Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: Doak, Mary: A Prophetic, Public Church: Witness to Hope amid the Global Crises of the Twenty-First Century
Marcus Mescher
February 28, 2022
Schuessler, Rudolf: The Debate on Probable Opinions in the Scholastic Tradition
James F. Keenan S.J.
November 27, 2021
Dorrien, Gary: In a Post-Hegelian Spirit: Philosophical Theology as Idealistic Discontent
Kristen Drahos
November 27, 2021
Winright, Tobias: Serve and Protect: Selected Essays on Just Policing
Anna Floerke Scheid
November 27, 2021
Alonso, Antonio Eduardo: Commodified Communion: Eucharist, Consumer Culture, and the Practice of Everyday Life
Vincent J. Miller
November 27, 2021
Deane-Drummond, Celia: Theological Ethics through a Multispecies Lens
Christiana Zenner
November 27, 2021
Lohfink, Gerhard: Prayer Takes Us Home: The Theology and Practice of Christian Prayer
Eileen Burke-Sullivan
November 27, 2021
Rausch, SJ. P. Thomas: Global Catholicism: Profiles and Polarities
Agnes M. Brazal
November 27, 2021
Anatolios, Khaled: Deification through the Cross: An Eastern Christian Theology of Salvation
Christiaan W. Kappes
November 27, 2021
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
“And We Shall See Him Face to Face”: A Trinitarian Analysis of the Beatific Vision
Neil Ormerod
November 27, 2021
Did Christ Have a Conscience? Revisiting the Debates on Christ’s (Un)Fallen Humanity
Ximian Xu
November 27, 2021
The Interpretive Dialogue between Experience and Explanation in Bernard McGinn’s Study of the Mystical Tradition
Sandra M. Schneiders I.H.M.
November 27, 2021