Volume 17, Issue 1 (2024)

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

We, the board of editors, extend a sincere welcome to this seventeenth volume of Obsculta: A Student Journal of Theology. We pray that you find the works herein invigorating, thought provoking, and enriching. By God’s grace, may this text serve as an introduction to the voices in our community and the work to which we commit ourselves daily. While it cannot fully encompass our diverse community, nevertheless, it aims to lift up, in charity and fruitful dialogue, the voices of students, faculty, and alumni.

Theology is the science of God and all things inasmuch as they relate to God and our students have explored that field with great variety, as this year they have explored such diverse topics as: monastic theology, ecclesiology and synodality, liturgy and worship, the role of children in the church, the problem of suffering and our response in hope, contemporary issues in gender and sexuality, homiletic exhortations to discipleship and prayer, various exegeses of Scripture, questions of ethics, theological themes in poetry and photography, and much more!

Our hope, dear reader, is that, having listened carefully to the words of the Teacher and inclining the ear of our heart, we may all set out for loftier summits of teaching and virtue. May we reach them under God’s protection.

in omnibus glorificetur Deus.

Sincerely,

the Obsculta editorial team