Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: The Church We Want: African Catholics Look to Vatican III. Ed. Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator
Leo Lushombo
February 23, 2018
Book Review: Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering. By Makoto Fujimura
James T. Bretzke S.J.
February 23, 2018
Book Review: Speaking with Aquinas: A Conversation about Grace, Virtue, and the Eucharist. By David Farina Turnbloom
Peter Folan
February 23, 2018
Book Review: Enriching our Vision of Reality: Theology and the Natural Sciences in Dialogue. By Alister McGrath
Joseph A. Bracken S.J.
February 23, 2018
Like a Boat is Marriage: Aelred on Marriage as a Christian Way of Life
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
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 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
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 ...
Time Judgment and Competitive Spirituality: A Reading of the Development of the Doctrine of Purgatory
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
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
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
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
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 ...
Lumen Gentium’s Subsistit in Revisited: The Catholic Church and Christian Unity after Vatican II
The article contributes to the ecumenical debate on the relationship between the Church of Christ and the Catholic Church, a debate that followed upon the ...
Unbind Him and Let Him God (Jn 11:44): Ethical Issues in the Determination of Proportionate and Disproportionate Treatment
The article (1) reviews a variety of magisterial documents and essays concerning the terms “morally ordinary” and “extraordinary” treatment in relation to the provision of ...
De Lubac and Lonergan on the Supernatural
The author argues that Bernard Lonergan’s work provides a useful foil for reconsidering the position of Henri de Lubac on the relationship between natural and ...
Hugh of St. Victor on Jesus Wept: Compassion as Ideal Humanitas
In his brief, On the Four Wills in Christ, Hugh of St. Victor (d. 1141) offers a carefully nuanced depiction of Jesus’ human nature that ...
The Sacramental World in the Sentences of Peter Lombard
The article studies the sacramental teaching in Peter Lombard’s Sentences, a work that quickly became the principal theology text in the schools and universities from ...
An African Moral Theology of Inculturation: Methodological Considerations
Following a brief discussion of inculturation in moral theology, the article appeals to the work of Bénézet Bujo, a pioneer in fundamental African Catholic moral ...