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 SchĂĽssler 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: FĂĽr 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
Our Faith in Creation, God’s Faith in Humanity: Edward Schillebeeckx and Pope Francis on Human Transcendence and an Anthropocentric Cosmos
Daniel Minch
December 1, 2019
Edward Schillebeeckx’s theology of creation can serve as a foundation for authentic Christian self-understanding in relation to the ecological crisis. Schillebeeckx provides a Thomistic view ...
Ecclesiology as Political Theology: On Delivering on a Transformative Strategic Orientation in Ecclesiology
Paul D. Murray
December 1, 2019
This three-section article reappraises both Edward Schillebeeckx’s continuing significance and the relationship between ecclesiology and political theology. Having identified two differing sets of concerns within ...
Cultivating a “Cosmic Perspective” in Theology: Reading William R. Stoeger with Laudato Si’
Paul J. Schutz
December 1, 2019
The anthropocentric orientation and treatments of evolution and ecology found in Laudato Si’ undermine its potential for operationalizing its vision of “splendid universal communion.” Jesuit ...
Extending and Locating Jesus’s Body: Toward a Christology of Radical Embodiment
Jakub Urbaniak
December 1, 2019
The African Jesus of Tinyiko Maluleke and the Christ of deep incarnation represent two radically different christological trajectories. While the deep incarnation theologians extend Jesus’s ...
Concerning Victims, Sexuality, and Power: A Reflection on Sexual Abuse from Latin America
Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer
December 1, 2019
The author underscores the ethical imperatives incumbent on the community called church in light of the needs and experiences of children. The immediate circumstance relates ...
Turning Theology: A Proposal
M. Shawn Copeland
December 1, 2019
Drawing out Stephen Bevans’s thesis that Christian theologizing has never been an exclusively European project, this article proposes that theologians working within the context of ...
Between Ecclesiology and Ethics: Promoting a Culture of Protection and Care in Church and Society
Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator S.J.
December 1, 2019
How does political theology, with its eschatologically themed commitment to both critique and constructive transformation of the social, economic, and political in the light of ...
Beyond Scandal and Shame? Ecclesiology and the Longing for a Transformed Church
Richard Lennan
August 15, 2019
The need for reform of the Catholic Church’s structures features prominently in discussion of the clerical sexual abuse scandal. Less common has been reflection on ...
The Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis as a Theological Crisis: Emerging Issues
Massimo Faggioli
August 15, 2019
The sexual abuse crisis has long-term consequences: not only on the victims and survivors of abuse, but also on the theological standing and balance of ...
Rhetoric and Reality: Augustine and Pope Francis on Preaching Christ and the Poor
Kevin G. Grove
August 15, 2019
In an age when rhetoric about alleviating conditions of poverty is rightly suspect, this study offers a reassessment of the power of non-modern, christological rhetoric ...
The Possibilities of Grace amid Persistent Depression
Jessica Coblentz
August 15, 2019
Chronic and recurring depression presents challenges to theologians working on the doctrine of grace. First, its frequent misrepresentation inhibits accurate perceptions of God’s loving presence ...
Sex, Race, and Culture: Constructing Theological Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century
Mary Doak
August 15, 2019
Pre-Vatican II theological anthropology focused attention on the exercise of human freedom as embodied in time and oriented to community. Post-Vatican II theology has deepened ...
Feminist Theology and the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis
Susan A. Ross
August 15, 2019
The clergy sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is complex. While first and foremost a terrible violation of victims, it is not only about ...
The Child at the Center: What Can Theology Say in the Face of the Scandals of Abuse?
Hans Zollner
August 15, 2019
Approaching the subjects of child safeguarding and children through a theological lens, the author shows the devastating scale, impact, and ramifications of the Catholic Church’s ...
Towards a Theology of Childhood: Children’s Agency and the Reign of God
James Gerard McEvoy
August 15, 2019
This article contributes to a theology of childhood in the context of recent research in the social sciences on children’s lives and the nature of ...
Eucharistic Sacrifice as Anti-Violent Pedagogy
Eugene R. Schlesinger
August 15, 2019
The Council of Trent teaches that the sacrifice of the Mass is identical to the sacrifice of Calvary, but with the crucial difference that the ...
Anger, Forgiveness, and Restorative Justice in Light of Clerical Sexual Abuse and Its Cover-up
Stephen J. Pope
August 15, 2019
Catholic tradition provides resources for understanding morally legitimate anger as ordered to the good of survivors and their wider communities, a way of conceiving of ...
Relationality and Intersubjectivity within a Socially Oriented Metaphysics: A Note on Ecclesiology
Joseph A. Bracken S.J.
May 7, 2019
Given increased attention to the themes of relationality and intersubjectivity in contemporary Christian systematic theology, the author argues that these terms are best understood within ...
Statistically Ordered: Gender, Sexual Identity, and the Metaphysics of “Normal”
Jonathan Heaps
May 7, 2019
The recent call by Pope Francis for the church to develop a “theology of women” raises more fundamental and prior questions about the very nature ...
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, ...