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All biblical references are from The New Jerusalem Bible, (Garden City: Doubleday, 1985)."]; Text[2]=["","Pr 29:18."]; Text[3]=["","Mk 14:62, see Dn 7:13 and Ps 110:1"]; // 1.1 Text[4]=["","SIMON TUGWELL, ed., Albert & Thomas: Selected Writings, (New York: Paulist Press, 1988), Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter XI."]; Text[5]=["","Thomas of Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II-II q. 174, a.6, ad3, cited from THOMAS AQUINAS, Summa Theologica (InteLex Corporation, 1993 [cited 1 July 2005]); available from http://eresources.library.nd.edu/databases/aquinas."]; Text[6]=["","DOMENICO BERTETTO, Acta Mariana Joannis PP. XXIII, (Zürich: PAS-Verlag, 1964), 56. Ref to Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II-II q. 174, a.6, ad3"]; Text[7]=["","EUGENE BORING, The Continuing Voice of Jesus. Christian Prophecy and the Gospel Tradition, (Louisville: Westminster / John Knox Press, 1991), 16-17."]; Text[8]=["","RINO FISICHELLA, \"Prophecy,\" in Dictionary of Fundamental Theology, ed. René Latourelle and Rino Fisichella, (New York: Crossroad, 1995), 788."]; Text[9]=["","Ibid., 795."]; Text[10]=["","MIGAKU SATO, Q und Prophetie: Studien zur Gattungs- und Traditionsgeschichte der Quelle Q, (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1988), 411."]; Text[11]=["","BEN WITHERINGTON, Jesus the Seer: The Progress of Prophecy, (Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 1999), 404."]; Text[12]=["","KARL RAHNER, \"Les Révélations privées. Quelques remarques theologiques,\" Revue d'Ascétique et Mystique 25 (1949): 16. English version available from KARL RAHNER, Private Revelations. Some Theological Observations (Translation from \"Les révélations privées\") (1949 [cited December 2005]); available from http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=202."]; Text[13]=["","We shall deal with this issue in section 6.2."]; Text[14]=["","“As with the Old Testament phenomenon, the essential character of early Christian prophecy was the claim to be speaking under direct divine inspiration.” LARRY W. HURTADO, Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003), 150. See discussion in section 3.3.1 below."]; Text[15]=["","JAMES DUNN, Jesus and the Spirit: A Study of the Religious and Charismatic Experience of Jesus and the First Christians as Reflected in the New Testament, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997), 172-73."]; Text[16]=["","KARL RAHNER, Visions and Prophecies, (London: Burns & Oats, 1963), 20."]; Text[17]=["","KARL RAHNER, Visionen und Prophezeiungen, 2nd ed., (Freiburg: Herder, 1958), 21."]; Text[18]=["","TADEUSZ CZAKANSKI, The Christian Prophets and the Charism of Prophecy in the New Testament and the Origins of the Church, (Rome: Università Lateranense, 1987), 189."]; Text[19]=["","KARL RAHNER, Visions and Prophecies, (London: Burns & Oats, 1963), 25-26."]; // 1.2 Text[20]=["","“…ein Rahmenwort ohne konkreten Inhalt…” ERICH FASCHER, PROPHETES—eine sprach- und religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung, (Giessen: A. Töpelmann, 1927), 51."]; Text[21]=["","EUGENE BORING, The Continuing Voice of Jesus. Christian Prophecy and the Gospel Tradition, (Louisville: Westminster / John Knox Press, 1991), 35. Ref. to JOHN W. MCGARVEY, Short Essays in Biblical Criticism, Reprinted from the Christian Standard, 1893-1904, (Cincinnati: The Standard publishing company, 1910), 118."]; Text[22]=["","GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ, Teología de la Liberación: Perspectivas, (Salamanca: Ediciones Sígueme, 1972) | FRANCOIS MALLEY, \"Las Casas et les Théologies de la Libération,\" La Vie Spirituelle 139 (1985): 58. See the discussion of the use of the prophetic category in liberation theology in: JOSÉ LUIS ESPINEL, Profetismo Cristiano: Una Espiritualidad Evangélica, (Salamanca: Editorial San Esteban, 1990), 169-79."]; Text[23]=["","KARL RAHNER, The Dynamic Element in the Church, (Freiburg / London: Herder / Burns and Oates, 1964), 40."]; Text[24]=["","TOMMASO STENICO and FRANCIS A. ARINZE, Il Concilio Vaticano II: Carisma e Profezia, (Città del Vaticano: Libreria editrice vaticana, 1997)."]; Text[25]=["","PAUL VI, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church: Lumen Gentium, (Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1965), 35."]; Text[26]=["","HANS-RUEDI WEBER, \"Prophecy in the Ecumenical Movement,\" in Prophetic Vocation in the New Testament and Today 45, ed. J Panagopoulos, (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1977), 218."]; Text[27]=["","GIANFRANCO CALABRESE, ed., Chiesa e profezia, (Roma: Edizioni dehoniane, 1996)."]; Text[28]=["","JOHN J. CONLEY and JOSEPH W. KOTERSKI, Prophecy and Diplomacy—The Moral Doctrine of John Paul II: A Jesuit Symposium, (Bronx: Fordham University Press, 1999)."]; Text[29]=["","BERNHARD HÄRING, \"Prophètes,\" in Dictionnaire de la vie Chrétienne, (Paris: 1983), 912."]; Text[30]=["","EUGENE BORING, The Continuing Voice of Jesus. Christian Prophecy and the Gospel Tradition, (Louisville: Westminster / John Knox Press, 1991), 35-36."]; Text[31]=["","WALTER HOUSTON, \"New Testament Prophecy and the Gospel Tradition\" (PhD, Mansfield College, Oxford University, 1973), 282."]; Text[32]=["","MARIANNE SCHLOSSER, Lucerna in caliginoso loco—Aspekte des Prophetie-Begriffes in der scholastischen Theologie, (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2000), 10."]; //1.3 Text[33]=["","BEN WITHERINGTON, Jesus the Seer: The Progress of Prophecy, (Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 1999), 3."]; Text[34]=["","WAYNE A. GRUDEM, The Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament and Today, 2nd US ed., (Westchester: Crossway Books, 2000), 116."]; Text[35]=["","EUGENE BORING, The Continuing Voice of Jesus. Christian Prophecy and the Gospel Tradition, (Louisville: Westminster / John Knox Press, 1991), 38."]; Text[36]=["","1 Cor 14:3-4"]; //1.4 Text[37]=["","CHRISTIAN MEYER, \"Von der 'Privatoffenbarung' zur öffentlichen Lehrbefugnis. Legitimationsstufen des Prophetentums bei Rupert von Deutz, Hildegard von Bingen, und Elisabeth von Schönau\",\" in Das Öffentliche und Private in der Vormoderne, ed. Peter von Moos and Gert Melville, (Köln: Böhlau, 1998)."]; Text[38]=["","JOSEPH RATZINGER, \"Das Problem der Christlichen Prophetie. Niels Christian Hvidt im Gespräch mit Joseph Kardinal Ratzinger,\" Communio 2 (1999): 186-87."]; Text[39]=["","AVERY ROBERT DULLES, The Assurance of Things Hoped for: A Theology of Christian Faith, (New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 199."]; Text[40]=["","Avery Dulles refers to session VI, chapter 12, DS 1540; canons 14-16, DS 1564-66"]; Text[41]=["","We shall return to this question in section 8 below."]; Text[42]=["","AVERY ROBERT DULLES, The Assurance of Things Hoped for: A Theology of Christian Faith, (New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 199."]; Text[43]=["","RICHARD P. MCBRIEN, The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism, (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995), 80."]; Text[44]=["","RENE LAURENTIN, \"Fonction et Statut des Apparitions,\" in Vraies et Fausses Apparitions dans l'Église: Exposés, ed. Bernard Billet, (Paris / Montréal: P. Lethielleux / Bellarmin, 1976), 163."]; Text[45]=["","AVERY ROBERT DULLES, The Assurance of Things Hoped for: A Theology of Christian Faith, (New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 198."]; Text[46]=["","“Tenendo conto della natura e delle funzioni delle rivelazioni posteriori per la vita della Chiesa, i termini ‘rivelazione speciale’ o ‘rivelazione particolare’ sarebbero forse più pertinenti, perché la formula ‘rivelazione privata’ rischia di ridurre la sua portata e la sua finalità alla dimensione di un singolo individuo.” AUGUSTINUS SUH, Le Rivelazioni Private nella Vita della Chiesa, (Bologna: Dehoniane, 2000), 32."]; Text[47]=["","KARL RAHNER, Visions and Prophecies, (London: Burns & Oats, 1963), 17."]; Text[48]=["","LAURENT VOLKEN, \"Um die theologische Bedeutung der Privatoffenbarungen. Zu einem Buch von Karl Rahner,\" Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 6 (1959): 436."]; Text[49]=["","GERALD O'COLLINS, Fundamental Theology, (New York: Paulist Press, 1981), 102."]; // 1.5 Text[50]=["","AUGUSTE SAUDREAU, L'État Mystique, sa Nature, ses Phases et les Faits Extraordinaires de la Vie Sprirituelle, 2nd ed., (Paris: 1921), 216f."]; Text[51]=["","RENÉ LAURENTIN, The Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary Today, (Dublin: Veritas, 1990), 1."]; Text[52]=["","See YVES CHIRON, Enquête sur les Apparitions de la Vierge, (Paris: Perrin-Mame, 1995) | MARK GARVEY, Searching for Mary: An Exploration of Marian Apparitions Across the U.S, (New York: Plume, 1998) | JOSEPH GOUBERT, Apparitions et Messages de la Sainte Vierge, de 1830 à nos Jours, (Paris: La Colombe, 1954) | PETER HEINTZ, A Guide to Apparitions of our Blessed Virgin Mary, (Sacramento: Gabriel Press, 1995) | GOTTFRIED HIERZENBERGER and OTTO NEDOMANSKY, Erscheinungen und Botschaften der Gottesmutter Maria. Vollständige Dokumentation durch zwei Jahrtausende, (Augsburg: Bechtermünz Verlag, 1993) | RENÉ LAURENTIN, The Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary Today, (Dublin: Veritas, 1990) | CATHERINE ODELL, Those Who Saw Her: Apparitions of Mary, Rev. ed., (Huntington: Our Sunday Visitor, 1995) | SANDRA ZIMDARS-SWARTZ, Encountering Mary: From La Salette to Medjugorje, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991). For a detailed bibliography on Marian apparitions, separated in different world-regions: DAVID C. VAN METER, A Marian Bibliography (2005 [cited 21 July 2005]); available from http://members.aol.com/UticaCW/Mar-bibl.html. For Internet-based overviews of Marian apparitions, kept updated for possible church evaluation, see DAVID C. VAN METER, Apparitions (2005 [cited 21 July 2005]); available from http://members.aol.com/UticaCW/Mary-App.html. For a directory of several hundred resources on-line, see We should mention also the page kept by the International Marian Research Institute in Dayton on 20th Century apparitions J. C. TIERNEY and MICHAEL P. DURICY, Marian Apparitions of the 20th Century (International Marian Research Institute, Dayton, 2005 [cited 21 July 2005]); available from http://www.udayton.edu/mary/resources/aprtable.html."]; Text[53]=["","Alone from 1981 – 1997, 22 million people made pilgrimage to Medjugorie, see VJEKOSLAV PERICA, Balkan idols: religion and nationalism in Yugoslav states, (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 276."]; Text[54]=["","JOSEPH RATZINGER, \"Letter Regarding Mrs. Vassula Rydén,\" in True Life in God. Clarifications with the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, (Amsterdam: True Life in God NL, 2004)."]; Text[55]=["","See www.tlig.org for further information."]; Text[56]=["","See BRENDA E. BRASHER, Give me that Online Religion, (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001) | GARY BUNT, The Good Web Guide: World Religions, (London: The Good Web Guide Limited, 2001) | GARY BUNT, Virtually Islamic: Computer-mediated Communication and Cyber Islamic Environments, (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000) | LORNE L. DAWSON and DOUGLAS E. COWAN, eds., Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet, (New York: Routledge, 2004) | MICHAEL EVANS, Jesus, Fads, & the Media: The Passion & Popular Culture, (Philadelphia: Mason Crest Publishers, 2006) | GEORGE N. LUNDSKOW, ed., Religious Innovation in a Global Age: Essays on the Construction of Spirituality, (Jefferson: McFarland, 2005) | SOPHIA MARRIAGE and JOLYON P. MITCHELL, eds., Mediating religion: Conversations in Media, Religion and Culture, (London / New York: T & T Clark, 2003), especially Part 6 | ANDREW T. STULL, Religion on the Internet 1999-2000: a Prentice Hall Guide, (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000) | STEPHAN VAN ERP, HILLE HAKER, and ERIK BORGMAN, eds., Cyberspace-Cyberethics-Cybertheology, (London: SCM Press, 2005) | JEFFREY P. ZALESKI, The Soul of Cyberspace: How New Technology is Changing our Spiritual Lives, (San Francisco: HarperEdge, 1997)."]; Text[57]=["","“… I understand the categories of religion online and online religion to entail two distinctions. These are: (1) the provision of information about religion versus the opportunity for participation in religious activity; and (2) primary reference to offline, preexisting religious traditions versus primary reference to religious activities taking place online.” GLENN YOUNG, \"Reading and Praying Online: The Continuity of Religion Online and Online Religion in Internet Christianity,\" in Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet, ed. Lorne L. Dawson and Douglas E. Cowan, (New York: Routledge, 2004), 93. The distinction is also used in CHRISTOPHER HELLAND, \"Online Religion / Religion Online and Virtual Communitas,\" in Religion on the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises, ed. J K Hadden and Douglas E Cowan, (London: JAIPress / Elsevier Science, 2000)."]; Text[58]=["","JOHN PAUL II, Message of the Holy Father for the 36th World Communications Day. Theme: Internet: A New Forum for Proclaiming the Gospel (The Catholic Church, 2002 [cited 9 July 2005]); available from here."]; Text[59]=["","PAOLO APOLITO, The Internet and the Madonna: Religious Visionary Experience on the Web, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). See also JESSY C. PAGLIAROLI, \"Kodak Catholicism: Miraculous Photography and its Significance at a Post Conciliar Marian Apparition Site in Canada,\" The Canadian Catholic Historical Association 70 (2004)."]; Text[60]=["","DAVID EDWARD AUNE, Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983), 220."]; Text[61]=["","See for instance BERNARD BILLET, ed., Vraies et Fausses Apparitions dans l'Église, 2. ed., (Paris, Montréal: P. Lethielleux, Bellarmin, 1976) | JOAQUIM BOUFLET, Faussaires de Dieu, (Paris: Presses de la Renaissance, 2000)."]; Text[62]=["","1 Thess 5:19-21"]; Text[63]=["","Lk 13:34 & Mt 23:37-39"]; Text[64]=["","11:11—see commentary in KURT NIEDERWIMMER and HAROLD W. ATTRIDGE, The Didache: A Commentary, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998), 178."]; Text[65]=["","See Chapter 7 below."]; Text[66]=["","“…forme meno impegnative per la fede” RINO FISICHELLA, \"Prefazione,\" in Le Rivelazioni Private nella Vita della Chiesa, ed. Augustinus Suh, (Bologna: Dehoniane, 2000), 8."]; Text[67]=["","ANTONIO GENTILI, Profezie per il Terzo Millennio, (Milano: Àncora Editrice, 2000), 13f."]; Text[68]=["","JOSEPH RATZINGER, \"Christianity Always Carries Within it a Structure of Hope—The Problem of Christian Prophecy,\" 30Days, January 1999."]; Text[69]=["","“…le mediazioni istituzionali e quelle carismatiche sono del tutto compresenti e si integrano e arricchiscono a vicenda. Senza il supporto e la ratifica dell’istituzione, le mediazioni carismatiche si risolverebbero in arbitrio e… disordine, come apprendiamo dalle prime pagine della storia cristiana (1. Cor. 12 e 14). Analogamente, senza l’apporto dei carismi, le mediazioni istituzionali si chiudono in una gestione routinaria e in una ripetitività formale di riti, dottrine e precetti.” ANTONIO GENTILI, Profezie per il Terzo Millennio, (Milano: Àncora Editrice, 2000), 234."]; Text[70]=["","“Le seconde rimandano all’insieme di doni che lo Spirito Santo suscita nei credenti e che offre alla Chiesa per il suo pieno sviluppo la sua trascendente bellezza” Ibid."]; Text[71]=["","“…sono invece rimossi, quando non ridicolizzati, spesso proprio da chi più si è invaghito di quella espressione evangelica (“segni dei tempi”) e ne ha fatto una bandiera per un cristianesimo “adulto” come lo chiamano” VITTORIO MESSORI, \"Presentazione,\" in Profezie per il Terzo Millennio, ed. Antonio Gentili, (Milano: Áncora, 2000), 9."]; Text[72]=["","Ibid., 10."]; Text[73]=["","“…coraggio di chiedersi se per caso non abbiano ragione gli “oscurantisti”; e se nel presunto “oscurantismo” dei segnali inquietanti che sembrano giungerci dal Mistero non ci sia forse da attingere la luce maggiore” Ibid., 9."]; Text[74]=["","PAUL VI, Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum (Catholic Church, 1965 [cited 1 November 2005]); available from here. Author’s emphasis. "]; Text[75]=["","KARL RAHNER, \"Les Révélations privées. Quelques remarques theologiques,\" Revue d'Ascétique et Mystique 25 (1949)."]; Text[76]=["","KARL RAHNER and PAUL IMHOF, Schriften zur Theologie, (Einsiedeln: Benziger, 2001), 5:22. In English: KARL RAHNER, Theological investigations, (Baltimore: Helicon Press, 2001), 5:22. xxx check."]; Text[77]=["","PHILIP JENKINS, The next Christendom: the rise of global Christianity, (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002). See also the shorter summery of his argument in PHILIP JENKINS, \"The Next Christianity,\" Atlantic Monthly 290, no. 3 (2002)."]; Text[78]=["","PHILIP JENKINS, \"The Next Christianity,\" Atlantic Monthly 290, no. 3 (2002): 54."]; Text[79]=["","Ibid.: 62. Jenkins’ quotation is from ELIZABETH ALLO ISICHEI, A history of Christianity in Africa: from antiquity to the present, (Grand Rapids, Mich. / Lawrenceville, N.J.: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. / Africa World Press, 1995)."]; Text[80]=["","PHILIP JENKINS, \"After The Next Christendom,\" International Bulletin of Missionary Research 28, no. 1 (2004): 21."]; Text[81]=["","For an overview of some of the characteristics of charismatic theology, see MARK CARTLEDGE, \"Charismatic Theology: Approaches and Themes,\" Journal of Beliefs & Values: Studies in Religion & Education 25, no. 2 (2004)."]; Text[82]=["","WERNER KAHL, \"Überlegungen zu einer Interkulturellen Verständigung über Neutestamentliche Wunder,\" Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft 82, no. 2 (1998)."]; Text[83]=["","Kahl refers to BRIAN K. BLOUNT, Cultural interpretation: reorienting New Testament criticism, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995). and A. K. M. ADAM, What is Postmodern Biblical Criticism? (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995), 45-60.. To this should be added A. K. M. ADAM, Postmodern interpretations of the Bible: a reader, (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2001)., a valuable resource of texts on the issue."]; Text[84]=["","THOMAS SCHMELLER, Das Recht der Anderen: Befreiungstheologische Lektüre des Neuen Testaments in Lateinamerika, (Münster: Aschendorff, 1994). See also STEFAN ALKIER, Wunder und Wirklichkeit in den Briefen des Apostels Paulus: ein Beitrag zu einem Wunderverständnis jenseits von Entmythologisierung und Rehistorisierung, (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001)."]; Text[85]=["","See for instance PONTIFICAL BIBLICAL COMMISSION CATHOLIC CHURCH, CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF FAITH, The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church, (Città del Vaticano & Washington, D.C.: Libreria Editrice Vaticana / United States Catholic Conference, 1993) | PONTIFICAL BIBLICAL COMMISSION, Instruction Concerning the Historical Truth of the Gospels (Catholic Church, 1964 [cited June 2006]); available from http://catholic-resources.org/ChurchDocs/PBC_HistTruthFitzmyer.htm."]; // 1.6 Style[0]=["","black","#999999","#CCCCCC","","","","","","","","","","",200,"",2,2,10,10,1,"","99","complex","#999999"] //Style[...]=[TitleColor,TextColor,TitleBgColor,TextBgColor,TitleBgImag,TextBgImag,TitleTextAlign,TextTextAlign,TitleFontFace,TextFontFace, TipPosition, StickyStyle, TitleFontSize, TextFontSize, Width, Height, BorderSize, PadTextArea, CoordinateX , CoordinateY, TransitionNumber, TransitionDuration, TransparencyLevel ,ShadowType, ShadowColor] applyCssFilter()