Scott Hahn - Letter & Spirit, Volume 5: Liturgy and Empire: Faith in Exile and Political Theology

Editor

Scott W. Hahn

Managing Editor

David Scott

Contributing Scholars

Joseph C. Atkinson, Catholic University of America

William Bales , Mount St. Mary's Seminary

Robert Barron, Mundelein Seminary

John Bergsma , Franciscan University of Steuebenville

Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B., Mount Angel Seminary

David Fagerberg, University of Notre Dame

Pablo Gadenz , Seton Hall University

Michael Giesler , Wespine Study Center

Gregory Yuri Glazov , Seton Hall University

Tim Gray, St. John Vianney Seminary

Mary Healy , Ave Maria University

Daniel Keating, Sacred Heart Seminary

William Kurz, S.J., Marquette University

Thomas J. Lane, Mount St. Mary's Seminary

Matthew Levering, University of Dayton

Joseph Lienhard, S.J., Fordham University

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Seton Hall University

Terrence Prendergast, Archdiocese of Ottowa

Brant Pitre , Notre Dame Seminary

Thomas Scheck, Ave Maria University

Edward Sri, Augustine Institute

James H. Swetnam, S.J., Pontifical Biblical Institute

Michael Waldstein, International Theological Institute

Thomas G. Weinandy, O.F.M. Cap., U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

Robert Louis Wilken, University of Virginia

Peter Williamson, Sacred Heart Major Seminary

Episcopal Advisor

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

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L ITURGY AND E MPIRE :
Faith in Exile and Political Theology

Liturgy and Empire: Prophetic Historiography and Faith in Exile in 12 Chronicles
Scott W. Hahn

Cultic Kingdoms in Conflict in the Book of Daniel
John Bergsma

Worship in the Spirit of Logos : Romans 12:12 and the Source and Summit of Christian Life
Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B.

A Liturgical Conversion of the Imagination: Worship and Ethics in 1 Corinthians
Rodrigo J. Morales

Jesus, the Messianic Banquet, and the Kingdom of God
Brant Pitre

Charity and Empire: Is Trinitarian Monotheism Violent?
Matthew Levering

Biblical Interpretation and Theology: Irenaeus, Modernity, and Vatican II
Robert Barron

Liturgy, Social Justice, and the Mystical Body of Christ: The Vision of Virgil Michel
David Fagerberg

Lectures on 2 Thessalonians: A New Translation
St. Thomas Aquinas, trans. Jeremy Holmes

The Two Economies of Divine Government: Satan and Christ in the New Testament and Early Christian Tradition
Louis Bouyer

The Morality of Exile: Biblical Aspects of the Theme of Faith and Politics
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI

C ONTRIBUTORS

Scott W. Hahn

Scott W. Hahn, founder of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, holds the Pope Benedict XVI Chair of Biblical Theology and Liturgical Proclamation at St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and is professor of Scripture and Theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. He has held the Pio Cardinal Laghi Chair for Visiting Professors in Scripture and Theology at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, and has served as adjunct faculty at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross and the Pontifical University, Regina Apostolorum, both in Rome. Hahn is the general editor of the Ignatius Study Bible and the Catholic Bible Dictionary, and is author or editor of more than twenty books, including Kinship By Covenant: A Canonical Approach to the Fulfillment of God's Saving Promises (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library, 2009), Covenant and Communion: The Biblical Theology of Pope Benedict XVI (2009), Letter and Spirit: From Written Text to Living Word in the Liturgy (2005), Understanding the Scriptures (2005), and The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth (1999).

John Bergsma

John Bergsma is associate professor of theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, in Steubenville, Ohio. He received his Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, where he specialized in the study of the Old Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls. He holds Master of Divinity and Master of Theology degrees from Calvin Seminary, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and served as a Protestant pastor for four years before entering the Catholic Church in 2001. Bergsma is the author of The Jubilee from Leviticus to Qumran: A History of Interpretation (2007), published in the Vetus Testamentum Supplements series. His academic articles on the Old Testament, Second Temple Literature, and the Dead Sea Scrolls have appeared in Vetus Testamentum , Biblica , Dead Sea Discoveries , Journal of Biblical Literature , and in various theological lexicons, festschrifts, and conference volumes, including most recently Exile and Restoration Revisited: Essays on the Babylonian and Persian Periods in Memory of Peter R. Ackroyd (2009) and Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees (2009).

Jeremy Driscoll, O. S. B.