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
Catholicity and Translatability: Renewing Rahner on the World Church
Peter Joseph Fritz
September 9, 2022
Karl Rahner famously proclaimed that Vatican II marked the beginning of a new Christian epoch, that of the “world church” (Weltkirche). He also proposed that ...
A Feminist Theology of Testimony
Erin Kidd
September 9, 2022
Feminist activists and women’s studies scholars have referred to moments where women understand the impact of sexism on their lives as clicks. Karl Rahner’s account ...
Beyond “The Anonymous Christian”: Reconsidering Rahner on Grace and Salvation
Richard Lennan
September 9, 2022
Karl Rahner acknowledged freely that “the anonymous Christian,” as a category, could be problematic. His interest, he stressed, was not in the term but in ...
Reaching Up to the Mind of Lonergan: The Contribution of Robert M. Doran, SJ (1939–2021)
John D. Dadosky
June 6, 2022
Robert M. Doran, who died in early 2021, made prolific and important contributions to Lonergan studies, especially arguing for some creative innovations and practical applications. ...
A Blemished Offering: Economy, Eucharist, and the Limits of Epiphanic Conversion
Antonio Eduardo Alonso
June 6, 2022
This article critiques Enrique Dussel’s use of the conversion of Bartolomé de Las Casas to ground his argument for a clear correspondence between Christian economic ...
The Chimera of a “Deinstitutionalized Church”: Social Structure Analysis as a Path to Institutional Church Reform
Richard R. Gaillardetz
June 6, 2022
Anger over long-standing systemic dysfunction in the Roman Catholic Church has led to a disenchantment with the church’s institutional reality. However, for those committed to ...
Human Trafficking, Coercion, and Moral Agency in Agricultural Labor
Karen Peterson-Iyer
June 6, 2022
The isolation and perceived interchangeability of agricultural laborers places them at risk for trafficking, and coercion often plays a significant role in keeping them at ...
Data Ethics, AI, and Accompaniment: The Dangers of Depersonalization in Catholic Health Care
Paul Scherz
June 6, 2022
Health-care systems use AI-driven data analytics to target high-cost patients for early interventions. Many ethicists see these programs as enacting a preferential option for the ...
Expanding Horizons 150 Years after Vatican I: Toward a Renewed Relationship between Synodality and Primacy
Kristin M. Colberg
February 28, 2022
The Limitations and Hermeneutical Implications of Vatican I’s Prophetic Mode
John W. O'Malley S.J.
February 28, 2022
Synodality and the Sacramental Mission of the Church: The Struggle for Communion in a World Divided by Colonialism and Neoliberal Globalization
Vincent J. Miller
February 28, 2022
A Presidential Year: Election, Transition, and Recovery
Kenneth R. Himes O.F.M.
February 28, 2022
An analysis of trends in American politics and economics points to serious threats to the legitimacy and vitality of the nation’s democracy. Large numbers of ...
Amoris Laetitia at Five
Emily Reimer-Barry
February 28, 2022
This review article documents how Amoris Laetitia has been received and implemented, five years after the post-synodal exhortation on family life was promulgated by Pope ...
Overcoming the “Distance”: Robert Doran as a Bridge between the Trinitarian Analogies of Bernard Lonergan and Hans Urs von Balthasar
Eugene R. Schlesinger
November 27, 2021