St. Maximilian Kolbe

The Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner, OFM Conv: Volume 6

Peter Damian Fehlner, J. Isaac Goff, J. Isaac Goff

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781532663949
• Topic: Teologia e religione
• Subtopic: Biografie in ambito religioso

Volume six of the Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner, entitled simply, St. Maximilian Kolbe, gathers together Fehlner's essays on the great Conventual Franciscan saint and martyr. These works come mainly from the journal founded by Kolbe, Miles Immaculatae, and were composed in the 1980s when Fehlner was editor of said journal. Readers of this volume will note the close connection to the themes of ecclesiological renewal and the Conventual Franciscan charism treated in volume five, as Fehlner worked to integrate and synthesize Kolbe's Mariological and pneumatological insights in a context of ecclesial mission and evangelization. The essays in this volume form a mosaic of Kolbean theology and spirituality, mapping out the geography of Fehlner's own theological itinerary that will reach, in terms of scholarly output, its final destination in his posthumous Theologian of Auschwitz (2019). Themes addressed, among others, in this volume include Kolbe's understanding of the history and unity of the Franciscan Order, the Trinity in relation to Immaculate Conception, creation and evolution, consecration, Kolbe's vision for Niepokalanow, Kolbe and the contemporary magisterium, and Kolbe's relevance for a contemporary retrieval of Bonaventure's theology of history.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Permissions
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Total Consecration, Baptism, and the Franciscan Ideal
• Chapter 2: A Thesis of St. Maximilian Concerning St. Francis and the Immaculate in the Light of Recent Research
• Chapter 3: The Immaculate and the Mystery of the Trinity in the Thought of St. Maximilian Kolbe
• Chapter 4: Complementum SS. Trinitatis
• Chapter 5: Niepokalanów in the Counsels of the Immaculate
• Chapter 6: Vertex Creationis: St. Maximilian and Evolution
• Chapter 7: Hereditas Kolbiana: Novus Impetus Influxus Mariae Immaculatae in Ordinis Spiritualitate
• Chapter 8: The Immaculate and the Extraordinary Synod 1985
• Chapter 9: Mother of the Redeemer and Redemptoris Mater
• Chapter 10: A Proposal
• Chapter 11: Marian Geography of Faith
• Chapter 12: Marian Slavery
• Chapter 13: The Other Page
• Chapter 14: The Immaculate Conception
• Chapter 15: Mulieres Dignitatem
• Chapter 16: Marian Doctrine and Devotion
• Chapter 17: Martyr of Charity, Man of the Millennium
• Chapter 18: Two Testaments
• Bibliography