Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: The Word Enfleshed: Exploring the Person and Work of Christ. By Oliver D. Crisp
Neil Ormerod
May 29, 2018
Book Review: Max Weber. Trans. Rita Aldenhoff-Hübinger in collaboration with Thomas Gerhards and Sybille Oßwald-Bargende
Christopher Adair-Toteff
May 29, 2018
Book Review: Le vivre de l’expérience: D’Anselme de Cantebéry à Bernard de Clairvaux. By Emmanuel Falque
Jacob Benjamins
May 29, 2018
Book Review: The Integrated Self: Augustine, The Bible, and Ancient Thought. By Brian Stock
Corey J. Stephan
May 29, 2018
Book Review: Scripture as Real Presence: Sacramental Exegesis in the Early Church. By Hans Boersma
Gerald O'Collins S.J.
May 29, 2018
Book Review: Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews. By John M. G. Barclay. Foreword David G. Horrell
Stephen A. Long
May 29, 2018
Galilean Journey Revisited: Mestizaje, Anti-Judaism, and the Dynamics of Exclusion
Theological Studies
May 1, 2009
The article explores Virgilio Elizondo’s Galilean Journey and its critiques, particularly the claim that he uses anti-Jewish rhetoric. While acknowledging the legitimacy of some concerns, ...
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman (Jn 4:1-42) in Africa
Theological Studies
May 1, 2009
The author reads the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman (Jn 4:1–42) in light of social ills afflicting African society today. She first highlights ...
The Galilean Jesus: Creating a Borderland at the Foot of the Cross (Jn 19:23-30)
Theological Studies
May 1, 2009
Postcolonial theory allows a reading of John 19:23–30 from a perspective that is hopeful and empowering for dislocated persons such as Asian immigrant women. In ...
Jesus of Galilee from the Salvadoran Context: Compassion, Hope, and following the Light of the Cross
Theological Studies
May 1, 2009
The article analyzes a threefold isomorphism between the realities of Galilee and El Salvador: (1) the two realities are subjugated by imperial powers (2) the ...
The Holy Spirit and The Physical Universe: The Impact of Scientific Paradigm Shifts on Contemporary Pneumatology
Theological Studies
February 1, 2009
A methodological shift occurred in the sciences in the 20th century that has irreversible repercussions for a contemporary theology of the Holy Spirit. Newton and ...
A Sense of the Tragic in a Christian Theology of Freedom
Theological Studies
February 1, 2009
For many Christian theologians and non-Christian theorists about Christianity, tragedy has no serious place in a Christian conception of the world; at best, tragedy is ...
Theologies of Guadalupe: From the Spanish Colonial Era to Pope John Paul II
Theological Studies
February 1, 2009
Theologians writing on Our Lady of Guadalupe strive to articulate a Christian response to a momentous event: the conquest, evangelization, and struggles for life, dignity, ...
Like a Boat is Marriage: Aelred on Marriage as a Christian Way of Life
Theological Studies
February 1, 2009
This study of Aelred of Rievaulx’s understanding of marriage as a Christian state of life first considers his work in the context of earlier written ...
Imagination Virtue and Human Rights: Lessons from Australian and U.S. Law
Theological Studies
February 1, 2009
The article attempts to bridge the gap between virtue theory and rights theory by asking what virtues are needed to recognize and protect human rights ...
Fundamental Moral Theology: Tradition
Theological Studies
February 1, 2009
Theological ethicists around the world are turning toward history to comment on the method and arguments of earlier authoritative voices. The intent of this turn ...
Social and Economic Ethics
Theological Studies
February 1, 2009
The Note surveys scholarship in social and economic ethics between 2004 and 2008, focusing on economic ethics and the financial crisis of 2008. The author ...
Catholics’ Ethical Interventions in Political Debates: The Situation in Germany
Theological Studies
February 1, 2009
Time Judgment and Competitive Spirituality: A Reading of the Development of the Doctrine of Purgatory
Theological Studies
December 1, 2008
Why has purgatory virtually disappeared from Catholic belief and practice since Vatican II? A competitive spirituality, gravitating around the religious vocation of ascetics from the ...
Doubt and the Resurrection of Jesus
Theological Studies
December 1, 2008
Debate on the resurrection of Jesus tends to focus either on the likelihood of Jesus’ body rising physically from the tomb or on the form ...
God Creation and the Possibility of Philosophical Wisdom: Perspectives of Bonaventure and Aquinas
Theological Studies
December 1, 2008
Contemporary debates about the relationship between philosophy and theology may be illuminated by comparing Aquinas’s doctrine of philosophical wisdom to Bonaventure’s. For both, philosophical wisdom ...
Maude Petre on Loisy’s Religious Significance: Spirituality and Critical History
Theological Studies
December 1, 2008
Alfred Loisy’s enduring significance, in Maude Petre’s view, lay in his struggle to define the relationship between religious faith and facts accessible to historical critics. ...
A Trinitarian Response to Issues Raised by Peter Phan
Theological Studies
December 1, 2008
The U.S. bishops and the Vatican have reacted critically to Peter Phan’s recent book, Being Religious Interreligiously. This article attempts to address the contended issues ...