Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism: Evangelii Gaudium and the Papal Agenda. Ed. Gerard Mannion
Thomas P. Rausch S.J.
February 23, 2018
Book Review: Jesus in the Theology of Rowan Williams. By Brett Gray
Brett McLaughlin
February 23, 2018
Book Review: Hinduism: Part Two: The Dharma of India. By Raimon Panikkar
Christopher Conway
February 23, 2018
Book Review: The Givenness of Desire: Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God. By Randall S. Rosenberg
Gordon Rixon S.J.
February 23, 2018
Book Review: Systematic Theology: A Roman Catholic Approach. By Thomas P. Rausch
Michael L. Cook
February 23, 2018
Book Review: The Joy of Religious Pluralism: A Personal Journey. By Peter Phan
Catherine Cornille
February 23, 2018
Book Review: Do Not Stifle the Spirit: Conversations with Jacques Dupuis. By Gerard O’Connell
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
February 23, 2018
Book Review: Vatican II: Behind the Iron Curtain. Ed. Piotr H. Kosicki
Ivana Noble
February 23, 2018
Book Review: Catholic Theology After Kierkegaard. By Joshua Furnal
Brett McLaughlin
February 23, 2018
Book Review: Saint Augustine on the Resurrection of Christ: Teaching, Rhetoric, and Reception. By Gerald O’Collins, SJ
Gary Habermas
February 23, 2018
Truly Human Sexual Acts: A Reply to Patrick Lee and Robert George
Theological Studies
September 1, 2008
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
Theological Studies
May 1, 2008
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
Theological Studies
May 1, 2008
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
Theological Studies
May 1, 2008
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
Theological Studies
May 1, 2008
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
Theological Studies
May 1, 2008
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
Theological Studies
May 1, 2008
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
Theological Studies
May 1, 2008
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
Theological Studies
May 1, 2008
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
Theological Studies
May 1, 2008
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 Studies
May 1, 2008
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 ...
The Meaning of Subsistit in as Explained by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Theological Studies
February 1, 2008
Much discussed since Vatican II is the question whether, in making the change from saying that the church of Christ is the Catholic Church to ...
Crises and Other Moral Developments
Theological Studies
February 1, 2008
A bibliographical review of themes in fundamental moral theology over the past four years evidences an astonishingly frequent reference to crises—in identity and in the ...
Bioethics
Theological Studies
February 1, 2008
The AIDS pandemic has focused renewed attention on the relationship between the promotion of health and the protection of human rights. Recent work by Paul ...
Environmental Ethics
Theological Studies
February 1, 2008
Catholicism, with other religions, continues the critical grounding of ecological concern within its tradition. Contemporary theologians offer varying approaches to environmental ethics, from ecologically sensitive ...
Interpreting Vatican II: A New Pentecost
Theological Studies
February 1, 2008
Pope John XXIII’s prayerful phrase “a new Pentecost” linked Vatican II with the Holy Spirit and has interpretative potential. It focuses the pneumatological dimensions of ...
The True Ultimate End of Human Beings: The Kingdom Not God Alone
Theological Studies
February 1, 2008
The author argues against the view that the true ultimate end of human beings is only in God, attained by the beatific vision. The alternative ...
Prolegomena to Meaning or What Is Literary about the Torah?
Theological Studies
February 1, 2008
The drastic economy of biblical narrative style is not simply to be equated with an absence of style but rather represents a distinctive narrative poetics, ...
The Thology and Times of William of Tripoli O.P.: A Different View of Islam
Theological Studies
February 1, 2008
The 13th century, the age of universities and cathedrals, was a time when Europeans journeyed to unknown realms and encountered different religions. It was also ...
When Meats Are Like Medicines: Vitoria and Lessius on the Role of Food in the Duty to Preserve Life
Theological Studies
February 1, 2008
Early Modern theologians Francisco de Vitoria and Leonardus Lessius analyzed the nature and limits of the obligation to preserve one’s life through the use of ...