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11 The Divinity of Christ and Social Justice -D. Thomas Hughson, S.J. I 148

12 "He Will Baptize You with the Holy Spirit": Recovering a Meta-phor for a Contemporary Pneumatological Soteriology -D. Lyle Dabney I 176

13 A Chaste Marriage: Matthias Scheeben's (Western) Doctrine of Deification- Richard J. Barry I 185

14 Spirit -Christology and the Shape of the Theological Enterprise - Andrew Grosso I 206

IV: Theological Dimensions of Biblical Interpretation 15 The Facecloth of John 20:7- David Coffey I 225 16 The Book ofJob and God's Existence- Matthew Levering I 231 17 Reformation Controversy and Biblical Interpretation

- R. R. Reno I 241 18 Baptism, Unity, and Crucifying the Flesh

- Rodrigo J. Morales I 249

V: Ecumenical Dimensions of Christian Theology 19 Mary and Inculturation- Peter J. Casarella I 265 20 Ghosts ofWestphalia: Fictions and Ideals ofEcclesial Unity

in Enlightenment Germany- Ulrich L. Lehner I 283 21 "An Irony of Enthusiasm": The Reversal of Luther's Epithet in the

Enlightenment- Paul R. Hinlicky I 302 22 Reading Kant Ecumenically: Prolegomena to an Anthropology of

Hope in the Aftermath of Modernity- Philip J. Rossi, S.J. I 316

Epilogue: The Homily Preached at the Funeral of Ralph Del Colle -Joseph G. Mueller, S.J. I 331

Opera: The Theology and Witness of Ralph Del Colle (1954-2012) I 335

Preface

IN JuNE OF 2012 Ralph was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of liver cancer; estimates on how long he had left ranged from weeks to months. When some of us in the Department learned of Ralph's illness we decided that we wanted to recognize his many accomplishments. We contacted some of his friends in the academic world to contribute to a Festschrift in his honor. We hoped to publish the book and present it to Ralph, so we worked with very short deadlines. The tasks of organizing, funding, and editing this volume were shared amongst Ralph's friends and colleagues in the Department of Theology at Marquette University: Michel Barnes, Lyle Dabney, Ulrich Lehner, Steve Long, Mickey Mattox, and Joseph Mueller, S.J. This Festschrift has had two purposes. The first was to give Ralph a sense of how important he was to so many people. Despite the fact that Ralph died before this collection could be published, it achieved this purpose, for Ralph knew of this Festschrift and its con-tributors, and saw a photo proof of the cover. He was very moved by the collection, and asked us to include an essay he was working on furthering his thoughts on Spirit -Christology. The second purpose of this Festschrift was to honor Ralph's many and diverse accomplishments. We hope that we have accomplished this.

Theologians are, relatively speaking, a dime a dozen. There are many theologians who basically work a "day job;' and the product of that day job is not theology but helping along the revolution. Theology was never a day job for Ralph: it was an intellectual, spiritual, emotional, and social vocation. With his death, Ralph's thought is now free of its Departmental! Institutional/Guild normalization: his theology can take on a life of its own. It is now more difficult to pigeonhole his work, or to dismiss him by locating him on some political/ideological spectrum. Ralph is dead, but his theology is about to become very much alive. Ralph felt that he had much more to say, much more to do, and this was undoubtedly true. But in his death Ralph is about to accomplish something that did not happen in his life: Ralph's theology will become a light. Ralph's passage into death-the last four weeks of his life-gave us a firm hermeneutical guide into

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Since his death on Sunday, July 29th, 2012, Ralph Del Colle's theol-ogy is not only inseparable from his life, but it has also become insepa-rable from his death. His death at 57 was not the vocation his friends, family, or he himself anticipated, or for which anyone prayed. Even as he was dying Ralph was a powerful witness. Soon after the initial diagno-sis on June 21st, Ralph knew that he was dying and thereafter he never wavered from accepting that very soon he would be dead. He spoke honestly about death, and required those around to speak this truth. Yet Ralph also refused any bravado. He showed those around him how to die as a faithful disciple of Christ.

The New Testament passage that Ralph chose for his funeral Mass was Philippians 3:17-4:1:

Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.

Those of us who heard this passage in church that morning could easily imagine Ralph reading these words aloud to us. Ralph would have read these words not to call attention to himself, but to recall the struggle that belonged to every Christian: the struggle to set our minds on spiritual good, and the struggle to preserve the faith from enemies of the cross of Christ. The cover of this volume is a photograph of St. Joan of Arc chapel on the campus of Marquette University: we chose this photo as a cover because Ralph could regularly be found at this small chapel, for Mass or for personal prayer. Ralph did not flinch over the fact that the chapel was

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Without the generous spirit shown to us by Jim Tedrick and Christian Amondson at Wipf & Stock Publishers, this volume could not have been published, and we are grateful for their gracious participation. We are also grateful to his Eminence, Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, who volunteered to write a preface for this Festschrift, and to Monsignor Juan Usma Gomez, Head of the Western Section, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Vatican City, for his letter describ-ing Ralph's contributions to Ecumenical dialogue. We also need to thank Julia Pananen Barnes, who worked long hours under deadline copyediting the essays.

May the angels escort Ralph into paradise; at his coming may the martyrs welcome him, and conduct him to the holy city Jerusalem. May a choir of angels receive Ralph, and may he find rest with Lazarus, who once was poor.

Michel Rene Barnes

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A Man of the Church Honoring the Theology, Life, and Witness of Ralph Del Colle

Edited by ; MICHEL RENE BARNES

~PICKWICK Publications Eugene, Oregon