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.
Catholic Life and Practice
Michael Heintz
Toward the Renewal of Catholic Preaching: The Witness of the Fathers
Articles
Christian Ivandić
Translator’s Introduction: Prometheus and Dionysius Against Christ? Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Early Engagement with Modern German Philosophy
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Heidegger’s Philosophy from the Perspective of Catholicism (1939)
Veronica Ogle
Augustine, the Church, and the City: The Ecclesiological Origins of Augustinian Political Thought
Matthew J. Ramage
Revisiting Aquinas on the Consummation of Creation: A Case for Creation’s Full Renewal
Ulrich Lehner
How Benedict XVI Won America’s Heart: On the Rejection and Reception of Joseph Ratzinger’s Theology in the United States
Book Symposium: Thomas Joseph White, OP, Principles of Catholic Theology, Book 2: On the Rational Credibility of Christianity by Matthew Levering
Matthew Levering
Contextualizing Thomas Joseph White’s Catholic Apologetics
Matthew R. Crawford
On Historical Method and Doctrinal Development: Critical Questions Arising from Principles of Catholic Theology, Book 2
Michael Gorman
Sameness, Difference, and the Problem of Tri-Theism in Thomas Joseph White’s Principles of Catholic Theology, Book 2
Grant Kaplan
The Thomistic Fundamental Theology of Thomas Joseph White
Gavin D’Costa
On Thomism and the Religions
Thomas Joseph White
From Thomism to Ressourcement Theology and Back Again: On the Development of Doctrine, Historical Methods, and the Reemergence of Scholasticism
Book Reviews
Jimmy Myers
Samuel B. Johnson, The Life of Jesus in the Writings of Origen of Alexandria
Jean-Paul Juge
J. Warren Smith, Early Christian Theology: A History
Vincent Strand, SJ
David Augustine, Christ and the Altar Fire: Sacrifice as Deification in Matthias Scheeben
Aaron Pidel, SJ
Philipp W. Rosemann, Gratia Non Tollit Naturam: Technologies of the Self and the Catholic Constitution of Time and Space
Kathleen Cavender-McCoy
Angela Franks, Body and Identity: A History of the Empty Self
Founder
Robert Barron
Bishop of Winona-Rochester
Editors
Jonathan Ciraulo
The Catholic University of America
Aaron Pidel, SJ
Pontifical Gregorian University
Managing Editor
D. Hayden Hagerman
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
The Catholic University of America
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
Matthew Levering
Mundelein Seminary
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
Campion College, University of Regina
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, TNR Winter 2026, and will ship late December 2026.
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