Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: Senior, Donald: The Landscape of the Gospels: A Deeper Meaning
Ronald D. Witherup
December 1, 2022
Book Review: Davies, Rachel: Bonaventure, the Body, and the Aesthetics of Salvation
Peter Casarella
December 1, 2022
Book Review: Wischmeyer, Oda: Love as Agape: The Early Christian Concept and Modern Discourse
Thomas D. Stegman S.J.
December 1, 2022
Book Review: Matera, J. Frank: A Concise Theology of the New Testament
Thomas D. Stegman S.J.
December 1, 2022
Book Review: Steck, SJ. Christopher: All God’s Animals: A Catholic Theological Framework for Animal Ethics
Eric Daryl Meyer
December 1, 2022
Book Review: Coblentz, Jessica: Dust in the Blood: A Theology of Life with Depression
Susie Paulik Babka
December 1, 2022
Book Review: Kotsko, Adam: What Is Theology? Christian Thought and Contemporary Life
Jay Martin
December 1, 2022
Book Review: Hoover, C. Brett: Immigration and Faith: Cultural, Biblical, and Theological Narratives
Hanna Kang
December 1, 2022
Book Review: Collins, Drew: The Unique and Universal Christ: Refiguring the Theology of Religions
Peter C. Phan
December 1, 2022
Book Review: Clooney, X. Francis: Western Jesuit Scholars in India: Tracing Their Paths, Reassessing Their Goals
Richard Penaskovic
December 1, 2022
Book Review: Whelan, Matthew Philipp: Blood in the Fields: Óscar Romero, Catholic Social Teaching, and Land Reform
Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo
December 1, 2022
The Nonviolent Christ at the Apocalyptic Center of Origen’s Homilies on Joshua
Michael C. Magree, S.J.
September 5, 2023
Christians ancient and modern have puzzled over the violence in the book of Joshua. Origen of Alexandria interprets this text apocalyptically, to give readers a
A Theological Exploration: Nonviolence as Intersectional Praxis
Eli S. McCarthy
September 5, 2023
This article offers a theological vision of how nonviolence contributes to Catholic social teaching, and offers a crosscutting, intersectional praxis related to two destructive waves
The Cross and/as Civil Resistance
Jennifer Kendall Sanders
September 5, 2023
We need a nonviolent soteriology that honors scriptural and theological traditions about enemy-love, suffering, sacrifice, and satisfaction and refuses to further harm victims of violence
Martin Luther King Jr. and Julius K. Nyerere’s Shared Dreams for Racial Equality and Human Dignity
Deogratias M. Rwezaura, S.J.
September 5, 2023
This article parallels Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream for civil, economic, and racial equality in the USA with Julius K. Nyerere’s unrelenting liberation struggle for
To Dream in North and South America: Reflections on the Sixtieth Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer
September 5, 2023
This article reflects on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech delivered sixty years ago in Washington, DC. It begins by pointing
The Fierce Urgency of Now The Example of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
M. Shawn Copeland
September 5, 2023
The year 2023 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington that featured civil rights leader, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This
On Theological Aporias
John E. Thiel
June 17, 2023
Modern theology has attended explicitly to issues concerning method, that is, how theological authors creatively offer interpretations that advance disciplinary knowledge. This article explores the
Enhancing Ressourcement: Johann Adam Möhler’s Retrieval of Anselm
Grant Kaplan
June 17, 2023
This article begins by suggesting a wider or more formal understanding of the movement known as ressourcement. After engaging a recent volume of essays on
Privation, Teleology, and the Metaphysics of Evil
Nicholas E. Lombardo OP
May 28, 2023
Drawing inspiration from Pseudo-Dionysius, Maximus the Confessor, and Thomas Aquinas, and in support of the definition of evil as the privation of being or goodness,
Theologically Shoring Up the Law of the Sea
William P. George
May 28, 2023
In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis highlights the oceans as integral to our threatened common home and stresses the need for more effective ocean governance. Theologians
Umwelt-Theory, Self-Transcendence, and Openness-to-God: Attending Theologically to Human Animality
Dylan S. Belton
May 28, 2023
Christian theological anthropology has been critiqued for its habit of sharply distinguishing the human from the nonhuman and for thereby depreciating human animality in one
Latin American Social Integration as a Methodological Lens for Francis’s Teaching
Sandra Arenas
May 28, 2023
Over the past ten years of Francis’s pontificate, a transversal axis cutting across all his writings is his appreciation for the importance of social integration
Pope Francis, Culture of Encounter, the Common Good, and Dharma: Public Theological Conversations Today
Gnana Patrick
May 28, 2023
Pope Francis is able to communicate common values across borders of religion, regions, and sociopolitical systems. Catholic social teaching on the common good, particularly as
Toward a Spirituality of Politics
Ludovic Lado, S.J.
May 28, 2023
This article revisits Francis’s vision of politics as one of the highest forms of charity. It argues that Francis’s concept of “political charity” goes beyond
The Holy Spirit as the Protagonist of the Synod: Pope Francis’s Creative Reception of the Second Vatican Council
Jos Moons, S.J.
March 21, 2023
This article argues that Pope Francis’s conviction that the Holy Spirit guides the synodal journey represents a creative reception of the Second Vatican Council. By
Synodality and the Francis Pontificate: A Fresh Reception of Vatican II
Richard R. Gaillardetz
March 21, 2023
The ten-year Francis pontificate represents a fresh reception of the Second Vatican Council. The full dimensions of this reception can be apprehended through the lens
Synodality and the New Media
Agnes M. Brazal
March 20, 2023
During his pontificate, Pope Francis has both broadened and enhanced the concept of synodality and the synodal process to involve “especially those on the periphery
Reconfiguring Ignacio Ellacuría’s Symbolic Conception of “the Crucified People”: Jesus, the Suffering Servant, and Abel
Daniel P. Castillo
March 13, 2023
This article offers an appreciative but critical appraisal of Ignacio Ellacuría’s concept of “the crucified people,” which identifies the oppressed peoples of history with both
Pope Francis on the Practice of Synodality and the Fifth Australian Plenary Council
James Gerard McEvoy
March 13, 2023
This article argues that Pope Francis adopts a practice-focused approach to synodality, and it examines key elements of that approach, including the practice of ecclesial
Ignatius Loyola’s “Hierarchical Church” as Dionysian Reform Program
Aaron Pidel, S.J.
December 1, 2022
This article argues that Ignatius Loyola, in proposing the “hierarchical Church” as norm for judgment and feeling, meant to evoke and commend aspects of the