Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global. By John T. McGreevy
Robert S. Gerlich SJ
August 21, 2017
Book Review: The Mestizo Augustine: A Theologian between Two Cultures. By Justo L. González
Thang Nhat Nguyen CSsR
August 21, 2017
Book Review: Empire Baptized: How the Church Embraced What Jesus Rejected (2nd–5th Centuries). By Wes Howard-Brook
Michael L. Cook S.J.
August 21, 2017
Book Review: The Celebrated Museum of the Roman College of the Society of Jesus: A facsimile of the 1678 Amsterdam edition of Giorgio de Sepi’s description of Athanasius Kircher’s Museum. Edited with an afterword by Peter Davidson
James R. Blaettler SJ
May 19, 2017
Blaettler The Celebrated Museum of the Roman College of the Society of Jesus
Book Review: How Youth Ministry Can Change Theological Education—If We Let It. Edited by Kenda Creasy Dean and Christy Lang Hearlson
Theresa A. O’Keefe
May 19, 2017
O_Keefe How Youth Ministry Can Change Theological Education
Book Review: Indissolubility and the Synod of Bishops: Reflections of a Canon Lawyer. By John A. Alesandro
Michael P. Hilbert SJ
May 19, 2017
Hilbert Indissolubility and the Synod of Bishops
Book Review: The Materiality of Devotion in Late Medieval Northern Europe: Images, Objects and Practices. Edited by Laugerud Henning, Salvador Ryan and Laura Katrine Skinnebach
Mary Frohlich RSCJ
May 19, 2017
Frohlich The Materiality of Devotion in Late Medieval Northern Europe
Book Review: Living With(out) Borders: Catholic Theological Ethics on the Migrations of Peoples. Edited by Agnes M. Brazal and María Teresa Dávila
Victor Carmona
May 19, 2017
Carmona Living With(out) Borders
Book Review: Doing Asian Theological Ethics in a Cross-Cultural and an Interreligious Context. Edited by Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan, James F. Keenan, Shaji George Kochuthara
William O’Neill, S.J.
May 19, 2017
O_Neill Doing Asian Theological Ethics
Book Review: A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope that Lies Within. By Francis Cardinal George, OMI
Robert Imbelli
May 19, 2017
Imbelli A Godly Humanism
Book Review: Christ’s Descent into Hell: John Paul II, Joseph Ratzinger, and Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Theology of Holy Saturday. By Lyra Pitstick
Martin F. Connell
May 19, 2017
Connell Christ_s Descent into Hell
The Theological Notes and the Interpretation of Doctrine
[The author first examines the application of the qualificatio theologica or theological norm as an aid to doctrinal interpretation in Catholic neo-Scholastic theology. He then ...
Eucharistic Sharing: Revising the Question
[The author provides a brief examination of Roman Catholic norms for sharing communion with non-Catholic Christians. He then discusses three areas of concern with respect ...
The Ordinary Universal Magisterium: Unresolved Questions
[The conviction that the common teaching of the bishops was a sure guide for Christian faith goes back to the earliest centuries. In the decades ...
The Teaching Authority of Episcopal Conferences
[Pope John Paul II in Apostolos suos has decreed that doctrinal statements to be issued by episcopal conferences either must have been approved unanimously, or, ...
Salvation and Liberation in the Practical-Critical Soteriology of Schillebeeckx
[The practical-critical soteriology of Schillebeeckx understands and orients the experience of salvation in relation to liberating political praxis and social emancipation. Practical-critical soteriology develops the ...
Lonergan’s Contribution to Ecumenism
[The author suggests that the reception of ecumenical consensus is related to an adequate appreciation of theological method. The functional approach outlined in Bernard Lonergan’s ...
Recovering the Gifts of the Holy Spirit in Moral Theology
[The gifts of the Holy Spirit played a major role in the moral theology of Thomas Aquinas. For a variety of theological and ecclesial reasons, ...
Heritage and Discovery: A Framework for Moral Theology
[In an effort to clarify foundational categories for moral theology, the author explores several polarities that have often been woven into discussions of moral formation. ...
Christ’s Salvific Message and the Nandi Ritual of Female Circumcision
[Female initiation rite is one of the many traditional practices found in some African communities. The many rituals during this time of initiation include female ...
The Ratzinger/Kasper Debate: The Universal Church and Local Churches
[The discussions between Joseph Ratzinger and Walter Kasper on the relationship between the universal Church and the local/particular churches touch on one of today’s major ...
The Theological Hermeneutics of Edward Schillebeeckx
[The theological hermeneutics of Edward Schillebeeckx facilitated a reflection on Christology tied to the notion of “experience.” This allowed Schillebeeckx to interpret the experience of ...
Flannery O’Connor’s Use of Symbol Roger Haight’s Christology and the Religious Writer
[The author argues that Flannery O’Connor’s fiction and critical prose are informed by a theological understanding of symbol, a narrative Christology from below, and a ...
Postcolonial African Theology in Kabasele Lumbala
[The author examines various trends and methodological developments in African Christian theology, particularly processes of “ordering” and subsequently “disordering” as a particularly African theological method. ...
Toward Global Ethics
[Several earlier essays in this journal have explored questions such as whether it is possible to speak of intercultural dialogue about the common good in ...
The Exodus in the Christian Bible: The Case for ‘Figural’ Reading
[Many Christians find the Christian Bible, comprised of the Old and New Testament, diffuse, lacking unity, and therefore difficult to use in systematic theology. Yet ...
Images of God within Systematic Theology
[While respecting the freedom of expression inherent in Sally McFague’s notion of “metaphorical theology,” the author argues that the choice of a single governing image ...
On Contemporary Martyrs: Some Recent Literature
[This brief ongoing survey reviews some current literature on martyrs with special emphasis on those who have died for the faith in our own time. ...
Authority in the Church
[In section one of Notes on Moral Theology the author shows how a number of writers have argued that the weight of magisterial authority varies ...
Moral Theology in Latin America
[Over the past several years, Latin American moral theology, in which liberation theology and its ethics play a prominent role, has been creatively developing its ...
Structure of a Systematic Ecclesiology
[Drawing on the classical understanding of theology as faith seeking understanding, the author explores the structure of a systematic ecclesiology, arguing that such a theology ...