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Duraj, J. (2023, December 11). Fr. Yves Raguin, S.J. and Interreligious Dialogue [Public Forum]. Macau Ricci Institute Public Forum, University of Saint Joseph, Macao, China.

Law, C. J. (2023). Actio Ecclesiae: The Participation of the Lay Christian Faithful in the Liturgy of the Hours (c. 1174 Sec. 2). The Jurist: Studies in Church Law and Ministry, 79, 167–209.

Morgan, S. (2023). ‘Culture and identity – nationality and nationalism: indications for a theological reflection.’ In Memory and Identity: the proceedings of the 28th ASEACCU Annual Conference (pp. 35–55). USJ University Press.

Morgan, S. (Ed.). (2023). Memory and Identity: the proceedings of the 28th ASEACCU Annual Conference. USJ University Press.

Morgan, S. (Ed.). (2023). Pope John Paul II, ‘Memory and Identity: conversations at the dawn of a millennium.’ Memory and Identity: The Proceedings of the 28th ASEACCU Annual Conference, 80–84.

Morgan, S. (2023). The Roman Mass: From Early Christian Origins to Tridentine Reform by Uwe Michael Lang. Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal, 27(1), 120–124. https://doi.org/10.1353/atp.2023.0004

Morgan, S. (2023). To realize an everyday holiness”: Newman, imagination, and the virtue of religion. In J. Velez (Ed.), A Guide to the Life and Thought of John Henry Newman (pp. 38–55). CUA Press. https://www.cuapress.org/9780813235868/a-guide-to-john-henry-newman/

McNabb, T., & DeVito, M. (2022). Ockham on the Side of the Angels: Why a Classical Theist Shouldn’t be Moved by Oppy’s Argument from Simplicity. New Blackfriars, nbfr.12766. https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12766

DeVito, M., & McNabb, T. (2022). The evolutionary argument against naturalism: a Wittgensteinian response. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-022-09832-3

In this essay, we put forth a novel solution to Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism, utilizing recent work done by Duncan Pritchard on radical skepticism. Key to the success of Plantinga’s argument is the doubting of the reliability of one’s cognitive faculties. We argue (viz. Pritchard and Wittgenstein) that the reliability of one’s cognitive faculties constitutes a hinge commitment, thus is exempt from rational evaluation. In turn, the naturalist who endorses hinge epistemology can deny the key premise in Plantinga’s argument and avoid the dilemma posed on belief in the conjunction of naturalism and evolution.

Gassner, F. (2022). From Maximum Illud 1919 to the First National Synod Primum Concilium Sinensis 1924 in Shanghai: Historical & Theological Perspectives. Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies, 5, 59–76. https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/42

Law, C. J. (2022). Minimising Maximum Illud: Early Resistance to Missionary Inculturation in China. Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies, 5, 7–22. https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/39

Cai, Y. (2022). To follow or overcome our nature? GREGORIANUM, 103(4), 691–712. https://doi.org/10.32060/Gregorianum.103/4.2022.691-712

The doctrine of original sin gives people the impression that the goodness of human nature is under-evaluated in the Christian theological tradition. The Chinese philosopher Mencius is famous for his teaching on the goodness of human nature. Reading Mencius and Thomas Aquinas side by side, this article argues that the Mencian teaching on human nature brings us to affirm the goodness of human nature by recovering the significance of the image of God for the Christian doctrine of human nature. If we seek the goodness of human nature in the possibilities to become good, it is natural to see that even in the fallen state the possibilities of becoming like God remain in human nature imprinted with the image of God. It is open to the culmination of a gradual progression to its perfection.

Duraj, J. (2022). Bodhidharma i początki szkoły buddyzmu chan (Bodhidharma and the Origin of Chan School of Buddhism). Chiny Dzisiaj, XV(1), 32–34. https://www.chinydzisiaj.sinicum.pl/media/numery/numer1-2022.pdf

Duraj, J. (2022). Narodziny buddyzmu humanistycznego na Tajwanie: Mistrz Shengyan i szkoła Góry Bębna Dharmy (Emergence of Humanistic Buddhism in Taiwan: Master Shengyan and the School of Dharma Drum Mountain). Chiny Dzisiaj, XV(2), 55–63.

Duraj, J. (2022). Transformacja buddyzmu w kontekście chińskim (Transformation of Buddhism in the Chinese Context). Chiny Dzisiaj, XV(1), 40–46. https://www.chinydzisiaj.sinicum.pl/media/numery/numer1-2022.pdf

Gallares, J. (2022). Religious Vows in their Mystic and Prophetic Dimensions. Religious Life Asia, XXIV(2), 65–84.

Gassner, F. (2022). Learning God’s Mercy: Spiritual Transformation According to Hos 11:8. The Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute, 10. http://mrijournal.riccimac.org/index.php/en/issues/issue-10/252-mrij10-5-eng

A growing focus on God’s mercy and forgiveness emerged in the wake of the recent Pontificates of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis. Our time with its multiple crises cries for healing, forgiveness, and the experience of God’s mercy. In social, political, and global terms, humanity craves for “lasting peace, born of the marriage of justice and mercy” (John Paul II, 2001, no. 15). The experience of God’s forgiveness, merciful healing and new life has been expressed many times in the Bible. But, theologically, it has never been formulated as directly as in Hosea 11:8, when God’s own heart becomes “turned over”, “converted” following the blaze of his own overwhelming compassion, paving the way for a fundamental spiritual transformation, rooted in forgiveness and mercy, that opens wellsprings of dignity, healing, and new life for all.

Gassner, F., & Simoes, J. M. (2022). Journalism Ethics and the Common Good: The Formation of Values and Virtues for Just and Harmonious Societies. In F. J. Leandro & R. Oberoi (Eds.), Disentangled Vision On Higher Education: Preparing The Generation Next (pp. 99–121). Peter Lang.

McNabb, T. D., & Devito, M. (2022). Climate Alarmism or Lukewarming? How So-Called American Conservatives Should Think About Climate Change. Ethics & the Environment, 27(1), 101–121. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/858108

In this essay we argue that, based on current scientific data, the most prudential course of future actions that an American conservative can take, is one that assumes what we call climate change alarmism. In order to establish this thesis, we first provide a basic overview of the relevant climate change science, as well as give an analysis of the alarmist and lukewarming dialectic (the two primary interpretations of the data). We then move to develop our environmental wager. Finally, following Roger Scruton, we end this work by proposing what sort of policies conservatives should endorse going further.

McNabb, T. D., & Baldwin, E. D. (2022). Classical theism and Buddhism: connecting metaphysical and ethical systems (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Academic.

"As an atheistic religious tradition, Buddhism conventionally stands in opposition to Christianity, and any bridge between them is considered to be riddled with contradictory beliefs on God the creator, salvific power and the afterlife. But what if a Buddhist could also be a Classical Theist? Showing how the various contradictions are not as fundamental as commonly thought, Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erik Baldwin challenge existing assumptions and argue that Classical Theism is, in fact, compatible with Buddhism. They draw parallels between the metaphysical doctrines of both traditions, synthesize their ethical and soteriological commitments and demonstrate that the Theist can interpret the Buddhist's religious experiences, specifically those of emptiness, as veridical, without denying any core doctrine of Classical Theism. By establishing that a synthesis of the two traditions is plausible, this book provides a bold, fresh perspective on the philosophy of religion and reinvigorates philosophical debates between Buddhism and Christianity"--

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