Böcker utgivna av Emmaus Academic

This collection of scholarly essays engages historical, theological, and exegetical dimensions of St. Thomas Aquinas's Commentary on Hebrews, treating such themes as Christ's priesthood, sonship, and knowledge, the angels, grace, the Church as "city," the relationship of the Old and New Testaments, Hebrews' use of the Psalms, Christ's mercy and splendor, and the place of philosophy in Aquinas's commentary. The contributors are notable Thomists and experts in medieval theology, including Serge-Thomas Bonino, O.P., John Boyle, Aaron Canty, Gilles Emery, O.P., Anthony Giambrone, O.P., Franklin T. Harkins, Matthew Levering, Ignacio Manresa, Piotr Roszak, Mary Catherine Sommers, Daria Spezzano, and Jörgen Vijgen. These essays belong to an approach that is known as "Biblical Thomism," which pursues the retrieval of Aquinas's biblical commentaries as well as his patristic sources as part of a constructive response to the Second Vatican Council's emphasis on Scripture as being the soul of sacred theology. Since 2005, edited volumes have been appearing on Aquinas's biblical commentaries, including volumes on the Gospel of John, the Letter to the Romans, and the Book of Job. The intention of this newest volume is to make a contribution to the retrieval of Aquinas's Commentary on Hebrews in a manner that is historically sensitive and that indicates theological paths along which Aquinas's ongoing exegetical relevance may be appreciated.

What is it about the practice of obedience to God that makes it significant for human happiness and sanctity? And how should the obedience proper to vowed religious life be understood relative to the responsibilities of conscience and personal freedom? In the present day, religious obedience is often viewed either as a negative cramping of personal autonomy by an external authority, or as a positive submission to law that somehow assures one's fidelity, but the common thread for both perspectives is a distinctly modern approach to obedience characterized by legalism and voluntarism. In Free for Christ, Mother Mary Christa Nutt, R.S.M., proposes a different approach to religious obedience that foregrounds virtue-based moral agency rooted in metaphysics and the mystery of God, examining obedience not simply in relation to commands and laws but as a spiritual, philosophical, and theological reality-one that situates the human person in relation to God, the Church, and those others who share this religious life. Taking her starting point from Thomas Aquinas, Nutt examines obedience as a dimension of prudence and worship, that is, as a way that the human being can become relative to God as first source and final end, and thus as a way that the grace of Christ can take deeper root as a path to authentic freedom and interiority. From this ground of Thomistic metaphysics and ethics emerges a theological anthropology of obedience closely tied to Aquinas's teaching on providence and religion.

Letter & Spirit is an annual journal of Catholic Biblical Theology. We strive to publish work that is academically rigorous but accessible to the motivated lay reader. This twelfth volume, According to the Scriptures: The Mystery of Christ in the History of Salvation, is focused on current exegesis as well as the pre-modern reception of St. Paul.Articles include "A Few Obscure Men: Augustine's Reception of Saint Paul's Ignobilitas" by Fr. David Vincent Meconi, S.J.; "The Spiritual Experience of St. Paul in the Monastic Theology of St. Bernard" by Fr. Thomas Esposito, O.Cist.; "Paul's Rhetorical Purpose in Ephesians 4:9-10: Upsilon Vector Mim¿sis" by William Bales; and "Exegesis and Ecclesiology in Augustine's City of God" by John Cavadini.