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The New Ressourcement

is a quarterly journal of theology and philosophy published by Word on Fire Academic. It serves the Church and the academy by publishing scholarly articles that demonstrate the depth and relevance of the entirety of the Catholic tradition.

This journal aims to sentire cum tota ecclesia, to think with the whole Church as it has ever reflected on the mystery of the Incarnate Christ, as seen in sources that are biblical, patristic, medieval, as well as modern. The journal draws inspiration from, and seeks to continue the work of, previous generations of ressourcement theologians. It shares with them a conviction that the renewal of theology and philosophy occurs by returning to sources that remain inexhaustible. This ressourcement is “new” because we trust that this patrimony is fertile enough to encounter contemporary questions confidently and to illuminate the challenges and opportunities that shape the present age.

Bishop Barron explains how The New Ressourcement serves the spiritual life of the Church in a time of crisis.

Latest Issue

Spring 2025

Spring 2025 Table of Contents

Articles

John C. Cavadini

Word and Wisdom in Origen: Is the God of the Bible Incorporeal?

John Gavin, SJ

“Smoothing the Irregularities of Nature”: Reading Gregory of Nazianzus’s Oration 14 With Maximus the Confessor

Boyd Taylor Coolman

The Eucharistic Complex in the High Middle Ages

Thomas Anthony Piolata, OFM Cap.

Romano Guardini, Bonaventure, and a Eucharistic Theology of Hope

Jay Martin

On Theology’s Use of Philosophy: The Status of Phenomenology in Saint John Paul II’s Fides et Ratio

Cathal Doherty, SJ

Speech in the Sacramental Sign

Anthony J. Scordino

Christ the Logos, Christ the Telos: Joseph Ratzinger’s Christological Synthesis

Book Reviews

Thomas Esposito, O. Cist.

James B. Prothro, The Bible and Reconciliation: Confession, Repentance, and Restoration

Andrij M. Hlabse, SJ

Michael C. Magree, SJ, The Interpretation of Kenosis from Origen to Cyril of Alexandria: Dimensions of Self-Emptying in the Reception of Philippians 2:7

Matthew K. Minerd

Reginald M. Lynch, OP, Aquinas’s “Summa Theologiae” and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period

Stephen Morgan

Matthew Levering, Newman on Doctrinal Corruption

Kristen Drahos

Christopher M. Hadley, SJ, A Symphony of Distances: Patristic, Modern, and Gendered Dimensions of Balthasar’s Trinitarian Theology

Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, OP

Mariusz Tabaczek, OP, Theistic Evolution: A Contemporary Aristotelian-Thomistic Perspective

Editors & Advisors

Founder

Robert Barron

Bishop of Winona-Rochester

Senior Editor

Matthew Levering

Mundelein Seminary

Editors

Jonathan Ciraulo

The Catholic University of America

Aaron Pidel, SJ

Pontifical Gregorian University

Managing Editors

Jason C. Paone

Word on Fire Academic

David Augustine

Word on Fire Academic

Associate Editors

Lewis Ayres

Durham University

Michael Barber

Augustine Institute

Peter Casarella

Duke University Divinity School

Nathan Eubank

University of Notre Dame

Angela Franks

St. John’s Seminary

Caitlin Smith Gilson

St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary

Jennifer Newsome Martin

University of Notre Dame

Michael Magree, SJ

Boston College

William Mattison III

University of Notre Dame

Vincent Strand, SJ

The Catholic University of America

Board of Advisors

Khaled Anatolios

University of Notre Dame

Melanie Barrett

Mundelein Seminary

John Betz

University of Notre Dame

John Cavadini

University of Notre Dame

Thomas Clemmons

The Catholic University of America

Cathal Doherty, SJ

Marquette University

Brian Dunkle, SJ

Boston College

Emmanuel Falque

Institut Catholique de Paris

Stephen Fields, SJ

Georgetown University

Anthony Giambrone, OP

École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem

Jennie Grillo

University of Notre Dame

Andrew Kim

Marquette University

Keith Lemna

Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology

Anthony Lusvardi, SJ

Pontifical Georgian University

Reginald Lynch, OP

Dominican House of Studies

Margaret McCarthy

John Paul II Institute

Ross McCullough

George Fox University

Francesca Aran Murphy

University of Notre Dame

Cyril O’Regan

University of Notre Dame

Jared Ortiz

Hope College

Aaron Riches

Benedictine College

Joseph Riordan, SJ

Regis College, University of Toronto

Tracey Rowland

University of Notre Dame Australia

Daria Spezzano

Providence College

Margaret Turek

St. Patrick’s Seminary

William Wright IV

Duquesne University

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