Introduction: Person and Community
Fall 2024
Person and Community
The Christian Personalism of John Paul II
Nicholas J. Healy Jr.“The ‘fundamental polarity’ of self-possession and self-donation together with the unique and unrepeatable identity signified by the term ‘person’ are recapitulated and revealed in the eucharistic self-offering of Christ.”
Fulfilling the “Law of the Gift”: On Esse as the Principle of Agere in Karol Wojtyła’s Anthropology
D. C. Schindler“Man is capable of giving himself in a complete and genuinely ontological way only because his being is already gift, and his being is gift by virtue of the act of the Creator, who willed him for his own sake and by that fact willed him to will himself in an act of self-giving.”
Marxist Alienation versus Wojtyłian Participation: Toward a Personalistic Vision of Life in Society
Grzegorz Ignatik“[T]he concept of participation consists in securing man’s transcendence in his action together with other people and not—as in Marxism—in presupposing man’s determination by internal or external factors.”
Joseph Ratzinger’s Liturgical Theology: Illuminating the Issue of Communion for the Divorced
Mark Banga“[M]arried Catholics actively participate in the offering of the Mass and receive communion always as the living sacramental sign of what they are receiving.”
Transcendental Relationality: A New Proposal on Personhood
Andreas Kramarz“[A] person is a distinct subsisting being whose rational nature is capable of realizing relationality (and, with it, all the transcendentals) in a conscious and free exchange of love.”
Human Dignity, Truth, and Deification in John 9
Michael A. Meerson“The fourth gospel presents the task of meeting and recognizing the Creator as the existential task of man.”
Fitted for a Purpose: The Problem of Biological Fitness and an Aristotelian-Thomistic Solution
Seth Hart“Evolution could . . . be interpreted as the process by which each creature seeks to imitate the divine goodness more fully in a manner proper to its nature.”