By Conor Kelly Five years ago yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI officially signed the most recent social teaching encyclical, Caritas in Veritate. This fact is itself significant because Caritas in Veritate would be seven years old […]
Month: June 2014
A rose by any other name? What is theology?
“I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this I believe–that unless I believe, I should not understand.” – St. Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogium, […]
The CTSA Kerfuffle: Struggle On Sisters and Brothers
*Please see a note of clarification from Holly Taylor-Coolman in the first comment in the comments section below Introduction As I wade into the discussion about the recent happenings at the Catholic Theological Society of […]
Speaking the Language of God
For me, “speaking in tongues” has always been the most fascinating part of the Pentecost story in Acts 2. In “possessing” the Apostles and speaking through them, the Holy Spirit becomes extraordinarily visible. Even this […]
Oh the Movements of the Holy Spirit!
Karl Rahner once wrote, “Christians, for all their orthodox profession of faith in the Trinity, are almost just ‘monotheist’ in their actual religious experience. One might almost dare to affirm that if the doctrine of […]
“What’s In a Name?”: Pentecost, Solidarity, & the Discernment of Spirits
Pentecost always reminds me of the transformative power of words and names. The disciples in Acts were imbued with the charism to speak in words that even foreigners could understand. To push this further, I […]
The Fire of the Spirit and the Spirit for the Poor
In the last 75 years, the worldwide Christian Church has seen two movements that have unquestionably transformed the contemporary Christian Church. The first one, the Pentecostal Movement, began in the United States in the first part […]
Led by the Spirit
Today’s readings, two days after Pentecost, feature Jesus giving his disciples a mission. He tells them “You are the salt of the earth” and “You are the light of the world.” They are tasked with […]
The Holy Spirit and the Beatitudes: “Blessed” Are We?
When the other Daily Theology writers asked me to take part in my second Theological Shark Week, I jumped at the opportunity to kick off this week’s Holy Spirit-themed series with…the Beatitudes. [Long sigh] The […]
Introducing Shark Week VI: Visions of the Holy Spirit
In academic theological circles, the phrase “theology of the Holy Spirit” is not often spoken; instead, the extremely fancy word pneumatology takes its place. Pneumatology comes from two Greek words, as so many things in academia do. […]
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