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Avery Cardinal Dulles
In the February issue First Things published the Erasmus Lecture of 2000, “Papacy and Power,” by George Weigel. The monumental political influence of the pontificate of John Paul II, Weigel argued, is the result of a long and complicated history in which the papacy has successfully contended . . . . Continue Reading »
The Reform of the Papacy: Costly Call to Christian Unity by John R. Quinn Crossroad/Herder & Herder, 189 pages, $19.95 In his 1995 encyclical Ut Unum Sint , Pope John Paul II invited suggestions from Christians not in union with Rome regarding ways of exercising the papal office that might . . . . Continue Reading »
The possibility of a Christian philosophy was fiercely debated in the late 1920s and the early 1930s, especially in France, where several distinguished historians of philosophy, including Émile Bréhier, vigorously denied that there had been, or could be, any such thing. It was, Bréhier said, as . . . . Continue Reading »
Two Languages of Salvation: The Lutheran-Catholic Joint Declaration
From the December 1999 Print EditionOne of the central themes of the New Testament, if not the central theme, is the way to obtain salvation. To be on the right road is, in New Testament terminology, to be justified. The corollary is that unless we are justified we are unrighteous and are on the road to final perdition. In other . . . . Continue Reading »
The life of John Paul II invites superlatives, and George Weigel is not unwilling to employ . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl Braaten, long a respected voice in American Lutheranism, here offers a welcome distillation of a half century of theological study and . . . . Continue Reading »
In his 1994 apostolic letter “On The Coming of the Third Millennium,” Pope John Paul II said that while the great jubilee of the year 2000 is to be a time of joyful celebration, the joy should be based on forgiveness and reconciliation. It is therefore appropriate that the Church should prepare . . . . Continue Reading »
After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity by Miroslav Volf Eerdmans, 314 pages, $28 Miroslav Volf, a Croatian Protestant, is a professor at Fuller Theological Seminary. The present book, translated from the German original, is an outgrowth of his Habilitationsschrift, directed by . . . . Continue Reading »
Tradition, insofar as it takes place in history, binds together past and future. It has been called the living . . . . Continue Reading »
With Vatican II a major shift took place. The Catholic Church became in a true sense . . . . Continue Reading »
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