Gerald O’Collins's research while affiliated with Australian Catholic University and other places
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Publications (42)
My The Second Vatican Council on Other Religions (Oxford University Press) appeared in 2012. In 2014 it went into a paperback edition, which allowed me to list some reviews and promise to enter into dialogue with all the reviewers. This article takes up such dialogue and discusses what came from nine reviewers. Glenn Siniscalchi wrote two reviews....
Vatican II partly dismantled the separation between the hierarchy as teachers ( ecclesia docens) and the laity as believers ( ecclesia discens). The Council recognized the prophetic function of baptized lay persons, noting in particular the function of parents and catechists and reiterating the guidance of the Holy Spirit received by the whole chur...
This article argues that, unlike some exegetes (e.g. Francis Moloney), Thomas Torrance correctly interpreted Mark 16:19–20 in support of a theology of the ascended Christ's continuing prophetic activity. In the ministry of the Word, Christ remains present and at work witnessing to himself. This prophetic office, associated with and not to be separa...
This article examines the contribution made by the publishing house of Herder to the reception of the teaching and decisions of Vatican II (1962–1965). This input began with the five volumes of Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II (German original 1966–1968), edited by Herbert Vorgrimler and including contributions from twenty-one authors who...
This article aims at reinstating an older interpretation (offered e.g. by R. H. Lightfoot) of the astonishment, fear, and silent flight with which three women responded to the message they heard from the angel in Jesus's open and empty tomb. It was an appropriate reaction to the astonishing revelation of the resurrection. The article argues that th...
Constantly and correctly holding together Christology (Christ in himself) and soteriology (Christ for us and for the world), Professor Kim, who has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and teaches at Youngnam Theological University and Seminary, South Korea, first treats the classical topics that emerge from the Bible and the early church council...
Luke, and not least in the infancy narratives, introduces parallels, which, featuring similarities and differences, enrich the story and theological meaning. In a parallel not fully appreciated by Bovon, Tannehill, and other commentators, Luke links Mary and Simeon through the themes of ‘slave’, ‘word’, and in other ways. This article explores seve...
1 Corinthians 13:4–8a uses sixteen verbs (active in meaning and in the present tense) to express positive and negative characteristics of agapē (love). This choice of verbs sets Paul’s hymn to love apart from other passages where he presents characteristics of love but not through an exclusive use of verbs (e.g., Rom 12:9–21). Some commentators (e....
A richly documented study which ends with a comprehensive, 30-page bibliography, this work explores the need for Christ’s priesthood, its agency, its actions, and its goals. It raises such questions as: even if human beings had not sinned, would there be a need for Christ’s priesthood? The (Brazilian) author insists that calling Christ the high pri...
Paul’s address in Pisidian Antioch seems to differ from Luke 23:50–6 by attributing to those responsible for Jesus’ crucifixion his deposition from the cross and burial in a tomb (Acts 13:27–31). In his major commentary on Luke, François Bovon argued that ‘Jews hostile to Jesus and not a friendly Joseph of Arimathea buried the crucified one. The tr...
The history of Jesus as portrayed in the Fourth Gospel, not least his relationship with Peter and the Beloved Disciple and his role as light and life of the world, rose with him in the final Easter episode (Ch. 21). The questioning style of Jesus and the love exhibited and commanded by him also rose again in that resurrection narrative. Further the...
This article responds to Massimo Faggioli's desire for early traditions that could be retrieved and supply a theological and moral vision for reforming the Roman Curia, the collaborators of the Bishop of Rome. From the New Testament we have scarce information about Peter's 'co-workers.' Seven certainly authentic letters of Paul, however, show such...
Despite widespread neglect, the doctrine of God’s self-revelation in Christ draws some attention from handbooks and encyclopaedias. It has also been recently examined by analytic philosophers and experts in liturgy. Some writers continue to give a primacy to the propositional view of faith and revelation; others still confuse revelation with biblic...
In his sermons, Answer to Faustus a Manichean , and other works, Augustine insisted that belief in Christ's resurrection establishes the identity and defines the faith of Christians. In justifying resurrection belief, he appealed to evidence from (1) created nature and (2) human history, and to (3) the desires and experiences of those he addressed....
Jacques Dupuis, Paul Griffiths, and other scholars investigate the salvation available for those of other religions rather than the question of the divine revelation to which they might respond with faith. Biblical usage illustrates how faith is a diversified reality, including faith as content (fides quae) and as commitment (fides qua). Faith, des...
This article gathers and develops some fragmentary suggestions made by theologians and Pope John Paul II about tradition as the collective memory of the church. In the light of insights coming from anthropology, history, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and sociology, the article proposes twelve ways for enriching a theology of tradition. Mode...
This article critically examines the views of Jacques Dupuis, Gavin D'Costa, and Francis Sullivan on the church's intercession for those of other living faiths or of no faith at all. After clarifying what the Scholastic terminology of “final” and “moral” causality means, it shows how 1 Timothy and Vatican II's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy elu...
The charism of biblical inspiration also includes the special impact of the Sacred Scriptures on those who read or hear them. This article examines three examples of such an impact: in the lives of St Antony of Egypt, St Augustine of Hippo, and Girolamo Savonarola, who were deeply affected by Matthew 19:21, Romans 13:13–14, and Genesis 12:1, respec...
This article first tackles the translation of the language for the Easter appearances used in 1 Corinthians 15:5-8 and elsewhere in the New Testament. It then examines the nature of these 'Christophanies.' It argues that the language used by the New Testament witnesses suggests some perception with the eyes, albeit a 'graced' seeing, on the part of...
This article begins by taking up various questions raised by those who reviewed G. O’Collins, Rethinking Fundamental Theology: Toward a New Fundamental Theology (Oxford University Press, 2011). It then retrieves some valuable literature that concerns fundamental theology and that has recently appeared in such areas as natural signs of the existence...
This article enters into dialogue with the reviewers of three books, all of which concerned the redemptive ‘work’ of Christ ‘for us’: S. T. Davis, D. Kendall, and G. O’Collins (eds.), The Redemption (2004), G. O’Collins, Jesus Our Redeemer (2007), and G. O’Collins, Salvation forAll (2009). The aim is to carry forward debates that concern the biblic...
Systematic Theology: Roman Catholic Perspectives (Second Edition). Edited by FiorenzaFrancis Schüssler and GalvinJohn P.. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2011. xxxi + 661 pages. $49.00 (paper). - Volume 38 Issue 2 - Gerald O'Collins
The article evaluates what seven authors (from Terrence Merrigan in 2005 to Keith Johnson in 2011) have written about Jacques Dupuis's theology of religions. Dupuis died in 2004, but the debate about his views continues vigorously. When discussing the mediation of salvation, some, like Dupuis himself, attend to the church's prayers for "others." Bu...
Those, like Karl Rahner and Jacques Dupuis, who led the way in developing a theology of religions did not introduce reflections drawn from the priesthood of Christ. Those very few (e.g. Robert Sherman) who reflect on the priesthood of Christ have not appreciated the possibilities it offers for a theology of religions. After drawing on Hebrews, Paul...
This article critically evaluates what Vatican II taught about other living faiths in four documents: the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Sacrosanctum Concilium, 1963), the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium, 1964), the Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (Nostra Aetate,1965) and the Decree on th...
This article continues the scholarly conversation about the ideas presented in the author’s major work Christology. Responding to the comments of reviewers, the article considers some of the general issues raised by the book’s approach and treatment of tradition and scholarship. It concludes by offering further reflections on four of the key constr...
The article examines changes in teaching and practice endorsed by Vatican II. What "combination of continuity and discontinuity" (Pope Benedict XVI) shaped those reforms? Several conciliar documents set out principles guiding the changes by retrieving neglected traditions (ressourcement) and bringing the church's life up to date (aggiornamento). Th...
The article shows how the role of Peter as the official witness to the resurrection of Jesus Christ continues to be neglected by such scholars as Martin Hengel, Christian Grappe, and Rudolf Pesch. Paul, Mark, Luke (in both his Gospel and Acts), and John offer historical and theological grounds for interpreting Peter's primary (but not exclusive) ro...
This book identifies the distinguishing features of fundamental theology, as distinct from philosophical theology, natural theology, apologetics, and other similar disciplines. Addressing the potential for confusion about basic Christian claims and beliefs, it sets out to relaunch fundamental theology as a discipline by presenting a coherent vision...
This article describes and evaluates what the teaching of Vatican II has contributed to the development of fundamental theology in four areas: (1) the salvific self-revelation or self-communication of the tripersonal God; (2) the conditions that enable human beings to respond to this divine self-communication with faith; (3) the credibility of God’...
On Christmas Day 2007, Channel Four took its viewers for two hours on an alleged search for ‘the real Jesus’. The programme largely failed to introduce any real experts; there were errors and painful gaps in the ‘information’ provided; there was hardly any recognition that, over and over again, there was another side to the positions being presente...
In Jeffrey Archer's The Gospel According to Judas, Judas dismisses the virginal conception of Jesus as no more than another example of ‘Greek myths that tell of gods in heaven who produce offspring following a union with women of this earth’. To attribute such a view to a first-century Jew like Judas seems strange, since the earliest evidence shows...
In Lumen gentium (November 1964), Nostra aetate (October 1965), Ad gentes (December 1965), and Gaudium et spes (December 1965), Vatican II broke new ground for understanding and interpreting relations between Christ as universal Saviour, the Catholic Church, and the religions of the world. But the Council left the question open: how can we rightly...
Citations
... 31 Even though Kurt Flasch wrote that Cusanus' ecumenism was overvalued, 32 it is undeniable that in the Catholic intellectual environment after the Second Vatican Council the interest in Cusanus' religious-political praxis as well as theory grew considerably. 33 In 1970 Rudolf Haubst, who belongs among the prominent scholars on Cusanus of the twentieth century (and who strove to prove catholic legitimacy of Cusanus' theology and philosophy in confrontation with Thomistic interpretation), contributed greatly to convening a representative conference with the topic of Cusanus' ecumenism. 34 To what extent Cusanus is important for this dialogue is highlighted by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) who highly values Cusanus' "remarkable book entitled De Pace fidei". ...
... The Declaration most clearly states that the foremost system of government is one that permits people to worship as they please. It challenged the view that "error has no rights" (Pesch 2014;O'Collins 2012), and it suggested that while natural law required all states to protect the rights of Catholics where they were a minority, the same obligation was beholden on Catholic states vis-à-vis other minorities (Anderson 2009). It taught that "within every human person was a sanctum sanctorum, a holy of holies, into which the coercive power of the state could not tread" (Weigel 1992, p. 72). ...
... 51;O'Collins (2012). 32 Cels. ...
