Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: The Theological Roots of Christian Gratitude. By Kenneth Wilson
Paul J. Wadell
August 21, 2017
Book Review: Signs and Wonders: Theology After Modernity. By Ellen T. Armour
Mary Doak
August 21, 2017
Book Review: Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality. By Marcia Pally
Joseph A. Bracken S.J.
August 21, 2017
Book Review: A Ministry of Discernment: The Bishop and the Sense of the Faithful. By Amanda C. Osheim
Edward P. Hahnenberg
August 21, 2017
Book Review: Idol and Grace: On Traditioning and Subversive Hope. By Orlando Espín
María Teresa Dávila
August 21, 2017
Book Review: Apostolicity: The Ecumenical Question in World Christian Perspective. By John G. Flett
Joseph Martos
August 21, 2017
Book Review: Versöhnung und Kirche: Theologische Ansätze zur Realisierung des Friedens mit Gott in der Welt. By Bernhard Knorn
Dennis M. Doyle
August 21, 2017
Book Review: God’s Human Future: The Struggle to Define Theology Today. By David Galston
Sharon V. Betcher
August 21, 2017
Book Review: Martin Luthers Reformation der Ehe. Sein theologisches Eheverständnis vor dessen augustinisch-mittelalterlichem Hintergrund. By Christian Volkmar Witt
Christopher Adair-Toteff
August 21, 2017
Book Review: Maximus the Confessor: Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World. By Paul M. Blowers
Brian P. Dunkle, S.J.
August 21, 2017
Book Review: The Jesuits and Globalization: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Challenges. Edited by Thomas Banchoff and José Casanova
John W. Padberg SJ
August 21, 2017
Toward Full Communion: Faith and Order and Catholic Ecumenism
Jeffrey Gros F.S.C.
February 1, 2004
[The author provides a summary history and theological survey of the contribution of the Faith and Order movement to the goal of full communion, with ...
The Vocation of the Theologian
Mary Ann Donovan S.C.
February 1, 2004
[Today theologians are as often lay as cleric. Vatican II reshaped the nature of this vocation as a charism located with the prophetic office of ...
Jonathan Edwards on Beauty Desire and the Sensory World
Belden C. Lane
February 1, 2004
[Jonathan Edwards perceived the natural world as a school of desire. He thought that by carefully attending to the sensory splendors (and terrors) of creation, ...
Loisy’s Mystical Faith: Loisy Leo XIII and Sabatier on Moral Education and the Church
Harvey Hill
February 1, 2004
[The author examines the response to educational reforms in France at the end of the 19th century by Pope Leo XIII, modernist Alfred Loisy, and ...
The Whole Rahner on the Supernatural Existential
David Coffey
February 1, 2004
[The author notes that serious discrepancies apparently exist between Rahner’s initial and later formulations of his theology regarding the supernatural existential. Such a conclusion, if ...
The Mystery of Divine Providence
George H. Tavard, A.A.
December 1, 2003
[Catastrophic events, both personal and collective, raise the question of divine Providence. How can an infinitely good Creator allow the kind of evil that puts ...
Christian Doctrines Ethical Issues and Human Genetics
Jack Mahoney S.J.
December 1, 2003
[The basis of Christian ethics is a balance of the doctrines of creation, sin, redemption, and fulfillment which are at the heart of all human ...
Rethinking Morality’s Relationship to Salvation: Josef Fuchs S.J. on Moral Goodness
Mark E. Graham
December 1, 2003
[The author explains Fuchs’s two distinct notions of moral goodness and their relationship to salvation. By linking moral goodness with the performance of right actions, ...
Augustine’s De Trinitate and Lonergan’s Realms of Meaning
Neil Ormerod
December 1, 2003
[After reviewing various proposals concerning the structure of Augustine’s De Trinitate, the author presents a structural analysis of that work using the notion of “realms ...
Guadalupe at Calvary: Patristic Theology in Miguel S√°nchez’s Imagen de la Virgen Mar√≠a (1648)
Timothy Matovina
December 1, 2003
[Readers of Miguel Sanchez’s Imagen de la Virgen María, which contained the first published account of Our Lady of Guadalupe’s acclaimed apparitions to the indigenous ...
The Convergence of Forgiveness and Justice: Lessons from El Salvador
Stephen J. Pope
December 1, 2003
[Forgiveness and justice need not be understood as diametrically opposite moral responses to human evil. The murder of the Jesuits in El Salvador indicates ways ...
Reception of Vatican II in the United States
Joseph P. Chinnici O.F.M.
September 1, 2003
[The Second Vatican Council has been received in stages in the United States. Pope John XXIII’s opening address and the council’s awareness of the interplay ...
Multiple Religious Belonging: Opportunities and Challenges for Theology and Church
Peter C. Phan
September 1, 2003
[The author first examines the growing phenomenon of multiple religious belonging by outlining the theology of religions known as “inclusive pluralism” which serves as its ...
Hippolytus and the Apostolic Tradition: Recent Research and Commentary
John F. Baldovin S.J.
September 1, 2003
[One of the most important sources for reconstructing early Christian liturgy has been the Apostolic Tradition attributed to Hippolytus, a Roman presbyter, anti-pope, and martyr ...
The Typological Approach of Syriac Sacramental Theology
Seely Joseph Beggiani
September 1, 2003
[For the early Syriac writers, the universe, having been created by the Word, is by nature symbolic and finds completion in the Incarnation. Salvation history ...
Martha Nussbaum and Thomas Aquinas on the Emotions
Carlo Leget
September 1, 2003
[Martha Nussbaum in her Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions presents a philosophical theory of emotions that interacts with contemporary research in other sciences. ...
Challenges to the Role of Theological Anthropology in Feminist Theologies
Donna Teevan
September 1, 2003
[Convictions about human personhood, rooted in an analysis of women’s experience, are often foundational to Catholic feminist theologians. Drawing on the work of Mary McClintock ...
Reply to Richard Gaillardetz on the Ordinary Universal Magisterium and to Francis Sullivan
Lawrence J. Welch
September 1, 2003
[The author replies to criticisms of his work on the ordinary universal magisterium and to his interpretation of the work of Francis A. Sullivan. He ...
Reply to Lawrence J. Welch
Francis A. Sullivan S.J.
September 1, 2003
[In the course of his critique of Richard Gaillardetz’s views on the ordinary universal magisterium, Professor Welch also called into question certain formulations on that ...
Divine Grace and Human Nature as Sources for the Universal Magisterium of Bishops
Thomas F. O'Meara O.P.
September 1, 2003
[Theologians have discussed for a century and a half the ecclesial institution of the ordinary universal magisterium of bishops when it functions apart from an ...