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The article’s presupposition is that the encounter with the other is one of the central themes in Karol Wojtyła’s works. In order to show Karol Wojtyła as a philosopher of encounter, the article examines his epistemological method and its purpose, his concept of freedom and love, and finally his understanding of man in the ethical perspective. First, the article describes Wojtyła’s attitude of realism and turning to experience as indispensable elements of his personalism. Wojtyła’s idea of human freedom is then discussed against the backdrop of determinism and indeterminism and in the context of the autonomy of created things. Next, the article outlines Wojtyła’s concept of love by applying his hermeneutics of the gift. The ontological and moral dimension of love in and between human persons is explained through the reality of the law of the gift. Finally, the discussion on love is complemented by the ethical reflections on the hierarchy of values, including the objective and subjective aspects of ethos.

Gratian the Theologian John C Wei Catholic University of America Press, Washington, DC, 2016, Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law 13, xviii + 354 (hardback £59.95) ISBN: 978-0-8132-2803-7 - Gratian's Tractatus de Penitentia: A New Latin Edition with English Translation Atria A Larson Catholic University of America Press, Washington, DC, 2016, Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law 14, xlviii + 312 (hardback £59.95) ISBN: 978-0-8132-2867-9 - Volume 20 Issue 1

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The article explores the way that the lives of the saints, and the church's remembrance and veneration of them provide a practical setting for moral reflection, for drawing near to God amid the ordinary, and for living graced and virtuous lives. It reviews recent developments in a theology of sanctity and inquires about the difference that the saints make to moral reasoning. Finally, it considers the life of Venerable Solanus Casey, O.F.M. Cap. as an extended example of the article's thesis.

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Medieval missals that hand on the liturgical tradition of earlier centuries, but record little or nothing that is really new, do not as a rule merit publication of their entire text. Yet it is instructive to study them for the light they shed on the gradual formation of the full missal, the history of plain chant, the diffusion of feasts and prayers, the vicissitudes of the mixed types of sacramentaries and missals, and the local or regional characteristics of the medieval liturgy, which continued to abound until the missal of Pope Pius V came into general use.