From the Editor

Abstract

Happy Golden Anniversary, Horizons! This issue marks the first edition of volume fifty. The entire editorial staff is excited to bring our readers a celebration of fifty years of Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society. We decided that the fiftieth anniversary of a journal of Catholic theology created in the optimistic spirit of Vatican II and operated by the lay women and men who formed the College Theology Society deserved a two-volume celebration. The collective four issues of volumes fifty and fifty-one, therefore, will each feature an anniversary “Retrospective and Prospective” roundtable. The anniversary roundtable will reprint an article that the editors have deemed “a greatest hit” forHorizons. We will reprint the article and two scholars will respond to the article, noting its significance for its time and commenting on the needs of the present with regard to the topic at hand. We are also planning on brief reflections from former editors to be highlighted in this space. Finally, see the Horizons website for a special anniversary section that we will build out over the two-year celebration. In this issue, our anniversary roundtable features Raymond E. Brown’s article from Horizons : (), “‘Who Do Men Say that I Am?’—Modern Scholarship on Gospel Christology.” Pheme Perkins, Boston College, and Gilberto A. Ruiz, Saint Anselm College, respond. I would be remiss if I did not note that the Reverend Donald J. Senior, CP agreed to write for the inaugural anniversary roundtable. The staff of Horizonsmourns his death. We are grateful to Pheme Perkins for agreeing to take Senior’s place and to place her work in conversation with her former student (G. Ruiz). Immediately following my introduction, founding coeditor Rodger Van Allen provides insights on the naming and founding of Horizons as a preface to reprinting his  account of the origins of the journal. The current editors believe it is important to highlight our “origin story” for a new generation of readers and contributors. The authors of our peerreviewed articles invite us to pause and consider the nature of our theological work in light of the pandemic; to probe the conundrum of the theological claim of the holiness of a church filled with sinful members; to query documents of the Eastern Orthodox Church and their understanding of the imago Dei as it relates to people with disabilities; and to reflect on the possible consequences for theological anthropology from taking the full humanity of adolescents and young adults seriously. The issue is rounded off by a Horizons, , pp. iii–viii. © College Theology Society  doi:10.1017/hor.2023.2