{"title":"Faith, Reason, and Theosis. Edited by A. Papanikolaou & G.E. Demacopoulos. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023. Pp. v, 307. $40.00.","authors":"John A. McGuckin","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14363","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"65 5","pages":"607"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142234765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thomas Aquinas and Teilhard de Chardin. By Donald J. Goergen. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2022. Pp. 298. $40.00.","authors":"John Sullivan","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14359","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"65 5","pages":"599-601"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142234767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Against Values: How to Talk about the Good in a Postliberal Era. By Philip J. Harod. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2023. Pp. xv, 221. $121.00 (HB) / $40.00 (PB).","authors":"Jerome C. Foss","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14364","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"65 5","pages":"607-609"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142234766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ways of Living Religion: Philosophical Investigations into Religious Experience. By Christina M. Gschwandtner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xxiii, 347. £100.00.","authors":"Gavin Flood","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14365","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"65 5","pages":"609-610"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142234769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theories of Doctrinal Development in the Catholic Church. By Michael Seewald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. vii, 213. £85.00.","authors":"Richard Lennan","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14360","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"65 5","pages":"602-603"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142234768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Karl Rahner on Original Sin: An Uncomfortable Truth","authors":"Declan Marmion, SM","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14351","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"65 5","pages":"540-551"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142234727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rahner on Original Sin: A Response to The Symposium","authors":"Karen Kilby","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14355","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When I need to give a brief overview of Karl Rahner's theology, I often find myself including a list of some of the topics on which he wrote. Not only did he publish on grace, ecclesiology, Christology, sacraments, and the doctrine of the Trinity, I might say, but also on leisure, childhood, poetry, death, televising the Mass, old age, indulgences, sleep, power, penance, the spiritual senses, and so on. A list can communicate something about the range of Rahner's work, and its occasional quality. Though I've used different lists on different occasions, original sin has never appeared on any of them. Original sin wasn't in fact a central topic for Rahner. This does not mean that he was a naïve optimist who didn't take sin seriously, but simply that the particular doctrine, as a subject of controversy or puzzlement, wasn't a particularly prominent focus of his attention. I therefore came to this symposium on Rahner on original sin with a fear that it would turn out to be a little thin. In fact, the opposite has proved to be true—this is a rich, fascinating, and valuable set of papers.</p><p>The essays of Carl Scerri and David Sendrez both have a philosophical focus, and converge in other ways, so I will take them, below, as a pair. I will begin, however, with few brief comments about Stephen Fields's paper.</p><p>Fields presents what is—in spite of the admirable clarity of his prose—quite a dense and complex essay. He covers, first, Rahner's understanding of original sin against the background of the concept of the supernatural existential; second, his (Fields's) own position on original sin, including the suggestion that Adam's fall brought about genetic and chromosonal change, together with a revisionary proposal about Adam's relation to sanctifying grace; and then, finally, an overall critical evaluation of the concept of supernatural existential.</p><p>It is beyond the scope of this response to take up everything in Fields's paper, so I will limit myself to one quite specific and one general comment. The specific point has to do with a distinction Fields makes between ‘categorical supernatural existential’ and ‘transcendental supernatural existential’. These expressions come not directly from Rahner but from a proposal for reading Rahner which Fields adopts from Weger. In my view it is a proposal we should approach with caution. It is not only that ‘supernatural existential’ is already too much of a mouthful as it is, or that to push Rahner's thought towards becoming a more elaborate and self-contained system revolving around his own technical terms is to do it a disservice; it is also that, as far as I can see, ‘categorical supernatural existential’ is an oxymoron. As Rahner uses these terms, ‘categorical’ and ‘existential’ pull in exactly opposite directions. This is not to say that Fields's basic presentation of Rahner's view is inaccurate, but only that it tends to make the topic a little more complex and confusing than it need be.</p><p","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"65 5","pages":"592-594"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/heyj.14355","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142234728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mimetic Theory and Original Sin: René Girard, James Alison, and Raymund Schwager","authors":"Michael Kirwan, SJ","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14349","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The considerable attention to the theme of original sin in post-Vatican II theology bears witness both to its perceived importance and to a sense of crisis as to how it should be articulated. There are two broad areas of concern. Firstly, attempts to reconcile the primal history of Genesis 1-3 (the story of a transgression which precipitates the fall of humanity from a state of original bliss) and evolutionary theory anxiously acknowledge a perceived divergence between faith/religion and reason/science. At stake is the intellectual credibility of Christian faith in the face of scientific modernity. To use a term that will be discussed below, we appear to be at a ‘Galileo’ moment.</p><p>The second challenge is related: an allegedly foundational component of Christian faith no longer has emotional hold, even for believers. Here is a question of affective rather than intellectual coherence. As David Ford points out, a successful metaphor of salvation must have ‘gripping power’ in order to do justice to the specificity and urgency of what is at stake. He cites the theatre director, Peter Brook: ‘For an idea to stick, it is not enough to state it: it must be burnt into our memories.’1 The doctrine of original sin, by contrast, seems to have no traction on the contemporary imagination.</p><p>William T. Cavanaugh and James K.A. Smith offer an interesting way of negotiating the two challenges. They urge us to move ‘beyond Galileo to Chalcedon’, by which they mean that theology is facing a dead-end if it sees the problem of original sin as an analogy of the Galileo crisis. This denotes an urgent anxiety to reconcile what science tells us about human origins and what our tradition asserts; if we fail in this task, the credibility of the Christian faith is imperilled. To cite Charles Taylor, we find ourselves ‘cross-pressured’. The problem is that, framed in these terms, there can only be one outcome: tradition will give way to scientific rationality, and the doctrine will have to go.</p><p>The alternative, according to Cavanaugh and Smith, is to think of this as a ‘Chalcedonian opportunity’, in which we creatively keep the tension in place rather than dissolve it. Just as the Chalcedonian fathers found a way of asserting both the divinity and humanity of Christ, so we need to ‘embrace the cross pressure as an impetus for genuine, yet faithful, theological development’.2</p><p>A shift ‘from Galileo to Chalcedon’ means the explicit adoption of the Council of Chalcedon as the model and template for creative theology in the contemporary ‘cross-pressured’ world. More generally, and with respect to the doctrine of original sin, it serves as a call to make Christology the guiding principle of our discussion, rather than the anthropological sciences. Such an emphasis is found in theologians inspired by the mimetic theory of René Girard (1923-2015), specifically James Alison and Raymund Schwager.3 Each seeks to secure the credibility of the doctrine in the light","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"65 5","pages":"515-526"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/heyj.14349","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142234697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Forgotten Stain on The Soul: Eleonore Stump's Defence of The Catholic Doctrine of Original Sin","authors":"Patrick Zoll, SJ","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14350","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"65 5","pages":"527-539"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142234726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}