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Loisy's “Mystical Faith”: Loisy, Leo XIII, and Sabatier on Moral Education and the Church
Authors: Hill Harvey
Published: February 2014

[The author examines the response to educational reforms in France at the end of the 19th century by Pope Leo XIII, modernist Alfred Loisy, and liberal Protestant Auguste Sabatier. He argues that Loisy resembled Sabatier more than Leo in his specific reactions to these educational reforms, but that he also exhibited a “mystical faith” in the Church which clearly differentiated his thought from Sabatier's.]
The Symbolic Realism of U.S. Latino/A Popular Catholicism
Authors: Goizueta Roberto S.
Published: February 2014

[The author argues that Latino/a popular Catholicism in the United States embodies important aspects of a non-modern Catholic worldview that have been obscured, or even lost in modern, rationalist forms of Catholicism. Specifically, U.S. Latino/a popular religious practices reflect an understanding of symbol that is heir to the intrinsically symbolic cosmology of medieval and baroque Christianity. Its pre-Tridentine roots distinguish the Catholicism of Latin American and U.S. Latino/a communities from the post-Reformation Catholicism that initially came to North America. An appreciation of these differences could contribute to a retrieval of “lost” aspects of our common Catholic heritage as well as the development of a more fully “American” Catholicism.]
A Latino Practical Theology: Mapping the Road Ahead
Authors: Deck Allan Figueroa
Published: February 2014

[The author uses the pastoral circle or “see-judge-act” practical theological method to review the status of Hispanic/Latino ministry. He takes note of new research findings, while stressing the importance of an integrating framework for shaping the Catholic Church's response to the multiple challenges presented by the Latino/a presence. Paul VI's Evangelii nuntiandi provides the needed framework with its stress on inculturation, liberation, and interreligious dialogue. Sections are then devoted to the challenges of popular religion, youth, the flight to other religions, multiculturalism, and pluralism. Finally, he names several practical implications and lays out a map suggesting where this may be heading.]
Burlando al Opresor: Mocking/Tricking the Oppressor: Dreams and Hopes of Hispanas/Latinas and Mujeristas
Authors: Isasi-Díaz Ada María
Published: February 2014

[Hispanas/Latinas have turned marginalization into a creative space of struggle. Standing strong in our present day reality, we reach back, gathering wisdom and strength from the struggles of past generations in order to attain a liberative future. Our utopian vision is a critical, liberative, and reflective-action process centered in our daily lived experience that seeks to bring radical change within our communities and in society at large. Our historical project embodies our desires and hopes as marginalized, exploited, and ignored women. The utopian vision of Hispanas/Latinas vindicates the exploitation of our bodies—key element of our oppression. Feasibility and effectiveness are important elements of our utopian expectations keeping us from wishful thinking that does not liberate but rather supports present oppressive structures. Hispanas/Latinas claim the right to desire and work for our pleasure and happiness, intrinsic elements to all true liberation.]
The Magisterium's Arguments against “Same-Sex Marriage”: An Ethical Analysis and Critique
Authors: Pope Stephen J.
Published: February 2014

[The author examines the arguments used by the magisterium against same-sex marriage. Most of these arguments have features that make them problematic for public debate in pluralistic societies. The most plausible argument concerns the health of marriage as an institution within which adults take responsibility for child rearing. If the magisterium wishes to present a more persuasive argument for its position against same-sex marriage, it ought to develop this line of reasoning and jettison the practice of casting gay people in a negative light.]
Quaestio Disputata Cohabitation: Past and Present Reality
Authors: Lawler Michael G.
Published: February 2014

[Social scientific research, here only briefly summarized, discriminates between nuptial cohabitors, who have already made the commitment to marry, and non-nuptial cohabitors, who have not made that commitment. It further shows that for nuptial cohabitors their cohabitation is the first step in their becoming married, that their characteristics are more like the characteristics of married couples than singles, and that the data applicable for the 1970s and 1980s namely that those who cohabit prior to marriage and then marry have a heightened risk of divorce is no longer verified in recent cohorts. The Catholic Church needs to pay attention to this scientific data so as to develop a more discriminating pastoral approach to the phenomenon of cohabitation.]
Recognizing the Presence of Christ in the Liturgical Assembly
Authors: Kubicki Judith Marie
Published: February 2014

[The author discusses Christ's presence as perceived and symbolized when an assembly gathers to celebrate Eucharist. Her article consists of four parts: (1) a brief review of recent official church documents on the modes of Christ's presence; (2) an examination of how the relationship of Christ's presence in the eucharistic species to his presence in the Church gathered for worship has been articulated in Christian tradition and in selected 20th-century writings; (3) a consideration of Michael Polanyi's semiotics and Louis Marie Chauvet's theology of symbol; and (4) an application of their thinking to key symbols in the gathering rite of the Roman liturgy.]
Revisiting Affective Knowledge and Connaturality in Aquinas
Authors: Ryan Thomas
Published: February 2014

[The author investigates the nature and function of affective cognition through connaturality in Thomas Aquinas. Its modulations are disclosed in the human attraction to happiness, in emotions and their moral significance, in the affective virtues (fortitude and temperance), and in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Finally, the article notes some convergences between the thought of Aquinas and Bernard Lonergan concerning conversion and intentionality, both epistemological and existential.]
Social Ethics
Authors: Elsbernd Mary
Published: February 2014

[The survey addresses recent publications in five areas: (1) foundational resources and approaches; (2) Catholic social thought; (3) faith and public life; (4) reconciliation and social conflict; and (5) environmental and economic ethics. Recurring issues include: praxis-based approaches, the common good and human rights, religion's role in public life, restorative justice, as well as attention to the marginalized.]
Is Creation Eternal?
Authors: Delio Ilia
Published: February 2014

[The author examines the integral relationship between the Trinity and creation based on the theology of St. Bonaventure. Divine action is considered not as episodic intervention but within the context of relationship. Because creation is a finite expression of the infinite Word of God, it is intrinsically related to the primacy of Christ. An eternal creation rests on God's eternal resolve to love a finite order, and Christ is first in God's intention to love. It is argued that the eternal act of creation lies in the eternal nature of God's love.]
Faith in Deaf Culture
Authors: Broesterhuizen Marcel
Published: February 2014

[Deaf people often have been outsiders in a hearing Church. The message of the Church has not reached Deaf people because the language, symbols, culture of the traditional Church, and the view of Church people on deafness were remote from the culture and daily life experiences of Deaf people. In several countries, new developments are going on. Deaf people are themselves playing the central role, as full participants of all the gifts inherent to baptismal priesthood. Typically hearing views on deafness are left behind, deafness is discovered as a strength, Deaf lay persons build up the Church; Sign Language becomes a sacral language. In this liberating development Deafhood is a locus theologicus, a source of knowledge about God: it is a matter of enculturation and indigenizaiion of Christian faith in Deaf culture. Faith discovers the positive values, the “seeds of the Word” in Deaf culture and thereby enriches the universal Church.]
The Analogy of Tradition: Method and Theological Judgment
Authors: Thiel John E.
Published: February 2014

[The author examines a basic question for theological inquiry: how is congruence between past and present meaning achieved in tradition and in theological judgment? He begins by criticizing the account of traditional continuity offered in the recent work of Kathryn Tanner and by considering the limits of correlation in explaining congruence in theological judgment. Constructively, he proposes an understanding of method as a pragmatics of tradition in which a certain use of analogy accounts for traditional and theological congruence.]
Bridging the Divide in Contemporary U.S. Catholic Social Ethics
Authors: Heyer Kristin E.
Published: February 2014

[The author clarifies two dominant methodologies that persist in U.S. Catholic social ethics as represented by J. Bryan Hehir and Michael J. Baxter. A comparative analysis of these reformist and radicalist approaches along with their theological foundations challenges contemporary perspectives on their coexistence, and it suggests ways in which the two might mutually inform one another. The author attempts to move methodological debates beyond rigid typologies and toward a more creative, dynamic tension between each model's distinct emphases.]
Feminist Mariologies: Heteronomy/Subordination and the Scandal of Christology
Authors: McDonnell Kilian
Published: February 2014

[Feminist Mariologies are partly the reaction of a justified anger to centuries of discrimination against women enshrined in the very Scriptures, in the central theological tradition, and in the life of the Church. Mariology allows feminists to reflect on exegesis, patriarchy, equality, autonomy, obedience, sexual life, social roles, and professionalism. The rejection of all subordination, even to other women, and the maleness of Christ drive feminist Mariologies so that some move the theological location of Mariology from the gendered Christology to the ungendered Pneumatology and the reign of God.]
U.S. Catholic Social Thought, Gender, and Economic Livelihood
Authors: Hinze Christine Firer
Published: February 2014

[The author analyzes U.S. Catholic perspectives on economic livelihood at the beginnings of the 20th and 21st centuries, giving particular attention to the influence of beliefs and practices surrounding gender. Contemporary Catholic advocacy for worker justice, the author contends, will increase its credibility and efficacy if its fundamental moral commitment—to universal access to economic livelihood—is highlighted, and is more carefully distinguished from disputes about the specific gender relations and family-work arrangements by which livelihood is to be pursued.]
Newman and Theological Liberalism
Authors: Merrigan Terrence
Published: February 2014

[The author's point of departure is the fact that both “liberals” and “conservatives” appeal to John Henry Newman to support their positions. However, Newman's attitude towards “liberalism” was much more nuanced than either party acknowledges. His own theology was characterized by a continual struggle to maintain a tensile unity between opposing tendencies and concerns. Hence, neither liberals nor conservatives can simply claim Newman as their own. In his quest for unity, Newman can serve as a model for our theologically polarized age.]
Searching for Josef Pieper
Authors: Vickery Jon
Published: February 2014

[In some recent prominent studies, Josef Pieper has merited only brief attention. He is presented as one who accommodated Roman Catholic theology and philosophy with National Socialism in the early 1930s. Alongside such thinkers as Michael Schmaus and Karl Eschweiler, Pieper's name appears as evidence for the Catholic pursuit of rapprochement with the Nazi State. The writings of Pieper, however, contain considerable evidence to maintain a contrary reading of his involvement with the National Socialists. He may in fact be understood as a man who said no to the spirit of his age.]
Christian Salvation: Biblical and Theological Perspectives
Authors: Clifford Richard , Anatolios Khaled
Published: February 2014

[To provide order to the welter of metaphors employed in Christian soteriology, the authors study them within their underlying systems or “models.” The “prophetic” model, in which salvation is effected within history through human instruments, appears in Isaiah and Luke as well as in Irenaeus. In the “liturgical” model, the divine presence is safeguarded by sacrifices; it is found in Leviticus, the Letter to the Hebrews, and also in Athanasius. In the “sapiential” model, sin is willful ignorance and salvation illumination; it is found in Proverbs and John, and echoed in Augustine's soteriology.]
Valuing Earth Intrinsically and Instrumentally: A Theological Framework for Environmental Ethics
Authors: Schaefer Jame
Published: February 2014

[Philosophers have struggled with value theory as one of the most recalcitrant problems for environmental ethics. Theologians can benefit from their efforts when retrieving and reworking notions about the goodness of creation in patristic and medieval texts, particularly those by Augustine, John Chrysostom, and Thomas Aquinas. This process yields a religiously motivated rationale for intrinsic-instrumental valuing of the physical world's constituents for themselves, their relationships to one another, and their common good that can be relevant, meaningful, and helpful for responding to ecological degradation.]
A Dialectic Engagement with the Social Sciences in an Ecclesiological Context
Authors: Ormerod Neil
Published: February 2014

[Ecclesiologists have long acknowledged a possible role for the social sciences in their discipline. The author examines the difficulties theologians face in utilizing the social sciences, given the diversity of approaches in that area, and the more profound issue that the social sciences can never be theologically neutral. It concludes that the only way of soundly utilizing the social sciences is to reorient theologically the social sciences and to include them “from the ground up” within a comprehensive theology of history. This is then the natural home for a historically conscious ecclesiology.]
Ghislain Lafont and Contemporary Sacramental Theology
Authors: Blaylock Joy Harrell
Published: February 2014

[The author demonstrates how Ghislain Lafont looks “through” the critiques of meta-narrative and ontotheology for an appropriate ground for theology. Lafont appeals to sacramental memorial as the starting point for a response to postmodern critiques, a response that is shown to be both balanced and faithful. When presented in relation to the works of two of his contemporaries, Louis-Maiie Chauvet and David N. Power, Lafont's sacramental theology can be appreciated for its hopeful vision and practical contribution to a contemporary understanding of sacrament and ritual action.]
Vatican II: Did Anything Happen?
Authors: O'Malley John W.
Published: February 2014

Recent emphasis on the continuity of Vatican II with the Catholic tradition runs the danger of slighting the aspects of the council that were discontinuous. Among those aspects are the literary genre the council adopted and the vocabulary inherent in the genre, different from that of all previous councils. Examination of these aspects yields tools for constructing a hermeneutic appropriate to this council, and not only shows how distinctive Vatican II was but also allows us to get at that elusive “spirit of the council.” The substance of this article was delivered as the Roland Bainton Lecture for 2005 at the Divinity School of Yale University and shortly afterwards as one of the “Gathering Points” lectures at Marquette University.
Notes on Moral Theology: Fundamental Moral Theology at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Authors: Keenan James F.
Published: February 2014

The author's survey of the writings of moral theologians over the past five years shows a deep concern about both the nature of moral theology and the role of moral theologians. A certain urgency animates much contemporary reflection calling the moralist to be challenged by the vocation to serve the Church and to explore better the ways Westerners can learn from other cultures. In this regard, virtue ethics continues to serve as a helpful medium for such intercultural dialogue.
Bioethics
Authors: Cahill Lisa Sowle
Published: February 2014

Scholars and the public are well aware of the ethically controversial nature of euthanasia, artificial nutrition and hydration, and embryonic stem cell research. Moral theologians have extensively analyzed these issues, and religious leaders have publicly made them tests of orthodoxy. Literature on death and dying is therefore the main concern of this article, which also covers the literature on economic exclusion from adequate care at the end of life, low availability of hospice care, and inequities in global health resources.
Violence: Religion, Terror, War
Authors: McCormick Patrick T.
Published: February 2014

The survey examines writings in three areas: (1) the causes and cures of the rise of religious violence and terrorism, with particular attention to how Christian theology and the Bible contribute to or challenge this violence; (2) the ethical challenges of terrorism and the need to find a moral response to this threat; and (3) the strengths and limits of just war thinking in responding to contemporary forms of violence.
Quaestio Disputata: Did John Paul II's Allocution on Life-Sustaining Treatments Revise Tradition?
Authors: Paris John J. , Keenan James F. , Himes Kenneth R.
Published: February 2014

In September 2005 this journal published an article by Thomas Shannon and James Walter on the Catholic tradition surrounding assisted nutrition and hydration (ANH) in end-of-life care. Responding to this essay, moral theologians John Paris, James Keenan, and Kenneth Himes take exception to what they perceive as a proposition promoted in that article, that John Paul II's allocution “Life-Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State” significantly altered traditional Catholic teaching on ANH. The authors examine that proposition in the light of the tradition and the norms for assessing the weight to be accorded various papal pronouncements.
Culture, Religion, and Moral Vision: A Theological Discourse on the Filipino People Power Revolution of 1986
Authors: Astorga Ma. Christina A.
Published: February 2014

The article systematically reflects on the Filipino People Power Revolution of 1986 under the illumination of theology. It contends that there can be no liberation apart from the beliefs and values of a people, with religion as their deepest source. The struggle against injustice and oppression must be united with a people's consciousness of their cultural rootedness, at the heart of which is their religion. The dynamics of culture and religion and its bearing on moral vision made the Filipino People Power Revolution possible and was the source of its nonviolent spirit.
Gift Theory and the Book of Job
Authors: Ki Wing-Chi
Published: February 2014

Gift theory offers a new perspective on the book of Job: God favors a universal gift ethic, Satan opts for an alienable gift economics, while Job's friends endorse the principle of balanced reciprocity. The article depicts Job conflicted over the divine love culture and the culture promoted by his friends and Satan, but in the end celebrating a life-giving gift practice and advocating genuine reconciliation between God and humans, and between a wounded individual and his enemies.
The Starting Point of Systematic Theology
Authors: Doran Robert M.
Published: February 2014

The article proposes that Bernard Lonergan's four-point hypothesis linking the four divine relations with four created participations in divine life can join with the theory of history proposed by Lonergan and developed by the author to form the unified field structure and so the starting point of a contemporary systematic theology. The hypothesis allows for a new form of the psychological analogy for the divine processions, one that is related to but distinct from the analogy found in Aquinas and the early Lonergan.
Resurrection—Interruption—Transformation: Incarnation as Hermeneutical Strategy A Symposium
Authors: Godzieba Anthony J. , Boeve Lieven , Saracino Michele
Published: February 2014

Because of its commitment to the Incarnation and the Resurrection, Catholic theology is impelled to deal productively with the issues of embodiment and particularity. These have been noticeably absent in postmodern discussions of religious experience, which tend to be abstract, “dis-embodied,” and dismissive of specific religious traditions. This symposium continues the important intervention of Catholic fundamental theology in these discussions, so that theology might respond more adequately to the embodied religious experience of Christians and the sacramental imagination of the Catholic tradition. The authors argue for the necessary employment of “incarnation” as a fundamental hermeneutical strategy, and apply it to issues in eschatology, theological anthropology, interreligious dialogue, and theological epistemology.
Resurrection and the Costs of Evolution: A Dialogue with Rahner on Noninterventionist Theology
Authors: Edwards Denis
Published: February 2014

The scientific claim that the costs of evolution are built into the process by which life emerges brings a new intensity to the old problem of evil. One partial response is to challenge the idea of an interventionist God who overturns or bypasses the laws of nature in favor of a God who works consistently through nature. Another is a theology of Resurrection that offers hope for the final transformation of the whole creation in Christ. In conversation with Karl Rahner, the author explores a theology of Resurrection that is both noninterventionist and transformative.
“The Times They are a ‘Changin’”: A Response to O'Malley and Schloesser
Authors: Ormerod Neil J.
Published: February 2014

Inspired by two recent articles in this journal regarding the fact and nature of change at Vatican II, this article analyzes the nature of this change. Drawing on the author's previous writings on ecclesiology and the social sciences, it argues that Vatican II was necessary to restore integrity to the mission of the Roman Catholic Church to the world.
Veiled and Unveiled Beauty: The Role of the Imagination in Augustine's Esthetics
Authors: Djuth Marianne
Published: February 2014

The article addresses the tension between two different approaches to Augustine's esthetics: a contemplative esthetics of divine beauty and an incarnate esthetics of created beauty. An examination of Augustine's theory of the imagination demonstrates the complementary nature of these two approaches. Contemporary theorists (such as Robert J. O'Connell and Carol Harrison) fail to provide an adequate account of Augustine's esthetics because they adopt one approach at the expense of the other.
Oppositional Pairs and Christological Synthesis: Rereading Augustine's De Trinitate
Authors: Anatolios Khaled
Published: February 2014

The author aligns the modern structuralist emphasis on the meaning-generating capacity of “oppositional pairs” with Augustine's penchant for the ancient rhetorical trope of “antithesis.” The resultant rereading of De Trinitate uncovers Augustine's rhetorical construction of a christocentric theological epistemology that undergirds the work's structure, polemical agenda, and the classic theologoumenon of the trinitarian image in human interiority.
Theology and Aboriginal Religion: Continuing “The Wider Ecumenism”
Authors: Starkloff Carl F.
Published: February 2014

“Wider ecumenism” goes beyond conventional ecumenical and interreligious dialogue to conversation with indigenous religions. While many indigenous theologians today readily employ “Western” thought forms, an additional methodology is needed to articulate aboriginal experience. Cast in the form of a narrative of four decades of field work, this article describes such a methodology, incorporating the symbolic theology of 18th-century missionary anthropologist Joseph Lafitau, Bernard Lonergan's ideas on “data of consciousness” and “mutual self-mediation,” Antoine Vergote's religious psychology, and the complexities of “ethnographic memory” as described by Clifford Geertz.
Quaestio Disputata the Atonement Paradigm: Does it Still Have Explanatory Value?
Authors: Cahill Lisa Sowle
Published: February 2014

Until the mid-20th century, the reigning Western paradigm of Christian salvation was the Anselmian theory of Christ's death as atoning for sinful humanity by paying a debt to God. Recent liberationist, feminist, and antimilitarist theologies strongly critique personal and structural violence, leading many to reject the atonement paradigm as sacralizing violence. This article argues that soteriologies should remain pluralistic. A model of salvation through sacrificial love, embodied on the cross, can still have transformative moral and political value if linked with a vibrant belief in the Incarnation and Resurrection
“The Synthesis of All Heresies”—100 Years On
Authors: Talar C. J. T.
Published: February 2014

The condemnation of Roman Catholic Modernism in 1907 was a traumatic event—in the dual sense that it reflected the traumatic impact of intellectual and political modernity on the Church, and in that it induced a climate of repressive reaction that affected Catholic scholarship for decades thereafter. The issues raised by the Modernists form an integral part of the trajectory of 20th-century theology.
As Long as we Wonder: Possibilities in the Impossibility of Interreligious Dialogue
Authors: Fletcher Jeannine Hill
Published: February 2014

The application of George Lindbeck's cultural-linguistic approach to interreligious dialogue calls into question our ability to communicate across the divide of different religious traditions. Examining his postliberal theology and accepting Lindbeck's caution about the difficulty of understanding a tradition other than one's own, the aims of interreligious encounter need to be revised. This article draws on the theological traditions of God's incomprehensibility as overabundance and offers “wonder” as a theological fruit of interreligious exchange.
From Statements to Parables: Rethinking Pluralist Identities
Authors: Hallett Garth L.
Published: February 2014

The author observes that, while pluralist theologians and philosophers of religion have made claims asserting an identical, transcendent reality referred to by world religions, they have not noticed the fundamental problem facing such claims. Necessarily, abstract terms such as “reality” and “thing,” of which the claims have need, lack criteria of sameness; and a term such as “identical” or “same,” unlike descriptive expressions such as “wise” and “good,” cannot be extended by analogy so as to remedy the lack. The claims are therefore empty. Apt parables would do better at expressing what the claims try to say.
The Johannine Logic of Augustine's Trinity: A Dogmatic Sketch
Authors: Kuehn Evan F.
Published: February 2014

This article follows recent scholarship in identifying a robustly pro-Nicene trinitarianism in Augustine's De Trinitate. In particular, a “Johannine logic” is identified and traced as an exegetical basis for his dogmatic articulation of the doctrine of God. This logic unfolds in the Pater–Filius relationship of the Son's begetting, incarnation, and christological forms as “servant” and “God.” Finally, the enlightening love of the Holy Spirit completes Augustine's Trinity.
The Soteriological Significance of the Feast of Mary's Birth
Authors: Denysenko Nicholas E.
Published: February 2014

By reviewing the unique characteristics of the Byzantine feast of Mary's Birth, the article articulates the feast's significance as an integral contributor to the salvation of humankind. The article first traces the historical emergence of Mariology to establish trends in Marian soteriology, then analyzes the liturgical contents of the feast to project a theological thesis. Finally, it proposes a liturgical paradigm of encounter to provide a fresh look at Christian soteriology through the celebration of this unique Marian feast.
Neo-Thomism and the Theology of Religions: A Case Study on Belgian and U.S. Textbooks (1870–1950)
Authors: Van Wiele Jan
Published: February 2014

Scholars are currently giving serious thought to Thomas Aquinas's theology of religions. This fact led the author to explore the connection between Aquinas's thought on the subject and that of the Neo-Thomists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Starting from the analysis of textbooks, he illuminates the structure of the theology of religions that characterized Catholic culture in Belgium and the United States from 1870 to 1950, and the continuity and discontinuity of it with Aquinas's thought. He thereby also illuminates Vatican II's approach to interreligious dialogue.
Catholicism and Liberalism: Two Ideologies in Confrontation
Authors: Laurent Bernard
Published: February 2014

The author argues that the Catholic Church's social teaching is marked by a critical view of the ideology of Enlightenment Liberalism and of the concept of free market economy when taken as the guiding mechanism of free modern society. Since the great divorce between throne and altar with the French Revolution, the Church's opposition to Liberal ideology, while taking different forms in different periods, has been consistent and persistent.
Jesus' Prohibition of Anger (MT 5:22): The Person/Sin Distinction from Augustine to Aquinas
Authors: Mattison William C.
Published: February 2014

Christian reflection on the morality of anger must address Jesus' words in Matthew 5:22: “whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment.” One interpretation of this passage found in the Christian tradition relies on what is called here the “person/sin distinction”: anger at persons is sinful, while anger at sin is permissible. The article traces this distinction's use from Augustine to Aquinas, both to display a living textual tradition at work and to contribute to the broader question of the possibility of virtuous Christian anger.
Quaestio Disputata Response to Neil Ormerod, and Beyond
Authors: Coffey David M.
Published: February 2014

In an article in the September 2007 issue of this journal, Neil Ormerod had included David Coffey in his critique of Rahner, whose thought he had contrasted with Lonergan's on the Trinity and related subjects. Ormerod's article was occasioned by publicity given by Robert Doran to a trinitarian hypothesis of Lonergan. Here Coffey comments on the hypothesis itself and Ormerod's treatment of his theology, then further develops a point from his own Christology.
Prolegomena to Meaning, Or, What is “Literary” about the Torah?
Authors: Linafelt Tod
Published: February 2014

The drastic economy of biblical narrative style is not simply to be equated with an absence of style but rather represents a distinctive narrative poetics, which turns in particular on the opaqueness of characters' inner lives and thus on the essential ambiguity of character motivation. Such practical criticism, by rigorously lingering over the details and structures of the literature, serves as an indispensable prolegomena to the meaning-making project of interpretation, theological or otherwise.
Health and Human Rights
Authors: Ryan Maura A.
Published: February 2014

The AIDS pandemic has focused renewed attention on the relationship between the promotion of health and the protection of human rights. Recent work by Paul Farmer and others challenges bioethics to address urgent questions of global health equity not only on the level of method but in the form of strategic partnerships with the most vulnerable populations. This article highlights both the promise and the limits of a human rights framework for bioethics.
Globalization's Shifting Economic and Moral Terrain: Contesting Marketplace Mores
Authors: Barrera Albino
Published: February 2014

Major shifts in economic life have always been accompanied by corresponding changes in the public's economic morality. Contemporary globalization is pulling the moral agent in opposite directions: greater moral obligations versus the competitive individualism required by an increasingly unforgiving marketplace. Moreover, the market, not governments or the grassroots, is emerging as the dominant determinant of popular economic morality and is profoundly reshaping people's self-understanding as persons and as a human community. The article argues that theological ethics plays an important role in contesting the market's moral baseline.
Between Identity and Security: Theological Implications of Migration in the Context of Globalization
Authors: Cruz Gemma Tulud
Published: February 2014

Migration has always been woven into the fabric of global patterns of integration. While migration brings both positive and negative political and economic changes to migrants as well to the sending and receiving countries, it also creates the conditions for migrants, in particular, to struggle with and open themselves to new commitments of faith. This article explores the theological relevance of migration, especially in terms of the clues it provides for making sense of the human condition, by examining how migration offers windows into contemporary forms of oppression and, at the same time, offers paths toward liberation
Religious Pluralism in an Era of Globalization: The Making of Modern Religious Identity
Authors: Fletcher Jeannine Hill
Published: February 2014

Impacted by the technologies that make the world a single place, the theological discourse on religious pluralism comes to expression in the era of globalization as religious differences are in ever greater contact. However, the construction of religious identity that emerged in the early stages of globalization may need to be rethought and theologies constructed on a “container theory” of difference and division replaced with outlooks that embrace hybridity and pursue a cosmopolitan vision.
Hugh of St. Victor on “Jesus Wept”: Compassion as Ideal Humanitas
Authors: Coolman Boyd Taylor
Published: February 2014

In his brief, On the Four Wills in Christ, Hugh of St. Victor (d. 1141) offers a carefully nuanced depiction of Jesus' human nature that showcases his human capacity for compassion. Hugh is keen, however, not only to underscore Jesus' human capacity for compassion but also to identify such fellow-feeling as the signature attribute of ideal human nature. Accordingly, one finds throughout the Victorine's corpus that, on this christological basis, Hugh advocates an ethic of compassion for human beings generally.
Quaestio Disputata What Male–Female Complementarity Makes Possible: Marriage as a Two-In-One-Flesh Union
Authors: Lee Patrick , George Robert P.
Published: February 2014

The authors, replying to criticisms of the Catholic Church's teaching on homosexual acts presented by Todd Salzman and Michael Lawler in an article in this journal, argue that marriage is a multi-leveled personal union, essentially including the bodily as well as the emotional and volitional levels of the human self. Only sexual acts between a man and a woman who have consented to the kind of union that would be fulfilled by conceiving, bearing, and raising children together (that is, marriage) can consummate or actualize marital communion.
Truly Human Sexual Acts: A Response to Patrick Lee and Robert George
Authors: Salzman Todd A. , Lawler Michael G.
Published: February 2014

The authors argue that Lee and George (hereafter, L/G) use a reductionist anthropology and ethical method to defend a classicist approach to absolute sexual norms. After describing Lonergan's understanding of scotosis, which can distort one's insight into ethical theory and ethical issues, the article demonstrates this distortion in L/G's sexual anthropology. It further argues that, in formulating their sexual anthropology, L/G fail to address the significance of sexual orientation, and that their method inadequately integrates human experience and reason as sources of moral knowledge.
Governing the new metropolis
Authors: Harrison John , Hoyler Michael
Published: February 2014

The expansion of globalising cities into global city-regions poses fundamental questions about how best to govern the new metropolis. Partly because of the relentless pace of change, these newly emerging metropolitan spaces are often reliant on inadequate urban-economic infrastructure and fragmented urban-regional planning and governance arrangements. Moreover, as the demand for more ‘appropriate’, widely understood to mean more flexible, networked and smart, forms of planning and governance increases, new expressions of territorial cooperation and conflict are emerging around issues of increased competitiveness, infrastructure development, the collective provision of services, and further governmentalised remapping(s) of state space. We identify four central tenets of the metropolitan region/governance debate and discuss their relevance for future research on city-regions: (1) periodisation and trajectories, (2) democracy and accountability, (3) form and function, and (4) fragility and mobilisation. These, we argue, pose key challenges for rethinking city-region governance within the emerging new metropolitan paradigm.
Swedish and British Public Opinion of the Armed Forces after a Decade of War
Authors: Berndtsson Joakim , Dandeker Christopher , Ydén Karl
Published: February 2014

This article analyzes public opinion of the armed forces, focusing on Sweden and the United Kingdom. The cases offer interesting similarities, such as their institutions of parliamentary monarchies and, most recently, their reliance on all-volunteer force, as well as differences especially with regard to their experience of international defence missions. The discussion considers the extent to which the public has been supportive of recent missions conducted by Swedish and UK armed forces, and whether such support is also accompanied by support for the armed forces as an institution. Levels of opinion and trust in the military are quite different in both cases, and public opinion of international missions reflects the contrasting historical engagements of both states. In both cases, we also find a divergence between what publics are willing to support and what national governments wish to pursue as missions for their armed forces.
H∞ static output feedback controller design for continuous Markov jump systems with incomplete transition probabilities
Authors: Shen Mouquan , Zhang Guangming , Yuan Yuhao
Published: February 2014

The [Formula: see text] static output feedback control of continuous Markov jump systems with incomplete transition probabilities is investigated in this paper. Employing the property of continuous transition probabilities and a matrix transformation technique, relaxed sufficient conditions for the existence of a solution to the [Formula: see text] static output feedback control problem are established in terms of linear matrix inequalities. In addition, the obtained results are extended to Markov jump nonlinear systems. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the derived results.
Racial Discrimination as a Correlate of African American Mothers’ Emotion Talk to Young Children
Authors: Odom Erika C. , Garrett-Peters Patricia , Vernon-Feagans Lynne ,   the Family Life Project Investigators
Published: February 2014

The current study was designed to test hypotheses derived from an ecological framework regarding the association between perceived racial discrimination and maternal emotion talk among a sample of 415 African American mothers living in the rural South. Mothers reported on experiences with racial discrimination when her child was 24 months old. Additionally, maternal emotion awareness was assessed by mothers’ use of emotion words during an emotion-laden picture book interaction with her young child. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that mothers’ perception of racism was a significant positive predictor of mothers’ emotion words, even after controlling for a variety of distal demographics and maternal and child characteristics. However, this main effect was qualified by significant interactions. Specifically, the strength of the association between perceived discrimination and mothers’ emotion words was reduced in the presence of maternal psychological supports, including greater life satisfaction and knowledge of child development.
Z‐plasty of the Alar Subunit to Correct Nasal Vestibular Stenosis
Authors: Choudhury Natasha , Hariri Ahmad , Saleh Hesham
Published: February 2014

Nasal vestibular stenosis can result in a challenging cosmetic deformity, for which a variety of techniques have been described, including scar excision and replacement with local flaps, composite or cartilage grafts, with or without stents. We describe the Z‐plasty technique to widen the alar base and assess patient satisfaction from the surgery. A retrospective review of patients who underwent Z‐plasty to the alar subunit for nasal vestibular stenosis over a 4‐year period was conducted. Demographic data and patient satisfaction were evaluated using pre‐ and postoperative visual analog scores and Rhinoplasty Outcome Evaluation questionnaires. Eight patients underwent the procedure, and all confirmed significant improvement in their esthetic outcome. We describe our Z‐plasty technique to the alar base and review patient satisfaction.
Optimisation of material properties for the modelling of large deformation manufacturing processes using a finite element model of the Gleeble compression test
Authors: Bennett Christopher J , Sun Wei
Published: February 2014

The finite element modelling of manufacturing processes often requires a large amount of large plastic strain flow stress data in order to represent the material of interest over a wide range of temperatures and strain rates. Compression data generated using a Gleeble thermo-mechanical simulator is difficult to interpret due to the complex temperature and strain fields, which exist within the specimen during the test. In this study, a non-linear optimisation process is presented, which includes a finite element model of the compression process to accurately determine the constants of a five-parameter Norton–Hoff material model. The optimisation process is first verified using a reduced three-parameter model and then the full five-parameter model using a known set of constants to produce the target data, from which the errors are assessed. Following this, the optimisation is performed using experimental target data starting from a set of constants derived from the test data using an initial least-squares fit and also an arbitrary starting point within the parameter space. The results of these tests yield coefficients differing by a maximum of less than 10% and significantly improve the representation of the flow stress of the material.
Analysis of frictional behaviour of carbon dry woven reinforcement
Authors: Najjar W , Pupin C , Legrand X , Boude S , Soulat D , Dal Santo P
Published: February 2014

During the preforming stage of woven reinforcement, in the first step of the resin transfer moulding process, the phenomenon of friction occurring at the tool–reinforcement interfaces and the reinforcement–reinforcement interfaces is one of the key parameters of the forming process. This behaviour must be correctly taken into account when modelling the process and a better understanding of the contact and friction phenomena occurring during the woven fabric preforming process is necessary for realistic simulation of the preforming process. Although some existing studies concerning friction of reinforcement have been published, the complex frictional behaviour of fabrics is still not completely clear. The experimental characterization of the frictional behaviour of a specific carbon woven reinforcement (G1151) used for aeronautical applications is the aim of this article and three interfaces have been studied (G1151/G1151, G1151/Plexiglas, G1151/aluminium). The Coulomb coefficients of friction occurring during contact between two layers of fabric and between the fabric and other materials have been determined. The effect of the variation of normal pressure and temperature on the frictional behaviour of this reinforcement has also been analysed. Comparisons between several frictional models, described in the literature, are also conducted in associated with these experimental results. This study highlights a significant tribological anisotropy of the G1151 reinforcement and a dependence of the frictional characteristics on the applied pressure and the temperature.
Female Sexual Victimization Among College Students
Authors: Turchik Jessica A. , Hassija Christina M.
Published: February 2014

The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between college women’s sexual victimization experiences, health risk behaviors, and sexual functioning. A sample of 309 college women at a mid-sized Midwestern university completed measures assessing sexual victimization, sexual risk taking, substance use behaviors, sexual desire, sexual functioning, prior sexual experiences, and social desirability. Severity of sexual victimization was measured using a multi-item, behaviorally specific, gender-neutral measure, which was divided into four categories based on severity (none, sexual contact, sexual coercion, rape). Within the sample, 72.8% ( n = 225) of women reported at least one experience of sexual victimization since age 16. Results from MANCOVAs and a multinomial logistic regression, controlling for social desirability and prior sexual experience, revealed that sexual victimization among female students was related to increased drug use, problematic drinking behaviors, sexual risk taking, sexual dysfunction, and dyadic sexual desire. In addition, findings indicated that women exposed to more severe forms of sexual victimization (i.e., rape) were most likely to report these risk-taking behaviors and sexual functioning issues. Implications for sexual assault risk reduction programming and treatment are discussed.
Media Portrayals of Female Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence
Authors: Carlyle Kellie E. , Scarduzio Jennifer A. , Slater Michael D.
Published: February 2014

Preventing intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health priority. An important component of designing prevention programs is developing an understanding of how media portrayals of health issues influence public opinion and policy. To better understand the ways in which media images may be informing our understanding of IPV, this study content analyzed portrayals of IPV in news media articles. Stratified media outlets were used to obtain a representative sample of daily newspapers based on their designated market areas. Researchers created constructed months using weeks from each season across a 2-year period. The first part of the study investigated quantitative differences in the coverage of female and male perpetrators ( n = 395) and identified several areas where coverage differed. The second part of the study qualitatively examined coverage of female perpetrators ( n = 61) to provide a richer description of such coverage. This study contributes to our understanding of female perpetrators and how these portrayals may contribute to the larger gender symmetry debate surrounding female aggressors. Implications for public health policy and research are discussed.