The English edition of Nova et Vetera is published quarterly and provides an international forum for theological and philosophical studies from a Thomistic perspective. The journal strives to follow the culturally engaged, ecclesial, broadly Thomistic, and dialogical perspective of the founder of the Swiss Nova et Vetera, Charles Journet. Journet worked at the intersection of theology, philosophy, and biblical studies, and we seek to do the same.
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
