The Contributions of Leo Cardinal Scheffczyk to Mariology after Vatican II

The shortest way to introduce Leo Scheffczyk (1920–2005) to an American theological audience is probably to state that he is “the European Avery Dulles.” Such a generalization is incorrect and yet contains a kernel of truth. At the same consistory in 2001, both master theologians were created cardinals by St. John Paul II. It is also most indicative of their contributions to theology that this date coincided with the 200th birthday of Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–90), who informed their thinking in central ways. Incidentally, this was also Scheffczyk’s eighty-first birthday. In addition, both were prolific writers. Scheffczyk’s motto as cardinal indicates the breadth of his theological vision: “Evangelizare investigabiles divitias Christi” (Eph 3:8). Until his death, Scheffczyk had authored no less than 1,450 titles. Of these, more than 200 are devoted to Marian topics. It is important and beneficial for Mariologists the world over to engage this theologian, as he is considered the post-conciliar “Nestor of German-language Mariology.” During the post-conciliar “Marian ice-age”—thus the great precursor of ecumenical dialogue Cardinal Lorenz Jaeger (1892–1975)—Scheffczyk was a stalwart of Marian theology and spirituality

Laudato Si and Pope Francis’ “Hero”, Romano Guardini

The article revolves around Romano Guardini’s ideas on ecology that resounded in Pope Francis’ Laudato Si. The article shows that Guardini had an indirect influence on the conceptualization by Pope Francis of the problem of ecological education and spirituality.EMERY A. DE GAÁL – V.D. , obtained a Dimploma of Theology from the University of Munich (Röm 3,21-31 als paulinischer Austrag des bereits als Traditionsgut vorgefundenen Rechtfertigungsgedankens) and a Doctorate in Systematic Theology from Duquesne University. He is an Associate Pastor, Instructor, and a Member of Catholic-Protestant Ecumenical Dialogue in Nuremberg, Germany. He is the author of The Art of Equanimity: A Study on the Theological Hermeneutics of Saint Anselm of Canterbury and The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI – The Christocentric Shift and contributes articles and book reviews to a number of academic journals. Rev. de Gaál belongs to the American Academy of Religion, American Benedictine Academy, Catholic Theological Society of America, Medieval Academy of America, Société Internationale des Mediévistes, and the International Mariological Society. He is currently the Chairman and Professor of Dogmatic and Pre-Theology at the Mundelein Seminary.University of St. Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, IL, USABerghahn K. L. (ed.): Schillers Gedichte. (Königstein/Taunus: Athenäum, 1980).Francis, Laudato Si. Accessed 9, 24, 2019: http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html.Gaudium et Spes 22. Accessed 9, 23, 2019: http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_cons_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html.Gregory Palamas, Topics of Natural and Theological Science and on the Moral and ascetical Life: One Hundred and Fifty Texts (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1988).Guardini R., Das Ende der Neuzeit, 9th ed., (Würzburg: Echter, 1965), (English: The End of the Modern World).Guardini R., Das Ende der Neuzeit: ein Versuch zur Orientierung; Die Macht: Versuch einer Wegweisung (Ostfildern: Matthias Grünewald, 2016).Guardini R., Letters from Lake Como: Explorations in Technology and the Human Race, (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1994).Guardini R., The Church and the Catholic, (New York: Ward and Sheed, 1940).Guardini R., The End of the Modern World, (Wilmington, DE: ISI, 1998).Guiley R. E., The Quotable Saint, (New York: Checkmark Books, 2002).Irenaeus of Lyon, Adversus Haereses. Accessed 9, 24, 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20170126222027/http://earlychurchtexts.com/public/irenaeus_glory_of_god_humanity_alive.htm.Mouzet J., “Psychologie de Sartre,” in: Revue Philosophique de la France et de l’Étranger, 140 (2/2015), p. 169-186.Spengler O., The Decline of the West (New York: Knopf, 1966).1851

Sustaining the Medical Home: How PROMETHEUS Payment Can Revitalize Primary Care

Argues for reforming the current fee-for-service payment system on the PROMETHEUS model of budgeting for a comprehensive episode of care for a condition. Analyzes the implications for a sustainable patient-centered medical home model of care delivery

What Kind of Justice Today ? Expectations Of 'Good Justice', Convergences And Divergences Between Managerial And Judicial Actors And How They Fit Within Management-Oriented Values

This research aims toward a better understanding of the organizational culture(s) of the judiciary in Switzerland by analysing what 'good justice' means nowadays in this country. It seeks to clarify whether, and to what extent, expectations of 'good justice' of judicial actors (judges without managerial experience) and of managerial actors (court managers) are similar and to describe possible managerial implications that may result from this. As judges are at the heart of the judicial organization and exert a strong influence on other groups of actors (Sullivan, Warren et al. 1994), the congruence of their expectations with those of court managers will be at the centre of the analysis. Additionally, referring to the conceptual worlds of Boltanski and Thévenaut (1991), we analyze how closely these expectations are to management-oriented values. We found that almost half of expectations are common to the two groups examined and the main quoted ones are compatible to new public management (NPM) concepts. On the other hand, those expectations shared exclusively by judges relate to the human side of justice, whereas those specific to court managers focus on the way justice functions

Mozart is still blue: a comparison of sensory and verbal scales to describe qualities in music

An experiment was carried out in order to assess the use of non-verbal sensory scales for evaluating perceived music qualities, by comparing them with the analogous verbal scales. Participants were divided into two groups; one group (SV) completed a set of non-verbal scales responses and then a set of verbal scales responses to short musical extracts. A second group (VS) completed the experiment in the reverse order. Our hypothesis was that the ratings of the SV group can provide information unmediated (or less mediated) by verbal association in a much stronger way than the VS group. Factor analysis performed separately on the SV group, the VS group and for all participants shows a recurring patterning of the majority of sensory scales versus the verbal scales into different factors. Such results suggest that the sensory scale items are indicative of a different semantic structure than the verbal scales in describing music, and so they are indexing different qualities (perhaps ineffable), making them potentially special contributors to understanding musical experience

Heavy fermion d-wave superconductivity: a X-boson approach

From an extension of the periodic Anderson model (PAM) in the $U=\infty$ limit taking into account the effect of a nearest neighbor attractive interaction between $f$-electrons, we compare the obtained superconducting phase diagram of a two dimensional d-wave superconductor with the results obtained for an isotropic s-wave superconductor employing the X-boson method.Comment: Submitted to the Proceeding of the ICM 2003-Rome. Requires elsart3.cl

Search for quantum dimer phases and transitions in a frustrated spin ladder

A two-leg spin-1/2 ladder with diagonal interactions is investigated numerically. We focus our attention on the possibility of columnar dimer phase, which was recently predicted based on a reformulated bosonization theory. By using density matrix renormalization group technique and exact diagonalization method, we calculate columnar dimer order parameter, spin correlation on a rung, string order parameters, and scaled excitation gaps. Carefully using various finite-size scaling techniques, our results show no support for the existence of columnar dimer phase in the spin ladder under consideration.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures. To be published in Phys. Rev.

Non-anticommutative N=2 super-Yang-Mills theory with singlet deformation

We consider a non-anticommutative N=2 superspace with an SU(2) singlet and Lorentz scalar deformation parameter, \{\theta^{\alpha i},\theta^{\beta j}\}_\star = -2iP \e^{\alpha\beta}\e^{ij}. We exploit this unique feature of the N=2 case to construct a deformation of the non-Abelian super-Yang-Mills theory which preserves the full N=2 supersymmetry together with the SU(2) R symmetry and Lorentz invariance. The resulting action describes a kind of "heterotic special geometry" with antiholomorphic prepotential $\bar f(\bar\phi) = Tr (\bar\phi^2 (1+P\bar\phi)^{-2})$.Comment: Important change: The non-Abelian case is now covered. Some references adde