Past Book Reviews

[Catholic thinking about other religious traditions has continued to develop rapidly since the Second Vatican Council. The author discusses the impact of conciliar texts, the ...

Jewish Understandings of the Religious Other

Ruth Langer May 1, 2003

[That Judaism is specifically the religion of one people, Israel, shapes its entire discourse about the religious other. Halakhah (Jewish law) defines permitted interactions between ...

Knowledge of Allah and the Islamic View of Other Religions

Qamar-ul Huda May 1, 2003

[One way to submit oneself to the will of the divine is to contemplate the revelations of the Qur’ân. For Muslims, it is God manifested ...

Hindu Views of Religious Others: Implications for Christian Theology

Francis X. Clooney, S.J. May 1, 2003

[Classical Hindu thinkers perfected their orthodoxy and orthopraxis in part by critiquing alternatives. Relying on hierarchies in knowledge, education, morality, and even human nature, they ...

Buddhist Perspectives on Truth in Other Religions: Past and Present

John Makransky May 1, 2003

[Recent Vatican documents affirm a unique salvific efficacy for the Catholic Church by establishing its representations of the Absolute as uniquely close to the Absolute. ...

Japanse Buddhist Perspectives and Comparative Theology: Supreme Ways in Intersection

Ruben L. F. Habito May 1, 2003

[Adherents of a particular religion consider their own tradition as absolutely authoritative for them in regard to ultimate destiny and norms for human living. The ...

Jacques Dupuis’s Contributions to Interreligious Dialogue

Gerald O'Collins S.J. May 1, 2003

[The author summarizes the content of Jacques Dupuis’s latest work, Christianity and the Religions: From Confrontation to Dialogue (Orbis, 2002) and indicates some of the ...

The Broken Wings of Eros: Christian Ethics and the Denial of Desire

Peter Black C.Ss.R. February 1, 2003

[In this segment of the Notes on Moral Theology, the author argues that overcoming one’s suspicion of eros in Christian ethics would lead to a ...

The Open Debate: Moral Theology and the Lives of Gay and Lesbian Persons

James F. Keenan S.J. February 1, 2003

[In this final section of the Notes on Moral Theology the author explores the extensive work of Catholic moral theologians reflecting on morality and the ...

Sacrifice Unveiled or Sacrifice Revisited: Trinitarian and Liturgical Perspectives

Robert J. Daly, S.J. February 1, 2003

[Recognizing that the Christ event has done away with sacrifice in the history-of-religions sense of the word, this article attempts to unveil the true meaning ...

Revisiting the Franciscan Doctrine of Christ

Ilia Delio O.S.F. February 1, 2003

[Franciscan theologians posit an integral relation between Incarnation and Creation whereby the Incarnation is grounded in the Trinity of love. The primacy of Christ as ...

Rosmini Ratzinger and Kuhn: Observations on a Note by the Doctrinal Congregation

Thomas G. Guarino February 1, 2003

[In his encyclical Fides et ratio, John Paul II favorably cited Antonio Rosmini. Since many propositions taken from Rosmini’s thought had been proscribed by the ...

Piet Fransen’s Research on Fides et Mores

David Stagaman S.J. February 1, 2003

[At Vatican I fides et mores were key terms, ordinarily translated as “faith and morals” and understood as separable terms. Were they always so distinguished? ...

Marriage: Developments in Catholic Theology and Ethics

Lisa Sowle Cahill February 1, 2003

[Roman Catholic teaching on marriage focuses on interpersonal love of spouses, of which sacramentality and procreation are dimensions. Post Vatican II disputes about sexual morality, ...

Bonaventure and the Sin of the Church

C. Colt Anderson December 1, 2002

[The author describes how the medieval tradition answered the question of whether one can legitimately speak of collective ecclesial sin. Using principally Bonaventure as a ...

New Voices in the Tradition: Medieval Hagiography Revisited

Marie Anne Mayeski December 1, 2002

[The author argues for the use of hagiographical texts to expand the evidence for the theological tradition, precisely during the early Middle Ages when more ...

Walter Kasper on the Theology and Praxis of the Bishop’s Office

Kilian McDonnell O.S.B. December 1, 2002

[The author reviews the discussion between Kasper and Ratzinger on the ontological priority of the universal Church, and then summarizes several studies by Kasper on ...

Catherine Mowry LaCugna’s Contribution to Trinitarian Theology

Elizabeth T. Groppe December 1, 2002

[Catherine Mowry LaCugna’s God for Us: The Trinity and Christian Life (1991) constitutes a paradigm shift in present-day trinitarian theology. LaCugna was convinced that the ...

Responsibility for Human Rights: Contributions from Bernard Lonergan

John C. Haughey S.J. December 1, 2002

[The moral category of human rights has been in jeopardy since the beginning of the UN Declaration of Human Rights (1948) because of an indefiniteness ...

The Dual Vocation of Christian Parents

Julie Hanlon Rubio December 1, 2002

[The author argues that Christian parents have a dual vocation: to care for their children and to contribute to the larger society. Recent theology on ...