CURRENT ISSUE :
Vol. LIX - Issue No. 179 : May - August 2024
https://doi.org/10.55997/2000pslix179
Eusebius of Caesarea’s Christology and The Nicene Confession
- DOI :
- https://doi.org/10.55997/2001pslix179a1
- Author/s :
- Jannel N. Abogado, O.P
Abstract :
This work explores Eusebius of Caesarea’s Christological teaching, situating
him in the complex web of interlocking religious and political issues that characterized the
fourth-century Trinitarian discourse. It argues that the traditional groupings of bishops
into different ecclesiastical alliances around this period did not entail that the personalities
grouped therein necessarily held the same doctrinal confession. Such is demonstrated
in the case of Eusebius of Caesarea who allied himself with the assembly of the Eusebian
bishops—the group that sustained the claim of Arius leading to the 325 Council of Nicea
and persecuted the defenders of the Nicene theology, most notably Athanasius, the years
following the great council. It expostulates that, notwithstanding his association with the
Eusebian party, the theology of the bishop of Caesarea, as specified in his works, both preand
post-Nicene, is consistent with the view that the Son is fully divine, thus is reconcilable
with the theology of Nicea.
Keywords : Eusebius of Caesarea, communion, Nicea, homouseans, ousia, Arian, anti-Arian, Eusebians, Eusebius of Nicomedia, Asterius the Sophist, Trinity, divinity of the Son of God
Redesigning Humans in the Nano-Age
- DOI :
- https://doi.org/10.55997/2002pslix179a2
- Author/s :
- Marciana Agnes G. Ponsaran
Abstract :
The blurring boundaries between therapy and human enhancement raise a lot of
ethical questions that need to be addressed. Therapy is healing and restoring the sick to health;
enhancement is improving the normal functioning of the body. With nanomedicine, the
boundary becomes even hazier. Nanomedicine refers to the application of nanotechnology
to the prevention and treatment of diseases. The European Science Foundation defines it as
the science and technology of diagnosing, treating, and preventing disease and traumatic
injury, relieving pain, and preserving and improving human health using molecular tools
and knowledge of the human body (ESF, 2005). While nanomedicine delivers numerous
and unprecedented benefits to the health and general well-being of individuals, nanoenabled
human enhancement technologies will be the gateway to the transhumanist vision
of immortality. Transhumanism contends that through the advancements in science and
technology, we can overcome our physical and cognitive limitations, extend human lifespan,
and attain perpetual existence. The blurring boundaries between enhancement will have
remarkable consequences on what it means to be a human being. The study will make use of
New and Emerging Science and Technology (NEST) Ethics as a framework for addressing
dichotomous approaches and polarizing perspectives on human enhancement.
Keywords : human enhancement, nanomedicine, NEST ethics, human enhancementtherapy distinction
On Paths from Angst to Redemption: Southeast-Asian Root Metaphors and Key Scenarios
- DOI :
- https://doi.org/10.55997/2003pslix179a3
- Author/s :
- Hermel O. Pama, OP
Abstract :
The Javanese philosophy of Kejawen, translated loosely as ‘worldview’ promises, albeit not unproblematically, to be a meaningful paradigm in appropriating Southeast-Asian voices emerging from the shadows of modern forgetting. This is the type of forgetting which Connerton identifies as “constitutive in the formation of a new identity…providing a living space for new projects…not so much a retention of relatedness as rather a creation of relatedness between those who were previously unrelated” (Connerton 2011:36, 37). It
needs to be re-appropriated and transmitted not just through the making of institutional memories but from the markings of the region’s ancient past. If, as Ingold (2021) proposes, ‘knowledge is forged through movements, through paths of life,’ I trace these paths to look for answers as to why being alive is being thrown into a walog (Cebuano, that which is neither place nor non-place); a being-against specters of nothingness in the constitution of the colonial and postcolonial subjects in anthropological discourse. I question the darkness with which these post-this-life futures have been enshrouded. Were that veil lifted, one would glimpse at kamurawayan (Bikol, glory) aflame in indigenous souls; that light they are
capable of. This aporia is explained by the context of places I have worked in, which I deem as excelente zona social (Taussig 2012): a human ‘creation of nothingness’ mirrored in projects of industrial modernity, or in the exclusivity of nations or religions that spell out divides and differences; or movements that void the possibility of meaningful publics pursuing deeply held truths. On paths that point to a deeper ontology, I argue that anthropology’s ‘ontological
turn,’ its current impulse, needs to recognize the persons’ ethical demand, justifying life and living moments in forms of prayer: voice that transcends speech and, in Kejawen parlance, as manifest mercy. Such recognition comes from considering positionality and reflexivity not primarily as cultural relativity nor subjectivity, but as an attestation. It is an agent’s exigency of habitus (anad [Cebuano, Bikol]) called humilitas, regarding (pakighugoy-hugoy [Cebuano])
the existence of the other (tawo [Cebuano, Bikol]) in exendence (Levinas 1935 in Franck 2000:5); regarding oneself, it becomes serenity and surrender. Pivotal in this explanation are root metaphors, categories conceptualizing the order of the world, understood in Ortner’s (1973) sense. I shall treat as root metaphors d/jalan or path, kejawen or collective memory, and gotong royong as joy which I deem to be the cosmological tethering that articulate existential angst and spur movements through life. In tandem to root metaphors, I shall focus on key scenarios, understood as cognitive and affective experiences in relation to culturally defined categories. These key scenarios are derived from a confluence of Austronesian
languages- Bikol, East Miraya and Minangkabau, that bring us to the consideration of rantau as pilgrimage; pagsadios as gift and sacrifice, where the dialectic of feasting and fasting and the discourse of wellness and healing are rooted; and langan and langnan as union, surrender, losing and finding, being home.
Keywords : jalan (being on the way), kejawen/pagsadios/kaalamang bayang teolohiya (religious, indigenous worldview), communitas (liminality, marginality, joy)
“An Exchange of Gifts:” Benedict XVI’s Eucharistic Ecclesiology as an Approach to Ecumenism
- DOI :
- https://doi.org/10.55997/2005pslix179a5
- Author/s :
- Christian Ramos
Abstract :
Christian unity, or the “ecumenical movement,” is one of Joseph Ratzinger’s
(turn Benedict XVI) most apparent apostolates during his Pontificate. His thought on the
matter is a development of the theologies developed in the Second Vatican Council’s Lumen
Gentium and John Paul II’s Ut Unum Sint, borrowing the words “exchange of gifts,” which
affirms elements of sanctification present in churches “separated” from Rome. This work
will expand on how Benedict XVI’s teachings about the Eucharist as the Sacrament of Unity
gained merit in the Church’s ecumenical movement. This theology can be described as a
“Eucharistic Ecclesiology,” and it has earlier codification made formal through the thought
of Henri de Lubac. It will be done firstly through an exposition of de Lubac’s commentary
in Mystici Corporis, which confirms the origins of Eucharistic Ecclesiology through Patristic
and Pauline theology. Next is a look at Pope Benedict XVI’s interjection of this theology into
his ecumenical thought with a particular emphasis on the essentialities of the ontological
reality of the Church, the shared Christian traditions, and “spiritual ecumenism.” In the final
discussions, we shall include a quick run through his Pontificate’s ecumenical initiatives
where the teachings about Eucharistic Ecclesiology are dispersed in various circumstances.
Keywords : Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, Henri de Lubac, Ecumenism, Eucharistic Ecclesiology
Forming Conscience in a Contemporary World: Aquinas’s Teaching on the Gifts of Wisdom and Counsel
- DOI :
- https://doi.org/10.55997/2004pslix179a4
- Author/s :
- Catherine Joseph Droste, O.P.
Abstract :
Thomas Aquinas’s teaching on virtue, which includes reference to conscience,
offers a rich and solid moral teaching for the twenty-first century. Integral to this teaching on
Christian virtue are the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The gifts of counsel (paired with prudence)
and wisdom (paired with charity) are particularly relevant for formation of conscience.
These gifts provide a docility to the instinctum divinum necessary for proper formation of
one’s own conscience, particularly in the context of contemporary dialogue with the Church
and the world.
Keywords : conscience, synderesis, virtue, gifts of the Holy Spirit, counsel, wisdom, prudence, instinctum divinum
The Search for Tabique Pampango in the Philippines (PHILIPPINIANA RECORDS)
- DOI :
- https://doi.org/10.55997/2006pslix179pr1
- Author/s :
- Regalado Trota José
Abstract :
Encountered in archival documents and historical accounts, the part of a building
curiously known as tabique pampango is virtually unknown today. In general terms, tabique
pampango refers to a thin wall of interwoven wooden or bamboo stakes and finished with
a coating of lime plaster. Tabique is Spanish for any thin or partition wall. The descriptive
pampango refers to the people of Pampanga, many of whom served in the colonial military.
As we shall see, this type of construction was widely practiced throughout the Spanish
colonial Philippines. The procedure for this type of wall, practiced by peoples around the
world since ancient times, is the local version of what is referred to in architectural parlance
as ‘wattle and daub.’ The earliest known reference to the technique dates from the early years
of the 18th century. The earliest available mention of tabique pampango is from 1799. It was
banned by the so-called Manila Earthquake Ordinances of 1880, though its construction
continued elsewhere after that date.
Keywords : church architecture, earth architecture, earthquake ordinances, Pampangos, wattle and daub.
La diócesis de Nueva Cáceres en 1792 según la visita de su obispo, Fr. Domingo Collantes, O.P. (1ª parte) [PHILIPPINIANA RECORDS]
- DOI :
- https://doi.org/10.55997/2007pslix179pr2
- Author/s :
- Cayetano Sánchez Fuertes, O.F.M.
Abstract :
En el presente artículo, se ofrece el relato de una extensa e interesante visita
realizada por el obispo dominico Domingo Collantes a casi todos los pueblos de su diócesis
de Nueva Cáceres en 1791. En ella se describen detalladamente casi todos los pueblos de su
diócesis, incluyendo no solo Aspectos religiosos, sino también topográficos, económicos,
sociológicos, antropológicos, urbanísticos, comerciales, etc. Resulta, por tanto, de sumo
interés para los historiadores y estudiosos de múltiples ciencias de Filipinas.
Keywords : Fray Domingo Collantes, diócesis de Nueva Cáceres, visita diocesana, Iglesia en Filipinas (siglo XVIII).
Anantanand, Rambachan. Pathways to Hindu-Christian Dialogue. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2022. pp. 158. ISBN: 978-1506474601. (REVIEWS & NOTICES)
- DOI :
- https://doi.org/10.55997/2008pslix179br1
- Author/s :
- Lesley John Louvis, O.P.
Abstract :
Keywords :
Baron, Scarlett. The Birth of Intertextuality: The Riddle of Creativity. New York & London: Routledge, 2020. pp. 381. ISBN: 978-0-415-89904-8. (REVIEWS & NOTICES)
- DOI :
- https://doi.org/10.55997/2009pslix179br2
- Author/s :
- Yustinus Suwartono
Abstract :
Keywords :
Tyler, Peter. The Living Philosophy of Edith Stein. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. pp. 237. ISBN: 978-1-3502-6556-1. (REVIEWS & NOTICES)
- DOI :
- https://doi.org/10.55997/2010pslix179br3
- Author/s :
- Jose Adriand Emmanuel L. Layug
Abstract :
Keywords :
Wojtyla, Karol. The Lublin Lectures and Works on Max Scheler. The English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II. Volume 2. Edited by Antonio Lopez et al. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2023. pp. 609. ISBN: 978-0-8132-3677-3. (REVIEWS & NOTICES)
- DOI :
- https://doi.org/10.55997/2011pslix179br4
- Author/s :
- Blaise D. Ringor
Abstract :
Keywords :
Galindo, David Rex. To Sin No More: Franciscans and Conversion in the Hispanic World, 1683-1830. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. pp. 330. ISBN: 978-1-5036- 0326-4. (REVIEWS & NOTICES)
- DOI :
- https://doi.org/10.55997/2012pslix179br5
- Author/s :
- Argene Águila Clasara
Abstract :
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Editor's Note
Jesus M. Miranda, Jr., OP
Once again, Philippiniana Sacra welcomes you to its open-access website. Its aim to facilitate the fluid curation and circulation of knowledge on ecclesiastical disciplines continues.
Looking forward to the next three years, the journal is glad to announce the Jubilees of St. Thomas Aquinas: the 700th year of his canonization is celebrated this year; the 750th anniversary of his Dies Natalis (death) in 2024, and the 8th centenary of his birth in 2025.
While the journal continues to publish the most relevant research articles in the areas of Ecclesiastical Sciences and Church history, research articles on Thomistic studies are most welcome for submission within these three years to highlight the festivities of the Angelic Doctor.
We also invite you to check the latest academic lectures, fora, seminars, and conferences announced in the Reviews and Notices section of the journal.
May we be reminded of the words of Thomas Aquinas, “The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men” (Summa Contra Gentiles).
May the love for knowledge be our common inspiration as we pursue our passion for lifelong learning.
Philippiniana Sacra wishes you to have an enjoyable academic journey ahead.
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