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What Price Reform?

From the June/July 2000 Print Edition

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 »

Can Philosophy Be Christian?

From the April 2000 Print Edition

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 »

Should the Church Repent?

From the December 1998 Print Edition

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 »

Problems of Ecclesiology

From the November 1998 Print Edition

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 »