Catholic Theological Formation Series (7 vols.)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
The challenge of theological formation — the challenge to faithfully inform one’s understanding — serves as the focus of this series, with special attention given to the task of preparing priests, deacons, teachers, and leaders within the Roman Catholic tradition. Although the series is academic in tenor, it aims beyond mere academics in its integrative intellectual approach. We seek to promote a form of discourse that is professional in its conduct and spiritual in its outcomes, for theological formation is more than an exercise in academic technique. It is rather about the perfecting of a spiritual capacity: the capacity on the part of the human person to discern what is true and good.
To maintain the series’ academic tenor, future admissions will undergo double-blind peer review. This has already been done for Piercing the Clouds: Lectio Divina and Preparation for Ministry. Other volumes not formally reviewed, whose essays originated in invited lectures, still underwent editorial scrutiny and correction.
This series, then, aims to develop the habits of mind required of a sound intellect—a spiritual aptitude for the truth of God’s living Word and his Church. Most often, it will draw from the more traditional specializations of historical, systematic, moral, and biblical scholarship. Homiletics and pastoral ministry are anticipated venues as well. There will be occasions, however, when a theme is examined across disciplines and periods, for the purposes of bringing to our common consideration a thesis yet undeveloped.
Despite the variety of methodologies and topics explored, the series’ aim remains constant: to provide a sustained reflection upon the mission and ministry of Catholic theological formation of both clergy and laity alike.
Fr. Kevin Zilverberg serves as assistant professor of sacred Scripture and the founding director of Saint Paul Seminary Press at The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity.