Justice and Truth Shall Meet
A Dominican Exploration
by Albert Nolan and Mary O'Driscoll
This is a reprint of book originally published in the 1980s but its message is still as relevant today as it was when it was first published. In this book two Dominicans, Albert Nolan OP and Mary O’Driscoll OP, write on biblical and theological themes of justice and truth from a Dominican perspective. On truth, Mary O’Driscoll writes that it ‘is evident [that] when we look at Dominic or Catherine or any of our great Dominican brothers and sisters … all of these responded to truth not merely with their intellects but with their whole beings … [and that] the greatest Dominicans have always been those who have combined the pursuit of speculative truth with that of existential truth, who have known how to maintain these two dimensions of the search for truth, not in conflict but as complementing one another.’. While on justice, Albert Nolan writes that justice is first and foremost an attribute of God. God is just not only because [God] is fair and honest in all [of God’s] dealings with human beings but also because all God’s activity is a matter of putting right what is wrong in the world and all God’s laws and commandments are simply demanding that justice be done. In fact, justice is the distinguishing characteristic of the God of the Bible.’ Both authors were vocal critics of the apartheid regime. What they wrote in the 1980s regarding race, poverty, injustice and inequality, the fruit of many years of study and theological reflection, remains of relevance for today.
This is a reprint of book originally published in the 1980s but its message is still as relevant today as it was when it was first published. In this book two Dominicans, Albert Nolan OP and Mary O’Driscoll OP, write on biblical and theological themes of justice and truth from a Dominican perspective. On truth, Mary O’Driscoll writes that it ‘is evident [that] when we look at Dominic or Catherine or any of our great Dominican brothers and sisters … all of these responded to truth not merely with their intellects but with their whole beings … [and that] the greatest Dominicans have always been those who have combined the pursuit of speculative truth with that of existential truth, who have known how to maintain these two dimensions of the search for truth, not in conflict but as complementing one another.’. While on justice, Albert Nolan writes that justice is first and foremost an attribute of God. God is just not only because [God] is fair and honest in all [of God’s] dealings with human beings but also because all God’s activity is a matter of putting right what is wrong in the world and all God’s laws and commandments are simply demanding that justice be done. In fact, justice is the distinguishing characteristic of the God of the Bible.’ Both authors were vocal critics of the apartheid regime. What they wrote in the 1980s regarding race, poverty, injustice and inequality, the fruit of many years of study and theological reflection, remains of relevance for today.
Preface Foreword Mary O'Driscoll OP 1. Truth in the Dominican Tradition Mary O'Driscoll OP 2. Truth in the Bible Albert Nolan OP 3. Social Analysis-Part I Albert Nolan OP 4. A Dominican in Pursuit of the Truth: Louis-Joseph Lebret OP (1897-1966) Mary O'Driscoll OP 5. A Global Analysis-Part II Albert Nolan OP 6. Justice in the Bible Albert Nolan OP 7. Justice in the Dominican Tradition Mary O'Driscoll OP 8. The Reign of God and Human Liberation Albert Nolan OP 9. Dominican Spirituality: Contemplative Involvement in the World Mary O'Driscoll OP 10. The Artist as Prophet and Truth-giver Thoma Swanson, OP 11. Some War-Some Peace Celeste Bourke OP Bibliography
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