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Trinitarian Intimations in Bach’s The Art of Fugue

Robert P. Imbelli

In his magisterial study Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, Christoph Wolff treats at length Bach’s The Art of Fugue. He writes: “The Art of Fugue, though linked to...

What Henri de Lubac Would Think of the Synod on Synodality

Robert P. Imbelli

Henri de Lubac, S.J., one of the twentieth century’s greatest Catholic theologians, was among the prominent figures in the ressourcement movement that prepared the way for Vatican II. Indeed,...

A Bodily Faith

Robert P. Imbelli

Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego recently published a long and provocative article in America magazine. It has already garnered both grateful praise and pointed criticism. Count me among...

What Benedict Saw

Robert P. Imbelli

Through successive waves of “downsizing,” and painful parting with many treasured books, I have carefully retained one volume: number 17 of the formidable series published before and during Vatican...

Philosophy Perfected by Christ

Robert P. Imbelli

The Unchanging Truth of God?Crucial Philosophical Issues for Theologyby thomas g. guarinocua, 264 pages, $34.95 Monsignor Thomas Guarino, emeritus professor of theology at Seton Hall University, is well-known to...

Soli Deo Gloria

Robert P. Imbelli

Austrian-born conductor Manfred Honeck is the father of six and a devout Catholic. He attends Mass several times a week and prays before each concert. Since 2008, he has...

Praying with Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis

Robert P. Imbelli

In book ten of the Confessions, Saint Augustine explores the mystery of memory. At one point he exclaims: “Great is the power of memory, a thing, O my God,...

The Hour of Jesus

Robert P. Imbelli

Jesus Becoming Jesus, Volume 2:A Theological Interpretation of the Gospel of John: Prologue and the Book of Signsby thomas g. weinandy catholic university of america press, 484 pages, $34.95 Fr....

The Infidelity of the Present

Robert P. Imbelli

It did not require great perspicacity to predict some of the fevered negative reactions to the recent statement of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declaring the...

Revealing God

Robert P. Imbelli

Engaging the Doctrine of Revelation: The Mediation of the Gospel through Church and Scripture by matthew levering baker academic, 384 pages, $44.99 M atthew Levering’s prodigious scholarly output, his...