Nova et Vetera, Winter 2025 (Vol. 23, No. 1)

Commentary

The Divine Friend: Friendship and Human Flourishing - John Emery, O.P.

The Ordained Priesthood Establishes the Baptismal Priesthood: Vatican II and Hebrews 7 - Michael Johns

“He That Is Spiritual” (1 Cor 2:15): Aquinas, Paul, and the Primacy of Cruciform Wisdom - T. Adam Van Wart

Articles

The Radiant Christ: A Theological Semiotic Critique and Appropriation of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theology of Revelation and Faith - Vincent Birch

The Simplicity of the Divine Ideas in Light of Aquinas’s Dionysian-Inspired Theology of the Divine Names - John R. Kern

Seat of Wisdom: Matthias Scheeben on the Theological Analogy Between the Immaculate Conception and Papal Infallibility - Evan S. Koop

Contemplativa Vita Est Finis Activae: The Order of the Active Life to the Contemplative Life in Aquinas - Aaron Maddeford

The Trinitarian Character of Christ’s Kingship in Aquinas - Nathaniel Mayne, O.P.

St. Thomas Aquinas and the Origins of the Doctrine of Papal Infallibility - Emmett O’Regan

God Is Love: An Investigation of Bonaventure’s Theology of the Essential Love of God - Thomas A. Piolata, O.F.M. Cap.

Erich Przywara, “Christian Philosophy,” and a Debate in Prague - Carl Scerri

Theia Mania: Josef Pieper’s Philosophical Anthropology - Vincent Wargo

Translation

Charles De Koninck on “The Scandal of Mediation” - Andrew Davison

Book Reviews

The Primacy of God: The Virtue of Religion in Catholic Theology by R. Jared Staudt - Jason W. Borkenhagen

A Living Sacrifice: Liturgy and Eschatology in Joseph Ratzinger by Roland Millare - Brad Bursa

Joseph Ratzinger and the Future of African Theology edited by Maurice Ashley-Agbaw-Ebai and Matthew Levering - Martin Ifeanyi Onuoha

The Divinity of the Word: Thomas Aquinas Dividing and Reading the Gospel of John by Stefan Mangnus, O.P - Randall Smith

Neither Nature nor Grace: Aquinas, Barth, and Garrigou-Lagrange on the Epistemic Use of God’s Effects by T. Adam Van Wart - Mark K. Spencer

Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St. Gregory Palamas by Tikhon Pino - Peter Totleben, O.P.

The Bible and the Priesthood: Priestly Participation in the One Sacrifice for Sins by Anthony Giambrone, O.P - William M. Wright IV