Category: 3_SCHOLARSHIP
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REPOST: Communion in the Hand or on the Tongue?
Only at the turn of the millennium did the transition take place to Communion on the tongue while kneeling.
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Things I Like About Eastern Christianity (Part 1)
My first attempt to explain what fascinates me about Eastern liturgies.
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But Does It Work? – Anointing the Sick as a Model Response to Suffering
An account of Christian hope in the context of sickness and suffering, in my view at least, must be a bodily experience as well as an intellectual one.
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Fasting and Abstinence: The Story
Our contemporary era, with its rather minimal fasting and abstinence, is somewhat of an exception to most of church history.
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Dorothy Day, Woes, Dante, and More
The latest issue of The Yale ISM Review, on the theme of poverty, draws on the work of musicians, artists, poets, liturgists, theologians, historians, and more.
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Ashes: The Story
Where do the ashes come from?
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Review: Speaking With Aquinas, by David Turnbloom
David Turnbloom’s impressive study of how Thomas Aquinas understands the Eucharist to produce it’s effects, and what those effects are, is both an important new work of sacramental theology and an important investigation of how differing theologies can profitably dialogue.
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The Whole is Greater than its Parts
Last week, a group of international scholars met at Notre Dame’s Global Gateway in Rome for a three-day conference entitled, “The Whole is Greater than its Parts: Christian Unity and Interreligious Encounter today.”
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Spiritual Food is More Than Substance – It is Friendship
Aquinas’s highly technical theory of transubstantiation more often than not proves to be a distraction from his true vision of the Eucharist.