Marquette Studies in Theology
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Andrew Tallon, Editor

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52. George H. Tavard. Vatican II & the Ecumenical Way. ISBN 978-0-87462-729-9. ©2006. 155 pages. Index. Paperbound. $20.

This book was born from the author’s ecumenical experience and theological reflection. Formed in theology in France, where Henri de Lubac was one of his professors, the author also knew Jean Daniélou and Yves Congar well. He is thus well-acquainted with what came to be called the ‘new theology,’ while his doctoral thesis on St. Bonaventure anchored his thought in the great century of scholastic theology.

The member of a religious community with deep experience of the Christian East, especially in Bulgaria and Turkey, but also in Athens and Moscow, he himself developed an expertise in the late Middle Ages and the Protestant Reformation, to which he devoted his first major ecumenical book, Holy Writ or Holy Church. The Crisis of the Protestant Reformation (NY: Harper, 1959). Appointed by John XXIII to the Pontifical Secretariat for the Promotion of the Unity of Christians, and then to the Vatican Council as theologian (peritus), he directly contributed to the writing of the Decree on Ecumenism. Since the close of the council he has served in major ecumenical dialogues, both national in the USA and international. He has taught historical theology in colleges, universities, and seminaries. He has also published extensively, in ecumenism, theology, and spirituality.

In the perusal of this new book the reader will be guided through the problems, difficulties, intricacies, and also the hopes, possibilities, and discoveries of the ecumenical way. He or she should be led to see why John Paul II, who also had experienced Vatican II, declared the ecumenical commitment of the Catholic Church to be “irrevocable.”

51. Robert M. Doran, S.J. Psychic Conversion & Theological Foundations. ISBN 978-0-87462-728-2. ©2006. 276 pages. Index. Paperbound. $27.

“In the Epilogue to his monumental book Insight, Bernard Lonergan writes, ‘... theologians have to take a professional interest in the human sciences and make a positive contribution to their methodology.’ Psychic Conversion and Theological Foundations is the work of a theologian taking a professional interest in the science of depth psychology and its methods. But it also discloses the contribution that a reoriented depth psychology makes to theology itself. For depth psychology could contribute to dimensions of theology’s foundations that, while acknowledged by Lonergan, were not developed by him: the aesthetic and dramatic components of human living. These can be subjected to a self-appropriation similar to that which Lonergan aids in the realm of cognitional operations. As Hans Urs von Balthasar emphasizes, it is in the aesthetic and dramatic spheres that theology will find many of its proper categories. “This work follows upon Subject and Psyche, also published by Marquette University Press, and anticipates the later work Theology and the Dialectics of History (University of Toronto Press). In many ways its presentation of the notion of psychic conversion is more complete than what is found in either of those works.”

Robert Doran, S.J., formerly
Professor of Systematic Theology,
Regis College, University of Toronto, is
Director of the Lonergan Research Institute,
Toronto, & Professor of Systematic
Theology at Marquette University.


50. Suzanne C. Toton. Justice Education: From Service to Solidarity
ISBN-13: 978-0-87462-727-5 and ISBN-10: 0-87462-727-3. Paper. 188 pp. $20

Catholic colleges and universities, like non-religious academic institutions, are dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and truth. However because Catholic colleges and universities take their inspiration from the Gospel, that pursuit has a different orientation. Its specific point of reference, direction and purpose is perhaps best captured by the phrase “a preferential option for the poor.” This phrase, coined by the Latin American bishops at their 1979 conference in Puebla, Mexico and since then central to the vocabulary of the Catholic Social Tradition, simply means that we as individuals, collectives and institutions are called by the Gospel to identify with the poor and marginalized of society, stand in solidarity with them, and accompany them in the struggle for justice and peace. Thus, for Catholic colleges and universities the end purpose of teaching, research and service is the creation of a more compassionate, just and peaceful social order.
If truth be told, this “preferential option for the poor” is not very well integrated into the structure and fabric of our institutions. After more than twenty years reflecting, writing and teaching in the areas of social ethics and justice education, I have come to the conclusion that a radically different approach to furthering justice and peace through Catholic colleges and universities is called for, one that moves beyond promoting the idea of justice to participating in its creation. From the author’s Introduction

 

Dr. Suzanne C. Toton is professor in the
Theology and Religious Studies Department at
Villanova University, Pennsylvania

49. George H. Tavard. The Contemplative Church: Joachim & His Adversaries
ISBN-13: 978-0-87462-726-8 and ISBN-10: 0-87462-726-5. Paper. 153 pp. $17

There have been many studies of Joachim di Fiore (c.1130-1202) over the last thirty years: general presentations of his life, assessments of his works, of his connection with the Cistercians and of his conception of the monastic life in the Order he founded, analyses of his hermeneutical method, apocalyptic views on the Church, investigations of his posthumous relations with the Spiritual Franciscans, reviews of his religious and secular posterity. The Order of Fiore, founded by him in the second half of the twelfth century, flourished in Southern Italy through the thirteenth century, and then began to shrink. What remained of it, notably the abbey of Fiore itself, was absorbed in the Cistercian Order in 1536. It is not as a founder, however, that Joachim has been remembered, but as a theologian who based his peculiar views of the future of the Church on a method of interpretation that he claimed to have received by inspiration. As a prophet the abbot had considerable success in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries among the Spiritual Franciscans. Most of the spiritualist movements that have agitated Christendom, before, during, and after the Reformation, have shown traces of Joachim’s influence. From the author’s Introduction

George H. Tavard is the author 60 books,
among them Trina Deitas: The Controversy between Hincmar and Gottschalk and
From Bonaventure to the Reformers, and a contributor to the volume
Joan of Arc at the University, all from Marquette University Press.

48. Neil Ormerod. The Trinity: Retrieving the Western Tradition
ISBN-13: 978-0-87462-725-1 and ISBN-10: 0-87462-725-7. Paper. 176 pp. $20

Recent decades have witnessed a significant growth in interest in Trinitarian theology. Among the varied and often conflicting theologies currently developed, the common theme is that the Western tradition of Trinitarian theology has had its day. This book argues that this tradition is still relevant, and in fact more coherent than the competing alternatives now on offer.
“We are in the midst of massive cultural upheavals and we live in a time when it is nearly impossible to find our bearings. It remains my conviction that within that turmoil the Western tradition, exemplified in the Trinitarian writings of Augustine and Aquinas, remain a permanent achievement, from which we can continue to learn.” From the Author’s Preface

Professor Neil Ormerod is Head of the Sub-faculty of Theology and Philosophy, Mount St. Mary Campus, Australian Catholic University, Strathfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. His previous book include: Method, Meaning and Revelation (Lanham: UPA, 2000). Introducing Contemporary Theologies: The What and the Who of Theology Today, revised and expanded edition (Sydney/Maryknoll: E.J. Dwyer/Orbis, 1997, republished by Orbis, 2002). When Ministers Sin: Sexual Abuse in the Churches, with Thea Ormerod (Sydney: Millennium Books, 1994). Grace and Disgrace: A Theology of Self-Esteem, Society and History (Sydney: E.J. Dwyer, 1992).

47. Bonnie A. Birk. Christine de Pizan and Biblical Wisdom: A Femisinst-Theological Point of View
ISBN-13: 978-0-87462-699-5 and ISBN-10: 0-87462-699-4. 202 pp. $23

The fifteen-century writer Christine de Pizan very adeptly used various aspects of the religious traditions of her day in her confrontation of misogynous beliefs and attitudes. In this book the insights of today’s feminist scholars in religion are used to demonstrate that one of the more intriguing religious elements Christine drew upon was the female figure of biblical Wisdom. While the use of Wisdom in the Medieval era in a general theological and literary sense was quite prevalent, Christine took a significant step beyond customary symbolic usage in that Wisdom was called upon as a metaphor for deity to creatively fortify her efforts to claim justice and honor for herself and for all women. Wisdom appeared to function, for Christine, as a reflection in the divine realm of ideal female and male realities in the human. This book serves to add a newly discovered source of inspiration for Christine de Pizan’s development of her literary-theological creations, and serves as well to add Christine’s remarkable feminist appropriation of the female figure of biblical Wisdom to current feminist-theological discussions.

The cover illustration shows Christine de Pizan and Reason clearing the Field of Letters of misogynist opinion
in preparation for building
of the City of Ladies.

Dr. Bonnie Birk teaches at Mount Mary College in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

46. The Early Works of Orestes A. Brownson. Volume VI: Life by Communion, 1842
Edited by Patrick W. Carey. ISBN 0-87462-698-6. 540 pp. $47

Orestes A. Brownson was one of the most original, creative, and controversial of the American intellectuals in early and mid nineteenth century America.

MU Press published a Bibliography of Orestes A. Brownson’s Writings which contained a comprehensive and annotated list of the published works of Orestes A. Brownson (1803-76) from 1826 until his death in 1876. The bibliography offers for the first time a complete list of over 1500 of his essays, pamphlets and books.

MU Press continues to publish the seven-volume critical edition of Orestes A. Brownson’s Early Works. These volumes will cover the period prior to Brownson’s conversion to Catholicism, 1826 to 1843. Most of the provocative and critical essays he wrote during this period were never republished in his son Henry’s twenty-volume edition of his works. His most significant essays on religion, politics, philosophy, literature and American culture will be republished here for the first time. Each of the four volumes will be preceded by an historical introduction which situates Brownson and his writings in the context of American and European intellectual history. Detailed indexes will assist researchers in using these volumes. The writings as well as the volumes themselves will be arranged chronologically to demonstrate clearly the development of Brownson’s thought. One volume will be produced each year starting in January of 1997.

Previously Published

1. Frederick M. Bliss. Understanding Reception. ISBN 0-87462-625-0. ©1993. 180 pages. Index. Bibliography. Paperbound. $20.

“Reception is a problem of pastoral leadership no less than a theological question. Christian doctrine has to be received before it can be transmitted. But how is it received when it is transmitted? How does their reception of the creed contribute to the mutual communion of the faithful? These and many other queries stand in need of adequate answers. The present book is the first major inquiry into the nature and process of Reception. The author’s multisided method draws on theology and its history, literary theory, the history of law, and contemporary legal and political experience. He brings to his task ecumenical commitment and knowledge. His treatment of the question may inspire further studies but is not likely to be replaced.” — George H. Tavard, From the Foreword

“The author undertakes to bring together in one volume pertinent material on this phenomenon from widely disparate quarters. This he does in a nicely laid out and reader-friendly manner. He alternates material from “secular” disciplines (sociology, anthropology, literary criticism, hermeneutics, and jurisprudence) with chapters in systematic, historical, and practical theology. The usefulness of his project is to make available, through intelligent lay exploitation of some of the more accessible work in many fields, some pertinent perspectives from disciplines and areas of investigation not familiar to any one reader. The work will serve as an overall introduction to the problem of reception as it has presented itself since the second Vatican Council. It is a substantial contribution to ecumenical studies from a Roman Catholic perspective. The conclusions are sound and practical.” — Paul Misner, Marquette University

2. Martin Albl, Paul Eddy, Renée Mirkes, OSF, Editors. Directions in New Testament Methods. ISBN 0-87462-626-9. ©1993. 129 pages, annotated bibliography. Paperbound. $15. Foreword by William S. Kurz, S.J.

“As a book by beginners for beginners, this volume obviously does not presume to state the last word on any of the passages. It should, however, be both a help and an encouragement to beginners or non-specialists to see how applicable the methods of the ’scholarly guild’ are by ordinary people. So often even theologians who are not exegetes are intimidated by the apparent complexity of historical-critical exegesis from personally interpreting biblical passages. The following saying of Jesus has often seemed to apply to the current ’exegetical establishment’: ’Woe to you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering’ (Luke 11:52 RSV). The common readers of the Bible, and even theologians, have often felt liable to criticism by the professional exegetes if they try to apply the Bible to their lives or contemporary theology; yet few exegetes will make that application themselves.

The editors made an attempt to include as many of the important methods and approaches to New Testament texts as they could . The essays exemplify textual criticism, the relevance of the Synoptic Problem, the relationship of the Fourth Gospel to the Synoptics, Form Criticism and Parable studies, and redaction criticism. Others emphasize literary and rhetorical approaches and methods, and comparison with non-biblical contemporary writings, such as Christian and Hellenistic moral exhortation, gnostic and Christian views of resurrection, rhetorical analysis, narrative criticism, and epistolary conventions. The question and effect of pseudonymity on authentic teaching is addressed. The final essay evaluates the application of social-science methods to John 3:1-21.” — From the Foreword by William S. Kurz, S.J.

3. Robert M. Doran. Subject and Psyche. ISBN 0-87462-627-7. ©1994. Paperbound. 285 pp. $25. Second edition, revised. With a new Foreword by the author.

Comments on Subject and Psyche by Bernard Lonergan:
In “Questionnaire on Philosophy” (Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 2:2, 1984, p. 31) Lonergan writes:

“Following the method ... is not a matter of deduction but of creativity: such creativity may enrich the thematization of experiencing, understanding, judgment, deliberation that already has been achieved; it may also add quite new dimensions to it, as has Robert Doran, S.J. in his doctoral dissertation.”

And in “Reality, Myth, Symbol” (in Alan Olson, ed., Myth, Symbol and Reality, Notre Dame 1980, p. 37):

"With me (Doran) would ask: ’Why?’ ’Is that so?’ ’Is it worthwhile?’ But to these three he would add a fourth. It is Heidegger’s Befindlichkeit taken as the existential question: ’How do I feel?’ It is not just the question but also each one’s intelligent answer, reasonable judgment, responsible acceptance. And on that response I can do no better than refer the reader to Professor Doran’s current writing."

4. Kenneth Hagen, Editor. The Bible in the Churches. How various Christians interpret the Scriptures. ISBN 0-87462-628-5. ©1998. Paperbound. 218 pages. $25. Third edition, revised. Index.

Chapters on the Bible in the Church to the 19th century (Hagen), in the Roman Catholic Church (Harrington), in the Orthodox Church (Prokurat), in the Lutheran Church (Burgess), in the Reformed Tradition (Soards) and among American Evangelicals (Osborne). With a conclusion by George Tavard: “How Catholics, the Orthodox, Lutherans, Evangelicals, and the Reformed interpret the same Bible.”

How is the Bible read in the churches today? Was the Bible always studied as it is now? Is modern biblical scholarship a source of unity or division among the churches? This collaborative venture explores such questions in the hope of clarifying the ecumenical potential of biblical study today and in history.

Four New Testament specialists–Daniel J. Harrington, S.J., Joseph A. Burgess, Grant R. Osborne, and Marion L. Soards–and one Old Testament scholar–Michael Prokurat–then explain how the Bible is interpreted in the Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Evangelical, and Reformed churches, respectively. As a way of focusing the similarities and differences, each exegete presents an exposition of Ephesians 2:1-10. In a conclusion, George H. Tavard, A.A., gives a masterful overview of scriptural study in the history of the church and describes the ecumenical task that lies ahead. The appeal of this volume for college and seminary use is that it serves a real need for those interested in how the churches actually apply the Scriptures. No one volume currently exists in English-one that engages the student with the reception of the Scriptures in the major Christian traditions written by representatives of the living traditions. Interest in the history of biblical interpretation continues to increase in scholarly historical-critical methodologies. It is amazing and gratifying that interest in church history as the history of biblical exegesis (Gerhard Ebeling) is actually being done throughout Europe and the United States.

This third edition is revised and expanded, in the chapter on the Roman Catholic tradition and especially in the chapter on the Orthodox tradition. A new chapter has been added from the Reformed tradition. An index has been added.

5. Jamie T. Phelps. O.P., Editor. Black and Catholic: The Challenge and Gift of Black Folk. Contributions of African American Experience and thought to Catholic Theology. ISBN 0-87462-629-3. ©1997. Corrected edition. Paperbound. Index. 183 pages. $20.

This book is the first of its kind. I know of no other book in which African-American scholars jointly address issues related to the African-American Catholic experience. I know of no other book in which Catholic theology and theological education is discussed in light of the African-African experience. I know of no other book in which African-American Catholic scholars have published their collective concerns about the state of Catholic higher education. The present book fits within the long history of African-American Catholic attempts (e.g., the nineteenth century African-American Catholic Congresses and the twentieth century Federation of Colored Catholics) to address the issue of education for African-American Catholics. This book is part of an already established tradition of criticism and creative reform-this time within Catholic higher education.

Contemporary African-American Catholics, recent scientific surveys demonstrate, have a higher educational success rate than the overall American average regardless of race. From the late nineteenth century onwards leaders in the African-American Catholic community have pushed for education for their children and for Catholic educational institutions to take a leading role in providing that education. Endemic racism and lack of financial resources prevented an adequate response to these calls for massive institutional support for primary and then secondary education for African-American Catholics. Only gradually did the Catholic educational institutions at all levels integrate African Americans into their institutions.

This book is a beneficiary of those past achievements in education and a call for a new kind of reform in Catholic higher education, one that pays particular attention to the inclusion and integration of the African-American experience in Catholic theology and in the entire curriculum-particularly in the hermeneutical enterprises in theology, ethics, scripture, and history. There are many ethnic and racial components in the Catholic tradition. This book is a challenge to that tradition not just to include courses in the curriculum on the African-American experience (we already have a proliferation of unconnected courses in the curriculum), but to transform the entire curriculum in such a way that the unity of the educational experience will be enhanced by the diversity of the traditions that make up that unity. — From the Preface by Patrick Carey

6. Karl Rahner. Spirit in the World. New, Corrected Translation by William Dych. Foreword by Francis Fiorenza. ISBN 0-87462-630-7. CD VERSION by a special arrangement with Continuum Publishing Co. $10. CD version is readable by any computer and is fully searchable PDF to be read using Adobe Acrobat.

Spirit in the World was Karl Rahner’s first major work, a philosophical tour de force that not only stands on its own right as the most powerful contemporary interpretation of Thomist metaphysics of knowledge, but also laid the foundations for Rahner’s massive theological corpus. In this book of over 400 pages, Rahner brings Christian Catholic theology into the twentieth century by bringing Thomas Aquinas, its mandated standard bearer, into dialogue with Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. He does so under the inspiration of a reading of Aquinas inspired by the groundbreaking work of Pierre Rousselot and Joseph Maréchal. The result is a modern classic that all students of Rahner and of philosophy and theology today will want to study in depth.

“Spirit in the World has a double significance for Karl Rahner’s thought and his imposing aggiornamento of theology. First of all, this book represents Rahner’s attempt to confront the mediæval scholastic philosophy of Thomas Aquinas with the problems and questions of modern philosophy, especially as formulated by Immanuel Kant in his critical and transcendental philosophy. In the second place, Spirit in the World is also important because the philosophical position developed here in dialogue with modern philosophy provides the unifying principle and presupposition of Rahner’s whole theology. Rahner has not left the philosophical principles of this book in their formal and abstract outlines, but has developed and applied them in his many theological books and essays which can only be adequately understood when Spirit in the World is understood.” -– from the Introduction by Francis Schüssler Fiorenza

7. Karl Rahner. Hearer of the Word. New Translation of the First Edition by Joseph Donceel. Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew Tallon. ISBN 0-87462-631-5. CD VERSION by a special arrangement with Continuum Publishing Co. $10. CD version is readable by any computer and is fully searchable PDF to be read using Adobe Acrobat.

“Hearer of the Word is the single most necessary book of philosophy and pre-theology Rahner ever wrote. It discusses not only being and knowledge, but freedom, faith, and love: it has a heart in a way missing from the necessarily technical tome that is Spirit in the World, Ideally one should master both Spirit in the World and Hearer of the Word, but one should never, if forced to choose between them, forgo Hearer of the Word. It is the sine qua non of Rahner studies. A work of sustained power and incomparable metaphysical interest and importance, it is at once profound, yet readable and clear-at least in this excellent new translation of the first edition here published for the first time.”

“Hearer of the Word is a contemporary classic, the best key to understanding Rahner’s omnia opera, and his single best effort to show how the human spirit in the world can hear the word of the Spirit who enters human history.” — From the Introduction by Andrew Tallon

8. Robert M. Doran. Theological Foundations. Vol. 1 Intentionality and Psyche. ISBN 0-87462-632-3. ©1995. 500 pages. Paperbound. Formerly priced $50; now $20.00

Table of Contents

Paul Ricoeur: Toward the Restoration of Meaning 1
Psychic Conversion 25
Subject, Psyche, and Theology’s Foundations 71
Aesthetics and the Opposites 105
Christ and the Psyche 133
The Theologian’s Psyche: Notes toward a Reconstruction of Depth Psychology 179
Dramatic Artistry in the Third Stage of Meaning 231
Insight and Archetype: The Complementarity of Lonergan and Jung 279
Aesthetic Subjectivity and Generalized Empirical Method 311
Psyche, Evil, and Grace 337
Jungian Psychology and Lonergan’s Foundations: A Methodological Proposal 363
Jungian Psychology and Christian Spirituality I: Christian Spiritual Transformation: Self-transcendence and Self-appropriation 391
Jungian Psychology and Christian Spirituality II: The Jungian Psychology of Individuation 413
Jungian Psychology and Christian Spirituality III: Psychology and Grace 431
Primary Process and the ’Spiritual Unconscious’ 447
Affect, Affectivity 481

9. Robert M. Doran. Theological Foundations. Vol. 2 Theology and Culture. ISBN 0-87462-633-1. ©1995. 550 pages. Paperbound. Formerly priced $55; now $20.00

Table of Contents

Part One: Transitional Essays 1
Report on a Work in Progress3
From Psychic Conversion to the Dialectic of Community 35
Psychic Conversion and Spiritual Development 65
Duality and Dialectic 95
Jung and Catholic Theology 129

Part Two: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Foundations 189
Theological Grounds for a World-cultural Humanity 191
Suffering Servanthood and the Scale of Values 217
Theology’s Situation: Questions to Eric Voegelin 259
Bernard Lonergan: An Appreciation 297
Common Ground 319
Cosmopolis and the Situation: A Preface to Systematics and Communications 331
Education for Cosmopolis 363

Part Three: Hermeneutics and Foundations 395
Self-knowledge and the Interpretation of Imaginal Expression 397
Psychic Conversion and Lonergan’s Hermeneutics 439

Part Four: Toward a Systematic Theology 501
The Analogy of Dialectic and the Systematics of History 503

10. Patrick W. Carey. Orestes A. Brownson: A Bibliography, 1826-1876. ISBN 0-87462-634-X. ©1997. Paperbound. Index. 212 pp. $25

Orestes A. Brownson was one of the most original, creative, and controversial of the American intellectuals in early and mid nineteenth century America.

MU Press is publishing now a Bibliography of Orestes A. Brownson’s Writings which contains a comprehensive and annotated list of the published works of Orestes A. Brownson (1803-76) from 1826 until his death in 1876. The bibliography offers for the first time a complete list of over 1500 of his essays, pamphlets and books.

MU Press will also publish a seven-volume critical edition of Orestes A. Brownson’s Early Works. These four volumes will cover the period prior to Brownson’s conversion to Catholicism, 1826 to 1843. Most of the provocative and critical essays he wrote during this period were never republished in his son Henry’s twenty-volume edition of his works. His most significant essays on religion, politics, philosophy, literature and American culture will be republished here for the first time. Each of the four volumes will be preceded by an historical introduction which situates Brownson and his writings in the context of American and European intellectual history. Detailed indexes will assist researchers in using these volumes. The writings as well as the volumes themselves will be arranged chronologically to demonstrate clearly the development of Brownson’s thought. One volume will be produced each year starting in January of 1997.

11. John Martinetti, S.J. Reasons to Believe Today. ISBN 0-87462-635-8. ©1996. Paperbound. 216 pp. $25

When Einstein’s wife was asked if she understood the theory of relativity “No,” she answered, “but I know my husband and I am sure he can be trusted."

Christian faith is a keyhole through which we can glimpse the meaning of life and death, a path to reach the infinite. But this keyhole is not reliable if it is not supported by valid reasons to believe that God exists, that Christ is God’s self-revelation, and that Christ can be trusted. Reasons to believe can be scientific, such as the analysis of biological evolution and the rationality of physical laws; philosophical, such as human aspiration to moral value and to be the very best; sociological, such as the moral deterioration of society after its practical departing from God; ethical, such as the necessary connection between faith in God and moral law valid for everybody; existential, such as the meaning that Christ gives to human life and the profound answer he offers to its major problems; historical, such as the proofs of the gospels’ historicity, Jesus’ marvelous personality, the conversions he brings about, and the shining figures of the saints and great Christians he has caused to rise up. But, in our opinion, not even the phenomenological signs should be disregarded, that is, the miracles where God’s confirmation of Christ’s revelation can be seen and certain paranormal phenomena that offer clues to the existence of the Spirit. In spite of these reasons, today there are many atheists, or people who behave as if they were so. Not because God is not revealed, but because people turn their backs. Some believers, unfortunately, by the way they live, convince others to turn away. But most often it is their way of believing that does who not attract others to faith. They believe in God the way children believe in fairy-tales or in Little Red Riding Hood. Thus the atheist and the skeptic feel at ease because they think they represent reasonableness (unlike the “emotional” believers). Accordingly, in the modern world we believe less than in the past, even if many valid reasons exist to believe more.— From the author’s Foreword

Reasons to Believe Today has met with extraordinary success in Europe and Asia and has been, at last count, translated into more than thirty languages. It has received universal acclaim by church and lay readers. Many thousands of copies have appeared since the first edition in 1991. It has also seen many editions and adaptations. Except for the extensive documentation, this is a complete translation.

12. George H. Tavard. Trina Deitas: The Controversy between Hincmar and Gottschalk. ISBN 0-87462-636-6. ©1996. Paperbound. Index. 160 pp. $20

Some years ago I was led, in the context of the Lutheran-Catholic dialogue, to investigate archbishop Hincmar’s doctrine of episcopacy (“Episcopacy and Apostolic Succession in the Works of Hincmar of Reims,” in Theological Studies, 1973, vol. 34, n. 4, p. 594-623). But it is impossible to read anything by Hincmar of Reims without running into his two polemics with the monk Gottschalk. The better known of these controversies was focused on the theology of predestination, the other with trinitarian language and doctrine. I found at the time that while explanations of the predestinarian controversy are readily available there has been practically no study of the trinitarian controversy. From time to time thereafter I have delved into the relevant writings of both Hincmar and Gottschalk. After poring over the trinitarian texts of the two men I think I have grasped the issues. It is these issues that I wish to explain in the following pages. As this study retrieves a mostly forgotten discussion that took place in the ninth century, it is more strictly historical than my previous publications on the doctrine of the Trinity (Meditation on the Word, New York: Paulist Press, 1968; A Way of Love, New York: Orbis, 1977; The Vision of the Trinity, Washington: University Press of America, 1981; La Trinité, Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1992). It should be regarded as a contribution to the history of trinitarian theology, although speculative and constructive theologians may well consider the questions that were then raised as not being entirely obsolete.

Chapter 1 is introductory; with no claim to originality, it analyses the main features of the political and intellectual setting of the ninth century in Carolingian Francia. Chapter 2 explains the origin and traces the main lines of the controversy on the Trinity. Chapter 3 analyzes the relevant writings of Gottschalk. Chapters 4 to 6 analyze the refutation of Gottschalk by Hincmar in his major work, De una et non trina deitate. Chapter 7 acts as a conclusion, as it draws some theological lessons for today and tomorrow from what was discussed in the ninth century. — From the author’s Introduction

13. Jeanne Cover, IBVM. Love—The Driving Force. Mary Ward’s Spirituality. Its Significance for Moral Theology. ISBN 0-87462-637-4. ©1997. Paperbound. Bibliography. 217 pp. $25

In 1951, at the First World Congress of the Lay Apostolate, Pope Pius XII, extolled Mary Ward, Foundress of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as “that incomparable woman given by Catholic England to the Church in the darkest and most blood-stained of periods.” Three hundred-twenty years earlier, this same woman had been imprisoned as a “heretic, schismatic, and rebel to holy Church.” Although this charge was later rescinded by the then reigning Pope, Urban VIII, it was not until 1909 that her members were permitted to acknowledge her as their Foundress. While appraisals of Mary Ward both by her contemporaries and by subsequent historical commentators have varied, they leave no doubt as to the original contribution she made and continues to make to the Church.

This study examines this original contribution in an area that to date has not been the subject of systematic research, namely, the theology and anthropology underlying Mary Ward’s spirituality and its significance for today, specifically for moral theology. This study presupposes that any divorce of moral theology from spirituality results in their mutual impoverishment. Moral theology not only bears the marks of its contemporary situation but must also critically judge this situation. At the same time, developments do not emerge in a vacuum but are influenced by and reflect this tradition. Mary Ward’s lifetime (1585-1645) coincides with a significant period in this tradition. The decrees of the Council of Trent, which concluded in 1564, barely two decades prior to her birth, decisively affected how moral theology emerged as an independent discipline and was systematically separated from other branches of theology. Divorced from dogmatic and spiritual theology and having as its central aim the training of confessors, it became virtually identified with the resolution of cases of conscience.

Mary Ward was not only aware of the dichotomy which existed in her era between moral theology and spirituality but experienced its effects in the ill-considered spiritual guidance which a professor of moral theology gave her. Her understanding of how spirituality enriches both personal moral formation and the principles for determining morally significant actions was reflected in her concept of morality and her approach to moral guidance. Her insights enrich both moral and spiritual theology and provide a means of bringing them into harmonious conversation.

Mary Ward’s spirituality and theological insights are important for a number of reasons. First, following Vatican II’s call for renewal, moral theology today is not only experiencing the tensions which accompany significant changes in content and methodology but is seeking a closer interaction with spiritual theology. Second, despite increasing recognition that Mary Ward’s creative vision of the role of women in the service of church and society was significant for counter-Reformation spirituality, there is a parvity of research into the anthropology and theology underlying her spirituality. Third, while there is greater recognition that the recusant women in England and foundresses of religious congregations in Europe during the period of the counter-Reformation played significant roles, scholarly studies in this area have been relatively few. This work hopes to redress these inadequacies.— From the author’s Introduction

14. David A. Boileau, Editor. Principles of Catholic Social Teaching. ISBN 0-87462-638-2. ©1998. Paperbound. Index. 204 pp. $25

The goal of this study is to call attention to the contemporary significance of Catholic Social Teaching and, at the same time, to investigate what is meant by a number of central ideas that surface again and again in these essays. We should correct what seems to be a common historical inaccuracy. Catholic social teaching began long before the last century. Professor Michael J. Schuck has shown that the social teaching of the Papal Encyclicals began in 1740 under the pontificate of Benedict XIV (1740-58). What Professor Schuck calls the pre-Leonine period (1740-1877) will show that by a “textually inclusive and topically broad-gauged approach,” a previously unacknowledged body of papal social teaching emerges. Primarily aimed against the Enlightenment and, of course, the French Revolution and its aftermath.

Nine Popes from 1740 to 1877 made negative judgments regarding the erosion of communal unity in traditionally Roman Catholic countries and regions. This erosion is significant in religious, political, family, economic and cultural life. And the Popes believe that all of this erosion is due to false ideas which were rampant in the 18th and 19th century, all a product of the Enlightenment.

These essays contribute in no small way to the universal Church’s attempt to celebrate, reevaluate and bring forward the tradition of Catholic social teaching for our own time and in our place. Looking over the entire papal social teaching from Benedict XIV’s time to our own, Leo XIII stands out as a giant. He is, for sure, the keenest pope of the last three centuries. He, more than any, stands at the forefront of a tradition which emphasizes the radical primacy of human dignity and human solidarity as correctives to mere technocratic understandings of any economy or politics.

Basing themselves on the life and words of the Lord Jesus, the popes in the 18th and 19th centuries have, spoke a loud no to an excessive individualism; a decided no to attempts to privatize religion; a no to an espousal of a liberty of rights with no corresponding duties; a no to positivism in law, in politics, and in economics which renders it unaccountable to moral scrutiny or humanity; and finally, a no to civil rights without moral obligations. What the popes consistently did was insist upon the fact that no realm whatsoever could be outside the dominion of God. Nothing is a law unto itself. Positivism and agnosticism, two orphans of the Enlightenment, were singled out for criticism. God’s ubiquitous presence must be admitted. This presence finds itself incarnate in the words, life, and death of Jesus, and not in any political or ideological agenda. There is a constant call, occasioned by new situations, which forces us to rethink what the dignity of man will mean in our century and in the large organizational structures of our society. The past is prologue and dated. It is especially in the world of work where human dignity is at risk, and so we must think anew the challenge of Jesus in the sermon on the mount as to what it means to be “poor in spirit” in the industrial, technological and consumer society in which we now live. The present pope, John Paul II, called work the central problem of our time. — From the Editor’s Introduction.

15. Michael Purcell. Mystery and Method: The Other in Rahner and Levinas. Foreword by Andrew Tallon. ISBN 0-87462-639-0. ©1998. Paperbound. Index. Bibliography. 394 pp. $40

Rather than being a purely speculative or theoretical pursuit, theology is primarily an ethical endeavor. Following Levinas, it could-like philosophy-be said to be “the wisdom of love in the service of love.” This book attempts to situate Rahner’s theology in the context of Levinas’s ethical metaphysics, and to pursue Rahner’s transcendental reduction into the realm of Levinas’s intersubjective reduction. The deeper significance of Rahner’s theology is that it is not so much a maieutic which, beginning with the subject, finally arrives at incomprehensible mystery, but rather is, like human existence itself, a response to that mysterious other, whom Levinas will speak of as “otherwise than being,” “otherwise than knowledge,” and who has always and already drawn close to the subject as grace and glory. It is mystery not mastery that guides Rahner’s project. As he himself says, love of neighbor “is the basis and sum total of the moral such,” “the all-embracing basic human act which gives meaning, direction, and measure to everything else.” So radical and absolute is this love of neighbor that the meaning of subjectivity as “the possession of oneself” gives way in Rahner to an understanding of subjectivity as an openness “to an absolute origin which is not ourselves, an origin which can be traced in the proximity of the ethical encounter with the other person.

Michael Purcell studied philosophy and theology at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and the University of Edinburgh. He has published various articles on the ethical significance of Rahner’s theology and theology application of Levinas’s philosophy. He is a parish priest in the archdiocese of St. Andrews and Edinburgh and a professor in the Faculty of Divinty at the New College of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

16. W.W. Meissner, S.J., M.D. To the Greater Glory—A Psychological Study of Ignatian Spirituality. ISBN 0-87462-640-4. ©1999. Paperbound. Index. Bibliography. 657 pp. $50

Psychology and religion have entered a rapprochement phase after nearly a century of detachment and estrangement. The reasons for this separation are many and varied, but key among them has been psychology’s effort to rid itself of vestiges of non-physical causation and subsequent reliance on reductionistic causal explanations. The growing maturity of psychology as a science has resolved the insecurity of a new discipline about its relationships with philosophy and theology.

To be sure, undercurrents in various strains of psychology have included a scientific (psychological) study of religious phenomena. A key recent contribution in this vein was W. W. Meissner 1992 book, Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint. In that work, Meissner used his training in psychoanalysts, major works on the life of Ignatius of Loyola, and his intimate knowledge of the Jesuit order of training to fashion a psychological portrait of a person who lived nearly half a millennium ago. Now Meissner has extended that portrait to produce a psychological study of the spirituality of Ignatius of Loyola.

The author’s goal of this book is to provide a deeper understanding of Ignatian spirituality using the psychoanalytic perspective. His intent in this most recent effort is to contribute to an understanding of the spiritual dimension of human experience by studying the psychic actualization of that experience.

It is a genuinely scholarly effort by an author with significant career contributions in this area. This text particularly advances the psychoanalytic understanding of obedience and mysticism by combining divergent theories and observations to understand their respective roles in Ignatian spirituality. I suspect a comparable effort, similar in comprehensiveness and equally ambitious, will not appear soon. — Robert J. Lueger, Ph.D., Chairman, Department of Psychology, Marquette University 

17. Catholic Theology in the University: Source of Wholeness. Virginia M. Shaddy, Editor. ISBN 0-87462-641-2. ©1998. Paperbound. Index. Bibliography. 120 pp. $15

Interest today in Catholic higher education is evident especially in a number of important publications: the papal document Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Langan’s Catholic Universities in Church and Society, Gallin’s American Higher Education: Essential Documents, and Carey and Muller’s Theological Education in the Catholic Tradition. One of the major interests is the integration of theology with the other disciplines in a liberal arts program. Each of the essays in this book presents a different approach to the general theme of the place of theology in Catholic university studies.

The essays are here arranged in a “general to specific” order, the first four essays emphasizing theory and the others more specific considerations, although some theory is always present as well as historical background in a few of the essays. The contributors are Avery Dulles, S.J., Alice Gallin, O.S.U., Philip Gleason, Dennis Hamm, S.J., Joseph A. Komonchak, John Langan, S.J., Michael G. Lawler, Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J., Paul Cardinal Poupard, and Virginia M. Shaddy.

All of the possibilities and considerations in these essays contribute substantially to our endeavors to bring the Catholic view and theology itself to their rightful place in Catholic university studies, with the hope that attention to them will help to unify Catholic university education.

 

18. Class and Religious Identity. The Rhenish Center Party in Wilhelmine Germany. Thomas M. Bredohl. ISBN 0-87462-642-0. ©2000. Paperbound. Index. Bibliography. 288 pp. $35

The Center Party, founded in 1871 to represent the interests of German Catholics, developed into one of the most influential political parties of the empire. Focussing on the Rhineland, Germany’s only highly industrialized as well as Catholic region, Thomas Bredohl investigates the struggle of organized political Catholicism to reconcile the dilemmas posed by the deep division between German Protestants and Catholics, increasing secularization, and the challenge of Socialism and modern politics to a party of notables.

This monograph provides a full and detailed account of the Rhineland’s rich milieu of Catholic political and voluntary associations. It sheds light on the organizational workings of the Rhenish Center and its model character for Center organization in other regions and on a national level. At the heart of this study is a discussion of the Center’s vigorous courtship of workers’ support, their responses to the Socialist challenge and the attempts of Rhenish party leaders to construct a web of political and social organizations that bridged the conflicting interests of a diverse Catholic population. The author places these developments within the wider context of questions about the democratization of Wilhelmine politics and the place of the Center Party in party politics. Bredohl contends that ultimately Catholic politicians failed in their courtship of the working class. The double heritage of patriarchial traditions of the Roman Catholic Church and the political traditions of a party of notables hindered efforts to democratize the party. Despite these dilemmas and failures, the Center was neither an exception nor an oddity in the landscape of German politics.

Center politicians, often accused of being opprtunists, understood that a modern political party at times had to make uncomfortable coalitions or favor practical considerations over lofty principles. Although Centrists were unable to create a party attractive to Protestants as well as Catholics, their Wilhelmine ideal proved a model for the post-1945 Christian Democratic Union.

Thomas Bredohl is Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the University of Regina.

19. Voegelin’s Israel and Revelation: An Interdisciplinary Debate and Anthology. Edited by William M. Thompson and David L. Morse. ISBN 0-87462-643-9. ©2000. Paperbound. Index. Bibliography.428 pp. $40

“Impressive testimony to the range of disciplines now grappling with Voegelin’s magnum opus, Order and History. The essays provide compelling and critical analyses of the Israel and Revelation volume and the decision to include substantial excerpts from the original makes this an ideal entry into Voegelin’s work. For anyone interested in how biblical scholarship and philosophical reflection intersect to form theology, this is an indispensable study.” — David Walsh, The Catholic University of America

“To take a thinker seriously requires reading him critically as well as empathetically. That is what the authors of this remarkable collection of essays have done with Eric Voegelin’s discussion of ancient Israel, the first of the five volumes of Order and History. The contributors display a thorough acquaintance with the complex thought of the great philosopher of history but also a sharp perception of the weaknesses of his pioneering work. The quality of the essays indicates that Voegelin is, at last, finding the recognition he deserves. One can only hope that other parts of his oeuvre may receive a treatment of the same high caliber. This book sets a landmark and a new beginning in the study of Voegelin.” — Louis Dupré, Yale University

Donald L. Gelpi, S.J. The Firstborn of Many: A Christology for Converting Christians. Special set price for all 3 volumes: $100

“Donald Gelpi’s Christological trilogy is an important contribution to the discipline combining as it does both foundational and constructive Christology. Gelpi carefully establishes his methodological choices and situates them amid other theological options on the present scene. He then builds his case by moving through the foundational issues and explicating them in regard to their import for a systematic Christology. Connections are made with his earlier work and here Gelpi continues his theological project of establishing a new foundationalism (with its Peircean pragmatic logic of consequences, the turn to community, and a fallibilistic metaphysics of experience) and exploits it for doctrinal theology. Gelpi’s proposals will certainly not be without its critics but his attempt to inculturate the philosophical issues in a North American idiom should be on the table

“The strength of Gelpi’s volumes is the care with which he examines the issues on the agenda of any contemporary Christology. These include in addition to methodological issues (not always consciously attended to and seldom with the philosophical attention which Gelpi gives them), the quest for the historical Jesus, and the diversity of New Testament Christologies. Gelpi’s contribution is to take these issues seriously and weave them into a constructive narrative of contemporary Christological development, at each point highlighting how they address the pertinent issues in theological foundations. Hence the bulk of his efforts is working through New Testament material in order to establish the constructive sequence: Jesus of history, kerygmatic Christology (Pauline corpus), apocalyptic Christology (book of Revelation), narrative Christology (synoptic gospels), doctrinal Christology (picking up from the particular narrative Christology ofthe Gospel of John, Chalcedon and post Chalcedonian developments), and practical Christology (working with liberationist themes but consistent with his foundational pragmatism). All are related to a foundational theology of conversion and are rendered pastoral by addressing their implications for Roman Catholic RCIA practice.” — Ralph Del Colle, Marquette University

23. The Early Works of Orestes A. Brownson. Volume I: The Universalist Years, 1826-29. Edited by Patrick W. Carey. ISBN 0-87462-647-1. ©2000. Paperbound. Index. 410 pp. $40

The first volume of a seven-volume collection of the early works of Orestes Brownson contains a number of Brownson’s sermons and essays as a Universalist minister. None of these texts, representing Brownson’s early intellectual formation, were included in Henry Brownson’s twenty-volume collection of his father’s writings. Many of the texts reflect what Nathan Hatch has called the popular theology of early nineteenth century America. They demonstrate the blurring of the intellectual worlds of rationalism and supernaturalism, and show Brownson’S identification with the anti-clerical and anti-revivalist parties of the burned-over district of upstate New York. The texts, moreover, reveal an intellectual dialectic in Brownson’s early thought that would remain with him for the rest of his life.

24. Stephen A. Werner. Prophet of the Christian Social Manifesto: Joseph Husslein, S.J. His Life, Work, & Social Thought. ISBN 0-87462-648-X. ©2001. Paperbound. 187 pp. $20

“When one looks at the basic social teaching of Joseph Husslein on industrial democracy, one can only say: ‘Would that’—would that the country, rocked a few years later by a major depression, had heeded his words. Perhaps it will take one more major economic collapse to open men’s eyes to see what Joseph Husslein saw eighty years ago. Dr. Stephen Werner gives us a picture of an economic and social prophet.” —William Barnaby Faherty, S.J., Professor Emeritus, Saint Louis University

“This is an excellent study of a major exponent of Catholic social thought. Stephen A. Werner shows how Joseph Husslein, S.J., melded theology, social science, and the cultural traditions of Catholicism into a compelling vision of spiritual unity for a fragmented world.” — James T. Fisher, Danforth Chair in Humanities

25. Gregory Sobolewski. Martin Luther: Roman Catholic Prophet. ISBN 0-87462-649-8. ©2001. Paperbound. Index. Bibliography. 187 pp. $20

“This work is an indispensable ecumenical resource. While the focus is the official, magisterial evaluations of Luther, the author begins with an introduction highlighting the popular images of Luther and the Reformation in the Catholic press and popular literature in the U.S.A. and its shifts in the twentieth century. In Sobolweski’s judgment, the sixteenth-century Roman magisterium was unable to evaluate Luther’s doctrine of justification positively, not primarily because of its content but because of the ecclesiological differences. This is precisely a difference that will make magisterial appreciation of Luther important today.” —Jeffrey Gros, F.S.C., Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC, from his review in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies

26. Matthew C. Ogilvie. Faith Seeking Understanding: The Functional Specialty, “Systematics,” in Bernard Lonergan’s Method in Theology. ISBN 0-87462-675-7. ©2001. Paperbound. Index. Bibliography. 319 pp. $30

“How can doctrines be made intelligible within the context of our modern world? This book throws new light upon Lonergan’s response to this challenge in his presentation of the functional specialty, systematics, within his Method in Theology. This book primarily aims to present a thorough understanding of systematics’ function. We first investigate systematics’ specific function as a promotion of understanding, of the mysteries of faith. We then examine the need for, and grounds of, this functional specialty and we place systematics in relation to the other functional specialties within Lonergan’s Method in Theology. Of special concern to this work is an investigation of what Lonergan could have meant by explaining systematics’ function by reference to the statement of the First Vatican Council, that human reason can attain an understanding of the mysteries both by analogy with what human reason naturally knows and by the interconnection of the mysteries with each other and with humanity’s last end. To make systematics’ function more intelligible, we investigate the conditions prevailing in Catholic theology that prompted Lonergan to develop his theological method, assess the value and place of systematics, and evaluate Lonergan’s presentation of systematics in relation to the goals he set himself in developing a theological method.” — From the author’s Abstract

27. The Early Works of Orestes A. Brownson. Volume 2: The Free Thought and Unitarian Years, 1830-35. Edited by Patrick W. Carey. ISBN 0-87462-676-5. ©2001. Paperbound. Index. 457 pp. $45

The second volume contains a collection of relatively inaccessible essays Brownson wrote immediately after leaving the Universalist ministry, a period in his life when he had experienced some religious doubt and when he was most identified with the Workingmen’s Party of New York. The volume also brings together for the first time essays and sermons Brownson wrote under the influence ofWilliam Ellery Channing. Many of the published essays and sermons from his pastorates in Walpole, New Hampshire, and Canton, Massachusetts, are likewise included in this edition. None of these texts, representing Brownson’s maturing intellectual and religious developments, are in Henry Brownson’s twenty volume edition of his father’s works.

These essays, sermons, addresses, and lectures clearly demonstrate Brownson’s gradual movement away from the rationalism of his Universalist period. The earliest essays in this collection reveal his separation from all organized religion, but give no indication of any hostility to religion as his autobiography of 1857 asserted. What they do show, though, is a continuous concern for issues of universal public education and social reform, a continuity with liberal Christianity in the form of Unitarianism, a gradual appropriation of the social Christianity of the French Saint-Simonians, and an initial openness and examination of the French Romantic and idealist philosophical tradition. One issue that looms large throughout many of these texts is that of unbelief and how the Christian can come to terms with the presence of religious doubt in the self and in early nineteenth century American culture. Brownson’s personal experience with religious doubt drove him to search for a more convincing and realistic apologetic for Christianity in the nineteenth century than was available through Paley and other eighteenth century Christian apologists.

28. Ad fontes Lutheri: Toward the Recovery of the Real Luther. Essays in Honor of Kenneth Hagen’s Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Timothy Maschke, Franz Posset, and Joan Skocir. ISBN 0-87462-677-3. ©2001. Paperbound. Index. Bibliography. 332 pp. $30

Historically, Martin Luther has been interpreted in ways that are often filtered through an era’s theological perspectives. To recover the real Luther from these historicizing.interpretations has been a concern of Luther scholars, especially since the Luther Renaissance in the 20th century. Ad fontes Lutheri is dedicated to Dr. Kenneth Hagen who has devoted the majority of his distinguished career as teacher, author, and historian to the recovery of the authentic Luther from the variations that each age has applied to him. In Hagen’s quest, Luther is firmly connected to his roots in monastic Scripture study and the totality of Scripture expressed as the sacred page (sacra pagina). His quest also includes the study of original prints of Luther’s work that are free ftom the editorial additions of later centuries. From various and diverse perspectives, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, and Reformed scholars from this country and Europe have contributed essays on Luther to Ad fontes Lutheri in honor of Dr. Hagen.
Contributors are: Ulrich Asendorf, Nils Bloch-Hoell, Patrick W Carey, John Patrick Donnelly, S.J., Burnell E Eckardt, Jr., Gordon L. Isaac, Helmar Junghans, James G. Kiecker, Gottfried Krodel, Timothy Maschke, Heiko A. Oberman, Franz Posset, Joan Skocir, David C. Steinmetz, George H. Tavard

29. The Early Works of Orestes A. Brownson. Volume 3: The Transcendentalist Years, 1836-38. Edited by Patrick W. Carey. ISBN 0-87462-678-1. ©2002. Paperbound. Index. 476 pp. $45

The third volume, covering the period from May of 1836 to July of 1838, contains a collection of sermons and essays that focus on some of the central social, political, ethical and intellectual questions of the day. During these years Brownson was an active participant in the so-called “movement party.” As one of the young turks within that party he took on those of the “stationary party” and called for changes in thinking and social arrangements that were upsetting to many in the establishment. There was hardly a national and local Boston problem that he did not address. The essays and sermons collected here reflect Brownson’s involvement in the Transcendentalist movement, advocacy of the needs of the working class, battle with the nation’s banks during the economic crash of 1837, appropriation and modification of Victor Cousin’s and Th6odore Jouffroy’s philosophies, participation in and reactions to the abolitionist movement, and promotion of the inherent connection between democracy and Christianity. These writings, arranged in chronological order, demonstrate the emergence of his thought on these and other issues, His thinking will develop in subsequent years on a number of these questions, but he articulates some key ideas here that remain constants throughout the remainder of his life.

Although Brownson identified himself with the “movement party’ in Boston, he also separated himself from some of what he considered the more radical elements within Transcendentalism and within the abolitionist movement. There was a conservative streak in his thought, and it emerges slowly as he begins to define his own philosophy in conflict with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Amos Brownson Alcott among the Transcendentalist as well as with William Lloyd Garrison among the immediatist abolitionists. Gradually in reactions to both the liberal and conservative the currents of thought in Unitarian Boston, he began to develop a much more socialist approach to philosophy and society than was evident in the “movement party.” The importance of the concrete, the historical, and the community began to emerge in his own philosophy during those years and those concerns contributed to his ambiguous identification with the young Boston radicals.

30. Advents of the Spirit: An Introduction to the Current Study of Pneumatology edited by Bradford E. Hinze & D. Lyle Dabney. ISBN 0-87462-679-X. ©2001. Paperbound. Index. 484 pp. $45

Veni, Sancte Spiritus, Come, Holy Spirit, is an invocation that has echoed down through the centuries as Christians have recalled, celebrated, and anticipated the advent of the Spirit—not only that of the great feast of Pentecost, but also in the countless places and times in which God has breathed the Spirit anew into the history of God’s people and the history of God’s world. This collection of essays seeks to draw attention to that great variety of advents of the Spirit, and by so doing to offer an orientation for scholars and students alike to the study of Pneumatology, the disciplined reflection on the Christian doctrine of the Holy Spirit.

These essays were originally prepared for a symposium on Pneumatology that was held at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 17-19, 1998. The group of international and ecumenical scholars that convened for this event—historians, biblical exegetes, philosophers and systematicians—were invited both because of their reputation in their respective fields as well as their widely recognized contributions to the study of this doctrine. Their collective mandate was to investigate the manifestations of the Spirit as these are being treated in the various theological disciplines. From the beginning, therefore, the intention was to produce a set of papers that would serve as an effective introduction to the current state of research into Pneumatology.

31. Daniel T. Pekarske. S.D.S. Abstracts of Karl Rahner’s Theological Investigations 1-23. ISBN 0-87462-683-8. ©2002. Paperbound. Index. Bibliography. 660 pp. $45

“Whenever my efforts to explain this unusual project succeeded, I would invariably hear, ‘Oh I get it. You’re writing Cliffs Notes for Karl Rahner!’ I’m sure the writers of Cliffs Notes would say the same thing about their work as I do about mine. It is not intended to substitute for reading Rahner’s Theological Investigations. On the contrary I sincerely hope this reference book will open his treasure trove of essay both to the scholar as well as to other serious readers of theology. Everyone familiar with Rahner’s great 23-volume Theological Investigations knows the series is hard to use because it lacks a key. The titles often fail to describe the contents of the essays accurately; there is no cumulative index in English; the existing indices at the end of each volume are tedious and failed to distinguish significant discussions of a topic from casual references; and short of wading through an entire essay there is no way to know quickly whether it contains the material one is looking for. This book attempts to address these problems.” — From the Introduction.

32. Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement. Centenary Essays. William Thorn, Phillip Runkel, Susan Mountin, editors. ISBN 0-87462-682-X. ©2001. Paperbound. Index. Bibliography. 615 pp. $30

“In 1995 colleagues in the Marquette University Archives encouraged me to start planning a national conference to commemorate the centenary of Dorothy Day two years hence. This seemed to be a task for which I was suited as curator of her papers; my lack of any experience in organizing academic symposia notwithstanding. Suffice it to say that my limitations in the latter department soon manifested themselves—to me, at least, and probably to the others on the Dorothy Day Centenary Committee as well. With a lot of help from these friends, however, and the generous support of the Raskob Foundation and other donors, the conference took place as planed, on October 9-11, 1997 (one month before the actual 100th anniversary of Day’s birth, to avoid a conflict with celebrations organized by Catholic Workers in New York City and Las Vegas, Nevada). It featured workshops, roundtable discussions, and paper presentations by more than 60 scholars and Catholic Workers. More than 500 participants came from 26 states, Canada, England, The Netherlands, and New Zealand. The conference was dedicated to the memory of William D. Miller (1916-1995), pioneer historian of the Catholic Worker movement, biographer of Dorothy Day, and esteemed colleague, mentor, and friend to generations of Workers, scholars, and archivists. The essays and poems included in this volume were presented at the Dorothy Day Centenary Conference, most for the first time. We offer them now in the hope that they will contribute to that ongoing ‘clarification of thought’ so dear to Peter Maurin’s heart.” — Phil Runkel, Curator, Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Collection, Chair, Dorothy Day Centenary Committee

33. Carl F. Starkloff. A Theology of the In-Between: The Value of Syncretic Process. ISBN 0-87462-685-4. ©2002. Paperbound. Index. 177 pp. $20

Syncretism is a word with an ambivalent, not to say bizarre history. It originated with the Greek historian Plutarch as a descriptive noun for advantageous political alliances among the Cretan tribes. It was later adopted by the Renaissance humanist Erasmus to propose to other humanists a way for them to unite against barbarism. But in the seventeenth century some Protestant theologians, followed later by some Catholics, used it to describe unprincipled compromise with conflicting teachings. Since then, among Christians the word has signified theological distortion, although anthropologists have employed it neutrally to describe the phenomena of religious mixtures resulting from intercultural contacts.

The present work seeks to “retrieve” the ancient meaning of syncretism, since the book’s thesis is that such mixing grows out of a human desire for unity and synthesis. More, among oppressed tribal peoples, it is an attempt to understand and rationalize their situation. While acknowledging that not all syncretism is good and that some cases, like Nazism, have been demonic, this book argues that “syncretic process” is a historical movement by which Christianity can understand itself better as a faith to be shared by all cultures. Thus, once again, theology becomes “faith seeking understanding.”

34. The Early Works of Orestes A. Brownson. Volume 4: The Transcendentalist Years, 1838-39. Edited by Patrick W. Carey. ISBN 0-87462-686-2. ©2003. Paperbound. Index. 492 pp. $47

The fourth volume, covering the period from August of 1838 to October of 1839, contains a collection of essays that reflects Brownson’s transcendentalism. In these essays on theology, philosophy, literature, politics, and education Brownson defines what he calls his own eclectic transcendentalism. He defines his own position within the American transcendentalist movement by reacting on the one hand to what he calls the subjectivism and logical pantheism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Amos Bronson Alcott, and on the other to the rational empiricism and supernaturalism of Andrews Norton. Like Emerson he calls for a new American literature, although he emphasizes its social dimensions and benefits and provides his own romantic-idealist interpretation of poetry. He supports the work of George Ripley, especially his attempts to promote German and French philosophy and romantic literature. Essays during this period also focus on the religious socialism of the French Catholic Félicité-Robert de Lamennais and Brownson’s attempts to underline the reciprocal relationship between democracy and Christianity. Brownson also continues his battles with William Lloyd Garrison and the immediate abolitionists, evaluates and criticizes the new science of phrenology, supports the Democratic administration’s Indian removal policies, and censures Francis Lieber’s theory of politics. The essays review and comment on most of the major intellectual and social movements within American culture.

 35. Michele Saracino. On Being Human: A Conversation with Lonergan and Levinas. ISBN 0-87462-687-0. ©2003. Paperbound. Index. Bibliography. 225 pp. $27

In a world of escalating violence, the challenge of getting along with others in our diversifying communities is inescapable. As so much of human suffering stems from fearing difference, overcoming this trepidation begins by learning about our neighbors. Yet, coming to grips with otherness is not purely an academic endeavor, for the effects of globalization, ranging from multinational corporations to inter-religious dialogue, have made the process of engaging difference an everyday occurrence. Integrating insights from the fields of theology, philosophy, psychology, as well as mythology, an embodied anthropological subject emerges based precisely in the unavoidable trace of the Other. Through an analysis of the work of Jesuit theologian Bernard J.F. Lonergan, Saracino argues that even as Christian theology is a valuable resource for explaining subjectivity in terms of openness to the Other in mind, will, and body, it is the conversation with contemporary continental theory, particularly that of Emmanuel Levinas, that reveals the concrete, corporeal possibilities of this openness in everyday life. Blending these two discourses, subjectivity is framed as protean, in which the subject is postured, molded, and shaped by the difference the Other brings to the encounter. The risk-filled journey we call being human is not performed only in intellectual propositions or moral dictates, but in an affective, emotive drama with the Other. In asserting that feelings evoked by the Other are the ground of human existence, the field of theological anthropology is pushed to embrace the changing, protean, embodied, and ultimately sacramental dimensions of being human.

Michele Saracino teaches theology at Mahattan College

36. Ian Christopher Levy. John Wyclif: Scriptural Logic, Real Presence, and the Parameters of Orthodoxy. ISBN 0-87462-688-9. ©2003. Paperbound. Index. Bibliography. 351 pp. $37

“John Wyclif is still best known as the late medieval English theologian who railed against clerical wealth and various ecclesiastical abuses of power. In that vein, he is often spoken of as the progenitor of the Lollards, those religious dissenters responsible for translating the Bible into English and disseminating their views in the vernacular. All of this is accurate, but still remains only part of the story. Wyclif was a prolific writer who produced often massive volumes covering logic, metaphysics, politics, ecclesiology, biblical studies, and sacraments. Recent scholarship has rightly placed Wyclif in his proper context as the late medieval scholastic theologian, rather than the untimely born Protestant Reformer. This is very important, for it means that the depth of his thought is being more fully investigated with relation to his contemporaries. What I have written here focuses upon Wyclif’s theology, specifically his eucharistic theology and its intersection with his understanding of Scripture. Two points have especially struck me while reading Wyclif over the last ten years: his sense of commitment to the larger continuum of Catholic tradition, and his placement of Christ, the Incarnate Word, at the heart of that tradition. Scripture, for Wyclif, is ultimately identified with the Eternal Word, and proper devotion to the Eucharist is reverence for the Word Made Flesh who instituted this sacrament. At the center of Wyclif’s theology there is always a Living Person.” — From the author’s Preface

This study offers an appraisal of John Wyclif’s eucharistic theology within the context of some larger medieval developments, none of which can be isolated from one another.

37. Michael Horace Barnes & William P. Roberts. A Sacramental Life: A Festschrift Honoring Bernard Cooke. ISBN 0-87462-689-7. ©2003. Paperbound. Bibliography. 310 pp. $37

“The essays in this Festschrift celebrate Bernard’s life, and the major themes of his theological work. As Bernard Cooke is recognized as the leading American sacramental theologian over the past four and a half decades, this volume is fittingly entitled, A Sacramental Life. The authors of this volume have explored diverse aspects of Bernard’s major theological focus, drawn from them, and directly and indirectly addressed them in a variety of topics. We have divided these contributions into three general categories: biographical, speculative theology, and applied theology. While there can be some room for argument regarding which heading a particular essay might best come under, we trust this threefold framework will serve as a convenient guide to the reader.” — From the editors’ foreword

Contributors: William J. Kelly, S.J., Gerald S, Sloyan, Bernard J. Lee, S.M., Joseph S. Bracken, S.J., Michael Horace Barnes, William P. Loewe, Gary Macy, Michael G. Lawler, John K. Downey, John A. Coleman, S.J., Walter E. Conn, Barbara J. Fleischer, Gerald M. Fagan, S.J., Lawrence S. Cunningham, Joann Heaney-Hunter, and William P. Roberts.

39. Terrance W. Klein. How Things Are in the World: Metaphysics and Theology in Wittgenstein and Rahner. ISBN 0-87462-691-9. ©2003. Paperbound. 271 pp. $32

“The Word was made flesh” is the foundational Christian assertion. Some two thousand years later, Christians are still reflecting upon its meaning. What is the relationship of words, or language, to our experience of God? Is God beyond words? Christianity has, in one venue or another, asserted just that, all the while maintaining the necessity of an explicitly religious life, one formed and focused upon words and that which might be called the “language of ritual.” The very word “revelation” seems to evoke the question of language: words, concepts, assertions, judgements, etc. It’s true that Christianity asserts that what God ultimately reveals in Jesus Christ is a person, not a message, or rather, that the person is the message, but words like “message,” “communication,” and even “communion” raise the question of language. If, on the one hand, God lies beyond all telling, and if, on the other, human life in the age of communication seems to be nothing more than a telling, a spinning, and the creation of realities formed by language, where do God and humanity meet? What does it mean to assert that the Word became flesh? The first half of this book is a theological examination of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein who, with a small brace of others, stands as a progenitor of twentieth century thought. The work of Karl Rahner clearly stands at the center of postconciliar Roman Catholic theology, and of contemporary Christian theology in general. Rahner wrote voluminously and well. Although his own style of writing is dense and heavily weighted with continental philosophy, his treatments of so many basic theological questions have been popularized by innumerable secondary authors. It would be no exaggeration to say that Rahner’s work has been a theological pivot for the second half of the 20th century. The time seems right, then, to take another look at Rahner and his Wittgensteinian critics. What is immediately apparent is that both men were intentionally seeking to respond to the Copernican revolution in philosophy inaugurated by Descartes’ turn to the subject. Both viewed Kant’s assault upon the presuppositions of traditional epistemology as having forever changed the course of Western philosophy. Each, in his own way, consciously, and sometimes perhaps unconsciously, molded his thought as a response to the Kantian critique. — From the author’s introductory chapter

40. Roger Aubert. Catholic Social Teaching: An Historical Perspective.
Preface by Charles E. Curran. Edited by David A. Boileau.
Afterword by David A. Boileau: “Some Reflections on the Historical Perspectives of Catholic Social Teaching 2002.”
ISBN 0-87462-692-7. ©2003. Paperbound. Index. 290 pp. $35

"During the last ten years, many meetings, seminars, conferences, and books have been conducted and written to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum novarum (May 15, 1891). We hope in this book to give the reader an historical background to this celebration. No other historian in Catholic circles enjoys the reputation of Canon Roger Aubert. Thus, we are presenting ten of his articles that have to do with Catholic social teaching. These articles give very measured descriptions of the struggles, defeats, and successes that mark the birth of Catholic social teaching. Their reading should produce great wonder and awe at the stance taken by the Church over the last one hundred years. That they have not been adhered to and that they are called 'our best kept secret' underlines the fact and the struggle that we all have to become truly Christian." — From the Editor's Preface by David A. Boileau

David A. Boileau (Ph.D., Louvain University, 1961), has been a member of the Philosophy faculty of Loyola University, New Orleans, since 1970. He specializes in Contemporary Ethics and in Social Justice Ethics and Theories. He has published articles on Discrimination, Equality and Social Justice. He recently published three volumes of essays on the Centennial of Louvain University's Higher Institute of philosophy. In 1988, he published a book on the Life and Philosophy of Cardinal Mercier, the founder of Louvain's Higher Institute of Philosophy. He edited a series of articles on the Philosophical Principles of Catholic Social Teaching. He is preparing a volume on Cardinal Mercier's philosophical essays as a study in Neo-Thomism. He teaches classes in Ethics, Neo-Thomism and the Philosophy of God. He is the President of the Alumni/ae of the Higher Institute of Philosophy at Louvain. In 1998 he edited Principles of Catholic Social Teaching (ISBN 0-87462-638-2) for Marquette University Press (204 pp., $25).

41. The Two-Fold Knowledge: Readings on the Knowledge of Self & the Knowledge of God.
Selected & Translated from the Works of Bernard of Clairvaux by Franz Posset
ISBN 0-87462-693-5. Paper. 152 pp. $20
Thirty-two illustrations featuring the Amplexus (Divine Embrace) in art works over several centuries.

From the Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Know yourself
2. Know yourself as Christ’s beast of burden
3. Know your tribulations
4. Know the Word of God
5. Knowledge that comes from school of God
6. Know the true godliness
7. O Lord it is hard, but smart, to be humble
8. Know God in Christ
9. This is my philosophy: to know Jesus and him Crucified
10. Accusation of self; Justification by God
11. Know that it is enough for merit to know that merits are not enough
12. Know how to shepherd
13. Know your direction and your spiritual progress
Epilogue
List of Illustrations

Franz Posset, Ph.D. (Marquette University), is an independent scholar, active in parish ministry at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Waupun, Wisconsin. He is the author of several books and numerous articles, including Pater Bernhardus: Martin Luther and Bernard of Clairvaux (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1999) and The Front-Runner of the Catholic Reformation: The Life and Works of Johann von Staupitz (Aldershot, Great Britain: Ashgate, 2003). He is working on biographies of monastic humanists and lay theologians in the Renaissance and Reformation time.

42. Jesuit Health Sciences & the Promotion of Justice: An Invitation to a Discussion.
Edited by Jos V.M. Welie & Judith Lee Kissell
ISBN 0-87462-694-3. Paper. 265 pp. $25

Some four hundred years ago, the first Jesuit medical school became operative in France. At present, there are more than 100 health sciences degree programs offered by Jesuit universities worldwide. Ever since the founding of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits have been concerned with the poor and marginalized. Indeed, this faithful concern for justice is to be a hallmark of all of the Society’s missions, including higher education. But what exactly does it mean for a Jesuit medical or dental school, a Jesuit physical therapy degree program or a school of pharmacy to promote justice? This volume, the first ever written on Jesuit health sciences education, takes on this question and invites all faculty, staff and administrators, as well as students and alumni from Jesuit health sciences schools to join in this challenging debate.

Jos Welie has taught health sciences students for almost two decades and written extensively on a variety of bioethical themes. Upon arriving at Creighton University, he became interested in and enthusiastic about Jesuit education and has been researching the involvement of the Jesuits in health care and health sciences ever since.

Judith Lee Kissell’s main professional interests include care for the underserved and addressing the gap in healthcare disparities—both nationally and internationally—whether in clinical care or in medical research. She is committed to developing experiences that expose students to the needs of the poor.

43. George H. Tavard. From Bonaventure to the Reformers.
ISBN 0-87462-695-1. Paper. 140 pp. $17

“This volume brings together my papers on Bonaventure, Martin Luther, and Jean Calvin. Their unity lies in their focus on matters of spirituality, beginning with Bonaventure’s approach to Law (ch. 1) and to the Gifts of the Spirit (ch. 2), an approach that led him, in a sermon, to confront the question that was later faced by the Reformers: Is the believer at the same time sinful and just, ‘simul justus et peccator’? (ch. 3). The expression, frequently used by Luther, comes from Bonaventure. Luther eventually affirmed what Bonaventure denied in his sermon. This, however, need not imply that they contradicted each other more than verbally, in substance.
“Having been involved in ecumenical dialogues for many years I have learned to appreciate the Reformers, especially Luther and Calvin. Because of my earlier interests and my doctoral work, however, I consider myself a medievalist, specialized in the 13th century and chiefly in the works of Bonaventure. I have been intrigued by the connection to be found between the Scholastics and the Reformers, and have in one publication analyzed the medieval sources of Luther’s Commentary on the Magnificat. The ties between the theologies of the 13th and 16th centuries are many and far-reaching, though they were largely forgotten in the vehement polemics of the Counter-Reformation, that damaged the relations between Christians, and thereby impeded the reconciliation of their churches.
“The purpose of bringing these texts together is to provide a background in which to appreciate the scope of the Joint Declaration on Justification signed in Augsburg, on 31 October 1999, by representatives of the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church. It is my hope that this epoch-making agreement will act as a catalyst for a further rapprochement of Christians and their Churches, including those that are faithful to the tradition of Calvin’s theology.”
From the author’s Foreword


George H. Tavard is a prime mover in the world of ecumenism and the author 60 books—among them Trina Deitas: The Controversy between Hincmar and Gottschalk (ISBN 0-87462-636-6, 160 pp. $20) from Marquette University Press. Next year we will publish his work on Joachim di Fiore entitled The Contemplative Church: Joachim and His Adversaries.

44. Patrick W. Carey, Ph.D., Professor of Theology, Marquette University, Editor.
American Catholic Religious Thought:The Shaping of a Theological and Social Tradition
Second edition. ISBN 0-87462-696-X. Paper. 486 pp. $37

As American Catholics and other Americans move into the twenty-first century it might be helpful to re-assess American Catholic religious and social thought during the past two centuries. Have American Catholics produced any creative theological responses to the issues and forces that confronted them over the past two centuries? Have they added anything worthwhile to the classical European formulations? Have they developed some of their own traditions that need critiques in our own day? In his introduction to this collection of original writings, Patrick Carey argues that American Catholics, from John Carroll to John Courtney Murray, have exhibited a fresh, vigorous ability to engage the great religious and social questions of their time in creative continuity with their inherited tradition and sometimes in capitulation to the culture in which they lived. Whether they were responding to the Enlightenment or to the Romantic mood, to the slavery and capitalism, to Modernism, to Neo-Scholasticism, or to twentieth-century problems of social justice, Catholic Americans have produced a stimulating theological commentary that is worth re-examining. This book has been designed to make that tradition on American Catholic thought more accessible. Included are the writings of leading figures: John England, Orestes Brownson, Isaac Hecker, Martin John Spalding, John Ireland, John Hughes, Dorothy Day, Virgil Michel, and others. Introduced by a major interpretive essay that traces the development of Catholic religious and social thinking in American, this work provides an outstanding resource to students of American Catholicism and American history.

45. Donna Teevan. Lonergan, Hermeneutics, & Theological Method.
ISBN 0-87462-697-8. Paper. 225 pp. $27

This book argues that Bernard Lonergan’s transcendental method offers an approach to theology that is in some sense hermeneutical. Many would consider such a project surprising, given the debate that has arisen between those who advocate a transcendental approach to theology and those who contend that a hermeneutical approach furnishes a more adequate theological method in the light of contemporary intellectual developments. This book brings into relief the features of Lonergan’s transcendental method that make any polarization of the two approaches questionable. Ultimately, what is offered is an interpretation of his transcendental method as a hermeneutical approach to theology.

From the Table of Content

Chapter 2—The Relationship between Transcendental and Hermeneutical Approaches to Theology
Chapter 3—Lonergan’s Hermeneutics: The Place of Hermeneutics in Insight, The 1962 “Lecture on Hermeneutics,” and Method in Theology
Chapter 4—The Interpretation of Texts
Chapter 5—History and Historicity
Chapter 6—Conclusion: Lonergan’s Transcendental Method as a Hermeneutical Approach to Theology

Donna Teevan is Associate Professor and Chair of the Theology and Religious Studies Department at Seattle University

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