“Come and See ~ Catholic Bible Study” Romans and Ephesians covers two Pauline prison letters. Paul’s Letter to the Romans is the most theologically dense epistle in all of Scripture, and Ephesians contains perhaps the most controversial verse in Paul’s letters. • In depth Catholic Bible Study • Uses both the RSVCE Catholic Bible, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church • Intimate enough for a small home group • Suitable for a large parish Bible Study
Journal of Biblical and Pneumatological Research VOLUME FOUR FALL 2012 The Journal of Biblical and Pneumatological Research (JBPR) is a new international peer-reviewed academic serial dedicated to narratively and rhetorically minded exegesis of biblical and related texts. Potential topics include theological and pneumatological interpretation, the role of spiritual experience with authorial, canonical, and contemporary contexts, and the contextual activity of Ruach Yahweh, Ruach Elohim, and various identiþcations of the Holy Spirit. JBPR hopes to stimulate new thematic and narrative-critical exploration and discovery in both traditional and under-explored areas of research. CONTENTS Editor's Overview of Volume 4 MARKUS LOSKER--Seeing the Unseeable - Speaking the Unspeakable: From a Kenosis of Exegesis toward a Spiritual Biblical Theology ANDREAS HOECK, S.S.D.--The Johannine Paraclete - Herald of the Eschaton RIKU P. TUPPURAINEN--The Contribution of Socio-Rhetorical Criticism to Spirit-Sensitive Hermeneutics: A Contextual Example - Luke 11:13 LYLE STORY--One Banquet with Many Courses (Luke 14:1-24) PIETER DE VRIES--Ezekiel: Prophet of the Name and Glory of YHWH - The Character of His Book and Several of Its Main Themes MARK SAUCY--How Does the Holy Spirit Change Us? - A Review Essay Review of Elim Hiu, Regulations Concerning Tongues and Prophecy in 1 Corinthians 14.26-40: Relevance beyond the Corinthian Church (M. Fred Haltom) Review of Joseph Peter Becker, Paul's Use of Xa/rij in 2 Corinthians 8-9: An Ontology of Grace (Rebecca Skaggs and Thomas Doyle) Review of Manfred Baumert, Natÿrlich - ÿbernatÿrlich: Charismen entdecken und weiterentwickeln [Natural - Supernatural: Discovering and Developing Spiritual Gifts] (Wolfgang Vondey) Review of Norbert Baumert, Sorgen des Seelsorgers: †bersetzung und Auslegung des ersten Korintherbriefes [Worries of Pastors: Translation and Interpretation of First Corinthians] (Manfred Baumert and Paul Elbert) Review of Gonzalo Haya-Prats, Empowered Believers: The Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts (Martin Mittelstaadt, Lyle Story, and James Shelton)
Halfway between history and philosophy, this book deals with the historical forms that have permitted the understanding of human suffering from the Renaissance to the present. Representation, sympathy, imitation, coherence and narrativity are but a few of the rhetorical recourses that men and women have employed in order to feel our pain.
Children of God in the World is a textbook of theological anthropology structured in four parts. The first attempts to clarify the relationship between theology, philosophy and science in their respective approaches to anthropology, and establishes the fundamental principle of the text, stated in Vatican II's Gaudium et spes, n. 22, "Christ manifests man to man." The second part provides a historical overview of the doctrine of grace: in Scripture (especially the teaching of the book of Genesis on humans 'made in the image of God', as well as Paul and John), among the Fathers (in particular the oriental doctrine of 'divinization' and Augustine), during the Middle Ages (especially Thomas Aquinas) and the Reformation period (centered particularly on Luther and the Council of Trent), right up to modern times. The third part of the text, the central one, provides a systematic understanding of Christian grace in terms of the God's life present in human believers by which they become children of God, disciples, friends and brothers of Christ, temples of the Holy Spirit. This section also provides a reflection on the theological virtues (faith, hope and charity), on the relationship between grace and human freedom, on the role of the Church and Christian apostolate in the communication of grace, and on the need humans have for divine grace. After considering the relationship between the natural and the supernatural order, the fourth and last part deals with different philosophical aspects of the human condition, in the light of Christian faith: the union between body and soul, humans as free, historical, social, sexual and working beings. The last chapter concludes with a consideration of the human person, Christianity's greatest and most enduring contribution to human thought.
