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.
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
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
The New Ressourcement is an academic print journal issued quarterly each Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. You will be billed annually and will receive four print issues per year. Your first issue will be the next issue, Summer 2025, and will ship late June 2025.
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