With contributions from some of today’s most significant theologians, Engaging Catholic Doctrine is an expression of gratitude to Matthew Levering for his generous collegiality and tireless work to chart a sure path for contemporary Catholic doctrine. Essayists significantly advance the work of Matthew Levering in the areas of Aquinas as a biblical theologian, the doctrine of the Trinity, the significance of sacrifice for authentically Christian worship, the recovery of virtue in moral theology, the theology of Joseph Ratzinger, and much more. In addition to celebrating and honoring Levering’s work, this volume offers new contributions in some of the key areas of theological research today.
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Foreword: James R.A. Merrick
Prelude: Engaging Matthew Levering Magnanimity and the Intellectual Life - Tracey Rowland
Part One: Thomistic Ressourcement
Knowledge and Ignorance of God in Aquinas’s Commentary on Romans 1 - Gilles Emery, O.P.
Locating a Theology of Revelation in the Works of Saint Thomas Aquinas - Bernhard Blankenhorn, O.P.
Aquinas as Scriptural Theologian Bruce D. Marshall Aquinas between Abelard and Erasmus :
A Brief Ressourcement Thomistic Theology of Biblical Translation - Anthony Giambrone, O.P.
Aquinas, Allegory, and Paul’s Use of the Old Testament in Galatians 4:21–24, Romans 9:6–9, and 1 Corinthians 1:19 - Charles Raith II
Part Two: Engaging the Doctrine of the Trinity
One God in Two Testaments : On the Biblical Ontology of Trinitarian Monotheism - Thomas Joseph White, O.P.
The Trinity and The Father’s Spirit of Sonship : Further Considerations on Reconceiving the Trinity - Thomas G. Weinandy, O.F.M. Cap.
Part Three: Engaging the Theology of Sacrifice
The Law of Israel and the Worship of Christ : Interpreting Old Testament Sacrifice in Theology and Art - R. Jared Staudt
The Sacrifice of the New Covenant: The Priesthood of Christ and the Eucharist in Hebrews - Scott W. Hahn
Atonement, Cross, and Heavenly Sacrifice: Matthias Scheeben and David Moffitt in Dialogue - David L. Augustine
Interior Altar: The Centrality of Sacrifice for a Catholic Understanding of Augustine’s Confessions - C. C. Pecknold
Part Four: Engaging Moral and Spiritual Theology
The Spousal Meaning of Love - Kyle C. Strobel
Memory and Character Formation: The Ark in Hugh of Saint Victor - Hans Boersma
The Virtue of Christian Hope and Its Counterfeits : Lessons from C. S. Lewis and Thomas Aquinas - Michael A. Dauphinais
“To Die is Gain” : The “Remnants of Sin,” Anointing of the Sick, and Christian Dying - Roger W. Nutt
Part Five: Engaging Modern Theology
Knocking Holes in the Buffered Self : Approaches to the Question of God - Bishop Robert Barron
“Exaltation in the Second Adam”: Heavenly Mindedness and the Young Joseph Ratzinger in his 1950s
Contributions to the Lexikon für Kirche und Theologie - Fr. Emery de Gaál
Abyssus Abyssum Invocat (Ps. 42:7): Grace and Nature in the Meta-Anthropology of Ferdinand Ulrich’s Homo Abyssus - Reinhard Hütter
