Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: Morrow, Jefrey L.: Alfred Loisy & Modern Biblical Studies
David G. Schultenover, S.J.
December 1, 2019
Book Review: Hégy, Pierre: Worship as Community Drama: Introduction to Liturgical Evaluation
Joseph Martos
December 1, 2019
Book Review: Uro, Risto: Ritual and Christian Beginnings: A Socio-Cognitive Analysis
Anne McGowan
December 1, 2019
Book Review: Eastman, Susan Grove: Paul and the Person: Reframing Paul’s Anthropology
Stephen A. Long
December 1, 2019
Book Review: Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst: Vorlesungen über die Theologische Enzyklopädie
Christopher Adair-Toteff
December 1, 2019
Book Review: Cahill, Lisa Sowle: Blessed are the Peacemakers: Pacifism, Just War, and Peacebuilding
Thomas Massaro, S.J.
December 1, 2019
Book Review: Clarke, Kevin M. (ed.): The Seven Deadly Sins: Sayings of the Fathers of the Church
Brian P. Dunkle, S.J.
December 1, 2019
Book Review: Curran, Charles: Diverse Voices in Modern U.S. Moral Theology
Jean Porter
December 1, 2019
The Principle of Mercy: Jon Sobrino and the Catholic Theological Tradition
Todd Walatka
February 22, 2016
To Whom Am I Speaking? Communication, Culture, and Fundamental Theology
George Karuvelil
November 30, 2015
Vatican II’s aggiornamento sought to reach out to the modern world with the message of the gospel in a way that was intelligible to the ...
Return of the Golden Calf: Economy, Idolatry, and Secularization since Gaudium et spes
William T. Cavanaugh
November 30, 2015
Pope Francis consistently addresses economic issues with the concept of idolatry, but Gaudium et spes treats the economy as an autonomous, secular realm amenable to ...
Presuppositions of Balthasar’s Universalist Hope and Maritain’s Alternative Eschatological Proposal
Joshua R. Brotherton
November 30, 2015
Hans Urs von Balthasar and Jacques Maritain are both confronted by the apparent contradiction between the reality of damnation and the universal salvific will of ...
Preaching on Laughter: The Theology of Laughter in Augustine’s Sermons
Gabriel Torretta
November 30, 2015
Although Augustine never wrote a treatise on laughter, a clear theology of laughter emerges from a systematic engagement with his Sermones ad populum and his ...
Theodicy, Disability, and Fragility: An Attempt to Find Meaning in the Aftermath of Quadriplegia
Shane Clifton
November 30, 2015
This article, weighing the implications of theodicy for the experience of disability, first delineates the problem of most theodicies, namely, their focus on primary causation ...
A Generation After Genocide: Catholic Reconciliation in Rwanda
J. J. Carney
November 30, 2015
Despite the Catholic Church’s majority status and deep historical influence in Rwanda, Catholic reconciliation work in postgenocide Rwanda has received scant scholarly attention. This article ...
Origenes Vindicatus vel Rufinus Redivivus? A Review of Ilaria Ramelli’s The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis (2013)
Michael McClymond
November 30, 2015
Against a backdrop of surging interest in the topic of universal salvation (or universalism, apokatastasis), Ilaria Ramelli’s major tome places Origenian and Origenist universalism at ...
Conflict in Current Roman Catholic Systematic Theology: A Diagnosis and Response
James R. Pambrun
September 2, 2015
Recent conversations concerning conflict in theology have brought into play the role of such figures as Augustine, Aquinas, and Bonaventure. On the one hand, they ...
A (Non-Communio) Trinitarian Ecclesiology: Grounded in Grace, Lived in Faith, Hope, and Charity
Neil Ormerod
September 2, 2015
Communio ecclesiology has attracted a considerable theological following, but this article dwells on other avenues for relating the Trinity to the life of the church. ...
Post-Gulag Christology: Contextual Considerations from a Lithuanian Perspective
Ligita Ryliškytė, S.J.E.
September 2, 2015
This article aims at enriching the global theology of Jesus Christ by offering a contribution to Christology from an Eastern European perspective. Such Christology emerges ...
Toward a Theology of Divine Action: William R. Stoeger, S.J., on the Laws of Nature
Denis Edwards
September 2, 2015
In the 1990s William Stoeger, S.J., contributed major essays on the laws of nature to the series of conferences on divine action that were cosponsored ...
Ecumenical Pilgrimage toward World Christianity
Edmund Kee-Fook Chia
September 2, 2015
Although the modern ecumenical movement has existed for more than a century, the Roman Catholic Church’s involvement began only some 50 years later. In fact, ...
The Qur’an and the Doctrine of Private Revelation: A Theological Proposal
Anna Bonta Moreland
September 2, 2015
The article argues that the Catholic category of “private revelation” in concert with the Church’s ecclesial documents, theological reflections, and spiritual practices allows the Qur’an ...