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
Tomáš Halík: A Theology for the Post-Secular
Aden Cotterill
March 13, 2024
This article presents the work of Czech theologian and priest Tomáš Halík as a theology for the post-secular. The first section outlines three general post-secular ...
From Ecclesial Sin to Ecclesial Han: Ecclesiology Beyond “A Church of Sinners and Saints”
Flora x. Tang
March 13, 2024
Debates within ecclesiology on the nature and possibility of ecclesial sin have regained interest in the midst of rising awareness of the church’s historical wrongs. ...
Rahner and Scheeben on Grace: Reexamining a Forgotten Resemblance
Vincent L. Strand, S.J.
March 13, 2024
This article demonstrates the overlooked similarity between Scheeben’s and Rahner’s accounts of God’s self-communication to the human person through uncreated grace. It then argues that ...
The “Hierarchy” of Truths in a New Context
Catherine E. Clifford
March 13, 2024
This article revisits the debate leading to the inclusion of the notion of a “hierarchy” of truths in the Second Vatican Council’s Decree on Ecumenism ...
Truth in a Wintry Season
Colleen M. Griffith
December 11, 2023
Directing attention to what has become an arctic winter for truth, this article explores a distinctly Christian understanding of truth, utilizing biblical accounts, the Christian ...
Theological Aporia and the Cultivation of Desire: Reading Eriugena’s Creatio Ex Nihilo through an Islamic Theo-Poetics
Axel Marc Oaks Takacs
December 11, 2023
This comparative theological article expands on John Thiel’s article on aporias in theological method. Through an Islamic theo-poetics, it complements the import of hermeneutics in ...
On the Way to Divine Providence: From the Abyss of Time to the Throe of Eternity
Jerome A. Miller
December 11, 2023
Divine providence, as traditionally conceived, keeps historical time subordinate to God’s sovereignty so that the divine plan for it is fulfilled. This article argues that ...
The Indefectibility of the Apostolic See: Was the Idea of a Heretical Pope Formally Excluded at the First Vatican Council?
Emmett O'Regan
December 11, 2023
During the prelude to the First Vatican Council, the idea of a heretical pope was used as the primary argument against the solemn definition of ...
A Hidden Ecological Dialectic: An Oversight in Insight
Neil Ormerod
December 11, 2023
While the writings of Robert Doran exhibit significant ecological awareness, the present paper argues that the corpus of Bernard Lonergan and Doran’s own work have ...
Purely Penal Law: A Reconsideration
Andrew Skotnicki
December 11, 2023
The concept of purely penal law, as developed by the Spanish Jesuit Francisco Suárez in the early seventeenth century, argues that promulgated law is neither ...
Dei Verbum and the Roots of Synodality
Ormond Rush
December 11, 2023
This article shows how Pope Francis’s notion of “synodality” brings together central tenets of the comprehensive vision of the Second Vatican Council. The article proposes ...
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, ...