Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: J. Budziszewski: Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Divine Law
Franklin T. Harkins
June 6, 2022
Book Review: Michael Barnes, SJ: Ignatian Spirituality and Interreligious Dialogue: Reading Love’s Mystery
Brian O. McDermott, S.J.
June 6, 2022
Book Review: Stefanos Alexopoulos and Maxwell Johnson: Introduction to Eastern Christian Liturgies
John F. Baldovin S.J.
June 6, 2022
Book Review: Bernard McGinn: The Crisis of Mysticism: Quietism in Seventeenth-Century Spain, Italy, and France
David Albertson
June 6, 2022
Book Review: Massimo Borghesi: Catholic Discordance: Neoconservatism vs. the Field Hospital Church of Pope Francis
Bradford E. Hinze
June 6, 2022
Book Review: Joseph P. Chinnici: American Catholicism Transformed: From the Cold War through the Council
George E. Griener, S.J.
June 6, 2022
Book Review: Christine Firer Hinze: Radical Sufficiency: Work, Livelihood, and a US Catholic Economic Ethic
Kenneth R. Himes O.F.M.
June 6, 2022
Book Review: Rowan Williams: Looking East in Winter: Contemporary Thought and the Eastern Christian Tradition
Gregory Shokhikyan
June 6, 2022
Book Review: William R. O’Neill, SJ: Reimagining Human Rights: Religion and the Common Good
Stephen J. Pope
June 6, 2022
Book Review: John F. Haught: The Cosmic Vision of Teilhard de Chardin
Gloria L. Schaab S.S.J.
June 6, 2022
Book Review: Anna Rowlands: Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times
Thomas Massaro, S.J.
June 6, 2022
The Cross and/as Civil Resistance
Jennifer Kendall Sanders
September 5, 2023
We need a nonviolent soteriology that honors scriptural and theological traditions about enemy-love, suffering, sacrifice, and satisfaction and refuses to further harm victims of violence ...
Martin Luther King Jr. and Julius K. Nyerere’s Shared Dreams for Racial Equality and Human Dignity
Deogratias M. Rwezaura, S.J.
September 5, 2023
This article parallels Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream for civil, economic, and racial equality in the USA with Julius K. Nyerere’s unrelenting liberation struggle for ...
To Dream in North and South America: Reflections on the Sixtieth Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer
September 5, 2023
This article reflects on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech delivered sixty years ago in Washington, DC. It begins by pointing ...
The Fierce Urgency of Now The Example of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
M. Shawn Copeland
September 5, 2023
The year 2023 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington that featured civil rights leader, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This ...
On Theological Aporias
John E. Thiel
June 17, 2023
Modern theology has attended explicitly to issues concerning method, that is, how theological authors creatively offer interpretations that advance disciplinary knowledge. This article explores the ...
Enhancing Ressourcement: Johann Adam Möhler’s Retrieval of Anselm
Grant Kaplan
June 17, 2023
This article begins by suggesting a wider or more formal understanding of the movement known as ressourcement. After engaging a recent volume of essays on ...
Privation, Teleology, and the Metaphysics of Evil
Nicholas E. Lombardo OP
May 28, 2023
Drawing inspiration from Pseudo-Dionysius, Maximus the Confessor, and Thomas Aquinas, and in support of the definition of evil as the privation of being or goodness, ...
Theologically Shoring Up the Law of the Sea
William P. George
May 28, 2023
In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis highlights the oceans as integral to our threatened common home and stresses the need for more effective ocean governance. Theologians ...
Umwelt-Theory, Self-Transcendence, and Openness-to-God: Attending Theologically to Human Animality
Dylan S. Belton
May 28, 2023
Christian theological anthropology has been critiqued for its habit of sharply distinguishing the human from the nonhuman and for thereby depreciating human animality in one ...
Latin American Social Integration as a Methodological Lens for Francis’s Teaching
Sandra Arenas
May 28, 2023
Over the past ten years of Francis’s pontificate, a transversal axis cutting across all his writings is his appreciation for the importance of social integration ...
Pope Francis, Culture of Encounter, the Common Good, and Dharma: Public Theological Conversations Today
Gnana Patrick
May 28, 2023
Pope Francis is able to communicate common values across borders of religion, regions, and sociopolitical systems. Catholic social teaching on the common good, particularly as ...
Toward a Spirituality of Politics
Ludovic Lado, S.J.
May 28, 2023
This article revisits Francis’s vision of politics as one of the highest forms of charity. It argues that Francis’s concept of “political charity” goes beyond ...
The Holy Spirit as the Protagonist of the Synod: Pope Francis’s Creative Reception of the Second Vatican Council
Jos Moons, S.J.
March 21, 2023
This article argues that Pope Francis’s conviction that the Holy Spirit guides the synodal journey represents a creative reception of the Second Vatican Council. By ...
Synodality and the Francis Pontificate: A Fresh Reception of Vatican II
Richard R. Gaillardetz
March 21, 2023
The ten-year Francis pontificate represents a fresh reception of the Second Vatican Council. The full dimensions of this reception can be apprehended through the lens ...
Synodality and the New Media
Agnes M. Brazal
March 20, 2023
During his pontificate, Pope Francis has both broadened and enhanced the concept of synodality and the synodal process to involve “especially those on the periphery ...
Reconfiguring Ignacio Ellacuría’s Symbolic Conception of “the Crucified People”: Jesus, the Suffering Servant, and Abel
Daniel P. Castillo
March 13, 2023
This article offers an appreciative but critical appraisal of Ignacio Ellacuría’s concept of “the crucified people,” which identifies the oppressed peoples of history with both ...
Pope Francis on the Practice of Synodality and the Fifth Australian Plenary Council
James Gerard McEvoy
March 13, 2023
This article argues that Pope Francis adopts a practice-focused approach to synodality, and it examines key elements of that approach, including the practice of ecclesial ...
Ignatius Loyola’s “Hierarchical Church” as Dionysian Reform Program
Aaron Pidel, S.J.
December 1, 2022
This article argues that Ignatius Loyola, in proposing the “hierarchical Church” as norm for judgment and feeling, meant to evoke and commend aspects of the ...
De Lubac and Suárez: A Reappraisal
David Grumett
December 1, 2022
Because of his hostility to pure nature theory, Henri de Lubac has typically been viewed as opposing Francisco Suárez’s metaphysics. His proximate target was the ...
Rethinking Gregory of Nyssa’s Mystical Theology: The Role of Hostile Powers in Homilies on the Song of Songs
Gabrielle Thomas
December 1, 2022
The aim of this article is to rethink the way scholarship conceives Gregory of Nyssa’s so-called mystical theology by directing attention to his account of ...