Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: Bullivant, Stephen: Mass Exodus: Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II
Susan Bigelow Reynolds
March 28, 2021
Book Review: Tracy, David: Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time. Selected Essays, Volume 1 and Filaments: Theological Profiles. Selected Essays, Volume 2
Francis Schüssler Fiorenza
March 28, 2021
Book Review: Gallagher, OMV. M. Timothy: Setting Captives Free: Personal Reflections on Ignatian Discernment of Spirits
Brian O. McDermott, S.J.
December 3, 2020
Book Review: Hartman, M. Laura: That All May Flourish: Comparative Religious Environmental Ethics
Harold Coward
December 3, 2020
Book Review: Chappel, James: Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church
Daniel Rober
December 3, 2020
Book Review: Bernauer, SJ. James: Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance
Mary C. Boys S.N.J.M.
December 3, 2020
Book Review: Braulik, OSB. Georg: Tora und Fest: Aufsätze zum Deuteronomium und zur Liturgie
Stephen A. Long
December 3, 2020
Book Review: Ruster, Thomas: Balance of Powers: Für eine neue Gestalt des kirchlichen Amtes
Paul Misner
December 3, 2020
Book Review: Salkeld, Brett: Transubstantiation: Theology, History, and Christian Unity
Kimberly Hope Belcher
December 3, 2020
Book Review: Miller, Cox, Patricia: In the Eye of the Animal: Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity
Erin Galgay Walsh
December 3, 2020
Book Review: Carey, W. Patrick: Confession: Catholics, Repentance, and Forgiveness in America
Michael L. Cook
December 3, 2020
Book Review: Ritchie, Sarah Lane: Divine Action and the Human Mind
Amanda R. Alexander
December 3, 2020
An Alternative to Gender Complementarity: The Body as Existential Category in the Catholic Tradition
Brianne A. B. Jacobs
May 7, 2019
This article connects the work of M. Shawn Copeland to a dialogue between Bernard Lonergan and Emmanuel Levinas. Exploring these authors’ insights on intersubjectivity, alterity, ...
Church as Sacrament of Yin-yang Harmony: Toward a More Incisive Participation of Laity and Women in the Church
Agnes M. Brazal
May 7, 2019
The author proposes a development of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conference’s theology of church as a sacrament of harmony, drawing in particular from the ...
Jacques Dupuis and Chalcedon
Mark Yenson
May 7, 2019
This article reexamines Jacques Dupuis’s distinction between the action of the Word as such and the action of the Word incarnate. Against recent critics, I ...
Theology before the Reformation: Renaissance Humanism and Vatican II
John W. O'Malley S.J.
May 7, 2019
Histories of theology move seamlessly from late-medieval Scholasticism to the Reformation and bypass the important theological contribution of Renaissance humanists such as Lorenzo Valla and ...
The Nature and Operation of Structural Sin: Additional Insights from Theology and Moral Psychology
Conor M. Kelly
May 7, 2019
Recent work has improved the understanding of social structures in theological discourse, but ambiguity persists with respect to structures of sin. Here, a revised definition ...
From Magisterium to Magisteria: Recent Theologies of the Learning and Teaching Functions of the Church
Peter C. Phan
May 7, 2019
In the aftermath of Vatican II, questions have been raised about the exercise of magisterium in the church. This study first examines the teaching authority ...
Stepping toward a Synodal Church
Amanda C. Osheim
May 7, 2019
In his address commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the institution of the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis expressed hope for a more synodal church. Consulting ...
The Birth of American Catholic Theology
Roger D. Haight, S.J.
February 27, 2019
The eighty years of Theological Studies bear witness to the birth of American Catholic theology. This article traces that development through five stages. During its ...
Dragon Myths and Biblical Theology
Robert D. Miller
February 27, 2019
A recurrent myth in the Bible about God “slaying a dragon,” primarily in the Old Testament, provides a test case for using the “study of ...
Karl Rahner’s Theological Logic, Phenomenology, and Anticipation
Peter Joseph Fritz
February 27, 2019
This article provides an update on the logic undergirding Karl Rahner’s theology of mystery through a dialogue between Rahner and Jean-Luc Marion. It focuses on ...
Cruciform Encounter in a Time of Crisis: Enfleshing an Ethics of Alterity
Brian Bajzek
February 27, 2019
This article connects the work of M. Shawn Copeland to a dialogue between Bernard Lonergan and Emmanuel Levinas. Exploring these authors’ insights on intersubjectivity, alterity, ...
Pope Francis and the Christological Dimensions of Solidarity in Catholic Social Teaching
Meghan J. Clark
February 27, 2019
Solidarity is a central aspect of the Catholic social tradition and yet it is difficult to capture in a simple definition. Building upon his predecessor’s ...
Integral Human Development: From Paternalism to Accompaniment
Stephen J. Pope
February 27, 2019
This article traces the development of Catholic treatments of integral human development from Paul VI’s Populorum Progressio to the writings of Pope Francis on accompaniment. ...
Making Sense of Eighty Years of Theological Ethics
James F. Keenan S.J.
February 27, 2019
This article surveys all the contributions in ethics on these pages over the past eighty years and is divided into four historical parts: the first ...
Just War, Pacifism, Just Peace, and Peacebuilding
Lisa Sowle Cahill
February 27, 2019
While Roman Catholic ethics of war and peace develops more restrictive criteria of just war and reprioritizes nonviolence, an important strand of Protestant theology defends ...
Pope Francis and Catholic Healthcare Ethics
Cathleen Kaveny
February 27, 2019
This article examines the influence of Pope Francis on Catholic healthcare ethics. The first section offers an analytical summary of his ethics. The second section ...
“Your one wild and precious life”: Women on the Road of Ministry
Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J.
February 27, 2019
While women continue to engage in ministry in increasing numbers, their presence and activity is an unresolved issue in terms of ecclesial structure and meaning. ...
The Mysticism of Resistance: The Global Suffering of Women as an Ethical Imperative for the Church
Kathleen McManus O.P.
November 30, 2018
The Catholic Church’s evangelizing and healing presence throughout the world also entails the unintended reinforcement of cultural forces of misogyny that contribute to the suffering ...
Discerning the Meaning of Humanae Vitae
Gerald D. Coleman S.S.
November 30, 2018
The landmark encyclical Humanae Vitae is frequently viewed in isolation from its context. This essay addresses this lapse by understanding the encyclical in light of ...
Humanae Vitae and Its Ecclesial Consequences
Richard R. Gaillardetz
November 30, 2018
This article explores the ecclesial consequences of Humanae Vitae in relation to four seminal contributions of Vatican II: (1) a renewed appreciation for the sensus ...