Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: Lived Theology: New Perspectives on Method, Style, and Pedagogy. Eds. Charles Marsh, Peter Slade, and Sarah Azaransky
Elizabeth Drescher
November 21, 2017
Book Review: With the Smell of the Sheep: The Pope Speaks to Priests, Bishops, and Other Shepherds. By Pope Francis
Thomas Massaro, S.J.
November 21, 2017
Book Review: When Mary Becomes Cosmic: A Jungian and Mystical Path to the Divine Feminine. By David Richo
John D. Dadosky
November 21, 2017
Book Review: The Sensus Fidelium and Moral Theology. Eds. Charles Curran and Lisa Fullam
John A. Coleman S.J.
November 21, 2017
Book Review: The Cosmic Common Good: Religious Grounds for Ecological Ethics. By Daniel P. Scheid
Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J.
November 21, 2017
Book Review: Christian Understandings of Evil: The Historical Trajectory. By Charlene P. E. Burns
Andrew Michael Flescher
November 21, 2017
Book Review: The New Evangelization: Faith, People, Context and Practice. Eds. Paul Grogan and Kirsteen Kim
Anh Q. Tran, S.J.
November 21, 2017
Book Review: Politische Theologie “nach” der Postmoderne: Geistergespräche mit Derrida & Co. By Ulrich Engel
Robert Schreiter
November 21, 2017
Book Review: Cardinal Walter Kasper: Spiritual Writings. By Cardinal Walter Kasper
John R. Sachs, S.J.
November 21, 2017
Book Review: On the Edge: Religious Freedom and Persecution Across Asia. By Michael Kelly
Agnes M. Brazal
November 21, 2017
Book Review: ¡Presente!: U.S. Latino Catholics from Colonial Origins to the Present. Eds. Timothy M. Matovina and Gerald E. Poyo
Hosffman Ospino
November 21, 2017
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 ...
The Soteriological Significance of the Feast of Mary’s Birth
Theological Studies
December 1, 2007
By reviewing the unique characteristics of the Byzantine feast of Mary’s Birth, the article articulates the feast’s significance as an integral contributor to the salvation ...
Spirituality and Citizenship: Sacramentality in a Parable
Theological Studies
December 1, 2007
The author finds resonance between the hitherto largely unrelated discourses of spirituality and citizenship. Drawing on Rahner’s transcendental anthropology and Moltmann’s sacramental theology of history, ...
Neo-Thomism and the Theology of Religions: A Case Study on the Belgian and U.S. Textbooks (1870-1950)
Theological Studies
December 1, 2007
Scholars are currently giving serious thought to Thomas Aquinas’s theology of religions. This fact led the author to explore the connection between Aquinas’s thought on ...
Catholicism and Liberalism: Two Ideologies in Confrontation
Theological Studies
December 1, 2007
The author argues that the Catholic Church’s social teaching is marked by a critical view of the ideology of Enlightenment Liberalism and of the concept ...
Interpretation of Jesus’ Prohibition of Anger (Mt 5:22): The Person/Sin Distinction from Augustine to Aquinas
Theological Studies
December 1, 2007
Christian reflection on the morality of anger must address Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:22: “whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment.” ...
Freedom of the Press and Catholic Social Theought: Reflections on the Sexual Abuse Scandal in the U.S. Catholic Church
Theological Studies
December 1, 2007
The article argues for the development of Catholic social teaching on freedom of the press. After examining the press’s role in the recent sexual abuse ...
Response to Neil Ormerod and Beyond
Theological Studies
December 1, 2007
In an article in the September 2007 issue of this journal, Neil Ormerod had included David Coffey in his critique of Rahner, whose thought he ...
The Synthesis of All Heresies: 100 Years On
Theological Studies
September 1, 2007
The condemnation of Roman Catholic Modernism in 1907 was a traumatic event—in the dual sense that it reflected the traumatic impact of intellectual and political ...
Homo Theologicus: Toward a Reflexive Theology (With the Help of Pierre Bourdieu)
Theological Studies
September 1, 2007
The current conflictual situation of theology can be understood from a sociological perspective using the work of Pierre Bourdieu on the relationships of power in ...
As Long as We Wonder: Possibilities in the Impossibility of Interreligious Dialogue
Theological Studies
September 1, 2007
The application of George Lindbeck’s cultural-linguistic approach to interreligious dialogue calls into question our ability to communicate across the divide of different religious traditions. Examining ...
From Statements to Parables: Rethinking Pluralist Identities
Theological Studies
September 1, 2007
The author observes that, while pluralist theologians and philosophers of religion have made claims asserting an identical, transcendent reality referred to by world religions, they ...
The Johannine Logic of Augustine’s Trinity: A Dogmatic Sketch
Theological Studies
September 1, 2007
This article follows recent scholarship in identifying a robustly pro-Nicene trinitarianism in Augustine’s De Trinitate. In particular, a “Johannine logic” is identified and traced as ...
From Oxford to Rome: Newman’s Ecclesial Conversion
Theological Studies
September 1, 2007
Amidst multiple conflicting interpretations of Newman’s 1845 conversion, this article offers a new, synthetic interpretation by distinguishing and integrating negative deconversion and positive conversion moments ...
Yves de Montcheuil: Action Justice and the Kingdom in Spiritual Resistance to Nazism
Theological Studies
September 1, 2007
The few extant studies of Jesuit martyr and theologian Yves de Montcheuil focus on his life and theology. This article combines these considerations with philosophical ...