Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: Snedden, Elizabeth J.: The Eros of the Human Spirit: The Writings of Bernard Lonergan, SJ
John D. Dadosky
May 7, 2019
Book Review: Kidd, Erin, and Jakob Karl Rinderknecht (eds.): Putting God on the Map: Theology and Conceptual Mapping
Joseph A. Bracken S.J.
May 7, 2019
Book Review: Griffiths, Fiona J.: Nuns’ Priests Tales: Men and Salvation in Medieval Women’s Monastic Life
Elizabeth Dreyer
May 7, 2019
Book Review: Kasule, Dennis D: Tillard and von Balthasar: A Quest for Rapprochement
Emery de Gaál
May 7, 2019
Book Review: Hégy, Pierre: Lay Spirituality: From Traditional to Postmodern
William P. O’Brien
May 7, 2019
Book Review: Heringer Seth: Uniting History and Theology: A Theological Critique of the Historical Method
Stephen R. Schloesser
May 7, 2019
Book Review: Mathews, Race: Of Labour and Liberty: Distributism in Victoria, 1891–1966
Stefan Gigacz
May 7, 2019
Addendum on the Grace–Nature Distinction
Neil Ormerod
November 27, 2014
In a previous article the author noted the role of Lonergan’s four-point hypothesis in unpacking the order of grace in the grace–nature distinction. Here he ...
Poverty of the Church—Poverty of Culture: A Contribution of Giuseppe Dossetti to Vatican II
Theological Studies
August 7, 2014
Giuseppe Dossetti was an important figure not only in Italian politics, in the reform of historical studies, and in the history of new monasticism, but ...
The Definitive Exercise of Teaching Authority
Theological Studies
August 7, 2014
The author first explains that the pope and bishops exercise their teaching authority definitively and infallibly when they oblige the faithful to give their irrevocable ...
The Grace–Nature Distinction and the Construction of a Systematic Theology
Theological Studies
August 7, 2014
The author considers the ongoing significance of the grace–nature distinction for systematic theology, the role the distinction has made historically, and current debates on its ...
The Integrity of Nature in the Grace–Freedom Dynamic: Lonergan’s Critique of Bañezian Thomism
Theological Studies
August 7, 2014
Lonergan makes unique, balanced contributions to the debates on the relationship between the natural and supernatural and on the grace–freedom dynamic (the de auxiliis controversy), ...
“For the Many”: The Vicarious-Representative Heart of Joseph Ratzinger’s Theology
Theological Studies
August 7, 2014
The concept of vicarious representation (Stellvertretung) is central to Joseph Ratzinger’s thought. He uses it, with its correlative concept of pro-existence, to develop a theology ...
Sign of Reconciliation and Conversion? Differing Views of Power—Ecclesial, Sacramental, Anthropological—among Hierarchy and Laity
Theological Studies
August 7, 2014
Monika Hellwig’s 1982 history and theology of the sacrament of penance, Sign of Reconciliation and Conversion, is representative of the expectations that theologians and pastoral ...
What Might Bernard Lonergan Say to Bruce Morrill?
Theological Studies
August 7, 2014
In his analysis of Monika Hellwig’s and John Paul II’s thought on penance, Bruce Morrill identifies a breakdown of shared meaning in the church. This ...
Reconciliation and the Church: A Response to Bruce Morrill
Theological Studies
August 7, 2014
In conversation with Bruce Morrill’s article, the author explores how the fundamental ecclesiologies of Monika Hellwig and John Paul II influence their theologies of the ...
A Buddhist Critique of, and Learning from, Christian Liberation Theology
Theological Studies
August 7, 2014
This article is an exercise in comparative theology from a Buddhist perspective. Christian liberation theology and engaged Buddhism both seek to empower people by liberating ...
Explaining Eucharistic “Real Presence”: Moving beyond a Medieval Conundrum
Theological Studies
May 20, 2014
The Unity of Salvation: Divine Missions, the Church, and World Religions
Theological Studies
May 20, 2014
Why Ecclesial Structures at the Regional Level Matter: Communion as Mutual Inclusion
Theological Studies
May 20, 2014
Episcopal Conferences Worldwide and Catholic Social Thought, in Theory and Praxis: An Update
Theological Studies
May 20, 2014
The Divine Dignity of Human Persons in Dignitatis humanae
Theological Studies
March 3, 2014
This article concludes our formal series commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Vatican II. The author inquires about the idea of human dignity that inspired Dignitatis ...
Facing the World: A Theological and Biographical Inquiry
Theological Studies
March 3, 2014
This article is a revised and expanded version of the talk given by Johann Baptist Metz after being awarded the Salzburg University Week Theology Prize ...
Justin Martyr’s Exegesis of Biblical Theophanies and the Parting of the Ways between Christianity and Judaism
Theological Studies
March 3, 2014
The article provides an overview of the three distinct approaches to the exegesis of theophanies documented in the surviving works of Justin Martyr. It argues, ...