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
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 ...
Homosexuality and the Counsel of the Cross: A Clarification
The September 2004 issue of this journal carried the author’s article entitled “Homosexuality and the Counsel of the Cross.” The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine ...
What Male-Female Complementarity Makes Possible: Marriage as a Two-in-One-Flesh Union
The authors, replying to criticisms of the Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexual acts presented by Todd Salzman and Michael Lawler in an article in this ...
Truly Human Sexual Acts: A Reply to Patrick Lee and Robert George
The authors argue that Lee and George (hereafter, L/G) use a reductionist anthropology and ethical method to defend a classicist approach to absolute sexual norms. ...
Globalizing Solidarity: Christian Anthropology and the Challenge of Human Liberation
The article examines the role of theology in the context of globalization and its challenges to the human community. It explores the issue of human ...
Globalization with a Human Face: Catholic Social Teaching and Globalization
Globalization raises an array of moral issues. The legacy of Catholic social teaching offers “ethical coordinates” that may prove useful in guiding globalization in a ...
Globalization’s Shifting Economic and Moral Terrain: Contesting Market Place Mores
Major shifts in economic life have always been accompanied by corresponding changes in the public’s economic morality. Contemporary globalization is pulling the moral agent in ...
Economic Globalization and Asian Contextual Theology
Asian contextual theology tends to define globalization as a contemporary form of colonialism. Realizing the failure of past evangelization and contemporary American-oriented Evangelicalism in honoring ...
Neoliberal Globalization: Critiques and Alternatives
The author presents an overview of neoliberal globalization, its critics, and proposed policy alternatives. The contributions of Catholic social teaching to the globalization debate are ...
Migrant Tourist Pilgrim Monk: Mobility and Identity in a Global Age
Globalization is often portrayed as ushering in a world without borders, a mobile world where everything is shifting. This essay aims to nuance this portrayal ...
Between Identity and Security: Theological Implications of Migration in the Context of Globalization
Migration has always been woven into the fabric of global patterns of integration. While migration brings both positive and negative political and economic changes to ...
What Does Mumbai Have to Do with Rome? Postcolonial Perspectives on Globatlization and Theology
Does postcolonial theory that cogently presents postcolonial perspectives on globalization have relevance for theology? The article argues that postcolonial theory’s emphasis on eschewing identity-based strategies ...
Religious Pluralism in an Era of Globalization: The Making of Modern Religious Identity
Impacted by the technologies that make the world a single place, the theological discourse on religious pluralism comes to expression in the era of globalization ...
Where Is the Church? Globalization and Catholicity?
Theological considerations of the cultural effects of globalization have focused largely on homogenization: the erosion of local cultures by some dominant globalizing culture. This article ...