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 2021 (Vol. 19, No. 2)

ISSN 1542-7315

Commentary
Contraception: The Tragic Deception – Paul M. Conner, O.P.

Symposium on Development of Doctrine
Progress, Not Alteration of the Faith: Beyond Antiquarianism and Presentism. John Henry Newman, Vincent of Lérins, and the Criterion of Identity of the Development of Doctrine – Reinhard Hütter
Saint Thomas and the Development of Doctrine – Guy Mansini, O.S.B.
John Henry Newman and the Thomistic Tradition: Convergences in Contribution to Development Theory – Andrew Meszaros

Articles
Thomas Aquinas, John Noonan, and the Usury Prohibition – Jeremy Bell
On Value and Obligation in Practical Reason: Toward a Resolution of the Is–Ought Problem in the Thomistic Moral Tradition – William Matthew Diem
What Is Not Saved Is Not Assumed: Thomas Weinandy, Julian of Eclanum, and Augustine of Hippo on Whether Salvation Requires Christ’s Temptations to Sin – Joshua Evans
Gender’s Divine Dignity in Saint Augustine’s Theological Anthropology – David Vincent Meconi, S.J.
Saint Thomas and Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI on the Body and Adoration – Kevin E. O’Reilly, O.P.

Retrieving the Tradition
The Philosophy of the Organism: Notes on the Function of Nutrition – Jacques Maritain

Book Reviews
The Love of God Poured Out: Grace and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit in St. Thomas Aquinas by John M. Meinert – Bernhard Blankenhorn, O.P.
The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis by Alan Jacobs – Gerald P. Boersma
Jesuit Biblical Studies after Trent: Franciscus Toletus and Cornelius A Lapide by Luke Murray – Sam Zeno Conedera, S.J.
Thomas Aquinas and His Predecessors: The Philosophers and the Church Fathers in His Works by Leo Elders – Joshua H. Lim
Handbook of Catholic Dogmatics, Book One: Theological Epistemology, Part One: The Objective Principles of Theological Knowledge Matthias Joseph Scheeben, translated by Michael J. Miller – Jason C. Paone
The University and the Church: Don Briel’s Essays on Education edited by R. Jared Staudt – Philip Rolnick
Divine Scripture in Human Understanding: A Systematic Theology of the Christian Bible by Joseph Gordon – Matthew Z. Vale