New Article: "From Here to Eternity: 'Communion' in the New Testament" in Communio 298 (2025)


A year and a half ago, Régis Burnet (UC Louvain) approached me to solicit an article for the 50th anniversary of the French Edition of Communio, the storied journal of Catholic thought founded in 1972 by Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI), Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Henri de Lubac, among others.

The topic was to be generally on the topic of 'Communion in the New Testament,' and he gave me a lot of lattitude as to how I'd approach the topic. Eventually, I chose to provide a panoramic essay on the concept of communion (i.e. fellowship) in the New Testament in the Johannine, Pauline, and Petrine corpora in the NT, and especially how the divine-human and human-human communion discussed by these authors entails divine communion in what is proper to us (esp. our humanity) and our communion in what is his (esp. life, love, and glory).

The article had a pretty tight word limit (no longer than 6000 words), so in the end I focused mainly on the Pauline and Johannine corpus. 

It was a wonderful article to write--not least because I got to bring other NT books into the picture together with Revelation, the typical focus of my work.

P.S. One of the slavic editions of Communio recently reached out to me and will be translating for their own journal. Always gratifying when one's work gets noticed and passed along to new audiences. 

To read the full article (in French!), simply click here: D'ici à l'éternité: la communion dans le Nouveau Testament. 

If you'd like to read the original in English (see snipped below), please just reach out to me personally. I'd be happy to send it to you. 



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