Author
Rodney Howsare
Rodney Howsare is professor of theology at DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania.
Bibliography
Articles in Communio
4 Articles
God’s Universal Salvific Will and the Mission of Communio
Appears in The Unity and Mission of the Church Communio at 50 Years · Winter 2022 · Vol. 49, No. 4
“When God gives the gift of finite freedom, he really gives it, and therefore genuinely allows himself to be conditioned by it.”
Tradition as Gift: On the Theologian’s Responsibility to Tradition
Appears in Tradition · Winter 2017 · Vol. 44, No. 4
“Any theology that does not serve that which we first adore and which cannot be translated into holy action is not truly theology.”
Flannery O’Connor and the City
Appears in The City · Winter 2016 · Vol. 43, No. 4
“It seems that the cities in O’Connor’s stories are there precisely in order to alert us to something that concerns us all. The modern megalopolis, after all, is our invention and, as with all inventions, it tells us something about its inventors.”
Why Begin With Love? Eros, Agape, and the Problem of Secularism
Appears in Deus Caritas Est: A Symposium · Fall 2006 · Vol. 33, No. 3
“Benedict’s particular construal of the eros-agape relationship is uniquely suited to provide a Christian response to secularism that neither preserves Christian distinctiveness at the cost of its worldly mission, nor emphasizes the Church’s worldly mission at the expense of its identity as Christian .”