The contemporary renewal in theology, an authentic renewal by reason of its " return to the sources", does not lose sight of the full range of Christ's commission to his Church: to teach, to sancti…
A Harvard historian asserts that a subject must be a hundred years old before it is suitably mature for academic inspection. Many church historians claim that genuine church history came to an end …
How does the Christian confront the Hebrew Bible, which he calls the "Old Testament"? Marcion once replied by eliminating the Hebrew Bible. In another age, Augustine wrote the massive dictum that d…
With the promulgation of the Constitution on the Scared Liturgy, Vatican Council II opened the door to a long overdue renewal of the liturgo. To date, however, there have been only partial liturgic…
Do we really know the other? For centuries we have sought to know them only from the worst side, so that we could at once dispose of them with theological arguments. For far too long we have told t…
This volume seeks to give the reader an insight into the general situation of fundamental theology rather than to deal with specific question. The concentration is therefore on underlying principle…
The emergence of the laity in the Church, no passing ecclesial phenomenon, has arisen out of the very evolution of society. It is marked by the appearance, not of a new kind of spirituality, for au…
It is not only what the scriptures say that is important for our faith, but also the way in which they were written. For, as the preface to the present volume of Concilium points out, we often forg…
This precise sector of theology is full of unsolved. or badly solved. old or new problems. Protestant theology is also deeply involved in trying to clarify its own position regarding the sacraments...
The expressed hope of Vatican Council II that division among Churches will cease be reunited faces innumerable although not necessarily insurmountable barriers. Of these barries, few if any are mor…