Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Dubler, Joshua and Lloyd, W. Vincent: Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons
Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar
November 27, 2021
O’Malley, SJ. W. John: The Education of a Historian: A Strange and Wonderful Story
Mark S. Massa S.J.
November 27, 2021
Book Review: Belcher, Kimberly Hope: Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism: From Thanksgiving to Communion
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht
September 6, 2021
Book Review: Wheeler, Rachel: Desert Daughters, Desert Sons: Rethinking the Christian Desert Tradition
Trish Zimmerman
September 6, 2021
Book Review: Bujo, Bénézet: Quelle Église pour un christianisme authentiquement africain? Universalité dans la diversité
Peter C. Phan
September 6, 2021
Book Review: Mitchell, W. Donald (ed.): Paradise: Reflections on Chiara Lubich’s Mystical Journey
Ann W. Astell
September 6, 2021
Book Review: Zaretsky, Robert: The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
Douglas Christie
September 6, 2021
Book Review: Lamet, Pedro Miguel: Pedro Arrupe: Witness of the Twentieth Century, Prophet of the Twenty-First
Kevin F. Burke
September 6, 2021
Book Review: McGrath, E. Alister: The Territories of Human Reason: Science and Theology in an Age of Multiple Rationalities
Terrence W. Tilley
September 6, 2021
Book Review: Mescher, Marcus: The Ethics of Encounter: Christian Neighbor Love as a Practice of Solidarity
Eli S. McCarthy
September 6, 2021
Who Is the “Polis” Addressed by Political Theology? Notes on a Conundrum
Anthony J. Godzieba
December 1, 2019
How does political theology, with its eschatologically themed commitment to both critique and constructive transformation of the social, economic, and political in the light of ...
The Sexual Abuse Scandal and a New Ethical Horizon: A Perspective from India
Shaji George Kochuthara
December 1, 2019
This article offers theological reflection on the sexual abuse crisis in the Latin American church, focusing on the child victim. Beginning with a summary of ...
Poverty and Interiority in Mother Teresa
Rachel Davies
December 1, 2019
The sexual abuse crisis and subsequent Royal Commission investigation raised important ecclesiological and ecclesial issues for the Australian Catholic Church. This article provides background to ...
Sexual Abuse, a Royal Commission, and the Australian Church
Neil Ormerod
December 1, 2019
Despite recent signs of change, the Indian church was rather reluctant to acknowledge the clerical sexual abuse scandal as its own problem. In the Indian ...
A Catholic Boost for Democracy: Politicizing Performed Solidarities
Christiane Alpers
December 1, 2019
This article examines the contribution of Catholic political theology to contemporary discussions about a lack of solidarity in liberal constitutional democracies particularly in Europe. John ...
Our Faith in Creation, God’s Faith in Humanity: Edward Schillebeeckx and Pope Francis on Human Transcendence and an Anthropocentric Cosmos
Daniel Minch
December 1, 2019
Edward Schillebeeckx’s theology of creation can serve as a foundation for authentic Christian self-understanding in relation to the ecological crisis. Schillebeeckx provides a Thomistic view ...
Ecclesiology as Political Theology: On Delivering on a Transformative Strategic Orientation in Ecclesiology
Paul D. Murray
December 1, 2019
This three-section article reappraises both Edward Schillebeeckx’s continuing significance and the relationship between ecclesiology and political theology. Having identified two differing sets of concerns within ...
Cultivating a “Cosmic Perspective” in Theology: Reading William R. Stoeger with Laudato Si’
Paul J. Schutz
December 1, 2019
The anthropocentric orientation and treatments of evolution and ecology found in Laudato Si’ undermine its potential for operationalizing its vision of “splendid universal communion.” Jesuit ...
Extending and Locating Jesus’s Body: Toward a Christology of Radical Embodiment
Jakub Urbaniak
December 1, 2019
The African Jesus of Tinyiko Maluleke and the Christ of deep incarnation represent two radically different christological trajectories. While the deep incarnation theologians extend Jesus’s ...
Concerning Victims, Sexuality, and Power: A Reflection on Sexual Abuse from Latin America
Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer
December 1, 2019
The author underscores the ethical imperatives incumbent on the community called church in light of the needs and experiences of children. The immediate circumstance relates ...
Turning Theology: A Proposal
M. Shawn Copeland
December 1, 2019
Drawing out Stephen Bevans’s thesis that Christian theologizing has never been an exclusively European project, this article proposes that theologians working within the context of ...
Between Ecclesiology and Ethics: Promoting a Culture of Protection and Care in Church and Society
Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator S.J.
December 1, 2019
How does political theology, with its eschatologically themed commitment to both critique and constructive transformation of the social, economic, and political in the light of ...
Beyond Scandal and Shame? Ecclesiology and the Longing for a Transformed Church
Richard Lennan
August 15, 2019
The need for reform of the Catholic Church’s structures features prominently in discussion of the clerical sexual abuse scandal. Less common has been reflection on ...
The Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis as a Theological Crisis: Emerging Issues
Massimo Faggioli
August 15, 2019
The sexual abuse crisis has long-term consequences: not only on the victims and survivors of abuse, but also on the theological standing and balance of ...
Rhetoric and Reality: Augustine and Pope Francis on Preaching Christ and the Poor
Kevin G. Grove
August 15, 2019
In an age when rhetoric about alleviating conditions of poverty is rightly suspect, this study offers a reassessment of the power of non-modern, christological rhetoric ...
The Possibilities of Grace amid Persistent Depression
Jessica Coblentz
August 15, 2019
Chronic and recurring depression presents challenges to theologians working on the doctrine of grace. First, its frequent misrepresentation inhibits accurate perceptions of God’s loving presence ...
Sex, Race, and Culture: Constructing Theological Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century
Mary Doak
August 15, 2019
Pre-Vatican II theological anthropology focused attention on the exercise of human freedom as embodied in time and oriented to community. Post-Vatican II theology has deepened ...
Feminist Theology and the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis
Susan A. Ross
August 15, 2019
The clergy sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is complex. While first and foremost a terrible violation of victims, it is not only about ...