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, Spring 2014 (Vol. 12, No. 2)

ISSN 1542-7315

Commentary
The Potential of the Catholic University to Evangelize – J. Brian Benestad

Articles
Philosophia Obscurans? Six Theses on the Proper Relationship between Theology and Philosophy – Thomas G. Gaurino
Obedience Religious, Christological, and Trinitarian – Guy Mansini. O.S.B.
The End of Martyrdom: Religious Liberty in Liberal Orders – C.C. Pecknold
Dignitatis Humanae— Not a Mere Question of Church Policy: A Response to Thomas Pink – Martin Rhonheimer

Symposium on Nicanor Austriaco’s Biomedicine and Beatitude
Secular Bioethics and Its Challenges to the Catholic Citizen – Francis J. Beckwith
Theological Foundations, the Sometime Hidden Background of Catholic Bioethics – Basil Cole, O.P.
A Contemporary Aristotelian Embryology – Maureen L. Condic & Kevin L. Flannery, S.J.
The Use of Opioids and Sedatives at the End of Life – Benedict M. Guevin, O.S.B.
The Roots of Transhumanism – Steven J. Jensen
Technology, Virtue, and the Brave New World – Stephan Kampowski
Catholic Bioethics after Beatitude and Biomedicine:
A Response to My Colleagues – Nicanir Austriaco, O.P.

Book Reviews
Catholicism and America: Challenges and Prospects edited by Matthew L. Lamb – Thomas P. Harmon
Orthodox Readings of Aquinas by Marcus Plested – Daniel A. Keating
Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship by Eric Gregory – Ty Monroe
Irenaeus of Lyons and the Theology of the Holy Spirit by Anthony Briggman – Kellen Plaxco
Compendium of Creeds, Definitions, and Declarations on Matters of Faith and Morals, 43rd edition, edited by Peter Hünermann, Heinrich Denzinger, et al. – Christian D. Washburn