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, Winter 2020 (Vol. 18, No. 1)

ISSN 1542-7315

Commentary
On the Sanctification of the Catholic Priesthood – Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

Symposium: Catholicism and Secularization
The One Who Is; the One Who Gives: Derrida, Aquinas, and the Dilemma of the Divine Generosity – Bishop Robert Barron
On Catholic Responses to Our Devastated Saeculum – Thomas Pfau
Philosophical Myths of the End – Judith Wolfe

Articles
Ars Christiane Philosophandi: John Paul II and Jacques Maritain on Christian Philosophy – Matthew DuBroy
Paleae: A Clarifying Look at the Meaning of Saint Thomas’s Final Words – Samuel Klumpenhouwer
The Historicity of Dogma and Common Sense: Ambroise Gardeil, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Yves Congar, and the Modern Magisterium – Guy Mansini, O.S.B.
Incarnational “Intrinsicism”: Matthias Scheeben’s Biblical Theology of Grace – Isaac Augustine Morales, O.P.
Is Truth a Form Inherent in Things? Lawrence Dewan and De veritate, Question 1, Article 4 – Nelson Ramirez
The Beatitudes, Merit, and the Pursuit of Happiness in the Prima Secundae: The Action of the Holy Spirit at the Heart of Moral Theology – Anton M. ten Klooster
The Propassiones of Christ, His Fullness of Grace, and His Moral Exemplarity according to St. Thomas Aquinas – Barrett H. Turner

Symposium: Retrieving Veritatis Splendor
Veritatis Splendor and the Universal Call to Holiness – Mariusz Biliniewicz
The Splendor of Transfiguration at the Heart of the Christian Life: The Influence of Pope Saint Paul VI on Veritatis Splendor – Renée Köhler-Ryan
Veritatis Splendor and the Rupture between Faith and Morals – Helenka Mannering
Catholic or Utopian? Two Irreconcilable Views about Moral “Ideals” in Veritatis Splendor – Christian Stephens

Book Reviews
Engaging the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit: Love and Gift in the Trinity and the Church by Matthew Levering – John Baptist Ku, O.P.
The Root of Friendship: Self-Love and Self-Governance in Aquinas by Anthony T. Flood – John M. Meinert
Paul’s “Works of the Law” in the Perspective of Second Century Reception by Matthew J. Thomas – Curtis J. Mitch
Reading Sacred Scripture with Thomas Aquinas: Hermeneutical Tools, Theological Questions and New Perspectives edited by Piotr Roszak and Jörgen Vijgen – David Whidden