Theological Articles Online

BOOKS

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METHODS AND STRUCTURES IN THE DE TRINITATE OF ST AUGUSTINE (1976) http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/methods-and-structures-in-augustines-de-trinitate-introduction.html

 

QUESTIONING BACK: The Overcoming of Metaphysics in Christian Tradition (1985)

3   http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/07/3-the-historic.html

4  http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/04/questioning_bac_1.html
5  http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/04/questioning_bac.html

RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND CHRISTIAN TRUTH (1996)

Electronic format (e-book):

http://isbndb.com/d/person/oleary_joseph_stephen/subject/electronic_books.html

http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/ER/detail/3171824

Interview (Terry Muck)
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/buddhist-christian_studies/v019/19.1oleary.html

Preface

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/06/religious_plura.html

4. Derrida on Truth

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/02/4_derrida_on_tr.html

7. The Empty Christ

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/07/7-the-empty-chr.html

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RELIGION IN A VIOLENT AGE (2006)

1. http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/1_introduction.html

2. http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/2_iraq_the_symp.html

3. http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/01/3_respect_for_l.html

4. http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/4_moral_qualms_.html

5. http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/5_the_three_poi.html

6. http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/6_the_stress_of.html

7. http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/7_emptiness.html

8.http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/8_nonduality.html

9. http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/9_christian_non.html

10. http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/10_forgiveness.html

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ESSAYS: HISTORICAL THEOLOGY

 

Logos and Koinonia in Philo's De Confusione Linguarum (2003)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/02/logos_and_koinn.html

 

Pauline Faith, Hope and Love (2008)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/11/pauline-faith-hope-and-love.html

 

Retrieving Pauline Eschatology (2009)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/01/phenomenology-and-pauline-eschatology.html

 

Paul and Mission (2009)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/paul-and-mission.html

 

How to Read Origen (1985)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/02/how_to_read_ori.html

 

Origen on Judaism (2004)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/02/origen_on_judai.html

 

Origène face à l’altérité juive (1993)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/origne_face_lal_1.html

 

The Recuperation of Judaism (1995)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/02/the_recuperatio.html

 

Origen on Grace (2004)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/12/origen_on_grace.html

 

Origen on Logos (2004)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/12/origen_on_logos.html

 

Origen's Metaphysical Interpretation of the Johannine Logos (1996)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/01/origens_metaphy.html

 

The Invisible Mission of the Son in Origen and Augustine (1999)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/02/the_invisible_m.html

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/02/the_invisible_m_1.html

 

Doctrine Augustinienne (2006)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/12/doctrine_august.html

 

Les extases plotiniennes de saint Augustin (2006)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/les-extases-plotiniennes-de-saint-augustin.html

 

Jean-Luc Marion on Saint Augustin (2009)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/jeanluc-marion-on-st-augustine-marginal-notes.html

 

Enjoying One Another in God: In Defence of Augustine's Eudaemonism (2001)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/12/enjoying_one_an.html

 

Language in Luther's Reformation Breakthrough (2005)

http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/ejournal/aejt_8/luther.htm

(Plain text)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/06/language_in_lut.html

Paul, Origen and Melanchthon on Justification (2003/2007)

http://www.acu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/107529/OLEARY_MELANCHTHON_2008.pdf

 

The Irish and Jansenism in the Seventeenth Century (1978)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/the_irish_and_j.html

Impeded Witness: Newman Against Luther on Justification (1991)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/impeded_witness.html

Newman on Education and Original Sin (1994)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/03/newman_on_educa.htm

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FUNDAMENTAL THEOLOGY

 

Journal Théologique (2008)

1. Remarques introductives

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/02/remarques-intro.html

2. Contre l’ “orthodoxie”

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/04/2-contre-lortho.html

3. Amorce d’une nosographie

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/04/3-amorce-dune-n.html

 

Religions as Conventions (2001)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/03/religions_as_co.html

Ultimacy and Conventionality in Religious Experience (2003)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/09/ultimacy_and_co.html

Scriptural Inerrancy (2008)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/04/scriptural-iner.html

 

Dogma and Religious Pluralism (1996)
http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/ejournal/aejt_4/Oleary.htm

Emptiness and Dogma (2001)
http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/buddhist-christian_studies/v022/22.1oleary.html&session=84488761

"Where all the Ladders Start": Apophasis as Awareness (2002)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/06/where_all_the_l.html

Apophase (2006)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/apophase_i.html
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/apophase_ii.html
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/apophase_iii.html
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/apophase_iv.html
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/lapophase_iv.html

The Theological Significance of Jean-Luc Marion's Thought (1999)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/01/the_theological.html

Stanislas Breton: Questioning the Essence of Christianity (2004)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/stanislas_breto.html

 

HEIDEGGER

 

Heidegger, Platon et les limites de la phénoménologie (2004)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/01/heidegger_plato.html

Heidegger and Indian Philosophy (1997)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/heidegger_and_i.html

 

Theological Resonances of "Der Satz vom Grund" (1992)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/07/theological-res.html

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TIME

 

The Stress of Time (2004)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/06/the_stress_of_t.html

Time and Emptiness (2004)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/04/time-and-emptiness.html

From Impermanence to Emptiness (2004)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/04/from-impermanence-to-emptiness.html

INTERRELIGIOUS THEOLOGY

 

Emptiness and Compassion (2004)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/09/emptiness_and_c.html

Buddhism and Forgiveness (2002)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/07/buddhist_and_fo.html

Buddhism and Forgiveness (longer version)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/02/buddhist_and_fo.html

The Scope of Skillful Means (2009)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/02/the-scope-of-skillful-means.html

Japanese Buddhism (2002)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/07/japanese_buddhi.html

Conventions and Ultimacy in Japanese Religion (2000)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/08/conventions_and.html

A Note on Nitobe (2007)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/01/a_note_on_nitob.html

Buddhist Serenity in a Time of Rage (2004)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/08/buddhist_sereni.html

The Significance of John Keenan's Mahayana Theology (1997)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/03/the_significanc.html

 

Keenan on Faith and Pluralism (2009)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/keenan-on-dealing-with-religious-pluralism.html

Toward a Buddhist Interpretation of Christian Truth (2002)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/10/towards_a_buddh.html

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GOD AND GRACE

 

The Possibility of God (2006)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/12/the_possibility.html

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Grace Before Being (1996)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/08/grace_before_be.html
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Gift and Debt in the Economy of Salvation (2004)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/08/gift_qnd_debt_i.html
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The Gift: A Trojan Horse in the Citadel of Phenomenology? (2005)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/the_gift_a_troj.html

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The Gift at the Crossroads of Philosophy and Anthropology, Buddhism and Christianity (2006)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/the_gift_at_the.html

 

Prayer and Sanity

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/02/fr-james-alison-writing-from-the-depths-of-brazil-where-he-seems-to-be-visited-by-inspiration-has-an-for-the-beginning-o.html

 

CHRISTOLOGY

 

The Completeness of Christ and the Incompleteness of Christianity (2005)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/08/the_completenes.html

Demystifying the Incarnation (1999)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/06/demystifying_th_1.html

Benedict XVI on Jesus (2007)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/06/benedict_xvi_on_1.html

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/05/benedict_xvi_on.html

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/08/german-receptio.html

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/nongerman-reviews-of-popes-jesusbook-updated.html

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Incarnation and Evolution (2005)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/10/incarnation_and.html
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The Riddle of Sacrifice (1979)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/06/the_riddle_of_s.html

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The Castelli Colloquium on Sacrifice (2008)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/02/the-castelli-co.html

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The Resurrection: What Really Happened? (2006)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/04/the_resurrectio.html
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CHURCH AND COUNCIL

Integrity (1985)
http://www.womenpriests.org/teaching/oleary.asp
(in French) http://www.womenpriests.org/fr/teaching/oleary.asp

Governance and Freedom in Church and State (2008)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/03/governance-and.html

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Cardinal Schoenborn on Evolution (2005)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/07/cardinal_schnbo.html

Catholic Fundamentalism (2005)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/06/benedict_xvi_an.html

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Cardinal Avery Dulles on Slavery (2008)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/02/cardinal-avery.html

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The Decline of the Neocaths (2006) http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/the_decline_of_.html

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/02/voices-from-the-neocath-bunker.html

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Neocath Rage against Richard McBrien's Remarks on Converts (2007)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/07/neocath-rage-at.html

 

Vatican Document Curbs Neocath Excesses (2007)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/07/new-vatican-doc.html

 

Jesus and the CDF (2007)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/07/jesus-and-the-c.html

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The Battle for Vatican II (2005)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/06/the_battle_for_.html
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The Next Council (2005)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/07/the_role_of_the.html

Vatican and SSPX (2009)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/marcion-lives.html

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/the-pope-replies.html

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/04/a-theological-judgment-on-benedict-xvis-negotiations-with-the-sspx.html

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/04/a-church-historians-judgment-on-the-williamson-affair.html

 

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/04/a-terrifying-mutation.html

 

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/society-of-pius-x-or-society-of-jesus.html

 

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/a-good-priest-don-franco-barbero.html

 

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/02/more-vatican-mischief.html

 

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/02/if-obama-were-pope-by-hans-kung.html

 

Vatican Investigation of American Sisters (2009)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/04/vatican-witch-hunt-against-catholic-nuns.html

 

IRISH CHURCH

 

Religion, Ireland: in Mutation (1988)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/12/religion_irelan.html

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Toward the Post-Postmodern Retrieval of Irish Religious Tradition (1992)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/03/toward_the_post.html

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Modern Historical Consciousness in Roman Catholic Thought (1996)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/07/modern_historic.html

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LITURGY

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Latin Revivalism and the Quest for Sacred Language

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/09/latin-revivalis.html

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To the Chairman of ICEL (2006)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/06/letter_to_bisho.html

Bishop Donald Trautman: A Voice Crying in the Desert (2007)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/06/bishop-donald-t.html

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Motu Proprio Madness (2007)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/07/motu-proprio-bl.html

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Manichees, Marcionites, Pneumatomachs, and Neo-Tridentinists

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/07/manichees-marci.html

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PASTORAL ISSUES

 

Morality, Universal and Local (2005)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/06/morality_univer.html

Pastoral Accommodation (2005)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/06/pastoral_accomm.html

Love Conquers All: An Encyclical and its Intertexts (2006)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/02/love_conquers_a.html

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The Pope on Progress (2008)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/02/the-pope-on-progress.html

 

 

JUSTICE AND PEACE

 

Latin America's Theological Challenge (1982)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/latin_americas_.html

The Horror: Iraq, Three Years Later (An American Tragedy, 2003)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/03/three_years_lat.html

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Torture (2009)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/stanford-students-show-up-condoleeza-eichmann.html

 

Benedict, Bush, Berlusconi (2008)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/the-axis-benedi.html

 

Church and Aids in Africa (2009)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/a-lethal-game-pope-african-bishops-and-the-aids-epidemic.html

 

 

GAY ISSUES

 

The Flesh and the Spirit (1984)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/06/the_flesh_and_t.html

Mother Church and her Gay/Lesbian Children (1998)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/06/mother_church_a.html

Vatican Instruction, Church Reception (2005)
http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/12/vatican_instruc.html

The US Bishops on Ministry to Gays (2006)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/11/neocaths_and_ga.html

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/11/gay-seminarians-again.html

 

Quaestio Disputata: Luke Timothy Johnson on Homosexuality (2007)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/06/quaestio_disput.html

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Fisking Dreadnought (2008)

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/02/fisking-dreadno.html

 

Gay Rights, 2008-09

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/sexual-cleansing-of-iraq.html

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/02/the-tsunami-of-normalization-roberto-benigni.html

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/12/vatican-upholds-criminalization-of-gays-against-united-nations.html

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/12/yet-another-vatican-gay-furore.html

http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/11/gay-marriage.html