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 2023 (Vol. 21, No. 2)

ISSN 1542-7315

Tracts for the Times
Tract 9: Why Is Marriage a Sacrament? – Anonymous
Tract 10: Revelation, Dogma, and Catholic Spirituality – Anonymous
Tract 11: At the Hour of Death – Anonymous

Commentary
Can Creatures Cause Forms? Aquinas on Cosmology and Evolution – Lucas Prieto

Articles
Another Look at Silence and Knowledge of God in Ignatius’s Letter to the Ephesians – Ryan Patrick Budd
On Scheeben’s Place in Nineteenth-Century Catholic Theology and the Question of His Theological Method – Evan S. Koop
The Synod on Synodality in Light of Pope Francis’s Theology of Mission – Keith Lemna
One Parable, Two Interpretations: Pope Francis and William Langland on the Good Samaritan – Sheryl Overmyer
What Are Dead Bodies For? An Augustinian Thanatology – Philip Porter
Bonaventure’s Reductio of the Nine Choirs of Angels: How Bonaventure Compressed Two Monumental Traditions into Nine Words and Nine Short Phrases – Randall B. Smith
The De Auxiliis Controversy, Molinism, and Physical Premotion: The Christological Implications – Pachomius Walker, O.P.

Exchange
A Báñezian Grounding for Counterfactuals of Creaturely Freedom: A Response to James Dominic Rooney, O.P – Taylor Patrick O’Neill
From Báñez with Love: A Response to a Response by Taylor Patrick O’Neill – James Dominic Rooney, O.P.

Review Essay
Original Sin Revisited: A Recent Proposal on Thomas Aquinas, Original Sin, and the Challenge of Evolution – Reinhard Hütter

Book Reviews
God, Evil and the Limits of Theology by Karen Kilby – Vincent Birch
Jesus Becoming Jesus, Volume 2, A Theological Interpretation of the Gospel of John: Prologue and the Book of Signs by Thomas G. Weinandy, O.F.M. Cap – Daniel A. Keating
The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision by Erika Bachiochi – Angela Knobel
Does Judaism Condone Violence? Holiness and Ethics in the Jewish Tradition by Alan L. Mittleman – Matthew Levering