Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation: The Bible, Justice, and the Palestine–Israel Conflict By Naim Stifan Ateek
Michael L. Cook
November 30, 2018
Book Review: Newman’s Early Roman Catholic Legacy, 1845‒1854 By C. Michael Shea
Harvey Hill
November 30, 2018
Book Review: On Being Unfinished: Collected Writings By Anne E. Patrick. Ed. Susan Perry
Leo J. O'Donovan S.J.
November 30, 2018
Book Review: Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church By John W. O’Malley
Stephen R. Schloesser
November 30, 2018
Book Review: Crispina and Her Sisters. Women and Authority in Early Christianity By Christine Schenk, CSJ
Michael L. Cook
November 30, 2018
Book Review: Apocalypse Illuminated: The Visual Exegesis of Revelation in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts By Richard K. Emmerson
Jonathan Homrighausen
November 30, 2018
Book Review: The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity By Guy G. Stroumsa
Joseph K. Gordon
November 30, 2018
Book Review: The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus By Jan Assmann
Michael R. Simone, S.J.
November 30, 2018
Book Review: The Capacity to Be Displaced: Resilience, Mission, and Inner Strength. By Clemens Sedmak
Bradford E. Hinze
August 22, 2018
Book Review: Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril. By Elizabeth A. Johnson
Daniel P. Horan
August 22, 2018
Book Review: Toward a Catholic Christianity: A Study in Critical Belonging. By Michael Halpin McCarthy
David G. Schultenover, S.J.
August 22, 2018
Oscar Romero’s Theology of Transfiguration
Margaret R. Pfeil
March 1, 2011
Releasing three of his four pastoral letters on August 6, the patronal feast day of El Salvador, Oscar Romero linked his Transfiguration homilies with his ...
Oncofertility and the Boundaries of Moral Reflection
Paul Lauritzen
March 1, 2011
Advances in medical technology provide regular opportunities to explore theological reflection and magisterial teaching at the border of science and conscience. This article reflects on ...
What Happened at Trento 2010?
James F. Keenan S.J.
March 1, 2011
From July 24 to 27, 2010, some 600 theological ethicists from nearly 75 countries met in Trento, Italy, under the auspices of Catholic Theological Ethics ...
Economic Recession Work and Solidarity
Christine Firer Hinze
March 1, 2011
The note treats ethical issues surrounding the 2008 to 2010 financial crisis and its aftermath, focusing on resources pertinent to Catholic economic-ethical responses. Four key, ...
Clerical and Religious Child Abuse: Ireland and Beyond
Linda Hogan
March 1, 2011
The note considers recent theological commentary on the clerical sexual abuse crisis in Ireland and beyond. It examines the nature and extent of the crisis ...
Cardinal Avery Dulles S.J. among the Theologians: A Memorial Reflection
Patrick W. Carey
December 1, 2010
Avery Dulles’ postconciliar theology must be placed historically in the broad context of what he called postcriticism. His models approach to theology, moreover, attempted to ...
The Body of Christ: Amen!: The Expanding Incarnation
Anthony J. Kelly C.Ss.R.
December 1, 2010
The article aims to refresh Christian sensibilities to the bodily character of ecclesial existence. It links Christ’s incarnation with the continuing formation of his Body, ...
Christ’s Human Knowledge: A Conversation with Lonergan and Balthasar
Randall S. Rosenberg
December 1, 2010
The article explores the contribution of Balthasar and Lonergan to a contemporary understanding of Christ’s human knowledge. It argues methodologically that Lonergan’s account of Christ’s ...
Woman of Many Names: Mary in Orthodox and Catholic Theology
Brian E. Daley S.J.
December 1, 2010
Catholic emphasis on Mary’s role in the Christian story of salvation and on the unique privileges given her by God to accomplish that salvation for ...
Reading the Universe Story Theologically: The Contribution of a Biblical Narrative Imagination
J. Matthew Ashley
December 1, 2010
Peter Canisius and the Truly Catholic Augustine
Hilmar M. Pabel
December 1, 2010
Arguably the most influential theologian in the Latin West, Augustine of Hippo conventionally figures as the greatest ally, after the Bible, of Protestantism in Reformation ...
Catholics and Pentecostals: Troubled History New Initiatives
Thomas P. Rausch S.J.
December 1, 2010
Catholics and Pentecostals in their various expressions—classical, charismatic, and Neo-Pentecostal—constitute about 75 percent of the total number of Christians today. And Pentecostals continue to grow ...
Caritas in Veritate as a Social Encyclical: A Modest Challenge to Economic Social and Political Institutions
Bernard Laurent
September 1, 2010
While many elements of Benedict XVI’s Caritas in veritate subscribe to the logic of earlier social encyclicals, the absence of a connection drawn between the ...
Swearing against Modernism: Sacrorum Antistitum (September 1 1910)
C. J. T. Talar
September 1, 2010
The historiography of Modernism has concentrated on the doctrinal issues raised by partisans of reform and their condemnation, to the relative neglect of social and ...
Encountering the Religious Other: Challenges to Rahner’s Transcendental Project
Paul G. Crowley, S.J.
September 1, 2010
Fruitful interreligious encounter is the meeting of human beings, and calls for a metaphysics, a common humanum in order to proceed to dialogue. Rahner’s transcendental ...
The Theological Problem of Grace and Experience: A Lonerganian Perspective
L. Matthew Petillo
September 1, 2010
For Bernard Lonergan and Karl Rahner, grace is a reality that can be not only professed in worship or inferred through metaphysical analysis but also ...
Vatican II–Continuity or Discontinuity? Toward an Ontology of Meaning
Neil Ormerod
September 1, 2010
The article argues that the debate over continuity/discontinuity at Vatican II is hindered by the descriptive nature of the categories under consideration. To move beyond ...
Vatican II on Revelation–From behind the Scenes
Jared Wicks S.J.
September 1, 2010
The article presents interventions by certain expert-consultants (periti) just before and during Vatican II’s opening weeks in 1962. Discovering mediocrity in passages of the prepared ...
The Council in Trullo Revisited: Ecumenism and the Canon of the Councils
George Nedungatt S.J.
September 1, 2010
Although the much-postponed subject of papal primacy in the ecumenical dialogue between the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches finally got to a formal start in ...
Evolution Altruism and the Image of God
Jack Mahoney S.J.
September 1, 2010
Responding to a question of Pope John Paul II on what light evolution can throw on creation in the image of God, this article first ...