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
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 ...
The Children of God: Natural Slavery in the Thought of Aquinas and Vitoria
[The author seeks to show the consonance of Thomas Aquinas’s and Francisco de Vitoria’s views of natural slavery in the context of developments in natural ...
Newman and the Interpretation of Inspired Scripture
[The author argues that the relative neglect in recent biblical scholarship regarding Newman’s understanding of Scripture during his Anglican years in favor of his late, ...
Dorothy Day’s Transposition of Th√©r√®se’s Little Way
[Despite initial disdain, Dorothy Day (1897–1980) eventually published an extended study of Thérèse of Lisieux, declaring Thérèse’s “little way” as the method par excellence of ...
Cornel West’s Challenge to the Catholic Evasion of Black Theology
[The author contends that the thought of Cornel West is an underutilized resource for overcoming the marginalization of Black and womanist theology. His multidisciplinary and ...