Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: Christsein im demokratischen Handeln. Trinitarische Einsichten-gesellschaftliche Interessen By Otmar Meuffels
Christopher Adair-Toteff
November 30, 2018
Book Review: “Gelehrte Bräute Christi”: Geistliche Frauen in der mittelalterlichen Gesellschaft By Eva Schlotheuber
Gabriella Turai
November 30, 2018
Book Review: Der Herr der Zeit. Ein Ewigkeitsmodell im Anschluss an Schellings Spätphilosophie und physikalische Modelle By Jan Schole
Christopher Adair-Toteff
November 30, 2018
Book Review: The Folly of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts in Early Modernity By Richard Viladesau
Gerald O'Collins S.J.
November 30, 2018
Book Review: Matthew. Interpreted by Early Christian Commentators Trans. and ed. by D. H. Williams
Pheme Perkins
November 30, 2018
Book Review: Rejoice and Be Glad: On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World By Pope Francis
Gerald O'Collins S.J.
November 30, 2018
Book Review: By What Authority? Foundations for Understanding Authority in the Church By Richard R. Gaillardetz
Peter Knox
November 30, 2018
Book Review: Mercy in Action: The Social Teachings of Pope Francis By Thomas Massaro
John A. Coleman S.J.
November 30, 2018
Book Review: The Depth of God’s Reach: A Spirituality of Christ’s Descent By Michael Downey
Ingrid Vorner
November 30, 2018
Book Review: Krankheitserfahrung und Religion By Thorsten Moos
Christopher Adair-Toteff
November 30, 2018
Book Review: How to Do Comparative Theology Eds. Francis X. Clooney and Klaus von Stosch
Peter C. Phan
November 30, 2018
Grace and Growth: Aquinas, Lonergan, and the Problematic of Habitual Grace
Thomas Aquinas’s theory of habitual grace rests on a generically metaphysical account of the faculties of the soul and of the natural and supernatural habits ...
Which are the Words of Scripture?
The author argues that the liturgical practice of the Church strongly supports the view that translated versions of Scripture are as much verbum Domini as ...
“Aiming Excessively High and Far”: The Early Lonergan and the Challenge of Theory in Catholic Social Thought
Bernard Lonergan is not usually associated with the field of Catholic social thought. This article explores Lonergan’s efforts to contribute to it in his manuscripts ...
Revisiting Vatican II’s Theology of the People of God after Forty-Five Years of Catholic-Jewish Dialogue
Lumen gentium described biblical Israel as a preparation and figure of the church, the new people of God. Jews do not belong to this people ...
Can Christians Possess the Acquired Cardinal Virtues?
The article proposes, contrary to much of contemporary Thomistic scholarship, that according to Thomas Aquinas’s categorizations of virtue, the person in a state of grace ...
The Difference Nothing Makes: Creatio Ex Nihilo, Resurrection, and Divine Gratuity
In response to recent charges that creatio ex nihilo imposes a dubious metaphysics upon biblical theologies of creation, with the result that divine power is ...
Paul’s Use of dikaio Terminology: Moving Beyond N. T. Wright’s Forensic Interpretation
The article argues that Paul’s use of dikaio- terminology, the language of “justification,” has been too narrowly construed by N. T. Wright in his latest ...
Ecclesial Impasse: What Can we Learn from Our Laments?
Occasioned by current challenges facing the Catholic Church, the article explores the role of lamentations and impasse in the life of the church. By drawing ...
Indissoluble Marriage: A Reply to Kenneth Himes and James Coriden
The article is a reply to one by Kenneth Himes and James Coriden published in our September 2004 issue. Except for minor sylistic changes, the ...
The Grace of Indirection and the Moral Imagination: Learning from William Spohn and Literature
The author mines William Spohn’s notion of the grace of indirection as it relates to the potential impact of the arts on the moral imagination. ...
Christological Polemics of Maximus the Confessor and the Emergence of Islam onto the World Stage
The article examines Maximus the Confessor’s reaction to the ArabMuslim invasion of the Byzantine Roman Empire. It also appraises Islam’s place in the 7th century ...
Levinas and Christian Mysticism after Auschwitz
An ethics of disinterested goodness governs the testimony of Auschwitz survivors Primo Levi and Jean Amery. For Emmanuel Levinas, ethical goodness such as we find ...
The Church as a Sacrament of Hope
How can Christian hope transform ecclesial life and in turn illumine contemporary culture? The articles by Richard Lennan and Dominic Doyle address this question from ...
The Development of Doctrine about Infants Who Die Unbaptized
The author traces the history of Catholic doctrine about the fate of infants who die unbaptized: (1) from Augustine’s teaching that they are condemned to ...
Sex and Marriage in the Sentences of Peter Lombard
Scholastic theology first saw the light of day among the masters in the twelfth-century schools of Europe. Chief among the masters of theology was Peter ...
Sine Culpa? Vatican II and Inculpable Ignorance
Lumen gentium no. 16’s genuine optimism for the salvation of non-Christians is nonetheless a heavily qualified one. Among other things, it applies only to those ...