The English edition of Nova et Vetera is published quarterly and provides an international forum for theological and philosophical studies from a Thomistic perspective. The journal strives to follow the culturally engaged, ecclesial, broadly Thomistic, and dialogical perspective of the founder of the Swiss Nova et Vetera, Charles Journet. Journet worked at the intersection of theology, philosophy, and biblical studies, and we seek to do the same.

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Nova et Vetera, Fall 2019 (Vol. 17, No. 4)

ISSN 1542-7315

Commentary
Theology and Culture in Newman’s Defense of the Immaculate Conception: An Essay in Commemoration of the Canonization of Saint John Henry Newman – Jacob Phillips
How Should Catholic Social Teaching Be Taught to Seminarians? – E. Christian Brugger
Catholicism and Democracy in America – Bruce D. Marshall

Articles
The Mystery of Christ’s Beatific Suffering: A Speyrian-Balthasarian Proposal Concerning Christ’s Beatific Vision in Life and Death – Joshua R. Brotherton
The Commentary of Thomas Aquinas in the History of Medieval Exegesis on Job: Intentio et Materia – Gilbert Dahan
Jesus’s Prophetic Knowledge and the Gospels – Anthony Giambrone, O.P.
The Doctrine of God and the Analogy of Being – Steven A. Long
Experience and Discourse, Revelation and Dogma in Catholic Modernism – Guy Mansini, O.S.B.
What Came First? The Sequence of God’s Grace in the Life of the Blessed Mother – John-Mark L. Miravalle
The Metaphysician at Prayer: Thomas Aquinas on Metaphysics and Prayer as “Interpreters of Desire” – Scott J. Roniger
The Human Body as an Instrumental Cause of Actions in the Writings of Thomas Aquinas – John Rziha
The Desire for Immortality at the Dawn of the Third Millennium: The Anthropological Stakes – Bernard N. Schumacher
Finding the Roots of Bonaventure’s Literary Style in Medieval Preaching – Randall B. Smith

Book Reviews
Augustine’s Early Theology of Image: A Study in the Development of Pro-Nicene Theology by Gerald P. Boersma – Michael P. Foley
Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Contra Gentiles: A Guide and Commentary by Brian Davies, O.P – Raymond Hain
The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age by Thomas Albert Howard – Jason A. Heron
Ethics as a Work of Charity: Thomas Aquinas and Pagan Virtue by David Decosimo – Daniel Lendman
Five Proofs of the Existence of God: Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Leibniz by Edward Feser – Joshua Lim
James, First, Second, and Third John by Kelly Anderson and Daniel Keating – Steven C. Smith