Petros Gaitanos et al.
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
An Interview with Matthew Levering and Nicholas J. Healy, Jr.
CWR: Ressourcement after Vatican II honors the work of Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J.
An interview with Matthew Levering and Nicholas J. Healy, Jr., who co-edited a collection of 13 essays on ressourcement thought in gratitude to Fr. Fessio for a lifetime of service to the Church.
Ressourcement after Vatican II: Essays in Honor of Joseph Fessio, S.J.
An interview with Matthew Levering and Nicholas J. Healy, Jr., who co-edited a collection of 13 essays on ressourcement thought in gratitude to Fr. Fessio for a lifetime of service to the Church.
Ressourcement after Vatican II: Essays in Honor of Joseph Fessio, S.J.
Monday, March 23, 2020
Eastern Christian Books: John Jillions on God's Guidance in the World
Eastern Christian Books: John Jillions on God's Guidance in the World
Discernment of spirits, part of the Christian patrimony, "East and West":
Discernment of spirits, part of the Christian patrimony, "East and West":
AD: At the very end of your last chapter, you briefly work in Lev Gillet and also Kallistos Ware. Tell us a bit more about their experience and relevance to your study.
Their experience, as recounted in the book, is of interest because it took place in the context of an academic study at Oxford University on religious experience. The Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, which is now based at the University of Wales, was collecting thousands of accounts of religious experience in the 1970s. As a way of reflecting on all this material interviewed a number of scholars, theologians and pastors about how they understand this persistent phenomenon.
Interviewed separately, Fr Lev Gillet and Fr Kallistos Ware (as he was then) gave very similar criteria for evaluating such experiences. They said it must be repeated. It can be short and authoritative, or come through gradual “infiltration by God.” It can be tested by asking others who understand your problem to pray for a solution and to ask for guidance, and see whether the answers converge. But the most definitive criterion is to pay attention to the feelings and actions that the experience produces. “Does this guidance create in you sorrow, bitterness, hatred? Or does it create in you joy and love for God and other people? Judge the tree according to its fruit.”
Sunday, March 22, 2020
One Take on the Eucharist
CWR Dispatch: Sacramental inefficiency and liturgical uselessness: Insights from St. John Paul II and Romano Guardini by Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille
Perhaps in this time of pandemic we may appreciate anew—but from afar and with real hunger and renewed appreciation—the sacraments we have hitherto taken for granted, now temporarily lost to us.
Perhaps in this time of pandemic we may appreciate anew—but from afar and with real hunger and renewed appreciation—the sacraments we have hitherto taken for granted, now temporarily lost to us.
Saturday, March 21, 2020
A Quick Response to DBH?
Would this be sufficient for him?
Universalism may be true but it may be false in so far as it is possible that I may reject God and "end up in Hell."
Universalism may be true but it may be false in so far as it is possible that I may reject God and "end up in Hell."
Friday, March 20, 2020
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