Articles q The Liberation of the Human Person 3 Fr. Julio Meinvielle, Ph.D., S.T.D. I. Free Will and Freedom of Autonomy ...... 6 II. The Dynamism of Human Freedom in the Spiritual Life . 7 1. Man is Determined by the Search for Freedom of Autonomy ...... 9 2. God Would Be a Means for Man’s Beatification . . . 13 3. Man Setting Himself by Himself to Search for the Supernatural, Meaning, Pelagianism ...... 15 III. The Singular Person Seeks Himself ...... 17 IV. The Application of Freedom of Autonomy to Social Life . 19 V. The Subjection to the Law is Not an Infravalent End to that of Freedom in the Social Realm ...... 23 VI. Friendship is Not Above the Common Good or Justice, Nor is the Common Good an End Infravalent to that of the Singular Person ...... 27 1. Maritain Confuses Private Friendship with Civic Friendship ...... 29 2. Maritain Errs by Insinuating that Friendship Would Diminish the Excellence and Need for Justice 31 3. Maritain Errs by Defending a City of Friendships, or a Brotherly City, in which the Superiority of the Common Good is Not Acknowledged ...... 32 q “Full of grace and truth” (John 1:14): The Fullness of Knowledge in Christ and His Progressive Knowledge 39 Fr. Gustavo Andres Ayala, IVE, Ph.D. I. The Knowledge of in the Magisterium and in the Bible 41 II. The Fullness of the Human Knowledge of Christ since the Incarnation ...... 49 1. The Reasons for the Incarnation ...... 50 2. Consequences Related to our Subject ...... 51 Conclusion ...... 55 Thomistic Thoughts ...... 56 q Unending Discussion of an Already Solved Problem: The Mind-Brain Dialectic 59 Sr. Maria de la Resurreción del Castillo, SSVM, Ph.L. Introduction ...... 61 I. Most Representative Positions in the Mind-Brain Dialectic 62

vii 1. Materialistic Monism ...... 62 2. Interactionist Dualism ...... 65 II. Personal Evaluation of the Debate and Analysis of the Problematic ...... 67 III. Proposal for a Solution ...... 69 1. Recover Original Meaning of Concepts ...... 70 2. Union of Body and Soul ...... 72 Conclusion ...... 77 q A Reply to America: The Church in the Face of Commu- nism and The Church in the Face of Socialism 83 Carlos Alberto Sacheri I. The Church in the Face of ...... 85 1. The Communist Doctrine ...... 85 2. Revolutionary Praxis ...... 87 II. The Church in the Face of Socialism ...... 88 1. A Common Denominator ...... 89 2. Socialist Idea of Man ...... 90 3. Socialist Understanding of the Economy ...... 90 4. Socialist understanding of the State and of Society . 90 5. Cultural Socialism ...... 91 6. A Total Opposition ...... 91 q The Mystery of the Soul in the Christian Message 93 Fr. Cornelio Fabro, CSS, Ph.D., S.T.D. I. The Mystery in the Christian Plan of Salvation ...... 95 II. The Christian Sense of the Mystery of the Soul ...... 96 III. The “Fixed Points” of the Mystery of the Soul ...... 99 IV. Rejection of the Errors of Classical Thought Regarding the Soul ...... 101 V. Reception of Myths of the Classical World on the Soul . . 104 VI. Dissolution of the Mystery of the Soul in Modern Thought 107

Book Reviews — Ignacio Andereggen; Theologia Moderna: Raices filosóficas . . 115 — Donald Boland; Economic Science and St. : On justice in the distribution and exchange of wealth . . . . . 120 — Anton ten Klooster; Thomas Aquinas on the Beatitudes: Read- ingMatthew, DisputingGraceandVirtue, PreachingHappiness 122

viii — Jan-Heiner Tück; A Gift of Presence: The and Poetry of the Eucharist in Thomas Aquinas ...... 127