a sign of disunity among Christian churches. This paper provides an...
View ArticleRevisiting the Roman Church's Table Practice
The Roman church teaches that reception of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ is reserved only for those who have membership in the Roman faith. By examining the actions and parables of Jesus, this...
View ArticleMorality and the Extra-Medical Use of Drugs
Nota bene - The following is one of three major papers written forty-five years ago as a requirement for the Master of Arts in Theology degree. The author has revisited the topic in an addendum...
View ArticleJude's Enochian Apocalypse
Jude’s was an apocalyptic imagination much like that of the writer of Revelation, but he had no need to write his own apocalypse. In his brief epistle, written sometime before 62 CE,1 Jude revealed...
View ArticleAsian New Year Reflection
What follows is the transcript of a reflection given by Maho on the occasion of a Convivuim fellowship, here at Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary on February 4, 2016.
View ArticleCyril Lucaris: The Calvinist of Constantinople - Even When in Conflict with...
Cyril Lucaris (Patriarch of Alexandira 1601-1620, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople 1620-1638, intermittently) is best known for his controversial Confession of Faith which propounds Calvinist...
View ArticleA Biblical Hermeneutic for Dominion: Domination vs Stewardship
In his encyclical, Laudato Si’, Pope Francis argues that modern anthropocentrism has contributed to the valuing of technical thought over the dignity of the natural world with grave environmental...
View ArticleThe Relational Ontology of Augustine's and LaCugna's Trinity
Unfolding the nature of the Trinity within a monotheistic framework posed a challenge for the Fathers of the Church. Augustine’s approach prioritizes divine unity and shared essence as the primary...
View ArticleThe Place of Psalms in Liturgy
The General Instruction to the Roman Missal calls psalms particularly “suited to the liturgy,” and the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops acknowledges the Psalter as being “the basic...
View ArticleMillennials of the Church
Over the last two decades, Catholic millennials have become increasingly attracted to traditional and orthodox views on liturgy and ecclesiology. Several factors play a role for this increasing trend....
View ArticleA Garden Enclosed, A Fountain Sealed Up: Paradoxical and Generative Metaphors...
In addition to monastic and eremitic vocations, medieval women embraced with great fervor the anchoritic life. This unique method of separation produced a multiplicity of metaphorical language to...
View ArticleMy Sacred Space
Nota bene - Maho Morishita is an MA student from Japan. The following is her personal reflection on a particular sacred space, the Horyuji Temple, demonstrating how this Buddhist site can be...
View ArticleEthic vs. Kerygma: Exploring Vulnerability and Empowerment in the Philippians...
Paul’s cruciform theology of self-emptying as modeled by Christ is radically displayed in the hymn of kenosis referenced in his letter to the Philippians; and scholars have disagreed as to whether...
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