Identidade, missão e profissionalização do teólogo católico: desafios e perspectivas = Identity, mission and professionalization of the Catholic theologian: challenges and perspectives by Chagas, Antonio Marcos

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Tensões e rupturas entre a contribuição da reflexão dos teólogos católicos e a Bioética: perspectivas históricas | Tension and rupture between the refl ections of Catholic theologians and Bioethics: Historical perspectives by Evandro Arlindo Melo, Mário Antônio Sanches

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Religious Freedom, Morality and Law: John Courtney Murray Today by David Hollenbach

“…His legacy is twofold: first, that any Catholic theologian must presuppose the inviolable right to religious freedom before discussing religion and the public life, and second, that the Church has gained a more respected voice in the arena of justice, human rights, and public morality.…”
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Receptive Ecumenism as a Way Forward: An Eastern Orthodox Perspective by Viorel Coman

“…This article argues that, even though the notion of receptive ecumenism has been elaborated by a Western Catholic theologian (Paul Murray), its implementation by Eastern Christianity should not be seen as the adoption of a methodology foreign to the ethos and spirituality of Orthodox faith. …”
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From Dangerous Memory to Dangerous Hope: Reading the Theology of Johann Baptist Metz by Petr Jandejsek

“…It draws on the work of the Catholic theologian Johann Baptist Metz and presents the struggle for hope in three areas that were central to Metz and his time. …”
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Le meilleur monde est-il un dieu ? Leibniz et Bayle face à l’objection de Diroys by Paul Rateau

“…In paragraphs 197 to 203 of the Essays on Theodicy, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz examines, after Pierre Bayle, the objection formulated by the Catholic theologian François Diroys against the thesis that God should always make the best and the most perfect. …”
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Christian Revelation as a Phenomenon: Jean-Luc Marion’s Phenomenological “Theology” and Its Balthasarian Roots by Beáta Tóth

“…Since Marion’s programme is largely indebted to the Roman Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar’s own project, first I give an overview of the Balthasarian phenomenal approach to revelation famously termed “aesthetic theology”. …”
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A Critical Study of Leonard Swidler’s Ideas of Global Ethics by Zahra Zoofaghari, Ali Arshad Riahy, Gholamhossein Tavakoli, Shahab-Al-Din Zoofaghari

“…Meanwhile some scholars like the Catholic theologian Leonard Swidler seek to present the principles of the global ethics based on the common grounds of the religions (ecumenism). …”
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Theology as dialogue and fragment: saying God with David Tracy by Palfrey, B

“…<p>This thesis concerns the ideas of ‘dialogue’ and ‘fragment’ in the work of the American liberal Roman Catholic theologian David Tracy (bn. 1939). Dialogue (or ‘conversation’) established itself as a dominant idea for Tracy in the 1980s, whereas the centrality of fragments first emerged for Tracy in the late 1990s, to complicate and refine his earlier thinking. …”

The Theological Heritage of Fr. Alexander Schmemann by Fr. Georgy Kochetkov, Paul Meyendorff, Victoria de Haan, Zoya Dashevskaya, Viktor Aleksandrov

“…Alexander’s liturgical theology had a particular influence, he names Benedictine monk and scholar Aidan Kavanagh, Roman Catholic theologian David Fagerberg, and Lutheran theologian Gordon Lathrop. …”
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Catholic Moral Theology and the Moral Status of Non-Human Animals by John Berkman, Celia Dean-Drummond

“…However, there has been a surge of interest in the topic among Catholic theologians, following the lead of moral philosophers and Protestant theologians. …”
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James M. Gustafson and Catholic Theological Ethics by Lisa Sowle Cahill

“…As a doctoral director, James Gustafson has had a profound impact in the intellectual formation of recent Catholic theologians. Although a Protestant, Gustafson’s ecumenical generosity, magnanimity, and rigorous intellectual honesty has worked to hone the development of his grateful students. …”
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Stravinsky and Maritain: Philosophies of work by Moody Ivan

“…Igor Stravinsky’s philosophical and religious trajectory included transformative encounters with Catholic theologians and philosophers in the Paris of the 1920s and 1930s. …”
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Between Inculturation and Natural Law: Comparative Method in Catholic Moral Theology by David M. Lantigua, David A. Clairmont

“…This is so because such an interaction forces Catholic theologians to have “their traditional vocabulary tested, refined, and further articulated” in response to certain pastoral issues. …”
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The theological anthropology of Paulo Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed: a contribution to the discussion by Michael Attridge

“…It points out that the existing literature neglects to consider the broader renewal of Catholic theology, particularly theological anthropology occurring in the twentieth century that found its way into Brazil through French catholic theologians. It concludes with an observation about how we might speak of the uniqueness of Freire’s theological anthropology.…”
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Why Augustine – now? An African perspective by J.H. van Wyk

“…It is a fascinating fact that interest in Augustine’s theology has never waned and that Protestant as well as Catholic theologians have time and again involved themselves in a study of Augustine’s views. …”
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Where to from Here? Continuing Challenges in Jewish–Catholic Conversation by David M. Neuhaus

“…However, the work is far from done, and a number of challenges continue to provoke Jewish and Catholic theologians and interreligious activists to continue their efforts. …”
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Symposium on the 2015 Synod of Bishops on the Family--Dialogue and Communion by Andrew Kim

“…In light of the public exchange about the 2015 Synod of the Family between The New York Times op/ed writer Ross Douthat and the open letter from Academic Theologian, this essay addresses how Catholic theologians should engage in dialogue using the letter from the Catholic academics as a way not to proceed. …”
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Human Origins Revisited: On the Recognition of Rationality and the Antiquity of the Human Race by Michael Chaberek, Rômulo Carleial

“…Soon after Charles Darwin proposed his theory of the origin of species (1859), Catholic theologians set out to harmonize the evolutionary account with the traditional Christian doctrine of creation. …”
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The Case for Intersectional Theology: An Asian American Catholic Perspective by Hoon Choi

“…While limited and inadequate by itself, there is a family resemblance of intersectional method in the Catholic theological and intellectual tradition that is inclusive of ordinary and marginalized voices and secular disciplines. For Catholic theologians and the church, then, intersectional approach can be instrumental in dismantling white supremacy within the church as an institution and people. …”
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