ARTICLES

Richard R. Gaillardetz

Shifting Meanings in the Lay-Clergy Distinction
On the basis of his interpretation of the Second Vatican Council, the author discusses some difficulties raised by the theological presuppositions of the recent Vatican Instruction on the collaboration of the non-ordained faithful in the priestly ministry.

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Frederick Hale

The Appeal of Catholic Educational Missions in John Munonye's The Only Son
Against the background of the debate among missiologists on the causes of the rapid conversion of the Igbo peoples to Christianity, the author examines the way the Nigerian novelist, John Munonye, depicts this conversion in his novel The Only Son, and elucidates Munonye's imaginative reconstruction of Catholic missionary strategy in Igboland.

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Thomas O'Connor

Towards the Invention of the Irish Catholic Nation
Influenced by contemporary developments in Church and State, the Irish émigré priest based in Paris, Thomas Messingham, used hagiography for the purpose, inter alia, of establishing Ireland's claim to be not only a nation in her own right but a nation by divine election - defined precisely by its Catholicism.

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Patrick J. Corish

The Beatified Martyrs of Ireland, II: Matthew Lambert, Robert Meyler, Edward Cheevers, Patrick Cavanagh, and Companions

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Commentary:

Martin Henry

Pascal's God
Does Pascal succeed in his task, namely to scrutinise the human condition and show it to be most persuasively accounted for by Christian revelation?

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Jürgen Moltmann

What is a Theologian?
This is the text of al lecture delivered on 12 November 1998 at the Pontifical Unviersity, Maynooth, Professor Moltmann reflects on such questions as: Who is a theologian? Howe can one become a theologian? He offers a distinctly Lutheran answer to these existential questions.

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