... and often ridiculed the Calvinist theology of redemption and its version of God the Father . The key text here is De Jesu Christo Servatore: Hoc est, Cur & Qua Ratione Jesus Christus Noster Salvator Sit (Amsterdam, 1656), bk. II, especially 142–239. For an especially lucid introduction to this, see...

... feature of Langland’s way of narrating Christian history), a doctrine and means of universal sal- vation which will turn the Last Judgment into a day of mercy rather than wrath.2 This is not the orthodox view of the power of Christ’s redemptive sacrifice. Traditional theology, in its attempt...

... dimensions of the body in Julian's theology. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Julian of Norwich A Revelation of Love the body and corporeality Eucharist theology • Medieval Corporeality and the Eucharistic...

..., public, and—for fun—acrimonious debate over sacrifice which stands precisely at the transition from the medieval to the early modern. And as I have been recently combining my interests in eucharistic theology with the way the political is imagined,1 I thought it might be a worthwhile exercise to see...

... for a modern engagement with that ethics. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 a Jesus in the Moral Theology of Thomas Aquinas Joseph Wawrykow University...

... deontologi- cal or law-­centered.2 Others have suggested that Aristotelian virtue ethics flourished well into the eighteenth century, or that the Dominican school of theology has maintained an unbroken Thomistic theology of virtue up through the present day.3 Still others have worked to give...

..., but the same Spirit” (XXI.228a; 1 Cor. 12:4). Through these gifts Grace enables what has been conspicuously absent throughout the poem: a com- plex polity living as a community seeking to embody the precepts of Christ disclosed in his redemptive actions so powerfully demonstrated in the previ- ous passus...

... returns to this edict, it assuages some of the pain by offering a providential exchange. Creating a typological link between Eve and Mary, 1 Timothy 2:14 renders the curse itself a form of redemption: Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was in the transgres- sion. Notwithstanding she shall...

... discourses could act as a vehicle for spiritual and psychophysiological change. Combining cognitive theories that view the heart as the tablet of memory with a physiology of the heart as a breathing organ that creates and circulates spirit, the Livre synthesizes medicine, natural philosophy, and theology...

... the answer to be self-­evident, even tautological. Marriage stood for everything because it instantiated the relationship that structures everything: God’s covenant with believers. Two, this was not in fact a self-­contained tautology because covenantal theology was itself unsettled.3...

... in the research literature. First, research on shame in medieval and Renais- sance philosophical theology in general has remained surprisingly sparse, despite both classical works and modern scholarship having paid substantial attention to the conceptualizations and theory of shame. Second, although Aristotle s...

...-celebrated theology of sin, examining the ethical dimensions of the devil's influence. Julian describes sin as a necessary, if mysterious, part of God's plan for humankind, offering an “original response” to the “juridical premises of orthodox theology,” as Denise Baker argues. 56 Indeed, Jill Sirko notes...

...Jay Zysk Situating Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus within the contexts of liturgical history and sacramental theology, this essay argues that the Eucharist provided an influential aesthetic resource for English dramatists in the wake of the Reformation. Drawing on Eucharistic theology, liturgical books...

... to the study of nature. Natural theology is most often identified as the key activity that links sci- ence and religion in this period. Specifically, scientific practices that are essentially neutral with respect to religious commitment are seen as provid- ing evidence that, dispassionately considered...

... appearance resonates with Lutheran image theology. Its maintenance of visual difference exemplifies a faith in sacred history's power to transcend historical difference; the relief depicts Heinrich's conversion as one sacrohistorical event among many. The relief's disjunctive appearance also provides...

... Queen’s College, CUNY Flushing, New York Leprosy in medieval Europe was a symbolically charged phenomenon that generated complex and often contradictory responses from medical science, theology, and popular culture. Although incidences of leprosy were negli- gible...

... and values (such as what a soul is) that are central to Christian faith. Contrition, confession, and satisfaction: The matter of penance In depicting the inner faculties of the soul as they experience penitential ritual, Wisdom enters into a particularly fraught area of medieval theology...

... Friday.1 An instrument of torture turned sign of redemption, medieval explanations of its special status reflect upon how its very ordinary materiality was imbued with and transformed by sacred power, an issue at the center of this special issue. A passage from “The Exaltation of the Cross...

...., with Philippe Fréchet. Pierre Bayle et le politique. Vie des Huguenots, vol. 68. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2014. 302 pp. Paper eur 55.00. Davis, Robert Glenn. The Weight of Love: Affect, Ecstasy, and Union in the Theology of Bonaventure. Theology, Religion, Philosophy. New York: Ford- ham University Press...

..., Scivias, communicate devotional models —“trees of incarnation”— that women used to access a present God in their material, concrete circumstances. In conclusion, I shall return to the theology of Chenu, and specifically to what he called “continuing incar- nation,” to suggest some ways of thinking...