In this article, I would like to present how Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini considered the Apostle Paul a good ‘travel companion’, to come closer to Christ and to live with Him, in facing trials and on the way to the magis. The experience of weakness leads Paul to a greater trust in the presence of […]
Recognizing our sinful nature, the New Testament presents justification as a divine act of grace. Through faith in Christ, we are freed from the bondage of sin and receive a new life, a gift that we can never earn or deserve. This article is structured in three parts, as it emerges from the New Testament […]
The approach with which Marion approaches Thomas’s Aquinas theology at the beginning of his phenomenological journey bears the imprint of Heidegger’s critique of onto-theology, but also of his personal hostility to the conceptual idolatry and atheism manifested in Nietzsche’s philosophy. What Marion contrasts with the conceptual idol is the icon and iconic thought. If the […]
Jean-Luc Marion develops Heidegger’s ideas and his critical approach to onto-theology, including the thought of Thomas Aquinas. At the beginning of this article, we present this topic, which does not seem to lack relevance. Since the critics of ontology refer to Heidegger as a follower or protester, and on the other hand, since we intend […]
Can we speak of novelty regarding the magisterium of a pope, more than forty-five years after his death? Yes, if we are talking about John Paul I, a pontiff who adopted a colloquial style in his speeches, who often modified the written text, or even renounced it in order to speak off the cuff. With […]
The correlation between weakness and strength starts from the meditations on the Second Letter to the Corinthians given by Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini to a group of Jesuits. Cardinal Martini chose this letter, noting how well the Apostle Paul manages to live through difficult moments in confrontation with the community of Corinth. We analyze how […]
The term „justification” is a fundamental concept in Pauline theology, which took the term righteousness from the Old Testament. By righteousness and justification, the Old Testament means the divine evaluation of human conduct; as such, these concepts are concerned not so much with an ideal of human perfection as with the realization of personal choices […]
The article is dedicated to one of the most representative figures of the Catholic Church in Romania, Archbishop Alexandru Theodor Cisar, and briefly presents the life of this Catholic hierarch until the establishment of the communist regime in Romania. Most of the study presents the persecution to which he was systematically subjected by the communists, […]
How does the pastoral constitution of Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes, present the theme of sin and reconciliation? We will seek to answer how the discourse on sin, reconciliation and the sacrament of penance fits into this precise point of the search for the defence of the freedom of the person, the profound truth of […]
This article offers an alternative solution to the perennial philosophical problem of human nature. The view proposed is “Neo-Thomistic Organicism”, a form of dualism, of the hylomorphist type, that does not subscribe both to the extreme characteristics of Cartesian dualism, and to complementarian non-reductionist physicalist views. Our optic integrates the scientific elements of a form […]