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Thomas Aquinas and the Potential Catholic Integration of a Dynamic Occasionalist Understanding of Grace (2020)
Journal Article
Murray, P. D. (2020). Thomas Aquinas and the Potential Catholic Integration of a Dynamic Occasionalist Understanding of Grace. International Journal of Systematic Theology, 22(1), 83-112. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12394

Starting out from John Barclay's Lutheran‐inclined, actualist reading of the in‐breaking quality of grace and the Spirit in Paul, this article asks how a Catholic theology of grace – typically more focused on identifying the relatively stable structu... Read More about Thomas Aquinas and the Potential Catholic Integration of a Dynamic Occasionalist Understanding of Grace.

Ecclesiology as Political Theology: On Delivering on a Transformative Strategic Orientation in Ecclesiology (2019)
Journal Article
Murray, P. D. (2019). Ecclesiology as Political Theology: On Delivering on a Transformative Strategic Orientation in Ecclesiology. Theological Studies, 80(4), 822-844. https://doi.org/10.1177/0040563919874516

This three-section article reappraises both Edward Schillebeeckx’s continuing significance and the relationship between ecclesiology and political theology. Having identified two differing sets of concerns within political theology, the first section... Read More about Ecclesiology as Political Theology: On Delivering on a Transformative Strategic Orientation in Ecclesiology.

Receptive Ecumenism; Eine Einfuhrung (2016)
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Murray, P. D. (2016). Receptive Ecumenism; Eine Einfuhrung. Theologische Quartalschrift (München), 196, 235-247. https://doi.org/10.14623/thq.2016.3.235-247

Der Beitrag zeigt, dass das rezeptive ökumenische Lernen – die Erneuerung und Befähigung durch den getrennten Anderen – der einzige Weg ist, wie sich die gegenwärtig getrennten christlichen Traditionen auf eine volle Einheit hin bewegen können. In di... Read More about Receptive Ecumenism; Eine Einfuhrung.

Ecclesia et Pontifice: On Delivering on the Ecclesiological Implications of Evangelii Gaudium (2016)
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Murray, P. D. (2016). Ecclesia et Pontifice: On Delivering on the Ecclesiological Implications of Evangelii Gaudium. Ecclesiology: The Journal for Ministry, Mission and Unity, 12(1), 13-33. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455316-01201005

This article analyses the ecclesiological implications of Pope Francis’s 2013 Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium from the perspective of critical-constructive systematic ecclesiology. The analysis proceeds in three stages. The first, expository,... Read More about Ecclesia et Pontifice: On Delivering on the Ecclesiological Implications of Evangelii Gaudium.

The Reception of ARCIC I and II in Europe and Discerning the Strategy and Agenda for ARCIC III (2015)
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Murray, P. D. (2015). The Reception of ARCIC I and II in Europe and Discerning the Strategy and Agenda for ARCIC III. Ecclesiology: The Journal for Ministry, Mission and Unity, 11(2), 199-218. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455316-01102005

This essay derives from an address to the inaugural meeting of the third major phase of work of the Anglican – Roman Catholic International Commission (arcic) at the Monastery of Bose, Italy in May 2011. arcic is the official organ for formal bilater... Read More about The Reception of ARCIC I and II in Europe and Discerning the Strategy and Agenda for ARCIC III.

Theology 'Under the Lash' : Theology as Idolatry Critique in the Work of Nicholas Lash (2007)
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Murray, P. D. (2007). Theology 'Under the Lash' : Theology as Idolatry Critique in the Work of Nicholas Lash. New Blackfriars, 88(1013), 4-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-2005.2006.00131.x

‘It has, in these postmodern times, become a little easier to win a hearing for the suggestion that Ideologiekritik is always, in the last analysis, critique of idolatry.’ ‘[T]he critical dimension of the theological task is to be sought in the direc... Read More about Theology 'Under the Lash' : Theology as Idolatry Critique in the Work of Nicholas Lash.

On Valuing Truth in Practice : Rome's Postmodern Challenge (2006)
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Murray, P. D. (2006). On Valuing Truth in Practice : Rome's Postmodern Challenge. International Journal of Systematic Theology, 8(2), 163-183. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2400.2006.00189.x

This essay probes whether there can be any real and fruitful dialogue between Roman Catholic self-understanding in relation to truth and postmodern questioning of the value of all such truth-talk, at least as traditionally conceived. After an introdu... Read More about On Valuing Truth in Practice : Rome's Postmodern Challenge.

“The Lasting Significance of Karl Rahner for Contemporary Catholic Theology” (2004)
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Murray, P. D. (2004). “The Lasting Significance of Karl Rahner for Contemporary Catholic Theology”. Louvain Studies, 29(1-2), 8-27. https://doi.org/10.2143/ls.29.1.505245

This essay starts out by identifying two contrary but equally inadequate ways in which to receive Rahner’s theological legacy, each of which serves to distort and diminish his true lasting significance for contemporary Catholic theology. Where one wo... Read More about “The Lasting Significance of Karl Rahner for Contemporary Catholic Theology”.