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Theological Studies
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June 1, 2026
This essay reassesses the life and legacy of the Salvadoran martyr and saint Óscar Romero, focusing on his relationship to liberation theology. Drawing on his writings before and after becoming archbishop in 1977, I argue that the theological category of l ...
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Journal of Moral Theology
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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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Agriculture and Human Values
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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 of Catholic Social Thought
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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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Religions
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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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International Journal of Systematic Theology
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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 of Moral Theology
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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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Modern Theology
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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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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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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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Modern Theology
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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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Communio: International Catholic Review
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September 2019
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