The revitalization of the Church requires a vocational renewal capable of stimulating participation, communion and mission in Christian communities. However, in order to conceive of such a renewal, we must take stock of the current anthropological challenge, which requires an adequate response in tune with our changing times and the current cultural conditions, marked by migration and the development of digital communication. The proceedings of the Roman Symposium of March 2024 offer a multidisciplinary approach to the anthropological theme, which, in a perspective of openness to universal fraternity, situates the enduring foundations of the Christian vision in relation to the various options circulating on questions of identity, belonging and integration that respects differences. This theological reflection on vocations fills a void and is a valuable resource for the Christian formation of all baptismal vocations, from school to university, in secular or religious settings. It is an indispensable complement to the work of the 2022 Symposium on the priesthood, published in six languages. There is no comparable update on the theme of vocations since the Second Vatican Council.

Eminent and emerging thinkers seek to bridge the gap between political thought and political action.

Political Science

Eminent and emerging thinkers seek to bridge the gap between political thought and political action. Written by scholars with a rare sense of the historical and conceptual breadth of politics and theory, the essays in this volume explore possibilities for political theory in a world marked by disorienting political transformations. In doing so, they document and address the character and status of contemporary political theory, its changing place in the academy, and its role in public life. Whether challenging the settlement between political theory and political science, whereby theorists stuck to the "old texts" and left the "real world" to their empirical colleagues, or interrogating the relationship between political theory and political action, these essays expand and elaborate the parameters of political discourse-making their timeliness, relevance, and reach powerfully apparent.Contributors: Mark B. Brown; Wendy Brown, UC Santa Cruz; William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins U; Thomas L. Dumm, Amherst College; J. Peter Euben, UC Santa Cruz; Russell Arben Fox; Samantha Frost, UC Santa Cruz; Shane Gunster; Jill Locke, Gustavus Adolphus College; David Paul Mandell, Reed College; Lon Troyer; Sheldon S. Wolin; Linda M. B. Zerilli, Northwestern U.Translation Inquiries: University of Minnesota Press