Engaging Catholic Doctrine: Essays in Honor of Matthew Levering

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Engaging Catholic Doctrine: Essays in Honor of Matthew Levering

by Robert Barron and Scott Hahn and James R. A. Merrick

With contributions from some of today’s most significant theologians, Engaging Catholic Doctrine is an expression of gratitude to Matthew Levering for his generous collegiality and tireless work to chart a sure path for contemporary Catholic doctrine. Essayists significantly advance the work of Matthew Levering in the areas of Aquinas as a biblical theologian, the doctrine of the Trinity, the significance of sacrifice for authentically Christian worship, the recovery of virtue in moral theology, the theology of Joseph Ratzinger, and much more. In addition to celebrating and honoring Levering’s work, this volume offers new contributions in some of the key areas of theological research today.

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Authors: Robert Barron, Scott Hahn, James R. A. Merrick

Pages: 552

Publish Date: 2023

Publisher: Emmaus Academic

Hardcover ISBN: 9781645853060

Hardcover SKU: A0315

Categories: Academic, Books, eBooks, Emmaus Academic, New Releases, Theology

Hardcover $54.95

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About the Author

Scott Hahn

Scott Hahn is the Fr. Michael Scanlan Professor of Biblical Theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he has taught since 1990. Founder and President of the St. Paul Center, Dr. Hahn has been married to Kimberly since 1979; they have six children and twenty-four grandchildren. He is the author or editor of over fifty popular and academic books, including best-selling titles Rome Sweet Home, The Lamb's Supper, and the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible.

What People Are Saying

Matthew Levering is one of the most important and prolific theologians of our times. This volume’s carefully selected and thematically ordered essays are not merely a fitting tribute to Levering’s impressive scholarship but offer the reader an intellectually coherent insight into some of the most pressing issues within contemporary Catholic doctrine, such as the role and nature of reason, God, biblical exegesis, revelation, and worship. In all these areas the volume offers what is best in Catholic theology and as such a roadmap for the future. This superb collection of essays deserves a wide readership.

JÖRGEN VIJGEN

Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome, Italy

This substantial collection of essays written by some of today’s finest theologians is a fitting tribute to the breadth and quality of Matthew Levering’s theological writings and a token of the esteem in which he is held by so many who have benefited from his generous collegiality. This volume centers around major areas addressed by Levering in his own numerous publications: ressourcement of St. Thomas Aquinas, particularly as a biblical theologian, Trinitarian theology, the theology of sacrifice, moral and spiritual theology, and a final section including contemporary engagements with themes of evangelization, eschatology, and divine love in nature and grace. After the example of Matthew Levering’s own work, these essays give encouraging witness to the fruits of theology born of living faith and love for the Church.

DARIA SPEZZANO

Providence College, Rhode Island, United States

Impressive in its thematic and geographical coverage, this wonderful book is essential reading for anyone looking for a single publication that, like a lens, brings together all the major trends in contemporary theology. At the same time, it provides a grammar, that is, a set of essential rules according to which we should think about our ‘today’: not by abandoning the core topics of Christian theology, such as sacrifice, atonement, grace, or virtue but by seeking to explain them.

PIOTR ROSZAK

Piotr Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

As the introduction to this wonderful volume explains, Matthew Levering has been above all an encourager of others, and an encourager who brings out the best, generating theses, articles, and books by his friends. The quality of what he generates may be seen in the powerful and searching pieces gathered here, in every case delving deep and bringing to light new theological riches. This is a book we need, a fitting tribute to a truly humble worker in the Lord’s vineyard.

LEWIS AYRES

Durham University, England & Australian Catholic University

Foreword: James R.A. Merrick

Prelude: Engaging Matthew Levering Magnanimity and the Intellectual Life - Tracey Rowland

Part One: Thomistic Ressourcement

Knowledge and Ignorance of God in Aquinas’s Commentary on Romans 1 - Gilles Emery, O.P.

Locating a Theology of Revelation in the Works of Saint Thomas Aquinas - Bernhard Blankenhorn, O.P.

Aquinas as Scriptural Theologian Bruce D. Marshall Aquinas between Abelard and Erasmus :
A Brief Ressourcement Thomistic Theology of Biblical Translation - Anthony Giambrone, O.P.

Aquinas, Allegory, and Paul’s Use of the Old Testament in Galatians 4:21–24, Romans 9:6–9, and 1 Corinthians 1:19 - Charles Raith II

Part Two: Engaging the Doctrine of the Trinity

One God in Two Testaments : On the Biblical Ontology of Trinitarian Monotheism - Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

The Trinity and The Father’s Spirit of Sonship : Further Considerations on Reconceiving the Trinity - Thomas G. Weinandy, O.F.M. Cap.

Part Three: Engaging the Theology of Sacrifice

The Law of Israel and the Worship of Christ : Interpreting Old Testament Sacrifice in Theology and Art - R. Jared Staudt

The Sacrifice of the New Covenant: The Priesthood of Christ and the Eucharist in Hebrews - Scott W. Hahn

Atonement, Cross, and Heavenly Sacrifice: Matthias Scheeben and David Moffitt in Dialogue - David L. Augustine

Interior Altar: The Centrality of Sacrifice for a Catholic Understanding of Augustine’s Confessions - C. C. Pecknold

Part Four: Engaging Moral and Spiritual Theology

The Spousal Meaning of Love - Kyle C. Strobel

Memory and Character Formation: The Ark in Hugh of Saint Victor - Hans Boersma

The Virtue of Christian Hope and Its Counterfeits : Lessons from C. S. Lewis and Thomas Aquinas - Michael A. Dauphinais

“To Die is Gain” : The “Remnants of Sin,” Anointing of the Sick, and Christian Dying - Roger W. Nutt

Part Five: Engaging Modern Theology

Knocking Holes in the Buffered Self : Approaches to the Question of God - Bishop Robert Barron

“Exaltation in the Second Adam”: Heavenly Mindedness and the Young Joseph Ratzinger in his 1950s

Contributions to the Lexikon für Kirche und Theologie - Fr. Emery de Gaál

Abyssus Abyssum Invocat (Ps. 42:7): Grace and Nature in the Meta-Anthropology of Ferdinand Ulrich’s Homo Abyssus - Reinhard Hütter

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