Introduction: The Unity and Mission of the Church: Communio at 50 Years
Winter 2022
The Unity and Mission of the Church: Communio at 50 Years
The Inexhaustible Reality: Joseph Ratzinger and the Sacred Liturgy
Robert Sarah“We do not create [the liturgy]; we celebrate it as it is given to us with reverence and humility, always seeking to give of our best in the worship of almighty God.”
From Extrinsicism to a World That Denies Both Nature and Grace: A Polyphonic Analysis of Secularism
Tracey Rowland“It is no surprise that reason separated from faith ends up violently irrational, or that nature separated from grace ends up grotesquely unnatural, or that history separated from ontology ends up hostile to tradition and banal.”
The Ever-Prior Act: Claudel and the Poetics of Communio
Jennifer Newsome Martin“[E]fforts of dialogue toward communion should be performed . . . from a place of meekness rather than assertion, such that genuine understanding might take place.”
The Whole in the Fragment: The Vocations of Philosopher and Poet for the Salvation of the World
Erik van Versendaal“The surprise that parts bring with them qua nonessential (or extraessential) accords with the kind of resource out of which they pour, for all actuality is perfect in sharing itself liberally, and so in ‘letting itself’ be enriched by the novelty of what it perfects by this self-sharing.”
Poetic Communion: Literary Form and Divine Encounter
Dwight A. Lindley III“The stillness at the heart of all poetry arises from the mysterious coinherence of all analogies.”
Covenantal Communion between God, Man, and Creation: Reflections on Joseph Ratzinger
Matthew Ramage“Like grapes and olives, our lives are marked by the experience of being ‘ground’ and ‘crushed,’ which is the means by which God mysteriously transforms us into something altogether new and glorious.”
“Only If We Do Not Lose Creation”: Communio and the Battle for the Meaning of the World
Michael Dominic Taylor“We must relearn to trust in the intelligibility of reality, and in our own reason as a natural manifestation of the richness of reality.”
“O Christ, Ever Greater”: De Lubac on Teilhard and the Cosmic Scope of Jesus Christ’s Humanity
Keith Lemna“Christ is ever-greater not because his divinity is increased by his Incarnation, as some might be led to think, but because he is ‘the God to whose birth for us there is no end.’”
God’s Universal Salvific Will and the Mission of Communio
Rodney Howsare“When God gives the gift of finite freedom, he really gives it, and therefore genuinely allows himself to be conditioned by it.”
Divine Exuberance: Erich Przywara on the Metaphysics of Catholicity
Travis Lacy“[P]ursuing catholicity has the effect of a crucifixion, stretching Christ’s bride as it does into a painful christoformity.”
Prayer in the Work of the Exegete
Thomas Esposito“The Word in itself is worthy of veneration, and time spent dwelling with the words of Scripture needs no further justification.”