Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: Ignatius of Loyola: A Legend and Reality. By Pierre Emonet
Harvey D. Egan S.J.
November 21, 2017
Book Review: Understandings of the Church. Edited by Everett Ferguson
Michael C. McCarthy S.J.
November 21, 2017
Book Review: The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy. By Robin M. Jensen
John F. Baldovin S.J.
November 21, 2017
Book Review: Wisdom’s Feast: An Invitation to Feminist Interpretation of the Scriptures. By Barbara E. Reid
Sherri Brown
November 21, 2017
Book Review: The Acts of the Apostles: Interpretation, History and Theology. By Osvaldo Padilla
Christopher R. Matthews
November 21, 2017
Book Review: The Cambridge Companion to The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Edited by Stephen B. Chapman and Marvin A. Sweeney
Richard J. Clifford, S.J.
November 21, 2017
Book Review: The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. By Rod Dreher
Michael Leonard Hahn
November 21, 2017
Book Review: What Do You Seek? The Questions of Jesus as Challenge and Promise. By Michael J. Buckley
Leo J. O'Donovan S.J.
November 21, 2017
Book Review: Inspired Sustainability: Planting Seeds for Action. By Erin Lothes Biviano
Larry Rasmussen
November 21, 2017
Book Review: The Holy Spirit and the Church: Ecumenical Reflections with a Pastoral Perspective. Ed. Thomas Hughson
Richard Lennan
November 21, 2017
Revelation and Interiority: The Contribution of Frederick E. Crowe S.J.
Theological Studies
May 1, 2006
The article invites a reconsideration of our reflection on revelation in the light of both Frederick Crowe’s achievement in his Theology of the Christian Word ...
Strange Fruit: Black Suffering/White Revelation
Theological Studies
May 1, 2006
Christian eschatology provides a compelling mystical-political framework both for unmasking the historical visage of racism and for calling White believers to conversion and racial solidarity. ...
Authority Lies and War: Democracy and the Just War Theory
Theological Studies
May 1, 2006
The American government’s use of deception in making its case for the Iraq War to the American people, argues the author, revealed a deficit in ...
Response to Karl Becker S.J. on the Meaning of Subsistit in
Theological Studies
May 1, 2006
In a recent issue of L’Osservatore Romano Karl Becker argued that, contrary to a common interpretation of the change made in the drafting of Lumen ...
Bioethics
Theological Studies
February 1, 2006
Scholars and the public are well aware of the ethically controversial nature of euthanasia, artificial nutrition and hydration, and embryonic stem cell research. Moral theologians ...
Violence: Religion Terror War
Theological Studies
February 1, 2006
The survey examines writings in three areas: (1) the causes and cures of the rise of religious violence and terrorism, with particular attention to how ...
Did John Paul II’s Allocution on Life-Sustaining Treatments Revise Tradition? A Response to Thomas A. Shannon and James J. Walter
Theological Studies
February 1, 2006
In September 2005 this journal published an article by Thomas Shannon and James Walter on the Catholic tradition surrounding assisted nutrition and hydration (ANH) in ...
A Reply to Professors Paris Keenan and Himes
Theological Studies
February 1, 2006
The authors suggest that their esteemed colleagues misunderstood the central argument of their Theological Studies article, which tried to make clear that, among a variety ...
Vatican II: Did Anything Happen?
Theological Studies
February 1, 2006
Recent emphasis on the continuity of Vatican II with the Catholic tradition runs the danger of slighting the aspects of the council that were discontinuous. ...
Tradition and Doctrinal Development: Can Vincent of Lérins Still Teach the Church?
Theological Studies
February 1, 2006
The article examines the thought of the fifth century theologian, Vincent of Lérins, particularly his claims that there is great progress and development in Christ’s ...
Loisy’s L’vangele et l’√âvangile et l’√âglise in Light of the Essais
Theological Studies
February 1, 2006
In his epochal work, L‘Évangile et l’Église, Alfred Loisy claimed to offer a purely historical refutation of Adolf von Harnack’s Das Wesen des Christentums (1900). ...
Fundamental Moral Theology at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Theological Studies
February 1, 2006
The author’s survey of the writings of moral theologians over the past five years shows a deep concern about both the nature of moral theology ...
Christian Salvation: Biblical and Theological Perspectives
Theological Studies
December 1, 2005
[To provide order to the welter of metaphors employed in Christian soteriology, the authors study them within their underlying systems or “models.” The “prophetic” model, ...
Bodily Resurrection and the Dialectic of Spirit and Matter
Theological Studies
December 1, 2005
[Christian belief in bodily resurrection is implicitly challenged by contemporary natural science with its empirical evidence for the interdependence of mental and bodily functions and ...
Valuing Earth Intrinsically and Instrumentally: A Theological Framework for Environmental Ethics
Theological Studies
December 1, 2005
[Philosophers have struggled with value theory as one of the most recalcitrant problems for environmental ethics. Theologians can benefit from their efforts when retrieving and ...
A Dialectic Engagement with the Social Sciences in an Ecclesiological Context
Theological Studies
December 1, 2005
[Ecclesiologists have long acknowledged a possible role for the social sciences in their discipline. The author examines the difficulties theologians face in utilizing the social ...
Ghislain Lafont and Contemporary Sacramental Theology
Theological Studies
December 1, 2005
[The author demonstrates how Ghislain Lafont looks “through” the critiques of meta-narrative and ontotheology for an appropriate ground for theology. Lafont appeals to sacramental memorial ...
Genetic Anomaly or Genetic Diversity: Thinking in the Key of Disability on the Human Genome
Theological Studies
December 1, 2005
[Thinking in the key of disability reconfigures scientific presumptions to accept identified genetic anomalies as instances of the great diversity possible in the human genome. ...
Bernard Lonergan at the Service of the Church
Theological Studies
September 1, 2005
[Cardinal Martini, archbishop emeritus of Milan, and currently scholar in residence in Jerusalem, delivered this inaugural address on November 17, 2004, during a three-day international ...
Feminist Mariologies: Heteronomy/Subordination and the Scandal of Christology
Theological Studies
September 1, 2005
[Cardinal Martini, archbishop emeritus of Milan, and currently scholar in residence in Jerusalem, delivered this inaugural address on November 17, 2004, during a three-day international ...