TY - JOUR TI - A Confucian Perspective on Tertiary Education for the Common Good AU - Eh, Edmond T2 - The Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute AB - Confucian education is best captured by the programme described in the Great Learning. Education is presented first as the process of self-cultivation for the sake of developing virtuous character. Self-cultivation then ... DA - 2018/// PY - 2018 IS - 3 SP - 26 EP - 34 LA - en UR - https://mrijournal.riccimac.org/articles/issue_03/eng/3_MRI_Journal_Issue_Three_(EE_English).pdf Y2 - 2021/02/09/08:25:53 ER - TY - JOUR TI - A receção da figura de Melquisedeque na literatura cristã latina AU - Eleutério, JM T2 - Didaskalia AB - A interpretação da Escritura e das suas diferentes personagens enriquece a Tradição cristã, mas este processo de receção é muitas vezes marcado por debates e polémica … DA - 2015/// PY - 2015 IS - Query date: 2023-04-12 11:19:04 UR - https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/didaskalia/article/view/2514 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Actio Ecclesiae: The Participation of the Lay Christian Faithful in the Liturgy of the Hours (c. 1174 Sec. 2) AU - Law, Cyril Jerome T2 - The Jurist: Studies in Church Law and Ministry DA - 2023/// PY - 2023 VL - 79 SP - 167 EP - 209 LA - eng ER - TY - JOUR TI - Aristotle, Lubich And Ratzinger On A New Economic Paradigm AU - Eh, Edmond T2 - The Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute DA - 2021/// PY - 2021 IS - 7 UR - http://mrijournal.riccimac.org/index.php/en/issues/issue-7/160-aristotle-lubich-and-ratzinger-on-a-new-economic-paradigm ER - TY - JOUR TI - Baptism as Christian Initiation in the New Testament AU - MONERA, A. T2 - Orientis Aura DA - 2016/// PY - 2016 VL - 1 IS - 1 SP - 7 EP - 30 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Basic Beliefs, the Embryo Rescue Case, and Single-Issue Voting: A Response to Dustin Crummett AU - McNabb, Tyler AU - DeVito, Michael T2 - The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly AB - In this essay, we respond to Dustin Crummett’s argument that one cannot consistently appeal to body count reasoning to justify being a single-issue pro-life voter if one is also committed to the usual response to the embryo rescue case. Specifically, we argue that a modified version of BCR we call BCR* is consistent with the usual response. We then move to address concerns about the relevance of BCR* to Crummett’s original thesis. DA - 2021/09/09/ PY - 2021 VL - 21 IS - 2 SP - 203 EP - 208 LA - en ST - Basic Beliefs, the Embryo Rescue Case, and Single-Issue Voting UR - https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=ncbq&id=ncbq_2021_0021_0002_0203_0208 Y2 - 2021/09/10/08:41:39 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Book Review: ‘The Catholic Invasion of China: Remaking Chinese Christianity’, by D. E. Mungello (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) AU - Law, Cyril Jerome T2 - Heythrop Journal DA - 2018/// PY - 2018 VL - 59 IS - 2 SP - 393 EP - 394 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Ceremonies of the Sarum Missal: A Careful Conjecture by R. J. Urquhart (review) AU - Morgan, Stephen T2 - Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal DA - 2021/// PY - 2021 DO - 10.1353/atp.2021.0018 DP - Project MUSE VL - 25 IS - 2 SP - 264 EP - 266 SN - 1543-9933 ST - Ceremonies of the Sarum Missal UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/16/article/801762 Y2 - 2023/01/27/06:38:32 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Chinese Religious Syncretism in Macau | Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies AU - Eh, Edmond AB - In this paper, I address the phenomenon of syncretism with respect to Chinese religions. An analysis of the syncretism that takes place between the three major Chinese religious traditions is first done in its personal and social dimensions. The social structure of Chinese religion is then used as a framework to understand how Buddhism and Daoism were made compatible with Confucianism. All this will serve as a background for the case study of Macau, where Chinese religious syncretism is very much alive. Three popular religious festivals are celebrated annually and simultaneously on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, namely, zuilongjie (醉龍節) Feast of the Drunken Dragon, tangongdan (譚公誕) Tam Kung Festival and fodanjie (佛誕節) Feast of the Buddha. DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 DP - journals.usj.edu.mo IS - 2 SP - 61 EP - 78 LA - en-US ST - Chinese Religious Syncretism in Macau | Orientis Aura UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/20/16 Y2 - 2021/02/09/08:32:38 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Church in the Making: An Apophatic Ecclesiology of Consubstantiality AU - Eleutério, João Marques T2 - Theological Studies DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 VL - 4 IS - 78 SP - 1007 EP - 1008 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Climate Alarmism or Lukewarming? How So-Called American Conservatives Should Think About Climate Change AU - McNabb, T. D AU - Devito, M T2 - Ethics & the Environment AB - 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. DA - 2022/// PY - 2022 DP - USJ Library VL - 27 IS - 1 SP - 101 EP - 121 UR - https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/858108 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Cognitive Science of Religion and Classical Theism: A Synthesis AU - McNabb, Tyler Dalton AU - DeVito, Michael T2 - Religions AB - Launonen and Mullins argue that if Classical Theism is true, human cognition is likely not theism-tracking, at least, given what we know from cognitive science of religion. In this essay, we develop a model for how classical theists can make sense of the findings from cognitive science, without abandoning their Classical Theist commitments. We also provide an argument for how our model aligns well with the Christian doctrine of general revelation. DA - 2022/// PY - 2022 DO - 10.3390/rel13010024 DP - USJ Library VL - 13 IS - 1 SP - 24 J2 - Religions LA - en SN - 2077-1444 ST - Cognitive Science of Religion and Classical Theism UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/1/24 Y2 - 2022/02/11/09:22:27 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Divine foreknowledge and human free will: Embracing the paradox AU - DeVito, Michael AU - McNabb, Tyler Dalton T2 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion DA - 2021/02/25/ PY - 2021 DO - 10.1007/s11153-021-09791-1 J2 - Int J Philos Relig LA - en SN - 0020-7047, 1572-8684 ST - Divine foreknowledge and human free will UR - http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11153-021-09791-1 Y2 - 2021/09/06/03:18:38 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Does Romans 2:14 Refer to the Natural Law? AU - Leong, Chi Hei T2 - Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies AB - Whilst after decades of research, exegetes have all agree on the complexity of Paul’s line of thinking in Rom 2:14–16, the ITC in its 2009 document, In Search of a Universal Ethic, still in an oversimplified manner propagates the view that Rom 2:14 presupposes a theory/theology of the natural law. This article makes plain the major disagreements among Pauline exegetes whether such presupposition stands by reviewing some major contributions to the discussion by raising major questions regarding the issue of φύσει in those verses, the nature of the law mentioned by Paul, the identity of the people Paul calls “Gentiles.” This article offers a more nuanced understanding of Rom 2:14. Keywords: Rom 2:14, ITC, Universal Ethic, Natural Law, φύσει, Gentiles DA - 2021/// PY - 2021 DP - journals.usj.edu.mo IS - 6 SP - 57 EP - 74 LA - en SN - 2519-5425 ST - Does Romans 2 UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/191 Y2 - 2024/02/27/03:47:43 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Education in Religious Freedom AU - Gassner, Franz T2 - Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies AB - The author emphasizes the crucial relevance of religious liberty and freedom of expression for a harmonious and peaceful development of modern societies. He follows the prophetic Declaration of Religious Freedom of Second Vatican Council (1965) with its constitutional limitation of governmental powers in matters of religion. The high value of religious freedom is judged as bulwark of all human rights and true capstone of sound human and societal developments, which have to be guarded against any form of infringements. In this regard, a reasonable education in religious freedom and liberty is indispensable for young people of the twenty-first century. Education in religious freedom in the context of moral and religious formation is based on the dignity of every human person and promotes a deeper mutual and cultural understanding by respecting the conscience of every human person. It thus carries the potential to diminish conflicts and clashes in a sustainable way. Educational reforms in countries have to include the high value of religious liberty and freedom as a main element and condition for human dignity and a peaceful global development. DA - 2016/// PY - 2016 IS - 1 SP - 77 EP - 99 LA - en-US ST - Education in Religious Freedom | Orientis Aura UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/10 Y2 - 2021/02/22/03:55:43 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Education in Religious Freedom: Path to Peace and Stability AU - Gassner, Franz T2 - Orientis Aura DA - 2016/// PY - 2016 VL - 1 SP - 77 EP - 99 ER - TY - JOUR TI - ‘Em Procissão Solene a Deus Orando, para os Batéis Viemos Caminhando’—The Long Ebb-Tide of Catholic Public Piety in the Former-Portuguese Enclave of Macao AU - Morgan, Stephen T2 - Religions AB - When the City of the Name of God of Macao marked 400 years of Portuguese administration in 1956, the Catholic community’s participation was marked by a wide range of activities that included liturgical celebrations, public processions and other devotions that involved large numbers of the lay faithful, members of confraternities, in addition to the clergy and religious of the enclave. Twenty-one years later the Diocese of Macao celebrated its own quatercentenary with celebrations of a decidedly more sober character and at the retrocession of Macao to Chinese control in December 1999, other than a few liturgical events and hierarchical presence at civic ceremonies, the Church was all but invisible. As the Diocese of Macao plans for its 450th anniversary, some of the former richness has begun to return. This paper outlines the long ebb tide and now-nascent flow of the tide of Catholic public piety in Macao over this period by reference to the Catholic religious processions of the City and seeks to offer tentative explanations grounded in the theological, ecclesial, political and cultural winds that have blown across the Pearl River Delta since the end of the Second World War. DA - 2021/// PY - 2021 DO - 10.3390/rel12030193 VL - 12 IS - 3 LA - English UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/3/193 KW - Catholic Church KW - China KW - Macao KW - Portugal KW - Vatican II KW - confrarias KW - processions KW - public piety ER - TY - JOUR TI - Ethical Investment’s Visible Hand: Methods And Transformative Potentials AU - Gassner, Franz T2 - The Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute DA - 2021/// PY - 2021 IS - 7 UR - http://mrijournal.riccimac.org/index.php/en/issues/issue-7/166-ethical-investment-s-visible-hand-methods-and-transformative-potentials ER - TY - JOUR TI - From Maximum Illud 1919 to the First National Synod Primum Concilium Sinensis 1924 in Shanghai: Historical & Theological Perspectives AU - Gassner, Franz T2 - Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies DA - 2022/04/25/ PY - 2022 IS - 5 SP - 59 EP - 76 J2 - Orientis Aura UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/42 Y2 - 2023/05/25/00:00:00 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Going to Church in Medieval England by Nicholas Orme (review) AU - Morgan, Stephen T2 - Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal DA - 2022/// PY - 2022 DO - 10.1353/atp.2022.0018 DP - Project MUSE VL - 26 IS - 2 SP - 218 EP - 221 SN - 1543-9933 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/16/article/864425 Y2 - 2023/01/27/06:38:28 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Has Oppy Done Away with the Aristotelian Proof? AU - McNabb, Tyler AU - DeVito, Michael T2 - The Heythrop Journal DA - 2020/09// PY - 2020 DO - 10.1111/heyj.13604 VL - 61 IS - 5 SP - 723 EP - 731 J2 - Hey J LA - en SN - 0018-1196, 1468-2265 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/heyj.13604 Y2 - 2021/02/22/09:38:18 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Houston, Do We Have a Problem?: Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life and Christian Belief AU - McIntosh, C. A. AU - McNabb, Tyler Dalton T2 - Philosophia Christi AB - Would the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life (ETI) conflict in any way with Christian belief? We identify six areas of potential conflict. If there be no conflict in any of these areas—and we argue ultimately there is not—we are confident in declaring that there is no conflict, period. This conclusion underwrites the integrity of theological explorations into the existence of ETI, which has become a topic of increasing interest among theologians in recent years. DA - 2021/08/26/ PY - 2021 DO - 10.5840/pc202123110 DP - www.pdcnet.org VL - 23 IS - 1 SP - 101 EP - 124 LA - en ST - Houston, Do We Have a Problem? UR - https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=pc&id=pc_2021_0023_0001_0101_0124 Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:59:47 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Learning God’s Mercy: Spiritual Transformation According to Hos 11:8 AU - Gassner, Franz T2 - The Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute AB - 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. DA - 2022/10// PY - 2022 IS - 10 UR - http://mrijournal.riccimac.org/index.php/en/issues/issue-10/252-mrij10-5-eng ER - TY - JOUR TI - Marian Piety and Ecumenical Convergence: Challenges and Opportunities AU - Eleutério, JM T2 - Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious … AB - In the Catholic world, the year 2017 is marked by the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Apparitions of Mary in Fátima, Portugal. Although the field of the devotional and popular … DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 IS - Query date: 2023-04-12 11:19:04 UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/download/21/17 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Mary and Fátima: A Modest C-Inductive Argument for Catholicism AU - Mcnabb, Tyler Dalton AU - Blado, Joseph E. T2 - Perichoresis AB - AbstractC-Inductive arguments are arguments that increase the probability of a hypothesis. In this paper, we offer a C-Inductive argument for the Roman Catholic hypothesis. We specifically argue that one would expect the Miracle of Fátima on Roman Catholicism more so than on alternative hypotheses. Since our argument draws on confirmation theory, we first give a primer for how confirmation theory works. We then, provide the historical facts surrounding the Miracle of Fátima. We offer up two competing naturalistic explanations that attempt to explain the historical facts, but then, argue that a supernatural explanation is superior. Having established that something miraculous likely occurred at Fátima, we move to argue for the overall thesis of the paper. Finally, we engage several objections to our argument. DA - 2020/12/01/ PY - 2020 DO - 10.2478/perc-2020-0028 DP - sciendo.com VL - 18 IS - 5 SP - 55 EP - 65 LA - en ST - Mary and Fátima UR - https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/perc-2020-0028 Y2 - 2023/04/11/14:14:26 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Minimising Maximum Illud: Early Resistance to Missionary Inculturation in China AU - Law, Cyril Jerome T2 - Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies DA - 2022/04/25/ PY - 2022 IS - 5 SP - 7 EP - 22 J2 - Orientis Aura UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/39 Y2 - 2023/06/02/00:00:00 ER - TY - JOUR TI - ‘Navigation for an ocean of interminable scepticism’ revisited: John Henry Newman and the place of theology in the university AU - Morgan, Stephen T2 - International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church AB - The place of theology is under threat in the modern university. It is denied a place, except insofar as it is useful in the training of religious professionals or as a phenomenon in its own right, on the grounds that relate to an unscientific scientism that both makes metaphysical assumptions it itself does not recognise as scientific or denies its own epistemological commitments. This article argues that the notion of education in ‘liberal knowledge’ or ‘universal knowledge’, the idea at the heart of John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University provides a sufficiently robust counter to these assaults on the place of theology proper in the modern university and that refusing such a place to it undermines the claim of universities to use the name at all. It is precisely the uselessness of theology that guarantees its place in the university committed to universal knowledge and universal enquiry. DA - 2021/10/29/ PY - 2021 DO - 10.1080/1474225X.2021.1997030 VL - 21 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 15 SN - 1474-225X ST - ‘Navigation for an ocean of interminable scepticism’ revisited UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2021.1997030 Y2 - 2021/10/31/05:54:50 KW - Derrida KW - Newman KW - education KW - liberal education KW - religious studies KW - secularisation KW - theology KW - university ER - TY - JOUR TI - Ockham on the Side of the Angels: Why a Classical Theist Shouldn't be Moved by Oppy's Argument from Simplicity AU - McNabb, Tyler AU - DeVito, Michael T2 - New Blackfriars DA - 2022/06/25/ PY - 2022 DO - 10.1111/nbfr.12766 DP - USJ Library SP - nbfr.12766 J2 - New Blackfriars LA - en SN - 0028-4289, 1741-2005 ST - Ockham on the Side of the Angels UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nbfr.12766 Y2 - 2022/06/30/08:43:15 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Papal Bull: A Response to Contemporary Papal Scholarship AU - McNabb, Tyler Dalton T2 - Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies DA - 2021/// PY - 2021 VL - 6 IS - 1 SP - 147 EP - 152 UR - https://jbtsonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/JBTS-6.1-Part2-A4.pdf ER - TY - JOUR TI - Pestilent Popes or a Pestilent Church? Judaism, Catholicism, and Skeptical Theism AU - McNabb, Tyler Dalton T2 - The Heythrop Journal DA - 2020/07// PY - 2020 DO - 10.1111/heyj.13571 VL - 61 IS - 4 SP - 671 EP - 676 J2 - Hey J LA - en SN - 0018-1196, 1468-2265 ST - Pestilent Popes or a Pestilent Church? UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/heyj.13571 Y2 - 2021/02/22/09:39:44 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Pope John Paul II, ‘Memory and Identity: conversations at the dawn of a millennium’ T2 - Memory and Identity: the proceedings of the 28th ASEACCU Annual Conference A2 - Morgan, Stephen DA - 2023/// PY - 2023 SP - 80 EP - 84 LA - eng ER - TY - JOUR TI - Religious Vows in their Mystic and Prophetic Dimensions AU - Gallares, Judette T2 - Religious Life Asia DA - 2022/// PY - 2022 VL - XXIV IS - 2 SP - 65 EP - 84 LA - English ER - TY - JOUR TI - Science and Laudato Si’ on the Paradigm Shift towards Sustainable Development AU - Gassner, Franz T2 - The Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute AB - For sustainability researchers and global policy makers it is lucid clear that a radical turnaround of modern societies is needed to approach sustainable development paths. Pope Francis takes his stand on a basic paradigm shift in his Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’: Care for our Common Home (2015). He calls for a radical shift of mindsets and ecological and cultural conversion which are needed for sustainability and a life in dignity for all. The author compares aspects from sustainability research and Laudato Si’ and shows how science and Francis spiritual-theological take converge. Both call for the need of new mindsets and spiritual resources to nourish just life-styles and sustainable societies. DA - 2018/// PY - 2018 IS - 2 LA - en-gb UR - https://mrijournal.riccimac.org/index.php/en/issues/issue-2/24-science-and-laudato-si-on-the-paradigmshifttowards-sustainable-development Y2 - 2021/02/19/09:17:38 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Signos de los tiempos: desafío a la Nueva Evangelización. El Concilo Vaticano II. Uma Perspectiva teológia. Vicente Vide - José R. Villar (Eds.) San Pablo: Madrid, 2013: AU - Stilwell, Peter DA - 2013/// PY - 2013 SP - 545 EP - 559 ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Anglican Patrimony in Catholic Communion ed. by Tracey Rowland (review) AU - Morgan, Stephen T2 - Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal DA - 2021/// PY - 2021 DO - 10.1353/atp.2021.0024 DP - Project MUSE VL - 25 IS - 3 SP - 359 EP - 362 SN - 1543-9933 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/16/article/845649 Y2 - 2023/04/04/12:01:32 ER - TY - JOUR TI - The evolutionary argument against naturalism: a Wittgensteinian response AU - DeVito, Michael AU - McNabb, Tyler T2 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion AB - 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. DA - 2022/04/29/ PY - 2022 DO - 10.1007/s11153-022-09832-3 J2 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion SN - 1572-8684 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-022-09832-3 ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Fire “Once Kindled on Moriah”: Wojtyła and Newman on the Conditions for the Proposal of Christ AU - Morgan, Stephen T2 - Newman Studies Journal DA - 2022/// PY - 2022 DO - 10.1353/nsj.2022.0018 DP - Project MUSE VL - 19 IS - 2 SP - 23 EP - 41 SN - 2153-6945 ST - The Fire “Once Kindled on Moriah” UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/16/article/878231 Y2 - 2023/01/27/06:38:11 ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Roman Mass: From Early Christian Origins to Tridentine Reform by Uwe Michael Lang AU - Morgan, Stephen T2 - Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal DA - 2023/// PY - 2023 DO - 10.1353/atp.2023.0004 DP - DOI.org (Crossref) VL - 27 IS - 1 SP - 120 EP - 124 J2 - Antiphon LA - en SN - 1543-9933 ST - The Roman Mass UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/article/892299 Y2 - 2023/08/15/02:10:37 ER - TY - JOUR TI - To follow or overcome our nature? AU - Cai, Yulin T2 - GREGORIANUM AB - 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. DA - 2022/// PY - 2022 DO - 10.32060/Gregorianum.103/4.2022.691-712 DP - DOI.org (CSL JSON) VL - 103 IS - 4 SP - 691 EP - 712 LA - eng SN - 00174114 UR - https://doi.org/10.32060/Gregorianum.103/4.2022.691-712 Y2 - 2023/04/04/12:10:15 ER - TY - JOUR TI - “To Listen to the Language of Nature and to Act Accordingly” :: Natural Law as Beacon guiding to Human Flourishing and Ecological Civilization AU - Gassner, Franz T2 - Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies AB - The article sets off from a speech given by Benedict XVI in the German Bundestag in 2011, where he requested an ecological learning process to aim at sustainable human development. Appreciating the Ecological Movement, he asked to learn to listen to Nature’s language and act accordingly, which he applies analogically to “human ecology”. The article bridges elements of “Listening to Nature” and the Natural Moral Law Tradition in Benedict’s speech and in Francis’ Encyclical Letter Laudatu Si’ inview of serving human flourishing in an ecological civilization. Keywords: Natural Moral Law; Nature, Laudatu Si’, Benedict XVI, Francis; Ecological Civilization/生態文明, Sustainable Development, Ecology of Man. DA - 2021/// PY - 2021 DP - journals.usj.edu.mo IS - 6 SP - 3 EP - 21 LA - en SN - 2519-5425 ST - “To Listen to the Language of Nature and to Act Accordingly” UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/118 Y2 - 2024/03/13/02:34:33 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Vatican II AU - Gomez, Fausto T2 - Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives In Religious Studies AB - From a reason-faith perspective, I reflect on “Vatican II: Gaudium et Spes Fifty Years Later.” In the introduction, I speak briefly on the Second Vatican Council, and on its Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes (“Joy and Hope”) and its ethical and social teachings. DA - 2016/// PY - 2016 IS - 1 LA - en-US ST - Vatican II | Orientis Aura UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/9 Y2 - 2021/03/10/02:41:27 ER - TY - JOUR TI - What Kinds of Comparison Are Most Useful in the Study of World Philosophies? AU - Sivin, Nathan AU - Akasoy, Anna AU - Anderson, Warwick AU - Colas, Gérard AU - Eh, Edmond T2 - Journal of World Philosophies DA - 2018/12/14/ PY - 2018 DP - scholarworks.iu.edu VL - 3 IS - 2 SP - 75 EP - 97 LA - en SN - 2474-1795 UR - https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/article/view/2156/192 Y2 - 2021/02/09/08:31:17 KW - comparative history KW - connected history KW - cultural manifolds KW - diachronic KW - intellectual history KW - inter-cultural comparison KW - intra-cultural comparison KW - mutual pollination KW - postcolonial history KW - synchronic KW - transnational history ER - TY - JOUR TI - When the Gospel meets the China Dream: Religious Freedom and the Golden Rule AU - Chiaretto Yan, Kin Sheung T2 - International Bulletin of Mission Research AB - The issue of religious freedom affects Sino-Vatican relations, but the Roman Catholic Church shares values with Confucianism, which provides common ground for dialogue. Pope Francis is focusing the church outward by promoting a culture of encounter and by working unceasingly for a fraternal dialogue of peace. Chinese president Xi Jinping urges his people to fulfill the China dream, emphasizing the core values of harmony, friendship, and civilization. Many have believed that the Gospel can contribute to China?s spiritual civilization; normalization of relations between China and the Holy See would benefit China and the Catholic Church and contribute to world peace and harmony. DA - 2018/07/01/ PY - 2018 DO - 10.1177/2396939317747149 DP - SAGE Journals VL - 42 IS - 3 SP - 212 EP - 219 LA - en SN - 2396-9393 ST - When the Gospel meets the China Dream UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/2396939317747149 Y2 - 2023/04/11/14:21:44 ER - TY - JOUR TI - “Wisdom in Aristotle and Aquinas,” Existenz AU - Eh, E. T2 - International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics and the Arts DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 VL - 2 IS - 12 SP - 19 EP - 24 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Wisdom in Aristotle and Aquinas: From Metaphysics to Mysticism AU - Eh, Edmond T2 - Existenz: An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics, and the Arts AB - This essay contains an attempt to trace the evolution of the concept of wisdom as found in the thought of Aristotle and Aquinas in terms of how the philosophical concept of wisdom as an intellectual virtue is understood and used to express the theological concept of wisdom as a gift of the Holy Spirit. The main aim is to understand how Aquinas derived the concept of wisdom from Aristotle's metaphysics and developed it in his mysticism. This research is based on a close study of Book Six of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, the corresponding sections of Aquinas' Sententia libri Ethicorum and question forty-five of the second part of the second part of Aquinas' Summa Theologiae. The insights gained from the study are then used to decipher the theoretical meaning of Augustine's famous saying: "love and do what thou wilt" and to expound on the practical value of wisdom for religious leaders. DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 VL - 12 IS - 2 SP - 19 EP - 24 SN - 1932-1066 UR - https://existenz.us/volumes/Vol.12-2Eh.pdf Y2 - 2021/02/09/08:37:45 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Wrestling with God AU - Flores, Randolf T2 - Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives In Religious Studies AB - This study will discuss the following Old Testament texts: Gen 32:23-32; Jon 1:17; Tob 6:1-9; and Exod 4:24-26 and will argue that these are about the initiation of a person to do a divine mission. Some parallels from Asia—Epic Gilgamesh, texts from Tibetan Buddhism, Hinduism, and the Philippine epic, Biag ni Lam-ang will also be taken into consideration to shed light on them. It will also present their interpretation as typoi of the sacraments of initiations found in early Christian literature and art. DA - 2016/// PY - 2016 DP - journals.usj.edu.mo LA - en-US ST - Wrestling with God | Orientis Aura UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/7 Y2 - 2021/03/10/02:45:16 ER - TY - JOUR TI - 廣州會議(1667-1668)四十二條條文的意義 AU - Ip, Ka Kei T2 - 道風:基督教文化評論 AB - Canton Conference (1667-1668) is regarded as an important event in the history of Christianity in China. The Conference was held by missionaries from three religious orders, namely, the Jesuits, Dominicans and Franciscans. Together they tried to achieve something common to strive for the prosperity of the China mission. It is true that the background and atmosphere of the Conference was influenced and overwhelmed by the Rites controversy. However, another significant part that the conference covered, in a large portion, dealt with wide pastoral issues in the context of Chinese society. The forty two articles in this Conference demonstrate the open-mindedness and a fairly positive knowledge of an approach to Chinese custom. In addition, some recommendations remain open to further inquires, in the sense that they were still finding a better way to cope with the indigenous affairs. Analysis of the articles as a whole gives light to various aspects of missionary work at that time beyond the controversial article forty-first. DA - 2012/07// PY - 2012 DP - Airiti IS - 37 SP - 277 EP - 316 LA - zh SN - 1023-2583 UR - https://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh?docid=P20170411002-201207-201705040027-201705040027-277-316 Y2 - 2023/04/11/11:45:47 KW - Canton Conference KW - Christianity in China KW - Missionary Activity KW - 中國基督宗教史 KW - 傳教士活動 KW - 廣州會議 ER - TY - JOUR TI - 聖多瑪斯思想權威之演變,從1274年至1323年 AU - 蔡翼倫 T2 - 《神學論集》 AB - 本文梳理聖多瑪斯去世至1323年列聖品之間,發生的圍繞其思想權威性的爭議與演變。在這近五十年中,多瑪斯思想的權威性在不斷的爭議與回應中逐漸形成,其中尤其針對他運用亞里士多德的哲學來闡釋天主啟示,及對貧窮勸諭的理解所衍生的論辯。作者指出,以道明會會士為 主的神學家致力於以多瑪斯思想為基點,回應各種反對多瑪斯思想的挑戰,過程中逐漸形成了具有統一性的多瑪斯學派,加以教會內各種歷史性因素,都促成了多瑪斯在1323年7月的亞維農被列入聖品。 VL - 218 (2023冬) SP - 529 EP - 551 SN - 1012-9332 ER -