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[Today theologians are as often lay as cleric. Vatican H reshaped the nature of this vocation as a charism located with the prophetic office of the people of God. Originally theologians were bishops, then monks, then Scholastic thinkers. Prior to Vatican II, changes in theology affected the theological vocation: a shift in the understanding of the magisterium, changes in methodology, and renewed attention to Pneumatology enabled the birth of the new cadre. However, the relation between the institutional Church and its lay theologians remains a work in progress.], SOME TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO on a November evening a ceremony for the conferral of the doctorate in theology was underway. (1) The place was the University of St. Michael's College [...]

FIVE MODELS OF SPIRITUAL DIRECTION IN THE EARLY CHURCH. By George E. Demacopoulos. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame, 2007. Pp. x + 275. $30. Demacopoulos opens his interesting [...]

AVERY DULLES In June 1997, Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston aroused great indignation by writing that the Catholic Theological Society of America 'has become an association of advocacy for theological [...]

Over the course of the last 30 years, inclusive education has emerged as a key aim of education policies around the world. Also in Europe, most countries took efforts to make their education systems more inclusive—which led to growing numbers of children and young persons with disabilities in general education in Europe. The implementation processes of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) fuelled these efforts. However, as some authors have argued, not all students with disabilities seem to have benefited in the same way from these developments—such as children and young persons with intellectual disability (ID). This paper aims to explore this phenomenon in more depth by comparing some measures in relation to the implementation processes of the UNCRPD of seven European countries. Doing so, we analyze trends in placements (mainstream and special schools) of students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) in general and of students with intellectual disability specifically. As we show, an increase of students identified as having SEN in mainstream schools can be observed in all countries during the implementation process of the UNCRPD. However, in comparison to this rather broad group of learners, the percentage of students with intellectual disability in mainstream settings did not increase as much. Furthermore, the calculation of the "exclusion rate" revealed that this group of learners remains a key population of special schools. These results need to be understood as effects of specific shortcomings in the implementation of the UNCRPD, as we discuss in a further section. We conclude our paper with recommendations on future research and policies on inclusive education regarding students with intellectual disability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AGAINST THE HERESIES (BOOK 3). By St. Irenaeus of Lyons. Translated from the Latin and annotated by Dominic J. Unger, O.F.M. Cap. Introduction and revisions by Irenaeus M. C. Steenberg. [...]

THE NEW PROPHECY & 'NEW VISIONS': EVIDENCE OF MONTANISM IN THE PASSION OF PERPETUA AND FELICITAS. By Rex D. Butler. Patristic Monograph Series 18. Washington: Catholic University of America, 2006. [...]

THE HOLY FAMILY AND ITS LEGACY: RELIGIOUS IMAGINATION FROM THE GOSPELS TO STAR WARS. By Albrecht Koschorke. Translated from the German by Thomas Dunlap. New York: Columbia University, 2003. Pp [...]

Presents an insight in the anthropology of Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons late in the second century which promotes the idea that the glory of God is the living human. Context of Irenaeus' book 'Adversus haereses'; Theological methodology promoted by the work; Various interpretations of the text; Humanity of Irenaeus.