This paper examines the concept of substance (ousia) in Aristotle’s Categories and Metaphysics through a critical and comparative analysis of the interpretations proposed by J. L. Ackrill and S. Menn. The study first addresses the longstanding debate concerning the status, function, and philosophical scope of the Categories, questioning whether they should be understood primarily as […]
Michel Henry’s Paroles du Christ asks how Christ’s words can be heard as the Word of God. Reading Henry’s accounts of living speech, salvation, Incarnation and Eucharist alongside Vatican II’s Dei Verbum, this article argues that the inward efficacy of the Word cannot be theologically detached from Christ’s historical life, inspired Scripture and ecclesial reception. […]
This article examines the early ethical thought of John Rawls through his thesis from 1942, A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith: An Interpretation Based on the Concept of Community, with particular attention to its implications for understanding the later development of his political philosophy. Written when Rawls was twenty-one and deeply […]
This article examines the epistemological conditions under which light can function as a locus of dialogue between physics and theology, without concordism, reductionism, category error, or appeal to a “God of the gaps.” The guiding question concerns the methodological rules required for the two discourses to meet without one being reduced to the other. The […]
This article traces the biblical, patristic, and liturgical trajectory of the motif of light, from the first creative command to the Nicene confession “Light from Light” and to the sacramental actualization of Baptism as “illumination.” The guiding question is how the biblical motif of light moves from created reality and sign of God’s saving presence […]
Pope, Francis, Ignatius, Loyola, encyclical, exercises, spirituality, ecology, creation, solidarity, simplicity, contemplation, discernment, action
Laudato si’; ecological education; integral ecology; Pope Francis; common good
Ioan Scotus Eriugena, Periphyseon, Kabbalah, Zohar, Mercy, Chesed, Misericordia, Theophany, Sefirot, Neoplatonism, Apophatic Theology, Creation, Redemption, Reditus
Nostra Aetate, Dei verbum, Jewish-Christian dialogue, antisemitism
Adolph Kolping; Catholic journeymen’s associations; industrialization; social mobility; labor migration; Christian solidarity; vocational training; associative sociality; social modernization; Central and Eastern Europe