Summer 2025 Incipit

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

Summer 2025 — Special Issue on the Theology of History

Summer 2025 Dramatic Front Cover

Marcus Plested

Guest Editor

Articles

Cyril O’Regan

Apocalyptic Subversion of Christian Tradition: Figuration and Historiographic Axiom

Ephraim Radner

Scribes Instructed unto The Kingdom: A Response to N. T. Wright’s History And Eschatology

Michael B. Cover

Luke-Acts and the Transfiguration of History

Paul M. Blowers

Maximus the Confessor’s Neo-Irenaean Theology of History, Thickly Described

Alexis Torrance

“My Logoi Shall Not Pass Away”: Christ’s Gathering of History into Eternity

Tikhon Alexander Pino

The Age of the Spirit: A Hesychast Theology of History

Cathal Doherty, SJ

The ‘Scandal of Particularity’ and Blondel’s Philosophy of History

Kevin L. Hughes

Typology, Spiritual Exegesis, and the Theology of History: A Fault Line in Ressourcement Theology?

Sylvester Tan, SJ

“Christ Who Lives in Me”: Life in Time as the Content of a Saint’s Heavenly Mission

Christopher Grodecki, SJ

Ratzinger, Romanticism, and Revelation in History

Book Reviews

Joseph Riordan, SJ

Anthony Giambrone, OP, The Bible and the Priesthood: Priestly Participation in the One Sacrifice for Sins

Kevin Zilverberg

Jennie Grillo, Daniel After Babylon: The Additions in the History of Interpretation

Andrew Summerson

Khaled Anatolios, Feasts for the Kingdom: Sermons for the Liturgical Year

Owen Vyner

Roland Millare, A Living Sacrifice: Liturgy and Eschatology in Joseph Ratzinger

Christopher M. Hadley, SJ

Jacob Lett, Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theology of Representation: God, Drama, and Salvation

Daniel A. Drain

Margaret M. Turek, Atonement: Soundings in Biblical, Trinitarian, and Spiritual Theology

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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