Journal ArticleJournal of Moral Theology · July 31, 2025
We are witnessing an era of unprecedented migration across the Americas, as people are forced to flee due to hunger, political and criminal violence, and climate change. This essay draws on the wisdom of the martyred and sainted archbishop of San S ...
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Book · June 30, 2025
This Element draws on the transdisciplinary field of agroecology to clarify and deepen Catholic social teaching's natural law ethic. ...
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Journal ArticleAgriculture and Human Values · June 1, 2024
What is agroecology’s moral vision, and what are the larger metaphysical, even theological, implications of it? Even though agroecology as a field now gathers collaborators from across the natural and social sciences, as well as members of farming communit ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Catholic Social Thought · 2024
This essay reads W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction and Óscar Romero’s third pastoral letter, The Church and Popular Political Organizations, as offering a liberation-driven and Gospel-minded account of coalitional solidarity. After tracing Du ...
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Journal ArticleReligions · May 30, 2023
This article explores the theme of dignity as it emerges in Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum (1891) and develops within mainstream Catholic social teaching. In expositing the grammar of dignity, I argue that, while the tradition certainly affirms dign ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Systematic Theology · April 1, 2023
As it outlines a Christian topography of the visual, this article argues that the gaze cultivated by attention to art and the gaze of mercy bear important affinities, even if particular artworks exhibit tensions with mercy. Drawing on Augustine, Dionysius ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Moral Theology · October 27, 2022
In response to court cases in Italy, Colombia, and elsewhere, in which people and communities have appealed to the legal doctrine of necessity, this essay examines the moral-theological tradition reflection on the law of necessity (ius necessitatis ...
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Journal ArticleModern Theology · April 2021
AbstractIn response to the ecological crisis, Catholic social teaching draws upon an account of natural law that appeals to natural‐ecological order and its provision of principles for tilling and keeping creation. My main ...
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Book · February 14, 2020
... fields : Óscar Romero , Catholic social teaching , and land reform / Matthew Philipp Whelan . Description : Washington , D.C .: The Catholic University of America Press , 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index . | Summary ... ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the Society of Christian Ethics · 2020
This paper engages agroecology by drawing on natural law reflection. Agroecology considers the agricultural field as an ecosystem (an agroecosystem), designing and managing agriculture on this basis. My purpose is to show how certain strands of nat ...
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Journal ArticleModern Theology · October 1, 2019
The essay focuses on the notion of ordinary violence in the homiletical and literary corpus of Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador. Focusing especially on the reality of landlessness, I attend to Romero’s characterization of the inability of people to a ...
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