Past Book Reviews
Issue
Publication Date
Book Review: Petrusek, R. Matthew and Jonathan Rothchild (eds): Value and Vulnerability: An Interfaith Dialogue on Human Dignity
James F. Keenan S.J.
June 14, 2021
Book Review: Wright, N. T.: History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology
Russell Morton
April 8, 2021
Book Review: Papazian, Michael: The Doctor of Mercy: The Sacred Treasures of St. Gregory of Narek
Robin Darling Young
April 8, 2021
Book Review: McGinn, Bernard: The Persistence of Mysticism in Catholic Europe: France, Italy, and Germany 1500-1675
Philip Sheldrake
April 8, 2021
Book Review: Wallace, I. Mark: When God Was a Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World
Eric Daryl Meyer
April 8, 2021
Book Review: Taylor, Charles: Avenues of Faith: Conversations with Jonathan Guilbault
Philip J. Rossi, S.J.
April 8, 2021
Book Review: Hansen, Danielle Tumminio: Conceiving Family: A Practical Theology of Surrogacy and Self
Kathleen Cavender-McCoy
March 28, 2021
Book Review: Wong, H. Joseph and Harvey D. Egan: The Christology and Mystical Theology of Karl Rahner
Michael Rubbelke
March 28, 2021
Book Review: Cornille, Catherine: Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology
Shannon Wylie
March 28, 2021
Book Review: George, P. William: Mining Morality: Prospecting for Ethics in a Wounded World
Christiana Zenner
March 28, 2021
Just War, Pacifism, Just Peace, and Peacebuilding
Lisa Sowle Cahill
February 27, 2019
While Roman Catholic ethics of war and peace develops more restrictive criteria of just war and reprioritizes nonviolence, an important strand of Protestant theology defends ...
Pope Francis and Catholic Healthcare Ethics
Cathleen Kaveny
February 27, 2019
This article examines the influence of Pope Francis on Catholic healthcare ethics. The first section offers an analytical summary of his ethics. The second section ...
“Your one wild and precious life”: Women on the Road of Ministry
Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J.
February 27, 2019
While women continue to engage in ministry in increasing numbers, their presence and activity is an unresolved issue in terms of ecclesial structure and meaning. ...
The Mysticism of Resistance: The Global Suffering of Women as an Ethical Imperative for the Church
Kathleen McManus O.P.
November 30, 2018
The Catholic Church’s evangelizing and healing presence throughout the world also entails the unintended reinforcement of cultural forces of misogyny that contribute to the suffering ...
Discerning the Meaning of Humanae Vitae
Gerald D. Coleman S.S.
November 30, 2018
The landmark encyclical Humanae Vitae is frequently viewed in isolation from its context. This essay addresses this lapse by understanding the encyclical in light of ...
Humanae Vitae and Its Ecclesial Consequences
Richard R. Gaillardetz
November 30, 2018
This article explores the ecclesial consequences of Humanae Vitae in relation to four seminal contributions of Vatican II: (1) a renewed appreciation for the sensus ...
On Women’s Health and Women’s Power: A Feminist Appraisal of Humanae Vitae
Emily Reimer-Barry
November 30, 2018
Catholic feminism has flourished in the decades following Humanae Vitae. Still, Catholic women do not speak with one voice on the issue of birth control. ...
The Historical and Ecumenical Value of Kenneth Kirk’s Anglican Moral Theology
Christopher D. Jones
November 30, 2018
Anglican moralist Kenneth Kirk is an early twentieth-century forerunner of Catholic revisionism. Kirk critiques the moral manuals and defends a historicist, biblically grounded virtue ethic ...
Sacred Heart, Beatific Mind: Exploring the Consciousness of Jesus
Neil Ormerod
November 30, 2018
Traditional Christologies have focused attention on the question of Jesus’ beatific knowing. On the other hand, recent explorations into Spirit Christology raise different questions about ...
A Tale of Two Translations: Rhetorical Style and the Post-Conciliar English Translations of the Mass
David A. Stosur
November 30, 2018
John O’Malley’s study of the rhetorical style of Vatican II bears also on the question of post-conciliar vernacular translations of the liturgy. This article proposes ...
Style is Substance: Origins of John W. O’Malley’s Contribution to the Interpretation of Vatican II
Catherine E. Clifford
November 30, 2018
This article explores three aspects of John W. O’Malley’s contribution to the critical study of the Second Vatican Council: his contention that Vatican II reflects ...
Liturgical Prayer and the Theology of Mercy in Thomas Aquinas and Pope Francis
Innocent Smith
November 30, 2018
Thomas Aquinas’ theology of mercy is deeply marked by the liturgical tradition of the Order of Preachers, incorporating many explicit and implicit references to liturgical ...
What the Biblical Scribes Teach Us about Their Writings
Richard J. Clifford, S.J.
August 22, 2018
A question often posed to biblical scholars is how they can insist that God is merciful and trustworthy when in many Old Testament texts God ...
Amoris Laetitia: Towards a Methodological and Anthropological Integration of Catholic Social and Sexual Ethics
Todd A. Salzman
August 22, 2018
There is a long-noted anthropological and methodological divide between Catholic social and sexual ethics. We argue in three cumulative sections that Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia ...
Moral Discernment in History
James F. Keenan S.J.
August 22, 2018
The concept of moral discernment is often used to describe the inspired decisionmaking of a conscientious Christian, but Pope Francis uses it relationally in terms ...
Constructing Parenthood: Catholic Teaching 1880 to the Present
Jacob Kohlhaas
August 22, 2018
This article reviews Catholic theological conceptions of parenthood within magisterial documents since the late nineteenth century and contends that presumptions about parenthood tend to arise ...
Women Deacons and Service at the Altar
Phyllis Zagano
August 22, 2018
What did women ordained to the diaconate do during the celebration of Eucharist? What were they forbidden to do? Why? This article reviews papal edicts ...
Medellín Fifty Years Later: From Development to Liberation
Rafael Luciani
August 22, 2018
On August 24, 1968, Paul VI inaugurated the Second General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate. The work sessions were held at the Medellín Seminary ...
Mary Daly’s The Church and the Second Sex after Fifty Years of US Catholic Feminist Theology
Jessica Coblentz
August 22, 2018
In 1968, Mary Daly published The Church and the Second Sex, one of the first monographs in the field of Catholic feminist theology. On the ...
Humanae Vitae: Fifty Years Later
Charles E. Curran
August 22, 2018
This article considers what has transpired in the Catholic Church on the issue of contraception in the fifty years since the encyclical Humanae Vitae in ...