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, Summer 2015 (Vol. 13, No. 3)

ISSN 1542-7315

Commentary
Donum Veritatis: The Contribution of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to the Theological Enterprise – Cardinal Gerhard L. Müller

Articles
A Theological Fittingness Argument for the Historicity of the Fall of Homo Sapiens – Nicacanor Pier Giorgio Austriacaco, O.P.
Cosmos and Philosophy in Plato and the Bible – Jacob Howland
Christi Opera Proficiunt: Ratzinger’s Neo-Bonaventurian Model of Social Inspiration – Aaron Pidel, S.J.
“Smaller But Purer”?: Joseph Ratzinger on the “Little Flock” and Vicarious Representation – Christopher Ruddy
Aquinas’s Aristotelian Science of Metaphysics and Its Revised Platonism – Rudi A. te Velde
Communion for the Divorced and Remarried: Why Revisionists in Moral Theology Should Reject Kasper’s Proposal – Mats Wahlberg
Collegiality, Synodality, and the Synod of Bishops – Lawrence J. Welch
Recasting Augustine to Look like Aristotle: Philip the Chancellor, Natural Desire, and the Advent of potentia obedientiae – Jacob W. Wood

Vatican II at 50
Vatican II and the Religions: A Review Essay – Eduardo Echeverria
The Thomistic Underpinnings of Ad Gentes – Andrew Meszaros
Intractable Disputes about the Liturgical Reforms of Vatican II: Renarrating a Defense of the Reform – Francis Michael Walsh

Book Reviews
Mind, Matter, and Nature: A Thomistic Proposal for the Philosophy of Mind by James D. Madden – Christopher O. Blum
Perception, Sensibility, and Moral Motivation in Augustine: A Stoic-Platonic Synthesis by Sarah Catherine Byers – Andrew M. Harmon
Learning Christ: Ignatius of Antioch and the Mystery of Redemption by Gregory Vall – Daniel Keating
Vatican II: The Battle for Meaning by Massimo Faggioli – Andrew Meszaros
Purgatory: The Logic of Total Transformation by Jerry L. Walls – Brett Salkeld