God Is Love: An Investigation of Bonaventure’s Theology of the Essential Love of God

Winter 2025 Vol. 23, No. 1

ISSN 1542-7315

Commentary
The Divine Friend: Friendship and Human Flourishing – John Emery, O.P.
The Ordained Priesthood Establishes the Baptismal Priesthood: Vatican II and Hebrews 7 – Michael Johns
“He That Is Spiritual” (1 Cor 2:15): Aquinas, Paul, and the Primacy of Cruciform Wisdom – T. Adam Van Wart

Articles
The Radiant Christ: A Theological Semiotic Critique and Appropriation of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theology of Revelation and Faith – Vincent Birch
The Simplicity of the Divine Ideas in Light of Aquinas’s Dionysian-Inspired Theology of the Divine Names – John R. Kern
Seat of Wisdom: Matthias Scheeben on the Theological Analogy Between the Immaculate Conception and Papal Infallibility – Evan S. Koop
Contemplativa Vita Est Finis Activae: The Order of the Active Life to the Contemplative Life in Aquinas – Aaron Maddeford
The Trinitarian Character of Christ’s Kingship in Aquinas – Nathaniel Mayne, O.P.
St. Thomas Aquinas and the Origins of the Doctrine of Papal Infallibility – Emmett O’Regan
God Is Love: An Investigation of Bonaventure’s Theology of the Essential Love of God – Thomas A. Piolata, O.F.M. Cap.
Erich Przywara, “Christian Philosophy,” and a Debate in Prague – Carl Scerri
Theia Mania: Josef Pieper’s Philosophical Anthropology – Vincent Wargo

Translation
Charles De Koninck on “The Scandal of Mediation” – Andrew Davison

Book Reviews
The Primacy of God: The Virtue of Religion in Catholic Theology by R. Jared Staudt – Jason W. Borkenhagen
A Living Sacrifice: Liturgy and Eschatology in Joseph Ratzinger by Roland Millare – Brad Bursa
Joseph Ratzinger and the Future of African Theology edited by Maurice Ashley-Agbaw-Ebai and Matthew Levering – Martin Ifeanyi Onuoha
The Divinity of the Word: Thomas Aquinas Dividing and Reading the Gospel of John by Stefan Mangnus, O.P – Randall Smith
Neither Nature nor Grace: Aquinas, Barth, and Garrigou-Lagrange on the Epistemic Use of God’s Effects by T. Adam Van Wart – Mark K. Spencer
Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St. Gregory Palamas by Tikhon Pino – Peter Totleben, O.P.
The Bible and the Priesthood: Priestly Participation in the One Sacrifice for Sins by Anthony Giambrone, O.P – William M. Wright IV