Spring 2005
The Baptism in the Jordan / Biotechnology & Morality, Part II (photocopy)
The Ages of the Life of Jesus: The Mystery of the Baptism in the Jordan
José Granados“When it describes the ages of Jesus’ life and identifies the laws that shape his time, the theology of the mysteries unlocks the meaning, not only of Christian existence, but of history and of the world itself.”
‘Thou Art My Beloved Son’: The Baptism of Jesus as a Trinitarian Event
Richard MaloneHow Many ‘No’s? Billions. How Many ‘Yes’es? Just One!
Jörg SplettArt and Faith
Jonah LynchBach’s Musical Treatment of Jesus’ Baptism
Matthew O'Donovan Oliver O'Donovan“With his highly developed theological responsiveness and supreme command of his art, Bach was able to to deploy perfectly ordinary compositional techniques with such focused attention to his text as to present a commentary on the meaning of the event in musical language.”
The Triune Conversation in Mozart: Towards a Theology of Music
Mark FreerLiturgical Architecture and the Classical Tradition: A Balthasarian Approach
Denis R. McNamara“Active participation requires a perception of the reality in which one participates, the glory of the Heavenly Banquet. To understand the banquet as heavenly, signs and symbols of heavenly realities are required, which in turn requires noble beauty, a beauty that reveals the ontological reality.”
Deadly Self-Deception and Life-Giving Revelation in Flannery O’Connor
Kim PaffenrothANT-OAR: Part II
Altered Nuclear Transfer: A Critique of a Critique
Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco“With ANT, the enucleated egg—because of genetic manipulations done either to the egg or to the donor cell or to both simultaneously—is prevented from reprogramming the transferred genome to an embryo-like epigenetic state. . . . no embryo—no organism—is generated.”
The Primacy of the Organism: Response to Nicanor Austriaco
Adrian J. Walker“Epigenetics, then, may be a (co)determinant of the one-celled embryo’s phenotypic profile, but it is not the primary determinant of its ontological status tout court.”
A Way Around the Cloning Objection Against ANT? A Brief Response
Adrian J. Walker"OAR, like all the other methods of ANT, is not the creation of stem cells without the creation of an embryo, but the cloning of a modified embryo. OAR, in a word, is cloning with a twist."
Veritatis Splendor and the Foundations of Bioethics
David L. Schindler“We can form proper ethical judgments with respect to biotechnological science’s production and manipulation of embryonic stem cells for health-serving ends only insofar as we recover adequate notions of nature and human-organic life (as gift).”