Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: Jennings, Willie James: After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging
Andrew L. Prevot
September 6, 2021
Book Review: Johnson, Junius: The Father of Lights: A Theology of Beauty
Jonathan M. Ciraulo
September 6, 2021
Book Review: Eggemeier, T. Matthew: Against Empire: Ekklesial Resistance and the Politics of Radical Democracy
Maureen O’Connell
June 14, 2021
Book Review: Hawksley, Theodora: Peacebuilding and Catholic Social Teaching
Heather M. DuBois
June 14, 2021
Book Review: Frohlich, Mary. Foreword by Ilia Delio: Breathed into Wholeness: Catholicity and Life in the Spirit
Elizabeth T. Groppe
June 14, 2021
Book Review: Martins, A. Alexandre: The Cry of the Poor: Liberation Ethics and Justice in Health Care
Tobias Winright
June 14, 2021
Book Review: Hole, Sam: John of the Cross: Desire, Transformation, and Selfhood
Steven Payne
June 14, 2021
Book Review: Lloyd, Vincent: Religion of the Field Negro: On Black Secularism and Black Theology
Adam Clark
June 14, 2021
Book Review: Radcliffe, Timothy: Alive in God: A Christian Imagination
Christopher Pramuk
June 14, 2021
Book Review: Neril, Yonathan and Leo Dee: Eco Bible. Volume 1: An Ecological Commentary on Genesis and Exodus
Carol J. Dempsey
June 14, 2021
Book Review: Slattery, P. John: Faith and Science at Notre Dame: John Zahm, Evolution, and the Catholic Church
Thomas E. Hosinski
June 14, 2021
Book Review: Moloney, J. Francis: The Apocalypse of John: A Commentary
Louis Painchaud
June 14, 2021
The Child at the Center: What Can Theology Say in the Face of the Scandals of Abuse?
Hans Zollner
August 15, 2019
Approaching the subjects of child safeguarding and children through a theological lens, the author shows the devastating scale, impact, and ramifications of the Catholic Church’s ...
Towards a Theology of Childhood: Children’s Agency and the Reign of God
James Gerard McEvoy
August 15, 2019
This article contributes to a theology of childhood in the context of recent research in the social sciences on children’s lives and the nature of ...
Eucharistic Sacrifice as Anti-Violent Pedagogy
Eugene R. Schlesinger
August 15, 2019
The Council of Trent teaches that the sacrifice of the Mass is identical to the sacrifice of Calvary, but with the crucial difference that the ...
Anger, Forgiveness, and Restorative Justice in Light of Clerical Sexual Abuse and Its Cover-up
Stephen J. Pope
August 15, 2019
Catholic tradition provides resources for understanding morally legitimate anger as ordered to the good of survivors and their wider communities, a way of conceiving of ...
Relationality and Intersubjectivity within a Socially Oriented Metaphysics: A Note on Ecclesiology
Joseph A. Bracken S.J.
May 7, 2019
Given increased attention to the themes of relationality and intersubjectivity in contemporary Christian systematic theology, the author argues that these terms are best understood within ...
Statistically Ordered: Gender, Sexual Identity, and the Metaphysics of “Normal”
Jonathan Heaps
May 7, 2019
The recent call by Pope Francis for the church to develop a “theology of women” raises more fundamental and prior questions about the very nature ...
An Alternative to Gender Complementarity: The Body as Existential Category in the Catholic Tradition
Brianne A. B. Jacobs
May 7, 2019
This article connects the work of M. Shawn Copeland to a dialogue between Bernard Lonergan and Emmanuel Levinas. Exploring these authors’ insights on intersubjectivity, alterity, ...
Church as Sacrament of Yin-yang Harmony: Toward a More Incisive Participation of Laity and Women in the Church
Agnes M. Brazal
May 7, 2019
The author proposes a development of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conference’s theology of church as a sacrament of harmony, drawing in particular from the ...
Jacques Dupuis and Chalcedon
Mark Yenson
May 7, 2019
This article reexamines Jacques Dupuis’s distinction between the action of the Word as such and the action of the Word incarnate. Against recent critics, I ...
Theology before the Reformation: Renaissance Humanism and Vatican II
John W. O'Malley S.J.
May 7, 2019
Histories of theology move seamlessly from late-medieval Scholasticism to the Reformation and bypass the important theological contribution of Renaissance humanists such as Lorenzo Valla and ...
The Nature and Operation of Structural Sin: Additional Insights from Theology and Moral Psychology
Conor M. Kelly
May 7, 2019
Recent work has improved the understanding of social structures in theological discourse, but ambiguity persists with respect to structures of sin. Here, a revised definition ...
From Magisterium to Magisteria: Recent Theologies of the Learning and Teaching Functions of the Church
Peter C. Phan
May 7, 2019
In the aftermath of Vatican II, questions have been raised about the exercise of magisterium in the church. This study first examines the teaching authority ...
Stepping toward a Synodal Church
Amanda C. Osheim
May 7, 2019
In his address commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the institution of the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis expressed hope for a more synodal church. Consulting ...
The Birth of American Catholic Theology
Roger D. Haight, S.J.
February 27, 2019
The eighty years of Theological Studies bear witness to the birth of American Catholic theology. This article traces that development through five stages. During its ...
Dragon Myths and Biblical Theology
Robert D. Miller
February 27, 2019
A recurrent myth in the Bible about God “slaying a dragon,” primarily in the Old Testament, provides a test case for using the “study of ...
Karl Rahner’s Theological Logic, Phenomenology, and Anticipation
Peter Joseph Fritz
February 27, 2019
This article provides an update on the logic undergirding Karl Rahner’s theology of mystery through a dialogue between Rahner and Jean-Luc Marion. It focuses on ...
Cruciform Encounter in a Time of Crisis: Enfleshing an Ethics of Alterity
Brian Bajzek
February 27, 2019
This article connects the work of M. Shawn Copeland to a dialogue between Bernard Lonergan and Emmanuel Levinas. Exploring these authors’ insights on intersubjectivity, alterity, ...
Pope Francis and the Christological Dimensions of Solidarity in Catholic Social Teaching
Meghan J. Clark
February 27, 2019
Solidarity is a central aspect of the Catholic social tradition and yet it is difficult to capture in a simple definition. Building upon his predecessor’s ...
Integral Human Development: From Paternalism to Accompaniment
Stephen J. Pope
February 27, 2019
This article traces the development of Catholic treatments of integral human development from Paul VI’s Populorum Progressio to the writings of Pope Francis on accompaniment. ...
Making Sense of Eighty Years of Theological Ethics
James F. Keenan S.J.
February 27, 2019
This article surveys all the contributions in ethics on these pages over the past eighty years and is divided into four historical parts: the first ...