Introduction: Mary, Motherhood, and the Church
Summer 2019
Mary, Motherhood, and the Church
“Fixed End of the Eternal Plan”: Rereading Cabasilas’s “Homily on the Annunciation”
Paolo Prosperi“Since the Virgin’s divine motherhood is literally the most beautiful, that is, most fitting (‘rightest’) and most proportionate, means for God to manifest the glory of his generosity, then Mary’s divine motherhood cannot but be, in a sense, the very final cause of creation itself.”
The Exclusivity of Gender and the Gift of Motherhood
D. C. Schindler“[T]he incommunicability of personhood, manifest in the exclusivity of gender, brings to light the fact that true unity is not homogeneity, monochromatic sameness, but—quite literally, if one plays with the etymology—heterogeneity; it is a unity in and through the different relations to generation or fruitfulness.”
The Body and the Bride of Christ: The Church as One Unique Transcendent Subject
Roch Kereszty“The Church’s dependence on Christ through the Holy Spirit is the source of her independent reality.”
“He Is the Head of the Body, the Church” (Col 1:18): Salvation as Incorporation into Christ
Robert P. Imbelli“The mysteries of the Ascension and Transfiguration breach the ultimately dehumanizing boundaries of the immanent frame and the buffered self and inaugurate the new creation.”
When Peter and Paul Disagree: Living in Faithfulness and Charity Amid Public Controversy
Michael K. Magee“The deposit of faith surpasses the capacity of any one human intellect and can only be proclaimed in its integrity by the united body of those whose divinely given mission is to transmit it.”
Moral Theology and the Problem of Modernity
David L. Schindler“[Recent approaches in Catholic moral theology] reject . . . an inadequately conceived objective law only to back . . . into a reductive sense of subjective freedom.”
Retrieving the Tradition
Homily on the Annunciation
Nicholas Cabasilas“[T]he Word of the Father is formed by the word of a mother, and the Creator is created by the voice of a creature”