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View article: Catholics and Lutherans on Scripture. A Proposal by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI
Catholics and Lutherans on Scripture. A Proposal by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI Open
Luther emphasized the centrality of the word of God while formulating the principle of sola Scriptura, which later evolved. The Council of Trent and Vatican II present Scripture and tradition as complementary elements that originate from t…
View article: Reason, Islam and Christianity
Reason, Islam and Christianity Open
The debate sparked off by Benedict XVI’s speech in Regensburg has not only relaunched relations between Islam and Christianity, but has also provoked an internal debate in all around the world. In these lines we offer a summary of some int…
View article: El trabajo en Martín Lutero y autores luteranos recientes
El trabajo en Martín Lutero y autores luteranos recientes Open
In these lines we study Luther’s theology of work through his main works, as well as the recent contributions in this confessional field based on the Reformer’s doctrine. On the one hand, work is presented by these authors as a continuatio…
View article: Catholicity in Thirteen Words
Catholicity in Thirteen Words Open
I had to give an introductory course on Christianity to university students in a post-Christian era. How could I surprise or interest them? How could I help them understand? This is the question that has occupied me for years. So, I tried …
View article: Catholicity in thirteen words
Catholicity in thirteen words Open
I had to give an introductory course on Christianity to university students in a post-Christian era. How could I surprise or interest them? How could I help them understand? This is the question that has occupied me for years. So, I tried …
View article: Catholicity in thirteen words
Catholicity in thirteen words Open
I had to give an introductory course on Christianity to university students in a post-Christian era. How could I surprise or interest them? How could I help them understand? This is the question that has occupied me for years. So, I tried …
View article: The Common Priesthood of Lutherans and Catholics
The Common Priesthood of Lutherans and Catholics Open
English translation. The original article can be found here Luther insisted on the royal, common or universal priesthood of all the baptised, as the Second Vatican Council also recalled, referring to the mutual complementarity between the …
View article: Catholicity in thirteen words
Catholicity in thirteen words Open
I had to give an introductory course on Christianity to university students in a post-Christian era. How could I surprise or interest them? How could I help them understand? This is the question that has occupied me for years. So, I tried …
View article: Catholicity in thirteen words
Catholicity in thirteen words Open
I had to give an introductory course on Christianity to university students in a post-Christian era. How could I surprise or interest them? How could I help them understand? This is the question that has occupied me for years. So, I tried …
View article: Catholicity in thirteen words
Catholicity in thirteen words Open
I had to give an introductory course on Christianity to university students in a post-Christian era. How could I surprise or interest them? How could I help them understand? This is the question that has occupied me for years. So, I tried …
View article: Mater dolorosa—Martin Luther’s Image of Mary of Nazareth: An Example in Lucas Cranach the Elder
Mater dolorosa—Martin Luther’s Image of Mary of Nazareth: An Example in Lucas Cranach the Elder Open
Protestantism is usually thought of as rejecting the figure of Mary as a collaborator in Christ’s redemption. In Luther’s commentary on the Magnificat (1521), we can see that this doctrine would continue to evolve throughout his life, and …
View article: Makoto FUJIMURA, Art + Faith. A Theology of Making, New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 2020, 184 pp., 5,5 x 7,5, ISBN 978-0300254143.
Makoto FUJIMURA, Art + Faith. A Theology of Making, New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 2020, 184 pp., 5,5 x 7,5, ISBN 978-0300254143. Open
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View article: On tree decompositions whose trees are minors
On tree decompositions whose trees are minors Open
In 2019, Dvořák asked whether every connected graph $G$ has a tree decomposition $(T, \mathcal{B})$ so that $T$ is a subgraph of $G$ and the width of $(T, \mathcal{B})$ is bounded by a function of the treewidth of $G$. We prove that this i…
View article: The idea of work: from Luther to Pentecostals in recent protestant authors
The idea of work: from Luther to Pentecostals in recent protestant authors Open
For Luther, work was a vocation, while Calvin emphasised the need to glorify God through work. Since the proposal of Weber and Troeltsch, the theology of work and the origin of capitalism has been discussed and studied in different Protest…
View article: (Um)welt-Ethos. Creation, ecology and environment in ecumenical perspective
(Um)welt-Ethos. Creation, ecology and environment in ecumenical perspective Open
Christianity is sometimes considered as guilty of the ecological miscare throughout history. The words ‘economy’, ‘ecology’ and ‘ecumenism’ come from the same word (oikos – house) and remain very close in their respective developments. But…
View article: Towards the Erdős-Hajnal conjecture for $P_5$-free graphs
Towards the Erdős-Hajnal conjecture for $P_5$-free graphs Open
The Erdős-Hajnal conjecture is one of the most classical and well-known problems in extremal and structural combinatorics dating back to 1977. It asserts that in stark contrast to the case of a general $n$-vertex graph if one imposes even …
View article: Peter KREEFT, Catholics and Protestants. What Can We learn from Each Other, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2017, 204 pp., 13 x 21, ISBN 9781621641018.
Peter KREEFT, Catholics and Protestants. What Can We learn from Each Other, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2017, 204 pp., 13 x 21, ISBN 9781621641018. Open
View article: Thomistic Themes in Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’s Theology
Thomistic Themes in Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’s Theology Open
Among many other sources, Ratzinger received his formation from the “three great masters” – Augustine, Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas. While rejecting an unpersonal and essentialist scholasticism, he recognizes the authority of Aquinas – s…
View article: Martijn POUW, Greatness & Limits of Common Priesthood in 16th Century Reformation Theology. A Realist Phenomenological Priesthood in Luther and Calvin from a Roman Catholic Perspective, Kampen: Summum Academic Publications («Classic Theology and Contemporary Challenges», 2), 2021, 224 pp., 16 x 24, ISBN 9789492701138.
Martijn POUW, Greatness & Limits of Common Priesthood in 16th Century Reformation Theology. A Realist Phenomenological Priesthood in Luther and Calvin from a Roman Catholic Perspective, Kampen: Summum Academic Publications («Classic Theology and Contemporary Challenges», 2), 2021, 224 pp., 16 x 24, ISBN 9789492701138. Open
View article: Joseph RATZINGER/BENEDETTO XVI, Per amore, Siena: Cantagalli, 2019, 192 pp., 13,5 x 21, ISBN 9788868796990.
Joseph RATZINGER/BENEDETTO XVI, Per amore, Siena: Cantagalli, 2019, 192 pp., 13,5 x 21, ISBN 9788868796990. Open
View article: Dostoevsky overcomes Nihilism: Luigi Pareyson reads The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky overcomes Nihilism: Luigi Pareyson reads The Brothers Karamazov Open
“Dostoevsky’s novels are pure philosophy,” declared Luigi Pareyson (1918–1991), an Italian existentialist. He presents a Christian Dostoevsky capable of overcoming the nihilistic onslaught of a post-Christian culture, both in its harshest …
View article: Ryan J. MARR, To be perfect is to have changed often: the development of John Henry Newman’s ecclesiological outlook, 1845-1877, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018, 195 pp., 13 x 22, ISBN 978-1-978700-57-4.
Ryan J. MARR, To be perfect is to have changed often: the development of John Henry Newman’s ecclesiological outlook, 1845-1877, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018, 195 pp., 13 x 22, ISBN 978-1-978700-57-4. Open
View article: Mother of Hope. Mary of Nazareth in Anglican – Roman-Catholic Dialogue
Mother of Hope. Mary of Nazareth in Anglican – Roman-Catholic Dialogue Open
Our Hope is Christ but His Mother is also ours. A difficult topic in the dialogue with Anglicans is the issue of Mariology. Mary and the various forms of liturgical and non-liturgical Marian devotion were inherited by Anglicans from the Ca…
View article: El inicio del camino. Fe, bautismo y pertenencia a la Iglesia en el pensamiento de Joseph Ratzinger
El inicio del camino. Fe, bautismo y pertenencia a la Iglesia en el pensamiento de Joseph Ratzinger Open
Through baptism the new Christian is born of water and immersed in the resurrection of Christ. This paper addresses, firstly, the liturgical dimension of the act of faith, according to the studies of the Bavarian theologian. This reviving …
View article: Bogdan FERDEK y Wiktor TROJNAR (eds.), Via Benedicta. The Scholarly Method of Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI, Wrocław: Pontifical Faculty of Theology, 2019, 212 pp., 15 x 21, ISBN 978-83-63642907.
Bogdan FERDEK y Wiktor TROJNAR (eds.), Via Benedicta. The Scholarly Method of Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI, Wrocław: Pontifical Faculty of Theology, 2019, 212 pp., 15 x 21, ISBN 978-83-63642907. Open
View article: Dostoevsky overcomes Nihilism: Luigi Pareyson reads The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky overcomes Nihilism: Luigi Pareyson reads The Brothers Karamazov Open
“Dostoevsky’s novels are pure philosophy,” declared Luigi Pareyson (1918–1991), an Italian existentialist. He presents a Christian Dostoevsky capable of overcoming the nihilistic onslaught of a post-Christian culture, both in its harshest …
View article: Lawrence FEINGOLD, The Eucharist. Mystery of Presence, Sacrifice, and Communion, Steuvenville (Ohio): Emmaus Academic, 2018, 674 pp., 16 x 22,5, ISBN 978-1945125720.
Lawrence FEINGOLD, The Eucharist. Mystery of Presence, Sacrifice, and Communion, Steuvenville (Ohio): Emmaus Academic, 2018, 674 pp., 16 x 22,5, ISBN 978-1945125720. Open