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by bcadmin | Sep 26, 2022 | Chapp's Schtick, collegiality, Columns, Communio, ecclesiology, Features, Germany, News, Papacy, Second Vatican Council, synodality | 0 |
Debates and controversies over matters of doctrinal development never happen in a vacuum or in the abstract. Which is why it is always critical to assess both the intellectual milieu in which such debates take […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Churches, ecclesiology, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Messiah, News, Prophets, The Dispatch | 0 |
Readings: • Jer 38:4-6, 8-10 • Ps 40:2, 3, 4, 18 • Heb 12:1-4 • Lk 12:49-53 In the summer of 2007, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a document containing “responses […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Dei Verbum, Divine Revelation, ecclesiology, Features, Henri de Lubac, Jesus Christ, nature and grace, News, ressourcement, The Church | 0 |
A few months ago, I interviewed the patristics scholar, Dr. Lewis Ayres. Dr. Ayres is understandably very favorably disposed towards the school of modern theology that has come to be known as “ressourcement” theology. However, […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 17, 2022 | Church government, ecclesiology, Fr. Joseph Komonchak, Larry Chapp, Louis Bouyer, News, synodality, The Dispatch, Vatican II | 0 |
I agree with everything Larry Chapp says in his recent pieces on the problems of “synodality.” But, perhaps very slightly more hopeful than he is, I want to make some suggestions overlooked by many in […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2022 | authority, Chapp's Schtick, Columns, ecclesiology, Features, Fr. Louis Bouyer, News, Power, synodality | 0 |
In my previous essay I criticized the new emphasis on synodality as an essentially modern enterprise of bureaucratic legerdemain. I noted that while I support the concept of a more synodal Church, I am suspicious […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 21, 2020 | ecclesiology, Ecumenism, Essay, Features, News, Pope Saint John Paul II | 0 |
In The Bishop and Christian Unity, the December 4, 2020 document from the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, the question addressed briefly regards the following issue: “Changing ecclesial affiliation as an ecumenical challenge and […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 19, 2020 | Anselm, anthropology, Aquinas, Augustine, barth, Books, douglas farrow, ecclesiology, ecumenical, Features, interview, mcgill, News, nominalism, Protestantism, Scripture, Soteriology, Theology, William of Ockham | 0 |
Douglas Farrow, PhD, is professor of theology and Christian thought at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. A noted lecturer and a prolific essayist, he is the author of several books, including Ascension and Ecclesia, Ascension Theology, […]
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