“Black Lives Matter and Catholic Whiteness: A Tale of Two Performances”
How do the voices and actions of the members of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement speak to us in the Catholic theological academy?…
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2017
“Paul’s Place in a First-Century Revival of the Discourse of ‘Equality’”
The discourse of “equality,” which originated in democratic Athens, revived in the first century CE, in response to growing inequality between the classes. …
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“Space, Place, and the Race for Power: Rabbis, Demons, and the Construction of Babylonia”
Demons were an important part of Late Antique life across religious divides. This article explores how the authors of the Babylonian Talmud “think with” the demonic to produce meaningful rabbinic spaces.…
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“Exegesis and Appropriation: Reading Rashi in Late Medieval Spain”
The Commentary on the Torah of Rashi (Solomon ben Isaac; 1040–1105) stands out as the most widely studied and influential Hebrew Bible commentary ever composed.…
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“Finitude, Phenomenology, and Theology in Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit”
Heidegger’s descriptions of Dasein’s “finitude” (Endlichkeit) in Sein und Zeit are based on Dasein’s experience of thrownness and mortality, and not on theology and the relation to God, methodologically suspended early on in the treatise.…
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Emerging Principles of a Theology of Shalom
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council declaration, Nostra Aetate, Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia commissioned sculptor Joshua Koffman to create an original artwork called “Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time” for the plaza outside the campus chapel.…
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Church and Space in the Middle Ages
This is an English translation of the Editorial to Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales Volume 72 – Issue 1. On the publication of their two most recent volumes in 2016,[1] the Annales invited Dominique Iogna-Prat and Florian Mazel to participate in an exercise in lecture croisée.…
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Maimonides on Perfecting Perfection
What does one do after one has reached apprehension of God? According to Maimonides in his Guide of the Perplexed, there is indeed more to be done.…
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Wissen und Lomdus: Idealism, Modernity, and History in some Nineteenth-Century Rabbinic and Philosophical responses to the Wissenschaft des Judentums
This article examines the parallel strategies taken by Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) and contemporaries in the Eastern European Lithuanian Talmudic academies to develop modernizing interpretations of Jewish text, tradition, and law.…
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Examining the Role of the Reader: A Necessary Task for Catholic Biblical Interpretation
In this article, I enter the discussion over what constitutes Catholic biblical interpretation to argue that in order for biblical interpretation to be “Catholic,” it must integrate hermeneutical approaches that foreground real readers within the context of lived realities.…
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Constructed Female Bodies
Female sexual and sexualized bodies are constructed in multiple ways. One construction posits that females are autonomous and self-determining, and advocates for unimpeded choice regarding sexual expression, bodies, and reproduction.
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“O Sweet Cautery”: John of the Cross and the Healing of the Natural World”
“O Sweet Cautery”: John of the Cross and the Healing of the Natural World” Mary Frohlich, RSCJ, Catholic Theological Union at Chicago In “The Living Flame of Love,” John of the Cross began to use the image of “cautery” to express the paradox of one act that both grievously wounds and radically heals.…
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Jesus and the World of Grace, 1968–2016: An Idiosyncratic Theological Memoir
“Jesus and the World of Grace, 1968–2016: An Idiosyncratic Theological Memoir” William L. Portier, University of Dayton, CTS president Looking back at the last five decades of my development as a theologian, I offer an impressionistic look at Catholic theology in the United States.…
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