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3Theological Foundations of Pastoral Care in Catholic UniversitiesEjournal of Catholic Education in Australasia 3 (1). 2017.One defining element of life in any Catholic educational institution, whether it be primary, secondary, or tertiary, is the focus on pastoral care for staff and students. This paper provides a distinctly Catholic definition of the term ‘pastoral care’ and briefly examines the theological foundations that underpin this concept, particularly, in relation to its application in the Catholic university. The paper traces the motif of pastoral care through the Scriptures and, building on insights from …Read more
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2Gift of Unity: The Spirituality of Communion of Chiara Lubich and Luigi GiussaniDownside Review 140 (4): 161-177. 2022.
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Grounding Identity and Mission in Catholic Universities: A Relational ApproachIrish Theological Quarterly 88 (3): 201-298. 2023.Since at least the 1960s, responding to changes both in the world and in the Church the project of Catholic university education in the United States and elsewhere has undergone a significant alteration in structure, and subsequently of its own sense of identity, purpose, and mission. Concerns about the integrity of Catholic universities both as Catholic and as university abound and have done for some time. Providing a brief review of some of the existing literature, this paper argues that the c…Read more
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Il senso religioso come Praeparatio FideiIl Cristianesimo Come Avvenimento. Saggi Sul Pensiero Teologico di Luigi Giussani, Edited by Carmine Di Martino 1 63-78. 2022.
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6Healing the Fragmented Intellect: Relational Ontology as a Corrective to the Truncated Rationality of ModernityLogos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 3 (25): 83-108. 2022.
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19Catholic Theology. By Tracey Rowland. Pp. 256, London, T&T Clark, 2017, $20.89 (review)Heythrop Journal 59 (2): 368-370. 2018.
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12Pluralism in Theology According to Rahner and Ratzinger: Symphony or CacophonyHeythrop Journal 62 (1): 65-74. 2021.The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
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1968: Culture and Counterculture (Wipf & Stock, 2020), pp. 236-252 (edited book)Wipf & Stock. 2020.
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4Nature, Grace and Catholic Engagement in Contemporary Cultural DialogueNew Blackfriars 100 (1085): 104-117. 2017.
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17The Nuptial Character of the Relationship between Faith and Reason in the thought of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVIHeythrop Journal 58 (4): 265-272. 2017.
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9Everything is interesting: The body as bearer of the truthMacrina Magazine : Fresh Philosophical Engagements with an Ancient Faith 1. 2019.In his slim and punchy little book, Acedia and its Discontents: Metaphysics of Desire in an Age of Boredom, R.J. Snell suggests that the common experience of the loss of meaning in the modern world can be attributed to the vice of acedia. Relying on Evagrius of Pontus, as well as the Angelic Doctor, St Thomas Aquinas, Snell defines acedia as a rejection of life itself and an antipathy with one’s place in the world. It is the unhappy rejection of one’s supernatural end, union with the Triune God.
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11The Nature of Nature: Concerning the Efficacy of Natural Law ReasoningNew Blackfriars 100 (1089): 597-606. 2019.New Blackfriars, EarlyView.
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20On the Theological Basis of Relational OntologyHeythrop Journal 63 (2): 210-222. 2022.The Heythrop Journal, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 210-222, March 2022.