God, the Absolute Wise Man, and the Study of Religion

Fall 2022 Vol. 20, No. 4

ISSN 1542-7315

Tract for the Times
Tract 7: Seven Last Words for Our Times – Anonymous

Articles
The Ethics of Surgical Interventions for Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Gender Dysphoria – Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P.
When Our Fathers Fall: A Thomistic-Confucian Approach to Lay Moral Correction of Clergy – Joshua R. Brown
Thomists at War: Pierre Mandonnet, Étienne Gilson, and the Contested Relationship between Aquinas’s and Dante’s Thought (1879–2021) – George Corbett
Mary as the Exemplar of the Body’s Poverty – Angela Franks
St. Thomas Aquinas’s Appeal to St. John the Baptist as a Benchmark of Spiritual Greatness – John Baptist Ku, O.P.
Knowing God from the Things That Have Been Made – Guy Mansini, O.S.B.
Teleology in Natural Theology and Theology of Nature: Classical Theism, Science-Oriented Panentheism, and Process Theism – Mariusz Tabaczek, O.P.

Symposium on Faith and Reason
God, the Absolute Wise Man, and the Study of Religion – Clemens Cavallin
Vetera Novis Augere et Perficere: Thomas Aquinas and Christian–Muslim Dialogue – Joseph Ellul, O.P.
What Has Metaphysics to Do with Wisdom? – John Haldane
The Summa Contra Gentiles and Aquinas’s Way to God – Gaven Kerr
The Intellectual Ethics of Revealed Truth: A Thomistic Approach – Roger Pouivet
Why Can’t a First Mover Be Accidentally Moveable? Bolstering Aquinas’s Case for Divine Immutability in the Face of Objections from Theistic Personalists – Mats Wahlberg

Review Essay
Contradiction and Legislation Regarding the Right to Life – Kevin L. Flannery, S.J.

Book Reviews
John Henry Newman and the Development of Doctrine: Encountering Change, Looking for Continuity by Stephen Morgan – Reinhard Hütter
John Henry Newman’s Theology of History: Historical Consciousness, Theological “Imaginaries”, and the Development of Tradition by Christopher Cimorelli – Reinhard Hütter
Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Historical and Theological Reflections by Matthew Levering – Brant Pitre
The Apocalypse of Wisdom: Louis Bouyer’s Theological Recovery of the Cosmos by Keith Lemna – Aaron Williams