Author
William L. Portier
William L. Portier holds the Mary Ann Spearin Chair in Catholic Theology at the University of Dayton.
Bibliography
Articles in Communio
10 Articles
What Kind of a World of Grace? De Lubac and the Council’s Christological Center
Appears in “Keeping the World Awake to God”: The Challenge of Vatican II · Spring-Summer 2012 · Vol. 39, no. 1-2
“The integration between the human and divine sides of the human vocation can fail on one side or the other. The hope for integration is always in via. Historically unstable rather than once for all, it requires the pursuit of holiness in the world in every generation.”
Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology and the Triumph of Maurice Blondel
Appears in The Ascension and Pentecost · Spring 2011 · Vol. 38, No. 1
“Blondel sought to ‘open up a position in philosophy through which the light of Christian revelation could pour in.’”
Thomist Resurgence
Appears in Natural Law · Fall 2008 · Vol. 35, No. 3
Here Come the Evangelical Catholics
Appears in The Hidden Life: The Mysteries of the Life of Jesus · Spring 2004 · Vol. 31, No. 1
“The dissolution of the subculture is the context in which the Second Vatican Council, and its understanding of the church-world relation in modernity, was received in the United States.”
The Eminent Evangelist From Boston”: Father Thomas A. Judge as an Evangelical Catholic
Appears in Christian Today Perils and Prospects · Summer 2003 · Vol. 30, No. 2
Fundamentalism in North America: A Modern Anti-Modernism
Appears in Faith, Metaphysics, and the Sciences · Fall 2001 · Vol. 28, No. 3
Americanism and Inculturation: 1899-1999
Appears in “You Shall Not Covet” / “The Unsettling of America” · Spring 2000 · Vol. 27, No. 1
Reason's "Rightful Autonomy" in Fides et Ratio and the Continuous Renewal of Catholic Higher Education in the United States
Appears in A Symposium on Pope John Paul Iis Fides et Ratio · Fall 1999 · Vol. 26, No. 3
Are We Really Serious When We Ask God to Deliver Us From War?
Appears in “You Shall Not Kill” / Gaudium et Spes After Thirty Years · Spring 1996 · Vol. 23, No. 1
Ministry from Above and/or Ministry from Below…
Appears in The Eucharist · Summer 1985 · Vol. 12, No. 2
"The emergence of the critical communities is an implicit protest against the modern tendency to separate the ministry from the community."